Just got my Ryedale today and throughout the day was hitting up the local banks for pennies to run through it.
Unpacked, set it up and started unrolling pennies. Was fine for about 10 minutes then it started jamming like crazy!
Every time I unjammed it, a rusty looking corroded coin was jamming it up. I checked the next few rolls instead of mindlessly dumping it into the machine- OMG the corrosion damage!
Some were so bad that it actually ate holes in the penny itself! Some had corrosion buildup like they were barnacles growing on the pennies. Most of the affected pennies were so bad that I couldn't even get a date off most of them. I did get partials and the ones I could make out were....
2000-2009 years!
I seriously got a bad batch of rolls or something since there were about 10 rolls filled with these corroded pennies! Almost every other one in those rolls were corroded.
Jammed my poor machine about 15 times before we got through the stretch of bad pennies.
Have anyone seen this before? This is the first I've seen of pennies going bad, although like we all have, heard of the stories of how fast these things fall apart.
I feel bad for my Ryedale. Went through a hard first day. =(
Posted 07/09/2011 11:49 am
