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Got pennies?........

JB(MS)

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A couple of days ago I rolled 19 dollars, 38 rolls, of pennies that are clean enough for the bank to take, but I've still got a fairly big pile of of dirty ones, 30 pounds or more, the bank won't take. No Coinstar machines within a hundred miles of here that I know of so that's not an option, and the one bank in the area that has a coin machine has a bank employee feed the machine and they won't take dirty coins either. The banks even check rolled coins since my hunting buddy Jim turned in about 5 years worth of skanky coins he rolled:(.

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Well you beat me by a country mile JB!

Mine was only $11.00 so far this year... and I'll tell you they were a bunch of ate up zincs!

Some went to the video rental store for late fees, but we swapped most of 'em for quarters at the laundrymat to wash the clothes.
They might as well send them to the bank as anything else...

Heck with the bankers! I don't like 'em a lot!
Let them ship 'em back to the mint and more can be issued.

Maybe the mint will send us quality coinage that doesn't dissolve in the ground!
NOT likely.

HH
rmptr
 
That's about two years, or a little more, worth of dirty pennies but most of the $19 of clean pennies I rolled were found this year, There's a little league sports complex with four balllfields, a woodchip playground and the city elementary school just down the street from my house, and since I retired I check them almost daily. That's where most of the clean pennies, and quite a few of the dirty pennies, were found. I pick up so many at those places I think the kids are throwing them away.
 
when you say dirty. do you mean beat up and chewed up, or do you mean they need to be sent through a tombler
 
What ya gotta do (if you want to cash em in) is roll them and put the dirty ones on middle. They're not gonna open the rolls.
 
They need tumbling, I throw the chewed up ones in the garbage. I've got a tumbler I use it to clean clad coins, it does a great job but it's small and takes four to five hours to clean a 100 or so coins. A hunting buddy who has a metal working shop, and has about as many dirty pennies as I do, has been saying he's gonna make a tumbler from a 5 gallon butane tank that will do all the pennies at once but he hasn't got around to doing it yet.
 
Hello there !

I don't know which are the laws in the US about clad change, but on this part of the Atlantic Ocean, a bank refusing dirty coins would be in serious legal trouble.
A coin, dirty or not, remains a valid and legal way of payment, just like a dirty banknote with some writing on it.

There must exist a legal way of disposing of those dirty ones, you people should check.

As far as I am concerned, I carry dirty euro coins to the national bank and get the total amount onto my account something between three to six months later.

HH

Nick the Belgian
 
Great job on the cents JB! May I point out a fact that some readers here
may be unaware of when sorting their pennies? Just remember that when
copper cents were discontinued in 1982 in favor of the junk metal Zinc, which
ol' mother earth is only too happy to reclaim (immediately) and convert it back to
powdered ore, that in ' 82 there was a large supply of copper cent blanks that were
also minted as ' 82 issues, along with the ' 82 zinker stinkers! We as detectorists
have Tone ID units that instantly tell the difference. When the ' 82 changeover
occurred, there were a few coin dealers who lamented the fact and griped how
that they must then start weighing their cents to separate the zincs from the
coppers (yes, the zincs weigh slightly less than the coppers and also sound
different when dropped on a hard table surface). I quickly replied to those
magazine letter columns with the good news about TID metal detectors for all
those dealers who'd been ignoring detectors for so long. At least one of them
replied with a profuse thank you which meant that the message was read by
many. Good deeds are gratifying when we can contribute.
So even this late in the years, I hope this info may be of help to some more
penny wrappers out there!
Best o' Luck to All. :chase:
..W
 
Hi Nick. Our problem here is the copper washed zinc cents recovered with
detectors. The earth literally eats them up very quickly so that they are
almost not recognizable anymore as pennies. Sadly, even now there's
talk of eliminating pennies since even the thin copper coating is now too
costly to use since copper values are so high (copper thieves are a huge
problem now in the States).

