Mr Spittoon Strikes Again

[kb4iqm]

Picked up $10 in CWR pennies today. Boxes are still coming in loaded with new 2011 zincolns here

I quickly dumped the rolls out into the hopper on my pennies sorter and fired it up. It immediately started having jams in the hopper output, feed tube, and within the analyzer unit. Checked the hopper and found pennies stuck together in stacks of twos, threes, and more. Over half of the pennies were covered with sticky brown goo on obverse and/or reverse, and some were caked with tobacco. I had to remove all of the pennies and clean the hopper and coin paths thoroughly

I had to launder the coins 3 times to remove crusted tobacco and goo to the point that they were clean enough to run through the sorter. Most of the zincolns were corroded. Not like zincolns need any help to corrode in the wild anyways. No amount of money laundering can fix the limited zincoln lifespan

What made this worst for me is I'm allergic to tobacco

Might as well post the results here.

809 zincolns, about 90% were corroded
190 coppers, about 10% were corroded.
1 1936 wheat that somehow avoided being damaged.

Bob

 

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[Bigheed]

lol that is nasty and nasty that mr. spitoon actually rolled them spitoonified in their nastiness.

I used to work summers on a big ranch (25k acres) my buddies dad owns in good old redfield SD. We used to dip copenhagen....i can only imagine how nasty those pennies are LOL....

 

[BuffaloBoy]

I am working on half dollar box, and I have come across so far 5+ disgusting halves(look like the same damage) maybe with oil, gunk, tobacco and all crusted on them. it's gross, I know how you feel. hh

 

[Bigheed]

i get rolls of those...sometimes almost entire boxes of the gunked halves....dunno wtf that is but i hate it as well LOL...

 

[hombre_de_plata_flaco]

I think this sticky substance is dried up cola. These pennies end up in car drink holders a lot. Add ashes from cigarettes and some summer heat and you get a concoction that is like Gorilla Glue. It's like burnt molasses mixed with Portland cement.

 

[Piledriver]

I found two pennies glued together with what I was sure was JB Weld.
I told me wife to forget it, nobody was getting those apart without a vise, a chisel, and a big hammer.

 

[Yagershots]

I have never encountered anything like this and I hope I never do. That is just foul!