Do you know how to clean quarters that got burnt?

Question

My husband and I just bought some property a couple months ago. It had a trailer on it that caught fire (blessing in disquise), but when we were going through the remains after the fire, I found at least 100 dollars in quarters. You can tell they are quarters, but some of them are pretty burnt. I tried cleaning them with viniger, acid, and oven cleaner. Nothing has really worked so far.

Does anyone know anything that might work to make them cleaner?

Answer 1

Go to a bank they should be able to tell you were to send the quarters so you can get the money for them without cleaning them.

Answer 2

You may have seen this blurb I found on the US Mint s site:

"Coins that are bent, broken, corroded, not whole, melted together AND not machine countable are considered mutilated. The United States Mint redeems mutilated coins at the value of their metal content. Mutilated coins are only redeemable through the United States Mint at: United States Mint
ATTN: Mutilated Coin Redemption Section
P.O. Box 400 for Post Office shipments only
151 N. Independence Mall East
Philadelphia, PA 19106"

If oven cleaner did not do the trick, then they are probably not cleanable.

Answer 3

Take them to a bank. They will exchange the ones they can verify are quarters for undamaged money. Works for any money that can be verified, Federal Reserve policy. Unless you think the quarters may have value to a collector, i.e. rare, old, etc. I'd not clean them as doing so would remove some of the metal making them less valuable. I'd consult a coin dealer to determine how best to proceed.

Answer 4

Tarnex

Answer 5

Tarnex

Answer 6

jewlery cleaner works great!

Answer 7

Maybe try turpentine.

Answer 8

try lemon juice.....let it soak.........or baking soda.......it is a natural cleaner..........and lots of scrubbing