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novillero Valued Member United States 290 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 07:46 am I started going thru my father 5 gallon jug of pennies. Many of the coins have what I think is verdigris. I was planning on keeping the coppers, wheats and looking for upgrades and errors. In a jug of what I though would contain zero wheats produced several, including a 1918 in what was probably less than 25.00 of coins. Close to 50% were coppers, and only a handful were dated in the 2000s. I found no upgrades, and no coins worth saving to even make a BU roll of any particular year. I think this could be a treasure trove, but for the green dust (some worse than others, some little or no affect, some atrocious)! At then end of the night, there were some decent coins, but I fear everything is contaminated. Going through the jug, I found blades of grass and I know some of the grandkids shoved stuff in there (nothing sticky yet, thankfully). I am thinking of scrapping the mission for coppers, upgrades and BUs, and just focusing on the wheats and then treating them for the verdigris. I don't even know if this is worth it, either. What would you do? Report this Post to the Staff

Gothic Florin Pillar of the Community United States 2541 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 1:52 pm Pull the wheaties and dump the rest in the coin counter at your local bank! Report this Post to the Staff
slash112 Valued Member United States 368 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 2:39 pm I keep every Wheat penny no matter what shape or condition. As for the others, I got some coins at my dads collision shop they were caked with inches of dirt and grim all dried out and gross I cleaned them in orange juice and water so I could see if there were wheats took them out and wrapped and took to the bank the rest Didnt even look for anything else Report this Post to the Staff
Napoleon31ft Pillar of the Community United States 528 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 2:57 pm Unless you are having fun I would just take everything to the bank. Maybe hose them down to get some of the bigger stuff off so the bank will not get angry about you giving them nasty coins for their nice counter. Report this Post to the Staff
TNG Bedrock of the Community United States 10284 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 3:06 pm orange juice ... citric acid would ruin a good coin I would think. Time is a valuable thing. If I were smarter, I would sell a lot of my less valuable stuff and invest the money it gets into some really high end scarce coins. A few nice coins are easier to resell than a bucket full of problem and more common coins. Report this Post to the Staff
okiepb Pillar of the Community United States 1213 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 7:16 pm Yeah, I'd go thru for wheats and dump the rest. And next time, I'd avoid the OJ - it does seem that would be too acidic. Report this Post to the Staff
slash112 Valued Member United States 368 Posts	Posted 07/14/2010 11:47 pm trust me my coins were WAY past gone, it was just a way to find wheats for my junk extra pile i have never cleaned a coin picture soup cans filled to the top with pennies covered with dust from over the years, then soaked in water to clean and forgot about like 20 times, more dust, sand from sand blasting....water, dust, freezing cold buffalo temps, water and more dust I was looking through junk for more junk lol it killed time, and whats fun is all that counts, for all I knew there was an old indian or something in there, I just was curious, instead of throwing them out, why not look lol Report this Post to the Staff
CRH Valued Member United States 72 Posts	Posted 07/15/2010 12:34 am Personally I would not scrap the idea of saving BU. Report this Post to the Staff
novillero Valued Member United States 290 Posts	Posted 07/17/2010 11:05 am I decided to keep going, forget about BU zincs and errors, and keep the wheats and coppers but store these apart from my other CU and wheats. Report this Post to the Staff
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