Finally got complaints about my rolled rotten zincolns.

[Back-of-the-boat]

So into a Mason jar they will go from now on but I will give a future detectorist the pleasure of digging up a CACHE, Oh how he/she will hate me.LOL I might throw a silver dime in just to be nice.LOL

 

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[kingskid1611]

I spend them all over town.....

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I spend them all over town.....

I'm talking the real bad ones the ones with warts and holes eaten through them.

 

[kingskid1611]

Have a pocket full and if they refuse them then pull out a few more and say this is all I have. They will take them......

 

[SusanMN]

I take them out of my pouch and toss them in the trash. Not worth my time doing anything else with them.

 

[against the wind]

I take them out of my pouch and toss them in the trash. Not worth my time doing anything else with them.

Yep,, me too.

 

[JoeDirty]

Me three!

 

[Xraywolf]

you'd probably complain if you received crusted coins for change too

 

[thumper]

Take them and glue them to an old table,picture frame,box,or something else. You could tumble them and clean them up first. Then maybe coat the project in a clear coat to keep it shinney.



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[mariposagold]

Here are my Toasted Zincolns. About 3.5 LBS.

 

[KandiKlover]

You can use them to salt the ground lol mask your own secret cache of hidden stuff from other detectorists lmao

 

[Msbeepbeep]

It is amazing, they corrode, no one will take them, but your not allowed to melt them down to get your money's worth out of them.

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[ARC]

Tumble them.

 

[68kaiser]

Its sad that our country can't even make coins with copper any more. I throw mine away also when I get home from a hunt.

 

[Palmetto Pony]

Something I saw just today fits perfectly with this post. Yet another idea of what you can do with those pennies....and a few more.




Yep, made entirely of pennies and then coated with epoxy.

 

[Xraywolf]

Tumble them.

Something I saw just today fits perfectly with this post. Yet another idea of what you can do with those pennies....and a few more.

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Yep, made entirely of pennies and then coated with epoxy.

Both ideas not something you would want to do with corroded, flawed zinc pennies.
The idea is to get them accepted by a coinstar or bank, neither is possible since a machine will reject them by weight and maybe other criteria, bank will reject them on policy.

 

[Argentium]

The rotten , corroded , leperous zincolns I also trash - the intact ones , I dump into a bank coin counter every six months or so (only where I'm a member - no charge )

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I have gone as far as to fill in the gaps and spaces on them with expoy or clear finger nail ploish, then paint them with a copper marker and pass them off in change. If they end up in a bank the are sent back to the mint to be recycled.

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[Xraywolf]

Gradually passing off in change probably the only viable option, obviously not worth the bother to most including me.

I save mine, exactly why I'll never know. If for nothing else, when I find them just like any other trash I don't simply toss them aside, I pocket them. Once pocketed, seems to make some kind of sense to hoard them, for posterity perhaps.

 

[Dave Rishar]

I have gone as far as to fill in the gaps and spaces on them with expoy or clear finger nail ploish, then paint them with a copper marker and pass them off in change. If they end up in a bank the are sent back to the mint to be recycled.

That's a lot of work for a cent. I throw them out, but I fantasize about throwing them at zinc lobbyists instead.