Does Anyone Else Keep The Most Destroyed Coins?

So funny that this topic came up at the time it did... in my Monday coins, I got a couple of CWR of nickels all of which had "road rash." Rather than put them all back in their original rolls, I spread them out as replacements for the keepers I found in the other rolls I went through.

I'm able to put them in rolls and return to the bank, if not I would probably drop them in the parking lot a few at a time to make some ones day.

That's a great idea. I'll take them to Coinstar to discourage other Coinstar searchers.

A coinstar spit this out.

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I am keeping all my damaged coins in a bag, then later on this summer when I can do this outdoors, I will experiment with cleaning process. Not so much a cleaning process, but a process to get the top few layers of oil and dirt off. If I screw up an already damaged coin, then no real loss. I have a small bag of wartime nickles that look like somebody put them in an oil drain pan and left them in the sludge for a few years. I tried soaking one of them in just plain old boiling distilled water, but without having to rub the junk off it didn't work, I certainly won't use my well water, it's just plain bad, too much alkaline. Have gotten a few ideas for cleaning from this forum, but no way I am using acetone inside during the winter.

Wow, Meraxes! That's pretty sad! Reminds me of the low-grade/damaged/cull War Nickel set I threw up on ebay one time... and I actually ended up selling the set for $15 or so + shipping!

That's awesome! PCGS recently put out an article about low grade registry sets. It was a thinly veiled advertisement for their services, but a neat idea, nevertheless.

@jbuck Lol! Hey, it's a one-of-a-kind...