What to do with all those stinkin zinkins ????

[tomhighland]

If you skip the pennies you will eventually miss gold. It's all part of the deal. My credit union is good about taking all my tarnished clad and the zinc as long as you can tell what it is. If they are really broached I toss them.

 

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[Back-of-the-boat]

Same here , zincolns and IHP's are the same signals. I rather dig'em then miss an IHP.

How on earth do you guys get away with rolling them? Not many banks or CU's( credit unions) will take rolls around here , everyone has "coinstar" like machines or they weight the rolls and open the rolls before they accept them.

I told my teller they are dug coins and they don't want to use them in the tray so she told me they just send them in.But I have bought CWR from them and have gotten surprises like peso's and other coins that aren't American so it evens out in the end.

 

[dts52]

So!!! Your the one. I knew it !! Wait till I get to new York.

Up here the adoloescents won't carry pennies around. They just toss them on the ground. Go to any McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts parking lot andyou can usually see pennies lying around. If your timing is right you will also see me picking them up!
HH
dts

 

[dirtdigginfool]

The signal that a zinc on emits on my ATP...is unmistakable...that scratchy, bouncy, squeaky, nails-on-a-chalkboard racket...but...I've been whining about not finding gold...sooo...maybe I'll start checking more of those signals out...can't hurt! ...ddf

 

[neodetectorist]

I run them through a tumbler with a natural acidic liquid (lemon or lime juice) with a couple tablespoons of salt for about an hour, rinse and roll and take to the bank.
No problems yet.

 

[detectahead]

I put them in coin wrappers an take them to the bank. No questions asked.

Most banks require that you put your name or either your acct # on the roll. So that they can charge your acct if you are short

 

[detectahead]

I toss them,,,
On the DEUS,, if you hunt in 18hz , "84" is the perfect
Indian Head Penny signal. An "84" will also give you a Zincoln.
I try to stay away from digging "84" signals that are less than 4 inches deep

I have found IH on top of the ground and just below the surface

 

[detectahead]

On my F5, stink n link n's come in at 60. Between 55 and 60 they are wasted. 60 to 65,67 possible silver. When I am at a park or playground I leave the pennies on the swing seats for kids to find or at the end of a slide. Eat up cents I just toss in the trash

 

[boogeyman]

I tumble the toasted zincs, put them into the little Star Bucks bottles laced with some halves and other clads. Add a sticker with treasure on it and give one to each grandkid. Funnny a lot of times they would rather mess with them than the other presents. If you really want to be a jerk wrap some up in an old piece of cloth like canvas. Dig close to the base of a tree in the roots and drop it in. Yup! I've done three caches and 1. they're still there. 2. They are firmly rooted in. I figure someone in 2034 is gonna be sitting there going

 

[heepiepow]

Same as my method. Slip a toasty here and there in a roll, but not first or last, and have never had complaints from my banks. (My bank requires me to write my acc't # and name on all coin rolls).

That said: a) according to law, (all federal or most states, forget) legal monies are only obligated to be taken by businesses which have already rendered services. Which is why a person can take 30000 pennies to pay for a $300 incurred debt, and either the debt is paid or the business refusing such type of payment is obligated to instead forgive the debt. But it's not forced at the point of sale that any business is required to take all monies, which may include banks. The same person using 30000 pennies to buy a TV or something could be legally turned away, even though pennies are legal tender. If a person has 12 nickels and wants to buy a 60 cent soda, the soda vendor could refuse that type of payment. If the soda hasn't already been issued.

b) Even though I'm poor most of my completely toasty (bubbled up, etc.) pennies I toss in my trashcan. As you point out, replacing a thin penny with a thicker to not arouse suspicion is a proper angle. But it's just not efficient to save toasty, 2X thickness pennies in order to sneak in, since there are SO many of them, encrusted, and relatively few found thinner pennies. More a headache than +1 penny is worth, at least to me. And I'm not a copper hoarder, so into the trashcan.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

I wrap them up and turn them in to the bank so the CRH's can cuss me.

PUT A WHEAT BACK AT EACH END OF THE ROLL!

 

[Deft Tones]

Drop them in a bucket full of acid. It cleans them up really good after a few days soak.

I usually drop them in the Mc Donalds charity bin outside the drive-up. I look like such a generous guy!

 

[Davers]

i keep them separate from everything else and save them in hopes that one day i can give them back to the federal reserve ... and tell them to themselves with em.

I asked a similar ? awhile back, and someone said "I could mail them to the Philly Mint of Take them there myself & they would pay me cash for the slugs they could tell were once Cent's. "

 

[worldtalker]

STINKIN LINCOLNS I CAN"T STAND STINKIN LINCOLNS,I flip them back when I plug one..STINKIN LINCOLNS I CAN"T STAND STINKIN LINCOLNS!

Worse than pull tabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[beerguy]

I hunt with a CTX most of the time. Zincolns will read anywhere from 12-32 to 12-36 most of the time. If tehy are corroded and have started losing mass, the number drops down to as low as 12-26.
This is a huge range of targets to dismiss, so I dig them. They end up getting thrown in the trash, but MDing is a numbers game.

For every 100 Zincolns I dig, (and pulltab) I dig a ring or 2.

It is too much of a rush to dig a gold ring.

That being said, I do get tired of digging them...

 

[SusanMN]

I toss those that are obviously deteriorating, give the others a quick rinse with the rest of my found clad and every few months run the coins through my banks coin counting machine. Just cashed in $68 worth last week and had only three coins rejected, all Canadian.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Funny about this thread, yesterday I discussed this very topic with my daughter. We are going to place them in glass jars and bury them all over our 4 acres of land. Perhaps in a few hundred years someone will find them and enjoy the hand written note and cent cache. I was thinking of placing a few silver coins in each just for added fun!

 

[clv]

nail them to the bottom of your boat, that way the zinc will protect the nail.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Just wanted to see what everyone is doing with the cancer ridden zinc Lincoln pennies ? These things will do tear up a coinstar.


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glad for your thread!
Yes! What to do with those rotten coins?

I just had a run-in at my bank - they wouldn't take them, since I made the mistake of telling them that there was $7.50 worth of pennies, BUT they were in terrible shape and they should be ear-marked to be returned to the treasury or wherever...!
Anyway, they said I should take or ship them to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for redeeming my mutilated currency
U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Redeem Mutilated Currency
HOWEVER, packing, shipping, etc can almost exceed the dollar amount I mentioned, so I too will save those suckers, 'till enough is accumulated, and I'll bury a cache of them, that some poor guy will find...!
Yeah, at one time when I heard someone call these "Stinkin' Lincolns", and thought they were disrespectful to that great American President - no, because those-coins-aren't-worth-anything!

 

[clv]

Take them down to the beach and tosh them out in the sand for the newbies to fine (don't do it on the beach you like to detect a lot though.