Northern Lights
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- Sep 15, 2008
- 148
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- whites surfmaster pulse, tesoro silver sabre, fisher 1280x
A 10% solution? How do you salt water hunters dispose of all those pitted. encrusted and discoloured no special value coins you dig up. When I returned from Florida last year I had a couple handfuls of above mentioned coins. I had no time or interest in using electrolysis on each coin other than the cob which really wasn't a cob.
I just bathed the lot in a shallow solution of CLR which eliminated some of the salt but many were still pitted and some so dark in colour they were hard to distinguish the coinage, but many of them were American coins and of course I had pulled out any silver coins or recent good condition coins I had found. To try and cash them in at a store or business would have raised a few eyebrows and I wasn't sure if our banks would take US coins in that condition, I had found a few Canadian coins down there as well.
I just tossed them in a can and forgot about them. Then the other day while walking out of a large food store here, I noticed a " cash in your coins vending machine " and a bell went off in my head, and I wondered how many of my corroded coins it would take ? I didn't care that the mach would take 10% of the total. I was amazed when I did try it. Out of a couple of hand fulls of coins it only rejected 12 of them and I cashed in a voucher of $28 and change towards the groceries I was buying .
Of course this was just a 1 time venture and I suspect if you were going to use these machines on a continuing basis, you would have to move around and find different ones lol .
I just bathed the lot in a shallow solution of CLR which eliminated some of the salt but many were still pitted and some so dark in colour they were hard to distinguish the coinage, but many of them were American coins and of course I had pulled out any silver coins or recent good condition coins I had found. To try and cash them in at a store or business would have raised a few eyebrows and I wasn't sure if our banks would take US coins in that condition, I had found a few Canadian coins down there as well.
I just tossed them in a can and forgot about them. Then the other day while walking out of a large food store here, I noticed a " cash in your coins vending machine " and a bell went off in my head, and I wondered how many of my corroded coins it would take ? I didn't care that the mach would take 10% of the total. I was amazed when I did try it. Out of a couple of hand fulls of coins it only rejected 12 of them and I cashed in a voucher of $28 and change towards the groceries I was buying .
Of course this was just a 1 time venture and I suspect if you were going to use these machines on a continuing basis, you would have to move around and find different ones lol .
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