We need suggestions from citizens and metallurgists as to what other metal can
be used to save the lowly cent from disappearing. Anyone?
..W
 
OK fellow penny lovers, here's an idea for those who like to
research. The link below details many metals, some of which
might be a good substitute for pennies. The research would
involve checking into the relative costs of the metals or alloys
compared to copper. So the costs would need to be lower than
copper, preferably. This might be a tall order, but if it could bear
fruit, we might have something to offer our treasury reps in the
hope of keeping our pennies alive! What say Ye? Wanna try?
..W

http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/metal.html
 
actually I'm not certain I really care if the penny goes away. That way we might find more nickels & dimes. What do you think?
Pap
 
Aww, I dunno Pap, I'm just nostalgic about the little cent and I've
always considered it the "standard" target for detectorists to get
their bearings on most hunts, especially in the past when we were
all newbees. And maybe you're right, we'd be better off without 'em
now that they're mostly zinker stinkers. There is indeed, nothing so
constant as changing times, alas.
..W:goodnight:
 
Hi !Funny : we've got the same sort of discussions over here in Ol'Europe.

Since the introduction of the Euro, people don't like the 1 and 2 eurocents. The question is now how to get rid of them. Certain countries (the Netherlands for example) do not use them any more, while the coins themselves are now only produced as "collectors items"

For us detectorists, they are also a problem : They have a steel core under a thin layer of copper. A month in the ground and they start to rust. Their ferrous nature also tend to mask other coins lying near them.

Fortunately,we can still drop them in the National Banks and get the cash on our accounts.

A good solution for the US cent would be the suppression, and the re-introduction of the 2,5 cent. Why not, after all, as long as the existing cents remain in circulation.

My two (euro)cents.

HH

Nick the Belgian.
 
I was "nostalgic about the little cent" at one time. But with the advent of zinc pennies that feeling has quickly turned to disgust. Fully 75% of the zinc pennies I did are not spendable due to the deterioration of the coin in this area. I do try to avoid digging them but they come in at different ranges depending upon how badly they have dissolved. I love IH's and I love wheats but the zinc was just a bad idea for coin hunters.
Pap
 
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Harbor Freight and Wollie World stay sold out of tumblers.
One hobby place wanted $100 for their cheapest one.

So I went to Hobby Lobby and got this one for $30. It does
a big hand full of coins at a time. I over load it, but it does
alright if the barrel doesn't hop up and down. I use aquarium
gravel. Cost $2. Helps to do it with vinegar and a little salt
first. But it will work if I just put some mild soap in it for
about 4 hours.

It's been going for two days now and I have almost finished
with it. I have about 2% of the coins that I gave to my mom.
She said she is going to spend them. They are eat up!!

The bank has a machine and it's free. So far it has only spit
back one penny.

I have put $268 of change in the bank machine. Most of that
didn't have to be cleaned.

I did not keep track so I don't know how much was found
money. Some of my found money has already been spent
and this is mixed with pocket change.

I'm not as organized as a lot of these guys.

HH,
 
Tabdog, I can't say as I've seen a tumbler quite like that, but you're just 'special' all around!:biggrin:

...I think OUR money ought to be worth it's weight in GOLD, or at least silver!
Yep, they'd probably give us a microscopic silver dot to use as pennies!

I think it was Wayne... separating pennies... The CRH guys use a machine, called Rydale? that separates copper pennies from zincs.
They can make almost 3X their money running pennies through one, at scrap value.

As I said earlier, I have worked hard and long digging all the pennies I get...
They are getting rolled if they can be remotely recognized as a cent!
Use 'em at the corner market to buy a pack of chewing gum, or whatever... batteries...
I don't throw nothin' away that I worked for!:biggrin:

HH
rmptr
 
You are absoluitly right.

I dig um, and sometimes am pleasantly supprised.

A dime or a silver ring can sound like a clad penny.

Cashing in clad is just another way to recoop the cost of MDing.

And if we are lucky enough we can turn a little profit.

HH,
 
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