So what does everyone do with... :confused: :blink: :unsure:

[Lightstryder]

...their blistered, bubbly, broken and otherwise useless zinc pennies and other mangled coins? I am starting to get quite the collection of them and am at a loss what to do with them all. I would love to hear from all of you what you do with them.

 

[daddyflea]

I spend mine.

 

[Lightstryder]

I am talking about the REALLY ugly stuff

 

[Craig]

Me too !

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I throw my zinc away (well, the bubbled blistered stuff anyhow). But all the other clad, I tumble in one of those lapidary rock tumblers. Fill the tub 3/4 of the way to the top, add water, some dish soap, turn for an hour or two, and presto! You don't need sand, aquarium gravel, etc.... The action of the coins tumbling on each other does fine.

Oh, and do your copper pennies separate from the rest of the clad, lest everything get an orangeish brown hue to it. And don't tumble zinc, lest they just fall apart. If they're that dirty that they too need to be cleaned, I just pitch them. Or sometimes when I have some from whenever I'm getting back in my truck, I put them in my cupholder, where othere loose change goes. Then when going through fast-food drivethroughs, they make up the un-even change. As long as it's just a few pennies here, and a few pennies there, no one seems to make a fuss (although it's kinda funny to watch the drive-through clerk do a double take, to see what coin I just passed her "

 

[John(Tx)]

n/t

 

[Flintstone]

Hi Lightstryder, I always roll them take to a bank and tell them that it is pennies that need sent to the mint, they are still U.S. coins. I have no trouble doing that at all. Just make sure you tell them they are not for uses. I get $50.00 to $100.00 a year sometimes more. Money is money. Dean

 

[dewcon4414]

Im with Flintstone..... except my bank bags all the coins that come in and they send them off to the Feds. Sometimes they give you credit for them..... much like having 3/4 of a dollar bill.

Dew

 

[westwing357]

I go through all my coins after tumbling them. Any damaged or corroded coins I take to the Bank. They take them and return them to the Federal Reserve. As long as you can make out that it's a US coin and the denomination they take them.I have 20-30 pennies on the table to go this week. It's the same with torn Bills.

 

[JimGilmore]

i'VE HEARD THAT THE USE MINT NO LONGER BUYS DAMAGED COINS IN BULK....
Sorry about the caps