A question about your clad and zincolns

[cti4sw]

I just got back from cashing in my clad pocket change at a CoinStar machine. The machine rejected almost every single Zincoln I've ever found due to damage. Question #1: What do y'all do with your eroded Zincolns? I'm tempted to just throw them away, or drop them in a pile on the asphalt at the local elementary school for the grade school kids to find. I'm sure they'd have a fit about it

Is there any value in 1940s and 1950s wheat cents beyond their face value? I forgot to bring them to the CoinStar, but I was wondering if recirculating the hundred or so I have would be more worth the $1 than trying to sell them for their numismatic value, which might be $0.011 due to the hundred trillion of them that were made in that 20-year period. Thoughts?

 

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[Wildcat1750]

I might put the zincolns all in a big jar and bury them in my yard for my great-grandkids to dig up someday. They might be worth something then.
Nick

 

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[baywalker]

Just went to the bank with my clad ( they do it for free ) had about 50 coins that would not go droped them in the kettel like dfxdude said.

 

[capt-zero]

I don't know what to do with zincolns, but the coin shop up the street pays .03 for wheats.

 

[Happy Harry]

I rolled up all but the very worst ones and took them to my bank. They then send them to a counting service of some kind. The amount that was deposited to my bank account was only three cents less than I had rolled. Could have been my error. At any rate I am rid of them.
The really trashed ones I still have and will probably just put in the trash. Not worth the hassle.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I've been detecting for years, lots of tricks you can use... I just tumble them in the rock tumbler.... Roll them up and take them to a bank, its good to mix them up well with good cents as well. Rolling is not that hard once you get use to it, you can also get rolling machines/guide tubes for cheaper than the % the Coinstar machine takes. That's what I've been doing for years, I don't have any problems with tellers... I go to tellers who know and like me too.

Keep @ it and HH !!

 

[baywalker]

My bank wil not take rolled coins but if i keep putting them thru the coin counter it will take most of them .

 

[capt-zero]

Your bank may not, but your local grocery/convience store will. I've been rolling my change for years and the only problem I've had passing them is one OCD clerk made me tear them open and count them to make sure I wasn't cheating on pennies.

 

[stewielouie]

I roll mine up and give them to the bank

 

[wheatfinder13]

I just toss them out

 

[Ed-D]

I didn't read all of the replies, so sorry if I repeat... I keep all copper pennies whether memorials or wheats, and I keep all nickels which are mostly copper no matter the year because both have copper content that is worth more than face value. Everything else goes to the bank for cash.

 

[thrillathahunt]

Getting rid of the cent will cost YOU more. Merchants will round everything up...not down. Especially more frequent and smaller purchases will cost more in the long run.

 

[cti4sw]

I didn't read all of the replies, so sorry if I repeat... I keep all copper pennies whether memorials or wheats, and I keep all nickels which are mostly copper no matter the year because both have copper content that is worth more than face value. Everything else goes to the bank for cash.

I actually just went to the scrapyard with some copper and brass I had, and they wouldn't take the pennies I had in my bucket, even after I told them that all pennies minted between 1959 and 1981 were almost solid copper. They also suggested trashing the zincolns bc "zinc in that condition is near worthless" as scrap.

 

[wheatfinder13]

I didn't read all of the replies, so sorry if I repeat... I keep all copper pennies whether memorials or wheats, and I keep all nickels which are mostly copper no matter the year because both have copper content that is worth more than face value. Everything else goes to the bank for cash.

Same

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I rolled all mine, I know its petty, but i had over 2 bucks worth of them. The bank took them with no problems. I actually bought a 2 dollar bill from them with the 4 rolls I brought in

 

[cahil_2]

My son put about 50 zincolns in a bag and buried them by a big tree at a local park. Somebody will find a cache someday. What a filthy joke to play.

 

[cti4sw]

I'll tell you what I did with my zincolns. I had a cellar hole site in the woods that I had hunted to death but it was close to my house so I would go there when time was limited. One day I stopped and saw a bunch of huge unfilled holes and all kinds of bits of sheet iron and other iron junk left laying next to the holes. I repaired the damage and the next day I stopped again with about a half gallon of rotten zinc pennies and threw them as far as I could in every direction saying "Here, you want something to dig I'll give you something to dig" and laughing my butt off while I did it

I put about $2.50 worth of zincoln's in the Salvation Army bucket for Christmas and let them figure it out.

My son put about 50 zincolns in a bag and buried them by a big tree at a local park. Somebody will find a cache someday. What a filthy joke to play.

I think these three are my favorites so far

 

[steelheadwill]

CTI,
Keep or sell your late wheats, your choice. I'd give em a once over for errors as minor ones are fairly common.
I toss my chewed zincs in a jar, likely will trash them at some point,
I probably got 200-300 in my career, so it's not an issue for me.
Even if I had thousands, it's not worth the time to roll them, though I'd have no issues with dumping them at a bank.
They are still 'Legal Tender'. HH Everyone !!

I'll tell you what I did with my zincolns. I had a cellar hole site in the woods that I had hunted to death but it was close to my house so I would go there when time was limited. One day I stopped and saw a bunch of huge unfilled holes and all kinds of bits of sheet iron and other iron junk left laying next to the holes. I repaired the damage and the next day I stopped again with about a half gallon of rotten zinc pennies and threw them as far as I could in every direction saying "Here, you want something to dig I'll give you something to dig" and laughing my butt off while I did it

dsinsc,
I think the idea of scattering your trash around a site where others have a chance of finding something is a really lousy one, regardless the unscrupulous work of the diggers you were plotting vengeance on.
Your action was more deplorable than theirs, though you think it's hilarious.
Are you so confident in your skills that you think you've gotten everything important
from the site?
No site is EVER cleaned out.
We can assume that detectors will attain greater depth in the future,
and maybe there's even someone out there with greater skills than you...
The fact that pieces of iron were left by others is proof that the site could yield more after this is removed.
I am quite surprised that members have 'Liked' this posting, what were you thinking

 

[cti4sw]

dsinsc,
I think the idea of scattering your trash around a site where others have a chance of finding something is a really lousy one, regardless the unscrupulous work of the diggers you were plotting vengeance on.
Your action was more deplorable than theirs, though you think it's hilarious.
Are you so confident in your skills that you think you've gotten everything important
from the site?
No site is EVER cleaned out.
We can assume that detectors will attain greater depth in the future,
and maybe there's even someone out there with greater skills than you...
The fact that pieces of iron were left by others is proof that the site could yield more after this is removed.
I am quite surprised that members have 'Liked' this posting, what were you thinking

Handheld, commercially-available detectors have progressed in their technology over the years that when they first were made available to civilians, the discrimination tech was nonexistent. Presently, I know for a fact that my Bounty Hunter Tracker IV will disc out most iron and some aluminum, and the AT Pro will disc out ALL iron. I can only assume that someday, some company will build a detector that has a return-phase range elimination selector. And that's if one doesn't already exist. I did see in a magazine that some company was selling a detector for $5k that was essentially performing GPR with its EMI and actually showed you what it was detecting on the control screen. Since technology gets cheaper as it becomes more mainstream, someday even that $5k detector will become affordable, so someday that site will become relevant again.

And another thing... At least dsinsc used a biodegradable material - HA!

 

[WHADIFIND]

I think these three are my favorites so far

How about this? I intend to pay my taxes with them next year.

HH!

 

[Chug And Red]

I put about $2.50 worth of zincoln's in the Salvation Army bucket for Christmas and let them figure it out.

Damn, I thought I was the Only one to do that!!! OOps Chug