Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby NotABigDeal » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:38 pm

I've found a bunch of goodies, and not so goodies....

Some of the goodies I can recall:
Small 14k gold necklace that the Ryedale chewed up pretty well, hehe.
Several silver dimes both Roosevelt's and Merc's.
Indians.
Tons of foreign stuff with some being silver.
Several elongated cents.
Casino coins.
Stamped pennies.
Punched pennies.
Holed pennies.
All denominations of U.S. coins as well. Most being damaged in some way or another.

Not so goodies:
Flat batteries
Washers.
Nuts.
A house key.
Plastic play coins.
Paperclips.
Mystery rubber-like glue blob.
Coins glued together.
Pieces of coins.
A tiny marijuana roach stuck between two pennies is probably the craziest thing I've found. No I didn't smoke it, hehe.

Like others, I'm not sure how a lot of this even makes it through the machine at the banks. I 'm sure I've found more, but I can't remember them all. It all kinda runs together, hehe....

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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby ed_vantage17 » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:32 pm

NotABigDeal wrote:A tiny marijuana roach stuck between two pennies is probably the craziest thing I've found. No I didn't smoke it, hehe.



When I was younger and dumber we called this the poor man's roach clip or the "two penny pinch".
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby spjegues » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:44 pm

worse thing found - razor blade- luckily I had dumped out the bag

gross- 2 teeth - yuck - glad I wear latex gloves. They looked like little kids teeth . I am getting grossed out again typing this.
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby crazypennyguy » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:04 am

A coin from Taiwan. Had I not recognized the island, I wouldn't have had a clue as to what it was.
I did it. I've been crazy enough to sort through 10,000 rolls of pennies. Almost makes you think, "some people will do anything to build up a coin collection."
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby Thogey » Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:33 am

AGCoinHunter wrote:Keys, guitar picks, assorted tokens (carwash, dinosaur, prayer), curly black hairs, portions of ripped up bills, many foreign coins, washers, papercilps, ripped up coin rolls, disintegrated rubber bands, every denomination of coin bent and destroyed mostly and numerious other things I cant think of right now come from my half dollar bags.


Pubes! :o

I've had that happen it me also. What's up with that?
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:22 pm

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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby Rodebaugh » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:46 pm

I got enough dog hair in some CRWs one time that I searched the neighborhood for a shaved poodle.

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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby henrysmedford » Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:13 pm

I should add this the only silver Franklin has found is this made at the Philadelphia mint.It was in a bank roll of cents.
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby getdong » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:28 pm

How come I never seeem to find this cool stuff you guys do? My recent finds are one of those flat smoke alarm or watch type batteries and some of those childrens plastic play nickels lol.
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby njoElec » Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:44 pm

Cu Later wrote:a plastic penny, from a childrens "play cashier" set


I've found a plastic dime!! LOL what plastic coin did you find?
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Re: Strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag)?

Postby galenrog » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:12 pm

Latest thing was with nicks. 1877 Swedish 2 ore. Looks about XF.
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