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I'm going through the box right now and I'm pretty sure every coin has been cleaned or polished. I can still feel whatever agent they used on some of the coins. To be honest, I can smell it on my hands and the rolls. I'm not sure the box is worth searching at this point. All the newer ones I'm going through still have full luster though. Almost like they were all soaked in something. Anyone ever see this before?
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Rest in Peace
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Are the rolls customer rolled or bank rolled? By what you have described I would think customer rolled if you are smelling some kind of cleaning solvent. Also,  As we will be able to better help you if we can see these rolls/coins.  |
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Looks like this one wasn't fully rinsed off. Either way I'm going to dump them all. I'm not going to search through all these.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Maybe a coin fountain cleaning company had them for a while.
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Beats me.  |
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Just goes to show anything is possible when roll hunting. Just the scent and waxy feeling deterred me from going through them. Maybe the banks are starting to do this to stop people from asking for boxes  Edited by mail187man
03/01/2018 7:12 pm
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Maybe a coin fountain cleaning company had them for a while Good point and quite possible! There are companies that get paid to collect all of the coin in fountains and clean and rinse them. That could very well be the case here even though it is an entire box.  |
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I asked in a long time ago topic that coin wrapper company's send all their coins through a conveyer system that have computerized machined that kick the collectables out of the rolling machine bin. Research it - I do know it exists!
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We do know that for cents in PA the coppers are gone, no more. The Armored car Co, has a weight separator and sells the bulk copper in 5000 count bags. I don't know a way to weight/material separate nickels, there is no difference other than a hand sort, too expensive Mark. Now for washing, it is quite possible for health reasons coins may require a disinfectant/rinse. Your Box of vertical coins is different than around here, ours are the older horizontal stack, no wash. May just be part of their machinery, seems cost restrictive tho.
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coin wrapper company's send all their coins through a conveyer system that have computerized machined that kick the collectables out of the rolling machine bin. As Crazyb0 mentioned, how would nickels be separated? I can see weight being singled out for copper cents and other silver denominations, but not nickels as the outward specs are the same. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Maybe a coin fountain cleaning company had them for a while. That's my thinking... Every once in a while, I get rolls of CWR which were definitely from a fountain. I've probably been through about a full box of them... The strange thing is that I've NEVER found a pre-1960 dated coin amongst them and only a lone 2009-D nickel... which tells me the local fountain cleaning company is likely run by a person who is also a coin collector.  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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Maybe a coin fountain cleaning company had them for a while. My first thought as well. Then I remembered this... http://goccf.com/t/109975 |
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Quote:My first thought as well. Then I remembered this... http://goccf.com/t/109975 What the? I will just add that to my long list of reasons NEVER to visit that particular city again. CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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