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Title: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: welshbreed on September 08, 2011, 08:39:47 PM Hi all i have been to this field 3 times and i have got 100 + black soiled pound coins !! could you please tell me how do i clean them the bank wont take them so i need help i have tried brown sauce it dont work so what else can i try ??
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: rjm on September 08, 2011, 08:42:15 PM Don't bother cleaning them. Put them in self pay machine at automated check out at Asda, B & Q, etc Severn bridge automated bin, Asda Coinstar bin where you chuck them in a bin and in prints a receipt for you to collect cash minus 8% fee. Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: welshbreed on September 08, 2011, 08:43:46 PM i have tried asdas it only took a couple of them !!
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: Jon1987 on September 08, 2011, 08:48:13 PM I always have a few in my wallet and just try them at different machines where ever I go. Something usually takes them in the end.
Sounds like a nice field btw. Fair groud field? Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: welshbreed on September 08, 2011, 08:58:59 PM between me and the sutt we have had about £180 so far and we have'nt done all of the fields yet "loads more me thinks is there"
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: Griffmiester on September 08, 2011, 10:12:23 PM sounds as if there was a great game of pitch and toss going on....great find there guv.......... ;D
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: ysbytymike on September 08, 2011, 10:14:10 PM As their of no value other than face. Bench grinder with a wire wheel. Couple of seconds per coin.
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: wayno on September 09, 2011, 06:59:51 AM I had £80.00 in £1 coins just put them in money bags and went to bank. Bank took them off me said they were still legal tender even though tannished
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: jmhammered on September 09, 2011, 07:20:10 AM i send the wife to the bank with£20 in bags ,they take them no bother, trouble is she wants half :)
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: dragonsbreath(Paul) on September 09, 2011, 07:57:04 AM Well they must have changed there tune recently then cos i always used to do the same...but a well known high street bank B------S refused them on the grounds
that there were too many forgeries out there and they have been instructed to refuse tarnished coins like we find M/Ding? PaulB. Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: rjm on September 09, 2011, 09:19:32 AM The coin bin on the Severn Bridge loves tarnished coins! ;) Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: adrian wall on September 09, 2011, 09:23:14 AM The best thing you can do with them is,keep them for parking machines,and the 7 bridge.
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: melonhead on September 09, 2011, 04:04:11 PM a few minnits in brick acid will clean the tarnish off they will just be not very shiney
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: Filternozzle on September 09, 2011, 07:44:27 PM Let us know if you do find anything that cleans them up.
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: welshbreed on September 09, 2011, 09:07:34 PM ok i will let you know if anything works ok thanks for the replies
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: doddy10 on September 09, 2011, 10:23:41 PM try kitchen cleaner such as cillit bang I am told that brings them up as new. I do not bother cleaning mine as they go into the vending machine at work
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: shunggav on September 09, 2011, 11:01:24 PM stick them on ebay some one will buy them and ur get a good amount back
Title: Re: Help with 100 + £1 Coins Post by: Metal j on September 10, 2011, 08:46:25 AM As strange as it sounds try putting them in coke or pepsi they have a good affect on coins comes up like new gota be the full fat stuff no diet lol
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