How to remove damaged coins

[TwoPenniesEarned]

What's the best way to separate the bent and nicked coins? I find they cause a lot of grief when they go through the Ryedale. Should I pre-filter with a cheapo unit of some kind? With my good counter? If the counter, how to best prevent the bendies from damaging it?

And does anyone have a strategy for those pesky English pennies? They jam everything I have...

[slickeast]

get a good high speed counter. It will allow you to get the junk out. I use 2 to clean mine up since I get bags. You will be surprised how much you will use it.

I ran over $900.00 and had only a few jams in the Ryedale. I did have close to 40 problem coins that the coin counter caught.

[fasteddy]

yep what slick said...get a "high speed" counter..the type that you can adjust the thickness...I run mine fairly tight to single out ALL those pesky coins...i bought my Brandt 749 from feebay for less than 2 bills....it will sort a box of cents in less than 2 minutes. Happy New Year.

[chirules54]

When my ryedale jams occasionally, tweezers work great to pull them out when they jam right above the discriminator. When they double up under the wheel, that's a bit tougher to stop. Often times it happens to me it's because two pennies are stuck together, so it never gets out of the hopper.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

Toss em in a Mach 7. That will sort out all those "darn dimes" which cause jams too.

Actually, I just run them through one of my Glory CN-12's.. that gets rid of the bent coins, darn dimes.. and english pennies.

[AGgressive Metal]

Anyone know where to take damaged coins? Fed branch maybe? I have a ziplock bag with about $10 FV of coins too damaged for me to (ethically) put them back into rolls.

[henrysmedford]

Anyone know where to take damaged coins? Fed branch maybe? I have a ziplock bag with about $10 FV of coins too damaged for me to (ethically) put them back into rolls.

I sent some back to the mint to see what would happen.
From the US treasury website--

FAQs: Coins
Buying, Selling & Redeeming
Question I have some coins that were damaged and the bank will not redeem them. What can I do with them?

Answer The Treasury Department has prescribed regulations regarding uncurrent and mutilated coins. Let us explain the difference. Uncurrent coins are whole, but are worn or reduced in weight by natural abrasion. They are easily recognizable as to genuineness and denomination, and they are such that coin sorting and counting machines will accept them. Merchants and commercial banks will generally accept or refuse these coins at their discretion. However, Federal Reserve Banks and branches handle the redemption of uncurrent coins.

Mutilated coins, on the other hand, are coins that are bent, broken, not whole, or fused or melted together. The United States Mint is the only place that handles redemption of mutilated coins, and they should be sent to the Mint at Post Office Box 400, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

To weeks later I got a post card asking for my ssn # so the could send me a check. When I called they said it would take eight weeks for a check. It is week nine and no check yet

[Rodebaugh]

Anyone know where to take damaged coins? Fed branch maybe? I have a ziplock bag with about $10 FV of coins too damaged for me to (ethically) put them back into rolls.

I sent some back to the mint to see what would happen.
From the US treasury website--

FAQs: Coins
Buying, Selling & Redeeming
Question I have some coins that were damaged and the bank will not redeem them. What can I do with them?

Answer The Treasury Department has prescribed regulations regarding uncurrent and mutilated coins. Let us explain the difference. Uncurrent coins are whole, but are worn or reduced in weight by natural abrasion. They are easily recognizable as to genuineness and denomination, and they are such that coin sorting and counting machines will accept them. Merchants and commercial banks will generally accept or refuse these coins at their discretion. However, Federal Reserve Banks and branches handle the redemption of uncurrent coins.

Mutilated coins, on the other hand, are coins that are bent, broken, not whole, or fused or melted together. The United States Mint is the only place that handles redemption of mutilated coins, and they should be sent to the Mint at Post Office Box 400, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

To weeks later I got a post card asking for my ssn # so the could send me a check. When I called they said it would take eight weeks for a check. It is week nine and no check yet

Wow.....the heck with all of that. Just pass them on to the next owner.