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Postby jasmatk » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:14 pm

found a 1995d penny that appears to be just zinc no copper,I say appears becouse its so dirty I can only see parts of it.so my question is what works good to clean bare zinc?
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Re: zinc questiom

Postby penny pretty » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:21 pm

is there a reason one would bother cleaning a 1995d?
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Re: zinc questiom

Postby jasmatk » Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:13 am

penny pretty wrote:is there a reason one would bother cleaning a 1995d?

yes becouse its not copper plated its just zinc so if it cleaned up its going in the something different pile.
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Re: zinc questiom

Postby DebtFreeMe » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:50 am

I've found several of those... It basic high school chemistry class to removed the copper... Not sure how to clean just zinc though...
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