Decided to wrap my detecting money tonight, better look twice!

[hotrod53]

About 3 hours of wrapping coins and $157 later, I find a few goodies that I must have missed due to the mud on the coins. After doing a final cleanup, I realized that I missed a buffalo nickel, 2 war nickels, and the first ever I have seen, a 1921 Canadian wheat penny! When I saw the ONE CENT on the back and then a date below it, I wondered what the heck I had.

I did a final cleanup before wrapping, some of these coins are pretty gnarly, chips, corroded corners, and chunks missing. Someone may be surprised when they unwrap these and find how bad some are. Probably not the best idea turning them into the bank, but what else do you do with them?

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Good story! Glad you noticed it!

 

[larryk56]

A good way to use some of that dirty clad is .....

use in in soda machines
use in at the car washes

put a dirty quarter in the soda machine and press down
on the coin return button and it will spit out clean coils.
you get the 2 dimes and a nickel ...lol

I mix in dirty coins with some newer coins when I go to
McDonalds. The young kids don't care nor will they care.

I just recycle the clad into the normal buying cycle.
I don't hold on to it ....I recycle as I hunt.

 

[Mtnmn]

I always clean my coins to the best of my ability and and after cleaning them, if there are any in such bad shape that I wouldn't want to receive them in change, I pitch them as they are almost always pennies anyhow. If pre-1982 Memorial cents, you could hold onto them for the copper they contain as there was a bill before Congress awhile back to allow for the selling of copper pennies (pre 1982) for scrap. Do not know if it passed or not, but one will eventually be just like one that was passed for allowing silver coins to be sold for their silver content.