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Buffed?
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Tue May 29, 2012 9:54 pmby Cent1225
Opened a bag of cents tonight and found about 80% of them looked like this.
In Picture 1, Both copper(2 rows on left) and zincs(2 rows on right) were this way.
Pic 2 is close up of buff marks.
The zinc was showing on the edge of several of them.
Looks like someone went to a lot of trouble to try to clean them up.
Thought you might enjoy a picture of them.
Re: Buffed?
Posted:
Tue May 29, 2012 10:53 pmby Bigsarge
Looks like someone tried cleaning them with a SOS pad.
Re: Buffed?
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Tue May 29, 2012 10:55 pmby Thogey
Bigsarge wrote:Looks like someone tried cleaning them with a SOS pad.
Or a bench grinder.
Re: Buffed?
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Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:14 pmby penny pretty
found the exact same rolls. edges(rims) werent touched, just the faces. had to be done by hand, but WHY?
Re: Buffed?
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Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:54 pmby hobo finds
penny pretty wrote:found the exact same rolls. edges(rims) werent touched, just the faces. had to be done by hand, but WHY?
to read the dates
Re: Buffed?
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Thu Jun 07, 2012 4:18 amby mtldealer
To make them looked burnished? But why?
Re: Buffed?
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Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:32 amby sparechange
Probably found metal detecting, hit with a buffer for dates but not sure why on the reverse?
Re: Buffed?
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Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:00 pmby newton7
Metal detector finds. You got to clean them up enough to get the counting machine or teller lady to take them. Often people use what ever they have and speaking as a fellow detectorist, pennies are the most common coin found in the lower 48. Zincs corrode and some don't survive the cleaning enough to be taken by machine or human. Many of my bad zincs get rejected from both lady and machine so they get pitched.
Copper is copper so I'd keep them.