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Farmall
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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 Posted - 12/12/2009 : 13:43:07
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I picked up 4 $25.00boxes at the bank yesterday to sort. Now these pennies are FILTHY. I think a metal detectorist or a wishing well cleaner must have turned these in.
They are black and gritty. Is there an easy way to clean them?
The copper ratio is about %50. Should I just deposit them or should I sort them?
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2009 : 14:03:17
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| At 50% I would sort them and then wait till copper go up and sell them. |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2009 : 14:21:22
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| I too have been getting really dirty coins. Picked up 4 bags with more coppers than zinc but most looked to have been in water. Even rolls in boxes are having more and more really awful pennies. Someone said that coins from the south are dirtier than from the north, I think that is true. |
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jldco
Penny Pincher Member
USA
114 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2009 : 16:24:57
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It aint called filthy lucre fer nothing!
Just this week I got some halves that have obviously been through a house fire. Some had been so hot they had swelled in the middle. They were very black and I had to use a loop to read the dates. All recent dates. I had one with a blob stuck to it that wasn't part of the half. I spit on it and wiped it on my jeans. (that's how we do things in the south) I saw a little gilmmer of gold and thought to myself, no way did I get a half with gold melted to it... So i got out my trusty acid and sure enough it was 10k. I'd guess .3 or .4 grams. Now to get it off of the silver some how....
I'd sort those ugly dirty things and keep'em. The smelter won't care when you sell them someday.
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copperhead57
Penny Collector Member
USA
255 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2009 : 16:38:38
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| Try soaking them in vinegar. |
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EZ_Money
Penny Pincher Member
USA
125 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2009 : 17:28:26
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| They call it the dirty south for a reason... Just send me all your dirty coppers and silver and I will keep 'em for ya. |
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sheba
Penny Pincher Member
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2009 : 22:44:04
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In a very rare instance I throw a cent away ... but in the couple of years I've been sorting rolls, that has only happened once as far as I can remember ...it was a really bad, damaged and ugly penny! 
Any penny that has globs of gunk on it (even if a copper cent), or looks like an M-1A tank drove back and forth over it, goes in the 'dump' bag.
Being a hand sorter, I don't try to get bags. Being retired and on a small fixed income, I also don't get 'boxes'. The rolls I have been picking up dont' seem to be overly messy or 'gunky'. I have noticed that the 'Spring' rolls I pickup are generally the cleanest.
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TheJonasCollegeFund
Penny Collector Member
USA
381 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2009 : 23:31:06
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| 4 brinks boxes last week....only one word to describe.....CRUD. Never seen so many dirty ones ever. |
MD Totals: Started Aug16th.(Updated Sept10th) 819 clad/cu coins/$41.13
Quarters-78
Dimes-122+1 silver roosie (1957)
Nickels-81 (56d,53d)
Copper Pennies-147
Zinc Pennies-386
Wheats-5 (36,36,46,46d,50d) |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 12/14/2009 : 07:37:21
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The pennies I have been getting to sort lately here in Central Florida also seem to be nastier than normal.
I have found really yucky ones in both CWRs and in the plastic sleeves from Brinks. I too have wondered if they were in fountains or where. Some even smell like ash trays. I hate those the worst. That does a number on my sinuses. But, I can't just send them back without at least looking at them. There could be some special treasure hidden on the one decent coin in the roll.
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Farmall
Penny Pincher Member
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2009 : 17:47:34
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Originally posted by PreservingThePast
I too have wondered if they were in fountains or where. Some even smell like ash trays. I hate those the worst.
I had the thought that maybe these came from a local guy I know that works at the auto salvage yard. He dismantles the cars so he would have the best chance to find coins in ashtrays, backseats, floorboards, and such. |
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Copper Catcher
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USA
2092 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2009 : 19:29:50
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| For me it seems to go in cycles..I'll get bags of nasty coins or ones that looked like thay sat in water. Constant jams and hard to run. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2009 : 19:39:06
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out of a sealed box I did get a couple rolls that seemed to have a large number of corroded cents. Like I would find in customer wrapped rolls.
but otherwise, they haven't been that bad lately.
But I believe I was the one that said that cents tend to be dirtier here in the South. From my experience. |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2009 : 20:12:36
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| Just curious, would you keep or dump these crudy cents. Alot of the ones I am getting also look like someone tried to clean them with something. Copper is copper after all but would someone else want to get them if they were buying. I am getting them in bags, rolls, cwr and even change at the stores. Never have seen so many. |
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
993 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2009 : 09:06:33
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| I only throw out ugly coins if they're rejected by sorting machines. |
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george454
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 12/16/2009 : 09:48:31
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| I have gotten nothing but crud in my boxes as well, but being from the dirty south I dont mind much, one last week was bad enough that my hands were stained black for two days. I personally dont throw any of them away the ones that are real bad I soak in 50% CLR cleaner and 50% hot water, usually 5-10 minutes will do the trick. The copper I keep and the zincs go back in for someone else to worry about. I even pick up nasty CWR's from the bank, I think its becouse we have an average humidity aroud 60% ++ year round and were only 30 min from the east coast and 1 hour from the Gulf. |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2009 : 19:18:45
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Today I decided to take my fithy dirty zincs to my dump bank on the way to pick up the Grandson. This bank used to save 3 or 4 $50. bags for me but all of a sudden they never had anybags OR boxes. Right! My nice young female teller that saved them for me had been promoted and now they didn't have any. So, the bank became my new found dump bank.
I am not sure why, but the machine kept messing up (??filthy, dirty zincs??). One bag ran over all inside the machine, the machine kept slowly stopping and starting, and no one knew why. I managed to dump most of the awful zincs before it completely cratered. A new girl that was changing out bags told the gentleman behind the desk that he should call the guy that picks up the pennies since there was alot of bags and his boxes were in. OH! NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS NEVER ANY BAGS OR BOXES OF PENNIES.
Oh well, I now have a dump bank unless the dirty, filty zincs totally ruined the coin counter. This bank was my main pick up bank while the young lady was there. CU %'s were high and several dimes per bag. She would even give me the halves before the bag was full.
Oh well, now I know the whole story. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2009 : 22:45:15
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Shame! Hey, hope the guy getting their pennies now isn't from this forum, either way, he is going to be frustrated by getting your dumps!!
Hope with all the messups with the machine that the coin counter didn't short you! |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2009 : 07:09:11
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| I actually thought about it might be someone from our group and if so I am truly sorry. The machine counted exactly what I had counted and bagged with no rejects. I found other source banks so not a big deal there. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 12/19/2009 : 18:46:50
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Originally posted by wolvesdad
Shame! Hey, hope the guy getting their pennies now isn't from this forum, either way, he is going to be frustrated by getting your dumps!!
Hope with all the messups with the machine that the coin counter didn't short you!
It's all part of the game. If you dump enough there, the new penny guy might get tired of your dumps and move on. Then it's your time to pick up bags again. It's the source/dump/source plan....
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