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

YaHa

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.

ricko

Detergent residue 'may', if present, cause toning... Cheers, RickO

LindeDad

Maybe the reason cleaning is not the death of coins that are over 100 years old?

ebaytrader

Some of us aren't wearing any pants.

percyb

Yes...coins, paper money, pens, pencils, important notes, string, toothbrushes, combs shoe strings, erasers, and more....

messydesk

My wife calls those "laundry tips."

YaHa

<< <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.

RegistryCoin

Reminds me of SF's St. Francis Hotel $.

fuzzball

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

moonshine

no, just food and other odds and ends - except for loose change on occasion.

I am much more careful with my coins.

morgansforever

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.

ricko

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

SUMORADA

yup!.........I carry a GW smoothie in plastic.......been washed, lost,dropped.....always seems to come home.

YaHa

<< <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. >>




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.