Pennies for sale

[Redmt]

or are you kidding me? I caught this ad in Alaska magazine selling 150 pennies (1#) for 25 bucks. Get them while you can!! They may become extinct and worthless soon!

 

[El Jason]

I have piles of them laying around. Forget Bitcoin…

 

[Redmt]

 

[Dsnow9]

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Ok what is the story behind that one?

 

[Redmt]

Neighbor had hundreds of pounds of coins in a wooden keg that was burned during our wild fire. Many were melted together with the copper pennies and many had the zink melted out of them. US mint wouldn't take them so he was going to scrap them but scrappers wouldn't take them either..I took them and broke the fused block with a sledge hammer into manageable chunks. I then put the chunks into a cement mixer and tumbled them for a few ours per batch with a few chunks of odd steel scrap pieces. We recovered over $1000.00 . We still have a hundred or so pounds left to break up. The bank said if they still resemble the denomination and will fit in coin rolls that they would take them.

 

[seeth07]

Neighbor had hundreds of pounds of coins in a wooden keg that was burned during our wild fire. Many were melted together with the copper pennies and many had the zink melted out of them. US mint wouldn't take them so he was going to scrap them but scrappers wouldn't take them either..I took them and broke the fused block with a sledge hammer into manageable chunks. I then put the chunks into a cement mixer and tumbled them for a few ours per batch with a few chunks of odd steel scrap pieces. We recovered over $1000.00 . We still have a hundred or so pounds left to break up. The bank said if they still resemble the denomination and will fit in coin rolls that they would take them.View attachment 395268View attachment 395267

My dad and I did the same thing when he got a job helping clean up a burned down house. He found a large wad of coins and we tossed them in our mortar mixer with water and gravel for a few hours and it was amazing how well they cleaned up. All quarters and dimes were pretty flawless but the pennies and nickels not so much. Took them to the bank and they tossed them into their coin counter without any issue and it was just over $300 worth

 

[Redmt]

I tried gravel and it left them pretty dirty. I figured that stainless pins worked for brass so chunks of steel and old brass water valves with Dawn would work. It was unbelievable how much zinc was melted out of them. We got 2-3 gallons worth of zinc in a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[seeth07]

I tried gravel and it left them pretty dirty. I figured that stainless pins worked for brass so chunks of steel and old brass water valves with Dawn would work. It was unbelievable how much zinc was melted out of them. We got 2-3 gallons worth of zinc in a 5 gallon bucket.

Didn't need them perfect, just so they worked in the bank coin counter!

 

[Redmt]

Didn't need them perfect, just so they worked in the bank coin counter!

I used chip seal gravel. There was probably a better choice.

 

[shb]

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