What do you do with really crusty zinc

[Dangerranger60]

I have $4 of really crusty zinc pennies, they are too crusty to run through coin star. what do you all do with them? If I roll them up do you think a bank will take them? DR

 

[DIG5050]

My bank won’t take them. I usually discard them.

 

[markinmichigan]

Toss em on a local beach where there is a ton of other metal detectorists. They'll clear out quickly. Feeling chirpy.

Mark in Michigan

 

[GroundSweeper]

I have a bin overflowing with crusty zincs from metal detecting sitting out in the shed. Why? I have no clue. I've started throwing them out now.

 

[Ken Clad]

All mine are "dumpster ballast". Helping Horry County Trash Transfer Station keep their dumpsters on an even keel since 2024.

 

[metaladdict]

Trash can.

 

[SeabeeRon]

Send them to Felix in Florida!

 

[Dig-on]

mail them to me. I will melt them down and send you a poured pirate coin.

 

[Blewfur]

I have $4 of really crusty zinc pennies, they are too crusty to run through coin star. what do you all do with them? If I roll them up do you think a bank will take them? DR

Throw them out for the grandkids to find. Or add them to your test garden.

 

[Cfmct]

I have $4 of really crusty zinc pennies, they are too crusty to run through coin star. what do you all do with them? If I roll them up do you think a bank will take them? DR

Contact FelixtheCat he will gladly take them from you... He loves them, the more rotted the better... Just send him a PM..

 

[Kansashunter]

Trash, no one will take them!!

 

[FelixtheCat]

When I tumble my coins, before I take them to the Coinstar, I triage them - mainly the pennies of course. Some can go straight to the machine, others need some tumbling. After thousands of pennies, I have learned which ones are in "tumbleable" condition and which ones are not. The really bad ones I will set aside and just throw out.

Like Craig said, I will gladly take them from you, but I think its more important that you send them to him to help supplant his zinc deficiency.

 

[BobOso]

I throw them in my scrap bucket, they will in time make their way to the scrap yard. I recycle my brass, copper, lead, iron. Brass is usually shell casings, or sprinkler heads, both of which have to be separated, the lead is usually old lead bullets, or newer lead I melt from the copper bullets, also need to be separated. The iron is mixed along with my welding scrap,( and pennies) I usually have a trailer full.

 

[Sirius]

On a bit of an off topic note, I've used copper pennies from the beach as pie weights when baking pies blind. washed multiple times of course.

 

[diggin4clad]

I notch out zincs so I don't get very many. The ones I do get end up in a garbage can.

 

[GroundSweeper]

On a bit of an off topic note, I've used copper pennies from the beach as pie weights when baking pies blind. washed multiple times of course.

Learn something new every day here.

Many recipes for pies and tarts call for blind-baking the unfilled crust – a process made more reliable with the help of these ceramic weights.

 

[Sirius]

Learn something new every day here.

Always gotta use parchment paper though. No matter how many times you wash and bake pennies, they're still gross and I don't want them touching the crust.

 

[Xxray]

Toss em on a local beach where there is a ton of other metal detectorists. They'll clear out quickly. Feeling chirpy.

Mark in Michigan

Hope you aren't serious.

I have saved mine in a metal box, it is overflowing and I'll likely just toss it in the trash some day soon.

 

[markinmichigan]

Hope you aren't serious.

I have saved mine in a metal box, it is overflowing and I'll likely just toss it in the trash some day soon.

Like I said, I was feeling chirpy that night. I'm a staunch supporter of anti littering. I never throw trash on the ground. I'll pick up trash when I'm in a public place when I'm detecting. It's good to promote a healthy "do good" image for our hobby.

Mark in Michigan