What to do with road kill (lawn mower) pennies?

[coinman123]

You could try sending them back to the mint. http://www.usmint.gov/email/MUTILATEDCOIN.pdf

I was reading that and they said that uncurrent coins should be given to your bank at face value including silver coins! "You should contact your bank to redeem uncurrent coins at face value. (This includes
silver coins).

I'm sorry but I'm not spending my silver at face.

 

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[Turbo21]

Just roll them and take them to the bank. They are not going to make you unroll them

 

[coinman123]

fill a 5 Gallon Plastic water Jug & bury it where you are sure people
(like diggers,or boom baby) detect

seriously though, Don't scatter them That is just rude

Make it a laughable surprise

I could imagine the look on someone's face when they see a 5 gallon jug full of pennies I would think it would be a fun thing to find.

 

[jeff of pa]

I could imagine the look on someone's face when they see a 5 gallon jug full of pennies I would think it would be a fun thing to find.

they can say they found a cache

 

[pepperj]

Glue them to piece of drift wood, and put it up on Ebay.

 

[jeff of pa]

Glue them to piece of drift wood, and put it up on Ebay.

I was actually thinking about doing a Lamp table top with Copper & complete zinc pennies.

rots may look cool if they don't continue to rot

 

[coinman123]

I used to throw them in my purse and spend them, but I really didn't like handling the crusty things and felt a bit guilty giving them to merchants. So now I just toss them once I am sure what they are. Very important since I once dug what I thought was an extremely encrusted zincoln penny, but as I gave it a second look, realized that the size was just a hair smaller than a penny. After soaking it in lemon juice and picking the crust off, I was looking at my first seated dime. Really really thin from all the corrosion, but readable.

That would have been horrible if you threw out your first seated dime without knowing what it was. I have had some items which I think are junk and I throw them in my bucket of junk finds, a year later I will find many interesting finds that I thought were junk.

 

[Argentium]

I like the idea of turning them into some kind of trashy folk art and selling it on ebay ! There are people who will buy anything if you
serve it up right .

 

[462]

A- don't dig them up. ( AT Pro can identify them %90 of the time )
B- if you do accidently dig one up throw it away
C- Carry on
D- Repeat above

The only problem with option A is both Spanish half real 's I found with my AT Pro sounded and the VDI was the same as a zinclon.

 

[Papalittle]

my bank does not take them either nor will they take rolled coins unless they are bank rolled.

 

[Nugs Bunny]

I mail mine to a guy in Missouri!

 

[jeff of pa]

The only problem with option A is both Spanish half real 's I found with my AT Pro sounded and the VDI was the same as a zinclon.

yes I've pulled early indians in the zinc penny/thumb tac range also.

anything you ignore has potential to be the one you shouldn't have ignored.

 

[pkb]

yes I've pulled early indians in the zinc penny/thumb tac range also.

anything you ignore has potential to be the one you shouldn't have ignored.

I was referring the scratchy signals in the 70's .

 

[jeff of pa]

I was referring the scratchy signals in the 70's .

I don't use Garrett so Numbers mean nothing to me.

but I still stand by my comment:
anything you ignore has potential to be the one you shouldn't have ignored.
no matter what detector.

Yes I understand sometimes we can't help but pass on a obvious piece of Trash.
especially after digging 20 obvious trash signals that sounded the same.
But, Without your eyes on it, there is no guarantee you did the right thing.

 

[coinman123]

The only problem with option A is both Spanish half real 's I found with my AT Pro sounded and the VDI was the same as a zinclon.

So do Indian Head Cents/early wheat pennies and many cool relics

 

[bigfoot1]

life is short...huck um in the trash,or leave them as a tip for a really bad server

 

[Peyton Manning]

ok, here's the plan. Save them up and my next trip to Florida I'll fill T_H's lawn with em!!

 

[jeff of pa]

ok, here's the plan. Save them up and my next trip to Florida I'll fill T_H's lawn with em!!

He's armed Jeff & I hear a good aim

 

[SouthFLdigger]

fill a 5 Gallon Plastic water Jug & bury it where you are sure people
(like diggers,or boom baby) detect

seriously though, Don't scatter them That is just rude

Make it a laughable surprise

I agree with this, i have about 500 of them and im storing them in a plastic container when it gets full, ill bury it deep in a park and give a new detectorist the pleasure of finding a "cache".

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

The only problem with option A is both Spanish half real 's I found with my AT Pro sounded and the VDI was the same as a zinclon.

For any trash item you name there is some treasure that reads the same. That's why I don't like detectors with coin and ring icons instead of just a number read-out.


As for the oatmeal cookie Zinc cents: two or three per roll when I roll up coins for deposit.