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Hi, I have a couple coffee cans full of burned coins salvaged from our house fire a few years back. This fire was extremely hot and burned without a drop of water or any fire support, so lots of coins are missing chunks or have bubbling from the inside leaving pimples on them, basically Irreversible damage, and nobody will accept them, and I've clogged many coinstar machines with the ones I've separated and cleaned. What I have now, have minor defects, that coinstar spits out. What I want to know of, is a way to get them semi shiny, mostly quarters and dimes. Not one at a time, but multiple, coins either some type of acid soak, or using my vibratory brass tumbler. At least if I can get them somewhat shiny and not the ugly dark oxidized look, then I will be able to use them without the cashier's throwing a fit, if I use more then one. I wonder if heating them up and using boric acid would help, like when I melt gold with a torch, or would it take too much heat to be affective? Thanks.
