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There are enough Shield Cents alone to give every single American a dollar's worth of them.
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Bedrock of the Community
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NO. Do not save any pennies. NONE at all. Just send them to me and I'll take the burden of what to do with them off of you.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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They will eventually start to corrode as all Zincolns do. Seems like a pretty good reason to conserve and save them. |
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thanks all for your inquiries. I have decided to keep the zincolns
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12/13/2014 8:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Reminds me, I have to file a small hole in the side of one and see if I can use coke to dissolve the zinc core. I heard it will leave just the copper shell. Sorta neat if it works.
If not coke, then hydrochloride acid based toilet bowl cleaner should work.
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12/13/2014 8:54 pm
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Drop one in pepsi and forget about it and you will have swiss cheese lincoln. I did this on accident trying to clean some while drinking and plop. jsut got fed up and walked away and forgot the pepsi can until I poured it out later and the penny was silvery copper with holes all in it but jsut a shell. the inside was black as night. Seems there are plenty of holes in the copper already.
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Ill hafta give it a try shadz. Sounds like home chemistry fun.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nothing wrong with saving for the future. You could cull your hoard by going through and taking out only the best.
Personally, I only save the highest grade coins anymore. I started a roll set collection years ago and today it's amazing. I have a full, BU tube (sometimes more) for each issue of the memorial cents. I sort my tubes with the weakest coins on top of the roll. When I find a new contender, I pour out the top 10 coins and see if the new coin will beat them. If so, I toss the loser and replace with the new one. Then I quickly resort the roll based on the grade of the new coin - the coins in the tubes are ordered (roughly) by grade with the best ones in the bottom.
Currently I have a lot of rolls for which I don't think I'll ever find better coins. They are probably 66-68 coins - I put a dot on top of the tube for those issues so I know there's basically no point in trying to replace a coin (saves time while searching). It's a rare day when I find anything better for my top-pop tubes.....when I do, I start another roll for the issue. I can't bring myself to toss a nice, high grade coin into the wild again. So, for some issues, I have multiple tubes. Anyhow....this is how I handle those BU cents. GOOD LUCK!
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I save about every cent prior to 1983 since I have a hard time telling the copper from zinc. And the nicer 84 and newer. The way it looks the zincolns will dissolve into the ground if let lay. I have picked up some 2010+ that are half dissolved. I'm saving them for the Grand kids
I think of some old Wheaties I have found from the teens that are worn about slick and still not etched other than wear and tear. I doubt if too many zinc will be around 100 Yrs.
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Pillar of the Community
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They will never be worth more than 1 cent. Or maybe even less.
That said, when I began collecting coins in 1972, I scoffed at the idea of hoarding BU 1972 pennies. Too common, too many around.
Nowadays, some people would be interested in them.
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12/16/2014 8:12 pm
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Drop one in pepsi and forget about it and you will have swiss cheese lincoln. I did this... It always amazes me that we can guzzle Coke and Pepsi all day and, for the most part, never have any negative affects, aside from maybe getting a little belly expansion. However, soak some metals in a cup of pop (soda for you non-Michiganders) and it causes heavy damage. It's just one of those miracles of life! |
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