How to Clean a Penny With Brasso
Brasso can be used to clean a penny and it’s very fast, and gets a penny or any coin very shiny and glossy very quickly. I used to collect copper coins and pennies when I was young, and used to shine my coins this way. How did I know about Brasso? Soneone told me and I think it was the coin dealer where I used to buy my coins.
- Clean Penny – Dirty Penny
But here’s the real kicker about cleaning coins with Brasso…SHOULD a penny be cleaned using Brasso? My answer is an emphatic no, unless you need to shine it quickly and really don’t mind what the penny or coin looks like a week later, and if you don;t mind some of the metal rubbing off.
Disadvantages of using Brasso to clean coins:
- Brasso is a chemical and therefore can be hazardous or toxic if you’re not careful
- Brasso scrubs some of the metal off, and the coins lose value that way
- Brasso is messy and takes several cloths, gets a blackoily metal film all over your hands and clothes of you’re not careful
- The penny loses it’s shiny luster after a week or two, and then looks just as bad if not worse from some sort of corrosion caused by the brasso and your fingerprint oil
Brasso is a quick fix for how tro clean a penny and probably the quickest and easiest way to clean a penny but it is definitely not the best way, and may be one of the worst in the long run. To me using Brasso is not the way to go if you can avoid it, for cleaning a penny or any coin. I recommend against it.
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