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Have you ever just thrown away old coins ?

COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭
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Because they were too much of a mess ?

I did. I tossed out a bunch of wheaties.
They were kind of green and stuck on each other.
They were also dusty and left dust on my hands.
Dust that causes me to sneeze and get dizzy.image
So, I toss em in the garbage - to lazy to even CoinStar. image

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  • tmcsr69tmcsr69 Posts: 1,307 ✭
    I just throw them in my pocket and spend them the next place I shop.
    Crazy old man from Missouri
  • COALPORTERCOALPORTER Posts: 2,900 ✭✭


    << <i>I just throw them in my pocket and spend them the next place I shop. >>



    Pennies from change?
    I put them in the change bowl next to the register image
    I dont want them back and certainly never carry any around.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    I put them in an old peanut butter jar full of vegetable oil.
    My idea is to : image

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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I've always wondered about dust allergies. Isn't that kinda like being allergic to this planet?
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    So, I toss em in the garbage - to lazy to even CoinStar. image >>



    That is pretty lazy image
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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmmmmm - 3 days ago I stopped to pick up about 23 pennies in a parking lot....... image
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You don't happen to live in Seattle, do you??
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    I might have by accident, but I wouldn't. Even old encrusted wheaties might be fun to spread on the beach or a sandbox where a kid, or a coin hunter with a metal detector will get some excitement out of finding something, even if it a "garbage" coin.
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  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No,but I have several that I keep seperate that I will eventually spend or throw out on a beach somewhere.(Old corroded wheat cents and dateless Buffalo's)
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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    I throw out a dozen or so English 3-pence from the early 1900's once. An ebay purchase (one of my few bad ones), they were dripping with green slime and they looked to already have surface problems. Not worth saving.
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  • NewEnglandNotesNewEnglandNotes Posts: 296 ✭✭✭
    Scatter them about at the park, get the metal detector crowd wound up.
  • PQTypePQType Posts: 471 ✭
    I do coin drops all the time, especially on vacation,near licquir stores, libraries, stores, drop a few Indian head cents or merc dimes some at the beach in the shell line, sit back and relax and listen to the kids of all ages scream in amazement when they find one.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. I would spend them or give them to kids at Halloween etc... I never throw money away. Cheers, RickO
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm with the crowd here ... I try to get them back into a situation where someone else can find and/or treasure them.

    Gifts to YN's or just kids that might have an inkling, coin drops in the grocery store, scattered at a park ...

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  • dsessomdsessom Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've thrown away wheat cents because they were heavily damaged and wouldn't even go into the Coinstar. Other than that, I can't think of any time I've tossed coins in the garbage. That's just a travesty. image
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did by accident once, I threw out a 1670 Bristol England farthing that had come in the mail the day I had to travel suddenly when a family emergency happened. As near as I can remember I put it back in the envelope it had come in and threw it out when I came back - forgetting that I put the coin back in the envelope. It was one of the nicest 17th century tokens that I had ever seen up to that point.
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  • AhrensdadAhrensdad Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    At first, I thought what a silly question. Then I realized that I have in fact thrown away an old coin or two. They were badly mangled indian cents. Not even worthy of being called culls; nothing I'd even want to give away.
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  • NitroCruiserNitroCruiser Posts: 654


    << <i>Hmmmmm - 3 days ago I stopped to pick up about 23 pennies in a parking lot....... image >>



    Me too but half of them slipped through my fingers. I believe they had vegetable oil on them, can't be sure but there was a faint smell of peanut butter! image
  • AnkurJAnkurJ Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭
    Nope. Keep all of my widgets.
    All coins kept in bank vaults.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i had a bunch of change that was just yucky a few years ago. i ended up donating it to charity image
  • ColorfulcoinsColorfulcoins Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭
    Only darkside worthless coins...
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here we are tossing some old coins out for people to find.......image

    Seriously, I spend a few dollars worth of Wheat Cents and Buffalo Nickels every year in the hope of lighting a passion in someone for a wonderful hobby.

    image
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
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  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    not on purpose
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,410 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Here we are tossing some old coins out for people to find.......image

    Seriously, I spend a few dollars worth of Wheat Cents and Buffalo Nickels every year in the hope of lighting a passion in someone for a wonderful hobby.

    image >>


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  • dbcoindbcoin Posts: 2,200 ✭✭
    I do coin drops all the time, especially on vacation,near licquir stores, libraries, stores, drop a few Indian head cents or merc dimes some at the beach in the shell line, sit back and relax and listen to the kids of all ages scream in amazement when they find one.

    I didn't realize my scream sounded like a kids scream.image
  • garrynotgarrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    I was looking thru about a thousand coins that were stored in a basement for 20 or so years. Many of the coins were cleaned and put away wet in paper envelopes so you can imagine what they looked like. I sorted thru four rolls of 1943 cents and coins that were corroded and rusted made up about half a roll. That was the only time I suggested that someone throw away the coins. My friend did not agree. She wanted to spend them somehow. Then I suggesed she take them to a bank and see if she could get them replaced.
  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Threw away a flying eagle cent on accident. image
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  • dengadenga Posts: 922 ✭✭✭
    A friend’s father, in the early 1950s, threw aside the cent pieces that were bent or
    otherwise disfigured. Once a year or so he took the accumulation to a nearby bridge
    and threw them in the Eel River.

    Denga
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,649 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Hmmmmm - 3 days ago I stopped to pick up about 23 pennies in a parking lot....... image >>



    Me too but half of them slipped through my fingers. I believe they had vegetable oil on them, can't be sure but there was a faint smell of peanut butter! image >>



    image This was outside a donut shop in Wahoo, Nebraska, right ?

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  • seemyauctionseemyauction Posts: 3,655 ✭


    << <i>I've always wondered about dust allergies. Isn't that kinda like being allergic to this planet? >>



    yes it is, and to boot I'm allergic to critters with fur and almost everything that pollinates.....the bright side is I'm not allergic to any foods that I know of.

    Thank goodness for modern allergy meds.......... image


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  • BaseballAbsBaseballAbs Posts: 2,621 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Hmmmmm - 3 days ago I stopped to pick up about 23 pennies in a parking lot....... image >>



    Me too but half of them slipped through my fingers. I believe they had vegetable oil on them, can't be sure but there was a faint smell of peanut butter! image >>



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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,791 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lots of them.

    But even more very low value coins are identifiable as to their metallic
    content and they've gone into various statues and the like when they
    are good copper.

    Most of these are simply of no value because they are unidentifiable or
    badly mangled. They've come from banks and vending companies that
    get just about everything and often are tokens, foreign coins and junk.

    Almost everything has some value but there's a lot that is just metal
    and if the metal isn't silver or copper and it can't be spent or shipped
    it's simply trash.

    I don't feel the least guilty tossing out a bent and mangled aluminum
    coin and feel it's the person who destroyed it who committed the sin.
    Let the next guy dig it up in 20,000 years if it's worth anything.


    Maybe it will fossilize.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • NicNic Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I threw away a proof 3 CN by accident. Does that count?

    K

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  • ProofArtworkonCircsProofArtworkonCircs Posts: 4,223 ✭
    <<A friend’s father, in the early 1950s, threw aside the cent pieces that were bent or
    otherwise disfigured. Once a year or so he took the accumulation to a nearby bridge
    and threw them in the Eel River.

    Denga>>

    I had a high school friend in the early 1950's that threw every cent he received down the nearest sewer.
    Fifty plus years later, I have reached the point that I can throw away badly corroded coins that I am too embarrased to spend.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just any unwanted wheaties. i donate them to charities. if i threw out anything else im unaware of it

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