Marking Your Territory?

VetStudent, Do you treat all the coins with class? Do you put white tissue between each coin in your pocket so as not to create a permanent ding or scratch? Do you roll search? If so, you're causing way more damage than someone who marks a few coins with a sharpie. Paint can be removed. Most dings and scratches can not.

So how would you like me to call you out about YOUR numismatic class!?!?! Does it mean you have none because every coin isn't treated with reverence?!?!

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I am just glad I haven't come accross this. I guess for two reasons...one being that must mean there are not that many other coin roll hunters where I am(hopefully) and two that I don't get coins I want to keep marked. Even if we can clean them, all I read is never to clean a coin... I think anyone who would do this should stop. If even for the fact if every coin collector did this from day one the coins that were trash then would possibly the ones we want now and the trash now may be the coin to collect of our kids future. This is just my opinion and I'm definitely a rookie here however, believe it's best not to mark coins, even if it's logisticly advantageous to us now.

I don't consider companies like Brinks "the Fed". Most of the coins you get are rolled in local facilities by companies such as Brinks. You may be searching the same coins over and over, with some fresh circulated mixed in. That's why many roll hunters that search volume dump outside of their pickup courier's district, or at a bank that sends their coin out via a different distributer.

That, or you are searching the same coins over again when you receive your boxes, as they are re-rolled and boxed by a local distributer.

On occasion I have found numerous, 100 or more, halves with permanent marker on the front or back of the coins. I have soaked them just to remove the marks. I use 90% alcohol and acetone regularly at work, so I have access to large quantities of it. I thought I was doing a favor for the other searchers who do not have the ability to remove the markings. I hope I haven't ruined anybody's system for finding out if they were getting their old dumped coins back. I will discontinue this practice.