Quick, how can I get pennies shiny?

[Posey]

Need to shine some 1p and 2p coins (to decorate a rocket control pad for nursery tomorrow)
Don't have anything like Brasso. Any suggestions please?
Many thanks, I know someone will know

coke?

drop them in a can of coke overnight

ketchup

drop em in coca cola or vinegar for a few hours.

snap!

Brown sauce works but in the curious absence of that, coke. Fat or thin.

Apparently soaking them in coke for a while brings them up like knew, not tried so don't know.

was going to suggest vinegar - used to have to do this for Thinking Day when I was in the Brownies.....

Blimey you lot ARE quick!!
No coke, possibly brown sauce, defo ketchup and vinegar. Will let you know.
Thanks so much!!!!

Deffo brown sauce

Cillit Bang - surely?

No brown sauce left, so have some soaking in vinegar and some in ketchup. Will see which works quickest and best!

Sorry Cillit Bang, isn't that the stuff that cleans anything?!

vinegar, or brown sauce

They will come up shining if you give them a bit of a scrub with a nylon scourer, must be nylon though, metal ones will scratch I imagine.

any results yet?

Both shinier but still a little disappointing. Wanted seriously "just minted" shine
Am off to buy duraglit tomorrow (do they still make it?!)

are you talkin' to me?

sorry, i misread 'pennies' as something else

Not unless you've been languishing in my kitchen for seveal hours covered in vinegar or ketchup

lol lucykate

Now, some say i'm the adveturous type but I've never tried THAT!

sorry shite spelling there.

Have you any gin???? Don't recommend you drink it afterwards though

Yes we have. Shall I bung them in a bit of that?