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United States
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Picked up a box of lincolns and a box of jeffersons today to search over the weekend. Finished the lincolns just a few minutes ago. Found about the normal amount of copper, a beautiful 62D and only one wheat. The odd thing-there were a total of three and a half rolls (after I finished) that were so corroded that I could only read the date on about a third of them. Over half, I could not tell that they were cents at all. I haven't been roll searching that long, but I have never come across so many unidentifiable coins in a single box. Oh yea, did find one dime.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4000 Posts |
Nice score on the dime! Insured a profit!  I hear ya on the corroded ones, it's a real shame. "They don't make 'em like they used to". I sometimes feel too guilty to roll them back up and pass on to the next guy, and always feel too guilty to tell ya'll what I really do with them. |
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United States
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i get the corroded rolls too... I think those are from metal detector rolls. Not sure why the dimes get lumped in though. had 15 rolls like that.. 4 had a dime in them. Nasty rolls though.. I keep them isolated so the infection doesn't spread. lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1934 Posts |
any one of those charity boxes at points-of-sale would take those corroded coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
573 Posts |
I dump the corroded ones in the CoinStar machine at my CU. Of course the machine accepts the nasty ones but rejects a handful of shiny cents. Go figure.
Matt
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome to the wonderful world of zinc.I doubt they are metal detected. I would say they have just been in someones penny jar for a while.A little humidity and WHALA,a big ball of corrosion.
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Valued Member
United States
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Sounds like some could be coins from fountains. I too have had boxes with more corroded coins than you would think possible. In Florida, we see a few beach coins which never fair well. Lots of way to kill a coin.
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United States
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I'm not sure where they might come from. I had about 20 rolls of the '82/83 cents that I gow while working at mt S-i-L licoir store, as night manager. I later went to Mexico for five years, then came back. The rolls of cents went with me in the moves back and foeth. They were in a 3-LC coffee can, and when I got back into serious collecting again, thet were all just as shiny as when I first placed them there.
As for the zincolns, when I go thru a box, I pull a few of the ones I want to keep, or need for a SDR, (solid date roll), and all the corroded go into a sepatate bowl. When I am ready to return the box, the corroced make up rolls, and the otherwise missing ones are replaces with extras. I doubt you got one of my 'returns", but they would surely look much like that! YICK!!
Dick
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United States
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Sorry! I metal detect and YUP! at the end of the year the coins get tumbled then rolled then deposited at bank. The really bad ones are salt water finds. WOLF
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