Lets have fun.:yo:

[ken ward]

We all know these junk pennies. After I took many to the coin machine, I had enough to put $.35 cents into 3 plastic bottles. We have many parks in our county. I will pick out 3 of them. Dig a 6" hole and put one in.
I want to put my name and phone # inside. Maybe a small reward. The pennies are no good. The bank in our town wont even take them. What better thing can you do with them?
Maybe a newbe will find them and think they found a gold mind. Cant wait to see how long it will take. I will also put a date on the paper inside to see how long it will be.... ... KEN

 

[Pastor bob]

I love that idea. If a little kid finds them he will think JACKPOT!

 

[fwcrawford]

n/t

 

[saltersnatch]

i already made a zincoln coin cache at one of our local parks, then one day i was out beepin with my dad and he found it lol it was kinda funny cause he thought he had somethin really good like a bunch of indians but it was just a bunch of corroded zincs lmao

 

[dave5710]

I send all the coins that the bank won't take, to the mint. This past spring I got a check for over $80.00. I used a small flat rate box. Put all my damaged clad dimes, quarters, nickels and halves in first, then cents, and fill it up with zinc cents. It cost me under $6.00 and I figured it was better than throwing them in the trash. Details on how the do it is on the U.S. Mint website. It is pretty simple to do.

 

[ken ward]

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[ken ward]

I send all the coins that the bank won't take, to the mint. This past spring I got a check for over $80.00. I used a small flat rate box. Put all my damaged clad dimes, quarters, nickels and halves in first, then cents, and fill it up with zinc cents. It cost me under $6.00 and I figured it was better than throwing them in the trash. Details on how the do it is on the U.S. Mint website. It is pretty simple to do.

Thanks, I did not know you could do that... KEN

 

[WIHawker]

Ken that is a awesome idea. I would get a kick out of it if I found one.

 

[Robert2300]

Get yourself a plastic container.
Put a few scoops of fish aquarium (small) gravel in it and add
vinegar. Add a heaping spoon od salt.Close top and shake it for ten minutes vigorously. If you have
a rock tumbler that would be better but after ten minutes, your pennies will
come out clean. Do the dimes nickels and quarters separately. It works.
DON'T USE CIDER vinegar. Just plain white vinegar.
Robert

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks for the information - Jim

I send all the coins that the bank won't take, to the mint. This past spring I got a check for over $80.00. I used a small flat rate box. Put all my damaged clad dimes, quarters, nickels and halves in first, then cents, and fill it up with zinc cents. It cost me under $6.00 and I figured it was better than throwing them in the trash. Details on how the do it is on the U.S. Mint website. It is pretty simple to do.

 

[ken ward]

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[GeorgeinSC]

Personally I do not like the idea. My reason being if some youngster found them on one of their first outings they would be real excited and then they would find that someone had played a trick on them and put out some junk for them to find. Their disappointment would be overwhelming. No I DO NOT LIKE THE IDEA.