Coin markers, share your marks here, we can keep track of where our coins go!!

[MrSchulz]

I write with a Permanet Marker "Ashton" on it, i've gotten back three in the past month

[quiksilver]

There are so many things we can learn from marked and marking coins , especially in an area like westchester ny. there are many different banks that use coin machines and at least 3 differnt types of boxes that i can get halves . By knowing whose coins are marked and where they or me dump i can start learning patterns of things.By getting marked coins in unmarked customer wrappers i can get a good idea that i just picked up a dump. Where as i dont like picking up a dump i like less not knowing if it is a dump or not.

[rovnrbl53]

3 roughly equally spaced black lines (sharpie) on edge

[jarlbartar]

Back in February I marked a whole box of halves with 2/12 on the obverse. About a month ago I gave JFK a curled moustache on about 200 coins.

i follow a strict dumping routine and never pickup from where I dump and vice versa. But last month I found about 5 of my 2/12 coins in a box from one of my big pickup banks. These were dumped at a specific bank that I use strictly for dumping, not just a branch here or there, but the entire company. Go figure...

[BuffaloBoy]

keep them marks posted, we can learn so much from this dumping routine!

[sagittarius98]

DANG!!! With numbers like that, I think my wife and I will have to take a road trip to NYC this fall! You are killing it!!!

TimZim is in NJ, not in NY. I don't think he is near NYC.

[Immy]

I've never heard anyone mention this, but don't the markings wear off? I've found halves with colored laser paint almost totally worn off, which doesn't bode well for a mere sharpie mark.

[BuffaloBoy]

the marks do wear off over time, though should last quite some time, long enough for you to likely get your half dollars a few times... i've gotten a few of my OLDER half dollar marks back, kind of weird since back then I marked about 30 or so, and have gotten some of the same coins back several times, could be explaining my skunk boxes too...
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[huricanesrul]

never marked coins !! i ran into lots of marked coins in my last 4 boxes...green stripe . think i'm going to start marking !!!just to see who gets them !!!!

[fistfulladirt]

my mark will be rims painted silver. Stacks upon stacks of them. Talk about unique!

[sagittarius98]

my mark will be rims painted silver. Stacks upon stacks of them. Talk about unique!

You have to tone the color down to make it look like real silver.

[simplyAARON]

Sometimes, after getting skunked on a few boxes, I get a little frustrated... so I have taken those nice shiny 2011 halves that I've come across (oddly enough, there have been a LOT of them) and write NIFC on the obverse in big letters. Other times, I give Kennedy a big "smiley face" on some of those gem uncirculated 1976 or 1971's I come across. I've seen dots in ears on a lot of mine and I cant help but wonder who that is!!

[TRanegar36]

Just went thru 3 boxes. In one of them I found at least 10 of the 2/12 marks lol

[jarlbartar]

Just went thru 3 boxes. In one of them I found at least 10 of the 2/12 marks lol

Didnt take too long for those to make it back into the wild. Did you find anything of value in those boxes?

[TRanegar36]

Didnt take too long for those to make it back into the wild. Did you find anything of value in those boxes?

Found 1 68' 40%er and a batting cage token