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Valued Member
United States
154 Posts |
Hi there,
I've just started coin roll hunting, and got a few rolls of pennies, and one of them looked like someone had done something heinous to all of them. It could be that someone just put dirty coins in a roll, but they all looked to have the same thing done to them. I don't know much but I wonder if someone put them in the oven with something in a false toning experiment. They were blackened, some were sticky, and had nice blue and greenish toning. Has anyone ever seen something similar?
-rina.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1431 Posts |
A roll? I once got an entire $25 box of pennies like that.
nearly all of them had this nasty white crusty stuff on it, and about half of them were too bent to go through the coin counting machine.
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Valued Member
 United States
154 Posts |
Yuck!  That must have been quite a bummer. Part of the fun of collecting coins is imaging where they have been, but ones like those, you really want to know, or maybe not..  |
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Valued Member
United States
100 Posts |
Wonder if the roll was from metal detecting...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
...or someone who dumped their ashtray full of them. Disgusting!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Sounds like the 'ol egg white-in-a-bag trick.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
I've had that happen numerous times, but never a whole box!  Goes without saying; never forget to wash your hands after a roll searching session at your table or desk. No telling where those coins have been! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
I got a used band-aid in a roll recently. I think that's the grossest thing I've found. Chunks of decayed food no longer faze me. One benefit of clear brinks rolls is that I can see a particularly nasty one coming so I can don gloves.
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Valued Member
Canada
271 Posts |
They might have come from a car wash. I'll admit I've searched for coins at the car wash before.
The ones that fall out of the vacuum canisters look like that.
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Valued Member
Canada
212 Posts |
funny enough I acually found a whole roll of pennies metal detecting
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Valued Member
Canada
220 Posts |
I know that coins from a cleaned out ashtray can be nasty, but you can usually smell it before you even open the roll (glove time)! I suspect though that it may be caused by something that I'm guilty of doing from time to time... I'm a detectorist, & all those nasty plated pennies that I find promptly get rolled & banked! So, my apologies in advance if any fellow Canadian CRH'ers ever end up with any of those rolls...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
i also hate that blackish liquid stuff that always makes 2 pennies stick together horrible experience seeing those
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
When I was roll hunting dimes a few years ago, I had found several rolls of dimes that were kinda icky; what's odd was they contained not a dime newer than 1970. One had 27 silver dimes in it including several mercs, all the coins were a gooey mess. The post '64 dimes looked to be AU.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
I've opened cent and nickel rolls that were so bad I didn't even bother going through them. All of the coins looked and felt like they were soaked in molasses.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3640 Posts |
Oh, oh Must of found my last years 2 gallon bucket of metal detecting finds from the bottom of a drained lake.  |
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Posted 05/11/2012 1:53 pm
