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DeepTech

time to clean some pennies

Good job on the cleaning! That's what I need to get is a tumbler,hank
 
Hank, If you clean coins don,t put pennies in with dimes, nickles or any silver coins they will come out pink. Do pennies by there self. Good Luck Flintstone
 
Thanks Flintstone, coin tumbling is totally new to me, great info to know. HH hank
 
I let over 6,200 dirty pennies build up before cleaning them, but I darn sure won't do it again. It took three days using two tumblers, a single barrel and a double barrel, and a 1.25 cubic foot concrete mixer to clean them. My wife rolled 92 rolls, $46, that cleaned up well, but over 1,600 zincs were so bad she threw them out. Since then I don't let over 100 or so build up, and throw out the ruined zincs, before cleaning them. Photo shows the 6,200+ pennies before my wife sorted and rolled them.

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Holy moly JB , that's a ton of pennies! Lot of digging!!!!
 
I now seperate the cents from other clad per hunt. I was keeping them together. Learned my tumbler lesson the hard way on not mixing, You have a nice amount of cents saved up! Beale.
 
I take my zinc to the nearest counting machine. The zincs that get rejected I wet with water ( to incerase the weight of pitted coins that are too light) the water trick fools the machine on quite a few that would otherwise be total junk.
 
Hi Mud, i would not put these back in the hands of people. I rap all my zinc's and take to the bank and tell them to send them back to the mint. I get my full money out of them and the US. gets them back. They are USA. money they must pay you. I get $200.00 to $250.00 a year.
 
Flintstone, that was a good post. From now on I will give them back to the source. Wash and roll is my new policy and off to the bank we go!

Charlie
 
Hank68
Thats accually 34 pounds of pennys, not a ton but I agree with you, its a ton of pennys:rofl:
 
I got 900 zinks buried in a quart jar 13in down (to top of lid) in my back yard to test detectors. My bank won't take my bad zinks,I even asked to give them to them. shortribs
 
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