How about a picture of my current cache of a year of them? AND if you look carefully they're "Fat Free"!Could you enlarge the pictures of the decrepit FP's
I separate the pennies from the other clad in 2 different pretzel jars. As you can see the penny jar is almost full. I will go through the jar in a couple of weeks during my Spring Break and "triage" the pennies. Shiny ones and those that don't need cleaning will go in a Tupperware. Those that just need a bit of tumbling will get tumbled. Then I'll see how many of the bad ones I can save by hammering the crust off 1st and then tumbling. Some will not be salvageable and those I will save for when I visit Connecticut beaches one day which I believe are lacking in this much maligned type of currency.Btw, what do you do with those crusty pennies? I'm guessing the banks won't take them so do you have a bucket of them at home?
Earl, if I did this hobby to only find gold I would've quit 10 years ago. For the time I've put in detecting, a part time job at McDonald's would've earned me more money than all the gold and silver I've found. BUT WHAT I CAN SAY is that all my detectors have MORE than paid for themselves! AND I have also paid for 2 over month long trips to Spain (one with my daughter) with just some the stuff I've sold.On the 54 Felix pennies , the best of the best