A SHOCKING DISCOVERY !!

[TORRERO]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

 

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[MrMarsHill]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

Maybe the steel cent was so dirty it looked copper? I've got them in my collection ranging from a mirror finish silver color up to dirty brown/black 😂 And I'm with you on the zinc pennies. If they're good enough, they go in the change bucket. If they have holes etc... straight in the trash! I haven't come across any better method than that, but I'd like to hear what everybody else does with theirs

 

[ArfieBoy]

I throw away the corroded Zincolns away, too. No sense trying to return them when they are in such bad shape! Congratulations on all the good coins!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on the finds. I keep the crusty Zincols because I may want to seed a hunted out site with them for future generations or put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

 

[Gare]

GREAT FINDS

 

[robertk]

put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

That is a brilliant idea.

 

[TORRERO]

Maybe the steel cent was so dirty it looked copper? I've got them in my collection ranging from a mirror finish silver color up to dirty brown/black 😂 And I'm with you on the zinc pennies. If they're good enough, they go in the change bucket. If they have holes etc... straight in the trash! I haven't come across any better method than that, but I'd like to hear what everybody else does with theirs

If I dug it, way was it not rusted ?

 

[Digger RJ]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

If I dug it, way was it not rusted ?

Zinc is a protective coating for steel, galvanizing

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Congrats on the finds. I keep the crusty Zincols because I may want to seed a hunted out site with them for future generations or put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

Do you really want angry folks doing things to your grave?

 

[l.cutler]

Even though it's an older coin, it could have been lost more recently and not had a chance to rust too much.

 

[TORRERO]

Zinc is a protective coating for steel, galvanizing

These 3 "coins" came from the same hole, a 41 nichel, a 42 wheat and this round rusted thing...
I have not seen anywhere that said that steel pennies were "Galvanized" before they were released for circulation.
So I still don't know how I got this, I found the other steel cent that I thought I had sold, so I didn't make a mistake and clean one I already had..
Plus the fact that I generally don't dig Iron targets and this is clearly Iron as it sticks solid to a magnet..

 

[TORRERO]

Even though it's an older coin, it could have been lost more recently and not had a chance to rust too much.

Is it possible I got it in pocket change and didn't know it and didn't actually dig it ? Such a mystery..

 

[AU Seeker]

These 3 "coins" came from the same hole, a 41 nichel, a 42 wheat and this round rusted thing...
I have not seen anywhere that said that steel pennies were "Galvanized" before they were released for circulation.
So I still don't know how I got this, I found the other steel cent that I thought I had sold, so I didn't make a mistake and clean one I already had..
Plus the fact that I generally don't dig Iron targets and this is clearly Iron as it sticks solid to a magnet..

Metal: Zinc-coated Steel

https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1943-1c/2711

 

[pepperj]

Even though it's an older coin, it could have been lost more recently and not had a chance to rust too much.

I've dug a few over the years, mainly park hunting.
Not recent drops either as most were well below the surface. (In the lower root mass of grass or below)
Can't explain why they survive the way they did, but all are dug versions.

 

[TORRERO]

I've dug a few over the years, mainly park hunting.
Not recent drops either as most were well below the surface. (In the lower root mass of grass or below)
Can't explain why they survive the way they did, but all are dug versions.
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So maybe I did dig that one ...
But this ? what is this ?

 

[TORRERO]

I've dug a few over the years, mainly park hunting.
Not recent drops either as most were well below the surface. (In the lower root mass of grass or below)
Can't explain why they survive the way they did, but all are dug versions.
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And I guise your digging iron signals to get these ?

 

[pepperj]

And I guise your digging iron signals to get these ?

I'm sorry I forget actually. I really haven't hunted parks for 15yrs. I might of got a few from fields.
The Minelabs and even the Deus detectors will have a detect a round piece as these steel pennies.
But having said that our Canadian coinage is mostly steel content, and they're nulled out.

It could be the depth also, having a 4-5" range might change how the detector interprets the target.
Also when I digging for iffy sounding targets I probably recovered most of these.

 

[TORRERO]

I'm going to throw that rusty one in the tumbler to see what it looks like after..
I'll let you guys know...

 

[TORRERO]

I'm sorry I forget actually. I really haven't hunted parks for 15yrs. I might of got a few from fields.
The Minelabs and even the Deus detectors will have a detect a round piece as these steel pennies.
But having said that our Canadian coinage is mostly steel content, and they're nulled out.

It could be the depth also, having a 4-5" range might change how the detector interprets the target.
Also when I digging for iffy sounding targets I probably recovered most of these.

I haven't actually tested a steel cent in front of my machine, which I will try now... but I always assumed that it being steel the machine would discriminate it out.. hence you would not dig it...
and even if it did give a signal it would be MUCH lower than regular issue coins and if you were cherry picking you would never get these..