007tallguy
Elite Member
give away in a bag to the beggar at the stop lightJK
in a bag? noooo, toss 'em loose, make them WORK for their rotten money. they bring in more money in an hours' worth of bumming than i dig all year!
What do you do with dirty coins?
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in a bag? noooo, toss 'em loose, make them WORK for their rotten money. they bring in more money in an hours' worth of bumming than i dig all year!
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
If there is a Federal Reserve bank near you they will take in damaged coins. If not sneak them in coin rolls deposited at the bank. Or you could toss it in with other metal scrap and sell to the scrap yard.
DixieLandMan
Elite Member
Put them in the tumbler and then roll them up with all the other pennies.
I'm saving all the rotten ones in a container and I'm planning on burying a cache somewhere to be found in like 100 years. I know if I found 500 crusty and nasty indians today, I'd be one happy camper. I'll let someone in 2150 be thrilled with my crusty zincolns.
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
Something tells me Zincolns are never gonna be coveted coins. They will probably disintegrate in less than 100 years considering how a few years in certain soils leaves them with holes.
Airtight container. probably glass. That's the plan anyway. Probably won't bury them for another 30 years, so I'm going to have a huge pile.
rlhjr72
Senior Member
I keep them with the rest of the loose change in my pocket and sneak one or two in with each cash purchase. I also give them to my kids when they want to throw money into the fountains.
Knock yourselves out, kids, here's 20 each!
Knock yourselves out, kids, here's 20 each!
DirtyRob
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I take mine back to the bank dirty as can be. The bank started charging an $11 monthly charge on most checking accounts.
So, for $11 a month their coin machine is gonna get a workout. I do knock as much loose dirt and crud off as possible. But I quit using the tumbler. The only good thing for the bank is my totals are WAY down from the last 2 years. I'll be happy to reach the $100 mark this year. Tons of pennies as I seek the gold rings. And those big 10K rings show the same as cruddy zinc pennies.
It's amazing how many cruddy ones make it through the coin machine!!!
So, for $11 a month their coin machine is gonna get a workout. I do knock as much loose dirt and crud off as possible. But I quit using the tumbler. The only good thing for the bank is my totals are WAY down from the last 2 years. I'll be happy to reach the $100 mark this year. Tons of pennies as I seek the gold rings. And those big 10K rings show the same as cruddy zinc pennies.
It's amazing how many cruddy ones make it through the coin machine!!!
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
You're bank must have a real good machine. I dumped my first jar of dirty clad and I tore up the machine! lol It started making loud embarrassing beeping noises and it was out of commission for a week waiting to be serviced. It even spit some bits of gravel and dirt in the return box so made me look really bad.
Then I got a tumbler.
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
It must have because all the tellers were looking at me. You don't know how embarrassing it was to walk up to the desk with my little printout slip and say "please deposit to checking please" and trying to play it cool. (after tipping all the dirt out of the return back into my Skippy PB jar.
The teller looked at me, scribbled something onto back of slip probably something like this is the one tore it up! I went back a week later and heard a woman grumbling that the machine was still out of service.
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
I shut er down a second time with some wet coins. Didn't dry on both sides after the tumbling. Now I give several days drying time. You live; you learn.
Mntnclmbr
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They must cringe when they see you coming. Lol
My first try at my Credit Union took their NEW machine down.
Luckily the teller let me give her a hand fixing it. She even gave me a pen in thanks lol. Had lots of experience fixing the copying machine back when I used to give it a work out before retiring.
Rotten zinc pennies work good in shotguns and as a way to stop a toilet from rocking. Or if you have a waiter who doesn't deserve a tip.
I toss them, no need to give some teller or anyone else a bad day having to sort it out of a bank roll or machine.
And you should clean your clad too, nothing is more obvious than a roll/pile of dirty coins for where they came from.
And people wonder why metal detecting is getting a bad name, it all adds up. No pun intended.
And you should clean your clad too, nothing is more obvious than a roll/pile of dirty coins for where they came from.
And people wonder why metal detecting is getting a bad name, it all adds up. No pun intended.
Chipk
Elite Member
DIRTY MONEY? I TAKE IT TO A DIRTY PLACE!
And let me tell you a handful of bent and broken pennies will fill a g-string real fast!
And let me tell you a handful of bent and broken pennies will fill a g-string real fast!
hillbillydigger
Elite Member
DIRTY MONEY? I TAKE IT TO A DIRTY PLACE!
And let me tell you a handful of bent and broken pennies will fill a g-string real fast!
I feel sorry for those poor girls. They should slather themselves in hand sanitizer then spray with Lysol.
Kingdoc
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Aint nothing that can fix that but the cleansing power of fire LOL!
