Oh The Humanity!!!

[murphy]

I bought $25 worth of these "worthless for searching" cents at the bank just the other day. This is what I found after opening the rolls. Notice that only the end coins are clear. The others are so badly corroded that only their mother would love them! I'm going to take them to CoinStar and hope they don't jam up the works!

[Rhubarb]

Murphy,

Those are some ugly coin's. It's a shame that the corossion jump's from on coin to another. Or perhap's a junk yard collected all of them from the batteries in the yard.

David

[Bob P]

I have had a few rolls like that, but never a whole box worth. Too bad Murph, because you'll never know what might have been in there. I guess it is best not to know some times.

[Earwig]

I got a brink box like that in nov full of canadian and corroded coins at leasr you can get you 25.00 back or a fresh box.

Eric

[murphy]

I took them to a CoinStar machine and none of them got stuck. It did reject about 15 cents but that's not bad considering what terrible condition they were in.

[coop]

Looks like someone tried to clean them with a home recipe and forgot to dry off each one and let them set wet too long.

[murphy]

Coop, I wish I knew how they got that way. It coulda been anything, but it's fun trying to come up with theories of what happened to them.

I think they were dumped into a fish tank...a salt water fish tank years ago, where they stayed until all the fish died of old age and the water evaporated. Then the kids grew up and one day needed money for gas, it being so expensive now, so they went to the store and got $25 worth - half a tank, lol.

[coop]

Here's another possibillity. Perhaps there we in one of the "Wish" fountains for a time and they were turned in. Probably why there were so many in the same lot??

[Dick]

coop, that's easy! Everybody knows the best place to hide something in right under their noses. So where else? In the Wishing well in the back yard garden!
Dick