A first time for everything, sign of the times i suppose

[yowow#1]

Yesterday at a local grocery store in the small town where i live i received 2 dug 'still dirty' toasted edge zincs in some change. First time for me. I found this unusual because i only know a couple in the entire county that detects. I can just imagine someone watching a diggers show and thinking, in these hard economic times i could get rich if i only had a metal detector, maybe i should check the local pawn shops to see what detectors they were using.

 

[mudpuppy]

Wow! So even the stores are not weeding them out? Everybody must be getting desperate...I toss all of mine in a coffee can, its nearly full, what I'll do with them I dont know, maybe mix them into some concrete or something when I need to pour another boat anchor?
Mud

 

[DonM]

My discloured clad is used up in parking meters and sometimes in the new self serve checkouts in the grocery store ...pennies go to a Coinstar machine......but I clean everything up first using a Lortone tumbler and some aquarium gravel

 

[bootyhoundpa]

took the wife out for usual Friday night eats...get home and empty my change out and notice a rather crusty wheaty mixed in..looked for a date..could only see 194- ... l couldn't understand why it was crusty but not green.. on a hunch I checked it with a magnet and sure enough it was a steel wheaty....

 

[yowow#1]

Wow! So even the stores are not weeding them out? Everybody must be getting desperate...I toss all of mine in a coffee can, its nearly full, what I'll do with them I dont know, maybe mix them into some concrete or something when I need to pour another boat anchor?
Mud

Hey mud, don't take what i'm saying as truth, cause i'm only repeating heresay, But i've been told that the FDIC will make good on the toasted zinc pennies cause they are government coins might be worth a try, or at least a phone call to a bank before you throw that coffee can of zincs away?

 

[Billium]

I know a guy that throws them all in olive oil for a short soak, cleans them up and takes them to the bank. Says he has never heard any complaints yet..
From now on if they are identifiable they are going to the bank. After all, I took the effort to dig it anyway. Right?

 

[Flintstone]

I have posted this before, I have always cleaned my coins as good as i can, roll them and take them to my bank, ( some banks don,t take them ) but if your bank send money back to the mint that is ripped into or bad, they will take any U.S. coin and give you good money for it. I take about a $ 50.00 to $75.00 a year. Why take time to dig them and throw the away? Most all bigger banks will take them. I just put on the roll BAD, so they don,t go out as change.

 

[fowlercharles]

Hii yowow# 1, I don't hunt where much clad is so I don't deal with it very much. I do know that your local bank has a big problem with counting coins through their machines when people bring in large amounts of coins to exchange for bills. Usually the Bank accepts them wrapped and unseen in exchange for bills of like value. Fact is as I understand it from what I have heard from some bank folks that it does not take much dirt , crud, crap, or discoloration (because of whatever) to mess up the weight, thickness , or accumulation of crud that will soon foul a counting machine . Those coins to dirty to be put back in circulation first have to be culled from the fouled machine and are pretty much made good(replaced) once again to the public at the expense of the bank. Knowing this, I personally suggest if folks must reclaim the clad to their own profit, that they consider either culling some ahead of time or making sure they do an extra good enough clean up job to save the bank the pain in the butt problem of jammed counting machines and loss on the dirty/useless coins. We all know that sooner or later, when the loss amount becomes great enough, the Bank will "Have" to manage some way of recoup on their losses. No rocket science required here. Either clean them very good or cull them very good before heading to the bank or wherever with them. Courtesy for courtesy, simple as that. HH Charlie

 

[Elton]

I know it is far more than we all think... There are several clubs in my immediate area. Over 200 members and you very rarely see them in the field..

 

[yowow#1]

Hii yowow# 1, I don't hunt where much clad is so I don't deal with it very much. I do know that your local bank has a big problem with counting coins through their machines when people bring in large amounts of coins to exchange for bills. Usually the Bank accepts them wrapped and unseen in exchange for bills of like value. Fact is as I understand it from what I have heard from some bank folks that it does not take much dirt , crud, crap, or discoloration (because of whatever) to mess up the weight, thickness , or accumulation of crud that will soon foul a counting machine . Those coins to dirty to be put back in circulation first have to be culled from the fouled machine and are pretty much made good(replaced) once again to the public at the expense of the bank. Knowing this, I personally suggest if folks must reclaim the clad to their own profit, that they consider either culling some ahead of time or making sure they do an extra good enough clean up job to save the bank the pain in the butt problem of jammed counting machines and loss on the dirty/useless coins. We all know that sooner or later, when the loss amount becomes great enough, the Bank will "Have" to manage some way of recoup on their losses. No rocket science required here. Either clean them very good or cull them very good before heading to the bank or wherever with them. Courtesy for courtesy, simple as that. HH Charlie

Thank you for your post charlie.
I don't hunt clad much either. My post was just an attempt at humor when i found 'dug' zincs at a local grocery store in my rural area, where there are very few detectorist, That's all, HH.

 

[yowow#1]

I know it is far more than we all think... There are several clubs in my immediate area. Over 200 members and you very rarely see them in the field..

There are no clubs in my area, but i do know of a couple folks that detect and i'm sure there are a lot more, but i never see them. HH Elton

 

[fowlercharles]

I'm with ya yowow#1, I just thought it a good opportunity to mention the problems of the folks down at the bank with the dirty coins. I totally agree about where are those diggers who's coins you are finding. Huh ? Maybe some of your neighbors been watching you and just having to try some digging for themselves, sorta on the sly. I have had even close acquaintances I could tell were interested in digging, but that felt they were to "macho" to be seen swinging a detector. Lol, us diggers knows how weak that is and actually shows somewhat more a lack of berkle bells than to much "Macho". HH Charlie

 

[Nes (south Coast-CA)]

I once detected with a guy who never cleaned the coins he found at the beach. Then one day he rolled them and took them to the bank. The next time he walked into the bank they were waiting for him and wouldn't take any of his coins. Even now I occasionally get get coins in change that I know came from the beach. Still have some caked sand on them. Some people are slobs.

 

[Roland58]

If your banks will take the corroded zincolns, you are very lucky. None of the banks in my area, including the ones I do business with, will take deformed or corroded coins. If they will not go through their counting machine, they are given back to me. I was told in no uncertain terms that the coins could be sent to one particular mint (the Philly mint, if I remember correctly) and they would replace them with good coins, so long as they were recognizable. The problem here would be the cost to mail the zinc pennies.......it would cost more than they are worth.

Personally, I think Uncle Sam ought to make coins that won't rot in the ground over a long, wet weekend. Either that, or, we should be able to use the ones with a chunk missing to pay for the 9/10 ths at the end of the price for a gallon of gas!

 

[Prep1957]

When I go to Kansas from Illinois I spend them at the rest area vending machine,bait machines,at fairs in games.Back in the day when I hunted in the 70's and 80's I used them in condom machines at truck stops this is a good hint for all you younger coin hunters.Safety First