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Remembered this when reading another thread about dumped collections. A few years ago, when I had time to CRH weekly, I decided to search nickels for the '64 "PLURIDUS" variety. For 2-3 boxes, I separated out all 1964s into a pile for a second pass to look for this variety. When done, I had nothing but a pile of ~300-400 heavily circulated, worthless '64s. So I rolled them all up together, marked the rolls as "OLD - 1964" with a big black sharpie, and spent/deposited them around town. I got a lot of strange looks and questions, to which I shrugged and said, "I just needed the cash more than the nickels". More than a few times, I looked back over my shoulder to see the cashier/teller searching through the roll intently.  Has anyone else had a similar mischievous streak? |
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I just filled a roll with canadian nickels, dirty, old ones, and 2 buffalos that were soaking in vinegar a little too long, they're almost worn smooth. Wonder how a CRHer will react upon opening it?
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I get bags of coins off the older coin counters. Some of them let anything through including bent, abused, heavily worn, corroded coins and rotted zinc old that are missing part of the coin
The machines I dump at reject these coins
So I save them and dump a roll of the ugliest messiest most damaged coins.
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To be honest, I would probably love getting a roll like that. I've kept more than a few coins that were obviously part of a dump (e.g. 1940 nickels), or foreigns with significantly less value than what they are standing in for--it's worth the novelty for the few cents that I am "losing".
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Mark the rims of some half dollars with white. Yeah, its a cruel joke. |
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Oh, that was sneaky of you. Cannot say I have ever done anything prankish with coins. |
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I tried to use an Ike dollar at a vending machine once. Yeah, the people in line behind me were not amused. In the end, I pretended to try to stick it in the dollar bill slot, and half the line left to find another machine. |
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I got rid of $50 or so in searched clad halves once at a bank and as a joke wrote 1964 Kennedy, Franklin, and Walking Liberty on the rolls in marker pen to have some fun with the people who they told me always come in asking for halves
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...as a joke wrote 1964 Kennedy, Franklin, and Walking Liberty on the rolls...  |
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Sometimes I write "silver" on rolls of dimes and quarters.
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I know other CRHing forums have some drama between CRHers who view themselves as coin or collector 'purists' (my words not theirs) and others who are viewed as strictly 'silver miners', ordering dozens of boxes and only edge searching. The purists and the miners always argue. I vaguely remember an edge searching 'silver miner' getting boxes with silver painted rims. Or maybe one of his purist competitors was threatening to do it. My memory is foggy but I remember it led to an entertaining discussion.
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05/15/2015 12:55 pm
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BTW, I probably saw 2 or 3 dozen silver painted (not plated) rims when I was roll searching. I searched for NIFC and error halves it wouldn't directly affect my CRHing process or speed. However, one of my favorite things about hunting was the anticipation of a silver rim when opening a roll. I'm glad I didn't see them on a regular basis.
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I guess the most I do is dump my halves in the Walmart self checkout machine. Quote:I tried to use an Ike dollar at a vending machine once. I can top that, at least, I attempted to use an Ike in the Walmart machines because the slot was of a large enough size... But it narrowed out inside, the Ike got stuck and it took three people trying to open it for half an hour before the lady finally gave me a $1 bill from another machine and apologized for the trouble. I played it off as a simple accident as I had also been using smaller gold dollars. |
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I played it off as a simple accident as I had also been using smaller gold dollars. Like accidentally playing golf with a baseball.  I wonder whatever happened to that poor Eisenhower dollar. |
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Quote:I wonder whatever happened to that poor Eisenhower dollar. When I was at Walmart about a week later, the woman on duty at the time was there again and she told me the machine had been closed for three days before an engineer could come in to fix it. I guess when he took the coin out, he gave her a dollar bill from his wallet and pocketed it! |
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Nice score for the engineer.  |
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