CLEANING COINS...
As I am living in Belgium, we have EUROS, since a couple of years :
Coins are :
2 Euro - 1 Euro
50 cent - 20 cent - 10 cent
5 cent - 2 cent - 1 cent
The 50-20-10 are cupper and are almost all in very good condition, when I find some.
The 5-2-1 get rusty, but sofar I always could use them when I bought something. Many Europeans don't use those coins so they keep them in a glass or a cup. Silly, of course.
The big coins, 2 and 1 Euro get very dirty. Cleaned them in the beginning but now I am simply spending them like I spent the other coins. When & if people accept them, why clean them ????
Had a coffee, 1.70 Euro, today, on the beach. Payed (of course) with a "dirty" Euro. Why not ?
I think, when someone brings them to a bank they are replaced by "nice" coins.
If it works, don't fix it. If it is accepted, don't clean it.
Just my opinion.
BOB VALDEZ, Belgium