Will Cleaning a Penny with Alcohol Work?

I tried it and the results were very minor if any at all. In fact, alcohol may do more harm than good because of the chemical effects on the metal, and probably just adds more corrosion.

So no, alcohol is no good for anything except to clean a penny or coin of germs and bacteria, that it will do. But to clean them for the visual effect of shininess and looking new, alcohol doesn’t do well. It may get the penny clean but the penny doesn’t look like it. And that’s with pretty much any kind of alcohol.

I’ll only waste your time if I show you a picture of this one. Alcohol just does no good making a penny shiny. Maybe it does better on a nickel, dime or quarter? Actually I just tried a quarter. Nothing. Squeaky clean and disinfected, yes, but shiny no. Strange…

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