A SHOCKING DISCOVERY !!

[TORRERO]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

 

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[MrMarsHill]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

Maybe the steel cent was so dirty it looked copper? I've got them in my collection ranging from a mirror finish silver color up to dirty brown/black 😂 And I'm with you on the zinc pennies. If they're good enough, they go in the change bucket. If they have holes etc... straight in the trash! I haven't come across any better method than that, but I'd like to hear what everybody else does with theirs

 

[ArfieBoy]

I throw away the corroded Zincolns away, too. No sense trying to retune them when they are in such bad shape! Congratulations on all the good coins!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on the finds. I keep the crusty Zincols because I may want to seed a hunted out site with them for future generations or put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

 

[Gare]

GREAT FINDS

 

[robertk]

put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

That is a brilliant idea.

 

[TORRERO]

Maybe the steel cent was so dirty it looked copper? I've got them in my collection ranging from a mirror finish silver color up to dirty brown/black 😂 And I'm with you on the zinc pennies. If they're good enough, they go in the change bucket. If they have holes etc... straight in the trash! I haven't come across any better method than that, but I'd like to hear what everybody else does with theirs

If I dug it, way was it not rusted ?

 

[Digger RJ]

Yesterday I threw a bunch of coins including some wheats into my cleaning bucket and left them..
This morning I was going through them and this is what I saw / found
I don't know or understand this... first pick is what I saw and I said, why is there a silver wheat in all this.. and as I looked closer I could see the date 1943
I don't know where this came from.... I had dug maybe 7-8 wheats in Chester SC on saturday and I threw them along with some that were sitting on my desk..
I only have had 1 steel penny in my life and I think I sold it at auction last month... sooo I don't know where this came from.
Second picture is of what I believe is a steel penny dug in Chester next to a wheat and 41 nickel... clearly rusted...

Last pick is of Zinc pennies after cleaning... and I throw these away, I just don't see it as worth my time to fool with these eat up like this...
Any Ideas ?

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

If I dug it, way was it not rusted ?

Zinc is a protective coating for steel, galvanizing

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Congrats on the finds. I keep the crusty Zincols because I may want to seed a hunted out site with them for future generations or put them in baby jars and bury them with a note "Congratulations from Loco-Digger Treasurenet.com .

Do you really want angry folks doing things to your grave?