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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[joeismad]

This definitely hasn't been an issue for me since I have only been at this a week, but they are legal tender. I plan to mix them with less corroded pennies and roll them up for deposit. After all, it's kind of cliche, but every penny counts.

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[testing123]

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.

It's illegal to melt them, so good thing they didn't take them

 

[cti4sw]

It's illegal to melt them, so good thing they didn't take them

If it's illegal for a scrapyard to melt copper pennies, how/why can precious metal dealers melt silver coinage?