You all do this too?

[jewelerdave]

I know we all pick up bent/mutilated coins out of the change counters sometimes or get them from reject bins.
But what do you do with them?

I make sure I spend em! maybe that way they end up in the reject bin again! Muhahhahah

 

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[Ken from Atlanta]

I always seem to put them in my pocket, then they end up in the change jar and eventually in the reject bin when I cash them in and the cycle starts all over, since I never leave them behind. Eventually I'll probably have a whole jar full of nothing but reject coins.

 

[coolpix9]

I usually just send them to you Dave. Haven't you been getting them from me ? Take care Dave, Jim

 

[XX]

I spend them at walmart. They can afford it.

 

[Immy]

I keep 'em. I have two rolls of junk pennies, one of nickels and a single chewed up quarter that got caught in a coin counter and was ground down to the size of a nickel. They give me an insight into how coins deteriorate.

At the penny casino they have a lot of trouble with homeless people trying to play corroded, found-on-the-street zincolns in the slots. These "coins" barely resemble pennies anymore and always jam up the machines.

 

[stoneseeker2003]

Lol, now I know why my reg drawer is full of chewed coins,lol.
I put them aside so they go to the bank, . ROFL

 

[DesertTumbleweed402]

I usually just keep them; I have a little box that I call my coin oddities where they are worn oddly, scratched or chewed up, etc. If you want something neat to do, take a nickel and put it in a table vice perfectly level. Slowly apply more and more pressure to it, and eventually the nickel will turn into the shape of a taco shell.

 

[rsc]

lay them on top of the vise. and smack em with a ball peen. Instant good coin... HH Gayle

 

[jewelerdave]

Rock on everyone! I think we need to start posting photos. Start a Wall of Shame for coins!

 

[GMan00001]

For now I have been keeping them just so they won't jam up the machine when I cash in.

I tried to turn them into the bank one time when I had a lot of change and the teller said well I'll take them this one time, but next time just spend em as he claimed they weren't supposed to take them. He also claimed that they through out coins that were damaged that bad. Granted it was all of about 15 pennies at the time.

I thought I read somewhere on here a year or two ago that there was a process that the bank could use to turn in damaged coins to the gov't and get reimbursed for the amount of the coins. MD'ers run into this more often due to the method of getting coins, there is probably some info on that part of the site somewhere.