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Have you ever left a coin in your pants and had it washed.

My wife just found a peace dollar in the washing machine that I had in my pants and it came out looking beauiful, what kind of damage do you think it did. It looks different in a better way, kind of buffed out, but it is a blazer.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Detergent residue 'may', if present, cause toning... Cheers, RickO
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe the reason cleaning is not the death of coins that are over 100 years old?
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  • ebaytraderebaytrader Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭
    Some of us aren't wearing any pants. image
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes...coins, paper money, pens, pencils, important notes, string, toothbrushes, combs shoe strings, erasers, and more....
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife calls those "laundry tips."
  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220


    << <i>My wife calls those "laundry tips." >>



    My wife told me that the coin looked like one of the best ones she has ever see compared to the junk she says I buy. Wait til she gets a look at my check from the recent 250+ silver dollars I sent in for melt. Maybe my collection won't be junk to her until after she cashes the check.
  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭
    Reminds me of SF's St. Francis Hotel $.
  • This happens all the time. I never know what I am going to find at the bottom of the washer when I transfer the clothes to the dryer. The coins do come out very shiny. I have had my pocket piece washed a few times and it does not seem to have affected it.

    The real problem is when things make it through the dryer. I still haven't gotten all of the blue out since a blue crayon made it all the way through the dryer stage.

    -Fuzz
    Why is it, "A penny for your thoughts," but, "you have to put your two cents in?" Somebody's making a penny.
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 1,039 ✭✭
    no, just food and other odds and ends - except for loose change on occasion.

    I am much more careful with my coins.





  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,470 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Always find change in the washer.

    One time I had washed a roll of breath mints, and dried them in a pair of pants.

    The following day I realized I had mints in my pocket, plucked one out of the roll, and ate one.

    It tasted like soap, and managed to spit most of it out. image
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Frequently, but only pocket change, never 'collection' coins. That being said, my cleaner returned two coins I left in my shirt pocket that I acquired from LordM. Asked me if they were worth a lot.... I said "Only to me." Cheers, RickO
  • yup!.........I carry a GW smoothie in plastic.......been washed, lost,dropped.....always seems to come home.
  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220


    << <i>Always find change in the washer.

    One time I had washed a roll of breath mints, and dried them in a pair of pants.

    The following day I realized I had mints in my pocket, plucked one out of the roll, and ate one.

    It tasted like soap, and managed to spit most of it out. image >>




    Now see there is a million dollar invention, when a mom or dad wants to wash their kids mouth out with soap, give them a washer mint. Get it Washer/Mint.

    Maybe name it something else, come on superbowl, I need to find time to do something else before then.

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