Dirty Coppers

[beauanderos]

No... it's not one of Edward G. Robinson's lines from some 1930's gangster movie. But, have you noticed lately that the bank wrapped rolls of cents seem to have a disproportionately higher number of dirty, scrungy, caked, corroded, pitted, crushed, verdigris-encased ugly abes? Looks like they've gone thru a sewer or were dug up by someone metal detecting. I'm finding five or six per roll; the inordinate number of them came to my attention because I pick out the mangled pennies as I cut open rolls so they don't jam the Ryedale. Is it just me... or are there a lot more butt-ugly cents out there nowadays?

[newton7]

Same here in Texas. I was starting to think I got someones buried stash fresh out of the back yard. Anyone else?

[Rodebaugh]

Had a 50 face batch of CRW last week that looked like they had been collected from the bottom of a port o' potty. There was also enough hair to lead me to belive that someone has a dog shaving outfit here in town.

[beauanderos]

Maybe the economy has gotten so bad that people besides us are now picking up the cruddy pennies off the ground and spending them back into circulation

[68Camaro]

See it here in FL also. Rolls with hairs, fuzz, sticky coins, mangled coins...

[Thogey]

Ditto, CWRs here are MD finds or wishing well coins.

[silverhedgehog]

NOT Dirty Coppers!! Here in NY they are all UGLY ZINC ABES. I was thinking the mall fountains
myself or a metal detector club is dumping at one of my pick up banks. I hit solid CWR's of just
junk coins from one bank near the mall.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

No... it's not one of Edward G. Robinson's lines from some 1930's gangster movie. But, have you noticed lately that the bank wrapped rolls of cents seem to have a disproportionately higher number of dirty, scrungy, caked, corroded, pitted, crushed, verdigris-encased ugly abes? Looks like they've gone thru a sewer or were dug up by someone metal detecting. I'm finding five or six per roll; the inordinate number of them came to my attention because I pick out the mangled pennies as I cut open rolls so they don't jam the Ryedale. Is it just me... or are there a lot more butt-ugly cents out there nowadays?

Yes, it's my fault. I bought a metal detector last fall. I dug everything that I could until I figured out what I was doing. And, in the process, all of those pretty pennies you speak of went back to the bank's coin machines. I'm still a little troubled by the fact that the pennies made their way to California. Sorry, my bad! I guess i need to spread out the dumps.

[beauanderos]

NOT Dirty Coppers!! Here in NY they are all UGLY ZINC ABES. I was thinking the mall fountains
myself or a metal detector club is dumping at one of my pick up banks. I hit solid CWR's of just
junk coins from one bank near the mall.

You're right... they are mostly bad zincs, not coppers. The zincs seem to fall apart much worse than the coppers do. Thogey... what's an MD coin?

[ScottyTX]

Ray took me a second as well MD finds= Metal Detecting finds on the pennies, that my guess anyways.

[DirtyFingers]

I've noticed an increase in corroded, sticky, hairy, moldy cents around the start of last Fall but where I'm at it's mostly the coppers as opposed to zincolns. The Lincolns I dig up while coin shooting are a different kind of ugly from the cents I get from the bank. I think alot of them are coming from underneath floor mats in cars where it might stay damp and hairy alot. It's definitely some place where it's damp and dirty. I throw them into my ugly abe tubs unless the green crub is still damp. In that case the bank gets them back.

DF

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

No... it's not one of Edward G. Robinson's lines from some 1930's gangster movie. But, have you noticed lately that the bank wrapped rolls of cents seem to have a disproportionately higher number of dirty, scrungy, caked, corroded, pitted, crushed, verdigris-encased ugly abes? Looks like they've gone thru a sewer or were dug up by someone metal detecting. I'm finding five or six per roll; the inordinate number of them came to my attention because I pick out the mangled pennies as I cut open rolls so they don't jam the Ryedale. Is it just me... or are there a lot more butt-ugly cents out there nowadays?

They're called zincolns. That's what's left after we pull out all the purty copper ones.

[GTOJohn]

i think that in a response to the bad economy - people are cashing in coins from deep, dark storage places. coinstar is advertising, gold and silver commercials on TV, etc. people are cashing in coins that have been stored for a long time. could be a boost to us sorters! just my thoughts.

[Bostonbean02]

How often does your machine get jammed do to dirty coins... my ryedale is being shipped right now !