The worst cent I have ever received

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gumby1234
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Got this in change. Looks like an experiment by emerald.



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  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @gumby1234 said:
    Got this in change. Looks like an experiment by emerald.



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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Obv pic was horrible here's a better one.

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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lermish It could be one of those 1792

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  • CoffeeTime
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    Looks like my sons science experiment with a coin.

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hurry up and spend it before it blows away! 😂 🤣

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  • JMS1223
    JMS1223 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 9, 2022 6:06PM
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    I have seen worse with the zinc cents. I pick them up off the street sometimes and they are completely scraped off like a train ran over them. You can’t make out any details but can tell it’s a cent by the size and part of the copper plating showing.

    They are actually no longer redeemable as I had a few I tried to spend and they wouldn’t take them saying that they wouldn’t fit in a coin roll and machine will reject it due to rough edges. No big deal as it was only three cents but still interesting the damage was so bad it made them no longer legal tender.

    This is an example of what one looked like. NOT my photo. Found on google images to illustrate my example.

  • Abehunter
    Abehunter Posts: 286 ✭✭✭
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    Got a 1930 s today from bank roll,front great ,back looks like that coin

  • jesbroken
    jesbroken Posts: 11,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @gumby1234 said:
    Obv pic was horrible here's a better one.

    Oh better pic, now I see that it's a 1980 DDO. Great luck.
    Jim


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  • messydesk
    messydesk Posts: 20,813 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JMS1223 said:
    I have seen worse with the zinc cents. I pick them up off the street sometimes and they are completely scraped off like a train ran over them. You can’t make out any details but can tell it’s a cent by the size and part of the copper plating showing.

    They are actually no longer redeemable as I had a few I tried to spend and they wouldn’t take them saying that they wouldn’t fit in a coin roll and machine will reject it due to rough edges. No big deal as it was only three cents but still interesting the damage was so bad it made them no longer legal tender.

    This is an example of what one looked like. NOT my photo. Found on google images to illustrate my example.

    Looks like a late Monet.

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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @messydesk more like a Picasso.

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  • Downtown1974
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    Looks like a metal detecting find.

  • davewesen
    davewesen Posts: 6,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I had one like that I found under a muddy floormat in my pickup.

  • Hydrant
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    Gumbo, do you live on or near the Gulf Coast?..... Anywhere between Houston, Texas and Miami Florida?...... That's a common looking penny around there. Just asking.

  • lilolme
    lilolme Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ah the perfect thread for:
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  • 291fifth
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    It looks like a rare error to me! ;)

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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Hydrant no Im in Boston. I did visit the Gulf coast thou. My dad lives in Florida.

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  • oih82w8
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    I see several corroded zincolns in the register tills and I put them in the deposit drop envelopes. Hopefully the banks dispose of them properly.

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  • JohnThePainter
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    A frequent question on metal detecting forums is “what to do with crusty zincolns”. My answer is to put them in your trash pouch with the rest of the junk for the garbage can. But some of these cheap, stupid SOB’s will sneak them into coin rolls and take them to a bank. They also will take the dirty clad coins they find and drop them in vending machines and then hit the coin return button, which drops a different coin back. Would be bad enough if they had actually bought something with them and supported the poor vendor but instead they just make their problem his problem. Hope I never become that desperate for 35 cents.

    Pennies in this condition should be tossed in the trash can.

  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 10, 2022 3:11AM
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    Now this is the show and I'll tell ya what
    Remember the scene in Jaws 1 ?
    "I got that beat"
    Broke my heart at a glance.

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    "We are", quality control.

  • JohnThePainter
    JohnThePainter Posts: 68 ✭✭✭
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    OP said they got the coin in their change and I was merely sharing one of the ways this happens. What I said hardly rises to the level of trash talk and name calling but if I somehow hurt your feelings I’m sorry. I guess.

    @pocketpiececommems said:
    johnthepainter I think that maybe this isn't the forum to be using your trash talk and name calling.

  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JohnThePainter I think that was a play on words by the other poster meant to be funny.

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  • Namvet69
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    Gotta be ready for dat double entendre! Peace Roy

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  • JBK
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    edited September 10, 2022 4:13AM
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    @emeraldATV said:
    Now this is the show and I'll tell ya what
    Remember the scene in Jaws 1 ?
    "I got that beat"

    Which scene in "Jaws 1"? 🤔

    By coincidence I watched it recently, although it was originally just called "Jaws". :p

  • emeraldATV
    emeraldATV Posts: 5,249 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    When , at night , they bonded so to say, by showing their scars with a personal description added.
    <3 :'(

  • JBK
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    @emeraldATV said:
    When , at night , they bonded so to say, by showing their scars with a personal description added.
    <3 :'(

    Ah, yes. I remember it well.

    It was a good history lesson for the kids when Quint talked about being on the USS Indianapolis.

  • Cranium_Basher73
    Cranium_Basher73 Posts: 3,826 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I froze a zinc cent in liquid nitrogen over 20 years ago when I was in the navy. I then hit it with a hammer. Just a love tap, not like I was hitting a nail or bellowing like some Norse god. It just shattered and crumbled.

    Throw a coin enough times, and suppose one day it lands on its edge.

  • lkenefic
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    Looks like we've moved from hunting parking lots to hunting in garbage disposals! Wow, that's beat up! Impressive! ;-)

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  • dunkleosteus430
    dunkleosteus430 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 12, 2022 6:42PM
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    Here's a Zincoln I found recently. It was scraped, and there are now patches of purple, red and green crystals growing on it... It actually sparkles, but that doesn't show in the photos.

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  • CoinHoarder
    CoinHoarder Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sometimes I scrape cents that look like these out of the coin star. I spend them on my next purchase. Never a problem. Most cashiers don’t even give them a second look.

  • JohnThePainter
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    Well in that case I’m glad I didn’t say ‘eat my shorts dude’ 😂. I’ve only been around here a bit more than a week and wasn’t sure yet if you fellas had a funny bone or not.

    @gumby1234 said:
    @JohnThePainter I think that was a play on words by the other poster meant to be funny.

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Obverse:

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  • OAKSTAR
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    Reverse:

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  • johnny9434
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    @lermish said:
    Is that a 55 DDO or a 09-S VDB? ;)

    14 d :'(

  • privatecoin
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    Should polish out..... :D

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  • PerryHall
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    I'm surprised we haven't seen any cents with added mint marks. It doesn't get worse than that. :o

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  • Stingray63
    Stingray63 Posts: 300 ✭✭✭
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    Luv this thread. Other than a flat cent off the railroad tracks where you can barely make out the Memorial reverse, haven't seen such lovely pennies before.

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  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Parking lot coin, I have lots of them

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  • gumby1234
    gumby1234 Posts: 5,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Treashunt Worse than parking lot finds. I could probably snap it in half with my fingers.

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  • Jzyskowski1
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    Here’s one I like.
    Probably just a dryer coin but kinda cool 😉🦫🙀


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  • PerryHall
    PerryHall Posts: 47,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Jzyskowski1 said:
    Here’s one I like.
    Probably just a dryer coin but kinda cool 😉🦫🙀


    Artificial wear. Someone rubbed it on a piece of sandpaper or a sidewalk.

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  • Snaps
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    @Jzyskowski1 If you need a washing machine coin to go with your dryer coin, I found this one in the washing machine. I know it's not a matching set, but it is a newer model. Your in luck because we are having a scratch and dent sale this month.

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