It just don't feel right. I hate to throw them away.

[Ammoman]

A penny for your thoughts! For some reason i just can't let these unique one of a kind pennies go into the trash. Do you think a bank will take them off my hands? Maybe i can sell them on ebay or etsy to some starving artist.

What do you do with your NOT SO PERFECT coins?

 

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[DiamondDan]

I throw eaten up zincolns right in my trash pouch. No bank I've ever tried has taken them. Even the not-so-bad ones.

 

[hucklburry]

self roll and turn in for the cash value?

 

[xr7ator]

Somehow we need to get these to the government. If we could seriously make a nuisance with them to someone in charge, maybe we could get them to quit wasting our tax money on zinc cents. Quit making cents altogether like Canada. How about an offer to buy copper cents from the public for, say 3 or 4 cents each. They spend more than that making new ones.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Use them to seed previously pounded sites that stopped producing. The next generation of MDers will need something to keep them occupied...

 

[huntsman53]

Use them to seed previously pounded sites that stopped producing. The next generation of MDers will need something to keep them occupied...

LOL!!

 

[Ammoman]

OK i know what to do with my zink pennies! I just did a search on Ebay for damaged penny and some guy is selling his 1984 penny complete with corrosion for 332.00 bucks! Its on sale from 350.00

I also found another one listed for 2 bucks! I suspect the lesser of the two pennies has cheaper corrosion?

 

[huntsman53]

self roll and turn in for the cash value?

Yep, roll them up with some more decent ones on each end and turn them into the Bank. It is unlikely that they will ever come back on you for turning them in as they are legal coins as long as there are fifty 1 Cent coins in each roll. It is likely that they will be turned in to the U.S. Treasury or whichever Federal Government entity that is responsible for accepting and accounting for damaged coins by the service who services the Bank (i.e. Brinks, Loomis, etc.).

 

[DizzyDigger]

I had a couple hundred of those..took them out to the woods, dug a hole
about a foot deep and dumped them in.

Basically, I gave them back to nature.

 

[Terry Soloman]

First I tumble them. Then I sell them as "Seed Money." They are $4.99 each, or three for $10.00. You plant them in your garden, and your money will grow.

 

[ecmo]

They go into my pouch along with the pull tabs, .22 cartridge cases, pieces of wire, can slaw and any other scrap metal. After my hunt they get emptied into the plastic shopping bag in my trunk along with other previously dug scrap, when full set out for the trash man.

The comment of seeding them for future generations of detectorists is funny as they would self destruct long before the happy hunter could find them.

 

[Ogre1190]

I had about sixty of those at the end of 2017. Was gonna toss them, but my Daughter wanted to run them through her Coinstar. It took about half of them. 😱