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Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
I have searched and re-rolled so many rolls of nickels that I can grab a handful of them and make a quick stack without even thinking about it and if I am not right on the button I am only off by one coin on either side of 40 nickels.
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
Same as a lot of people for copper pennies, can flip them in the air and tell the difference between copper/non-copper 1982 pennies.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The other day I noticed a strange looking toonie and sure enough it was counterfeit.
Hey Libertad, can you please post a photo of that coin? It would be really strange for someone to counterfeit that. It wouldn't make sense for someone to do that, since the machinery is very expensive. |
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Valued Member
United States
117 Posts |
I've owned a laundromat for about 10 years now. I usually dump all the quarters into specific buckets. A bucket for the driers, the top loaders, 25lbs, 40lbs, 50lbs, and a 75lbs washers. Then weight them, and dump em back into the change machine that dispenses the quarters for bills.
During this process, I can usually hear the clear sound of a silver quarter hitting the other quarters. Since I tend to dump the quarters into two different buckets, since I use a special bucket to weight out the quarters to figure out how many I have, I have usually catch a silver quarter here and there.
And someone also said they could pinch out rolls just by having them in their hands. I can do the same. I grab a handful of quarters from a bucket, shake them around so they line up on top of my middle finger, palm up. I then kinda fold my palm so any extra quarters above a roll will slip out of my hands, and then I hold down the line of quarters with my thumb, turn my hand over to drop the extra quarters that aren't part of the nice column down my hand. I can then slip a finger nail into the little opening on a folded coin wrapper with the same hand I'm holding the quarters, and then just let them slide into the wrapper, I fold both ends and presto, $10 roll of quarters is done. At first, I thought I was just getting lucky after doing this kinda thing for a long time, since I use could be off by a quarter, but after a couple years, I don't even check the $10 rolls I make, since I've always been spot on.
*I use to count all those quarters from the laundromat the first couple months I was open, since the order for my quarter scale was delayed, hence, lots of practice to counting thousand of dollars worth of quarters, twice a week.
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm new to the hobby, so I have no nifty tricks, but thanks for the tip on flipping coins. I didn't realize that copper makes a different sound than zinc. I just tested and found that one of my 82's I was sure was zinc is actually copper. Just shiny :)
And then I proceeded to flip a bunch of coppers and a bunch of zincs and now I can tell the difference!
*Overly excited now.. I know..*
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
For me it's telling if a penny is copper or not by flicking it in the air. Never takes more than one try.
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Valued Member
Canada
271 Posts |
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It would be really strange for someone to counterfeit that. A group of people in Quebec made counterfeit toonies until they were caught and shut down last year. The toonies looked good at a glance, but they were dull and made a "clunk" sound when dropped. That's probably what he found. I must say, this is the first time I've ever heard someone say "She looked at me like I had goats coming out of my ears."  -oddcoins |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I didn't realize that copper makes a different sound than zinc. I just tested and found that one of my 82's I was sure was zinc is actually copper. Just shiny :) Back when things were engineered for quality, those old brass cash registers had a feature that few non-businessmen knew about. That smooth shiny marble shelf above the till wasn't just decoration. It provided a consistent hard surface to drop suspected coins on, and they better ring. |
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Valued Member
Canada
449 Posts |
My parents had an old National 6-drawer register at their store, and many times I saw my Dad dropping american change he had accepted onto it. What a distinct sound they made. My talent from CRHing has got to be that I can now tell, almost 100%, after emptying a roll in a nice line at a 90 angle from me, knowing which series (george, elizabeth (early or later) the pennies are by the edges and sometimes their colour.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's awesome man I did that to my wife one time she came back from the store and I have this change jug we put coins into for me to sort threw and she put some money in there and I heard that silver quarter fall in the jar from the other side of the room lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
For me it's the Canadian cents I can pick out. I can dump out a roll of cents and immediately know if there is Canadian in it. Have to try some of the other tricks I've read about in this thread!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1620 Posts |
Its just that distinctive sound that Canadians/silver makes when it hits regular change its so different
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Well I'm with Secoinedchance. I can lay a roll of pennies out and I dont have to see the head that is on the coin, I can look at the maple leaf and see if its pre 64.
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