Some Idiot is Painting Coins

[Silver_Fox]

I got a box today that some idiot is painting. Looks like they are using regular spray paint. It was on the edges and the face. I hope it doesn't mess up the coin machines. I don't really see any reason to use a felt marker but this is just pure stupidity. If you are a lurker and reading this, I think you are an idiot.

 

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[jewelerdave]

*shakes his head*
God people who mark coins are dumb, I mean how dumb do you have to be. I mean One can simply mark a few select halves to see if they come back but unless your spending them all over the country and dumping each INDIVIDUAL one somewhere DIFFERENT it is totaly pointless.
All it proves is that yes you can indeed get your own coins back. But if you do it does not matter. Silver coins enter and leave the system all the time as we all know.

what a waste of time, I wish markers could understand that the financial system is much larger than there brains can comprehend. And most defiantly bigger than they can afford to affect. I mean I can see marking maybe 5 coins per box for the hell of it to see if you get em back but if your going though lots of coins the answer is obvious that yes your gonna search the same stuff a few times.

Markers need to understand these basic fundamental concepts..

MARKING COINS DOES NOT MAKE THEM SAFE FROM THE SILVER!

SILVER ENTERS AND LEAVES THE REST ALL THE TIME

ONCE YOU SEARCH COINS IT DOES NOT TAKE THEM OUT OF CIRCULATION WHEN YOU REDEPOSIT THEM

YES YOU WILL END UP GETTING COINS BACK. ALL IT PROVES IS THAT THEY RECIRCULATE.

 

[TxTim]

I got a box today that some idiot is painting. Looks like they are using regular spray paint. It was on the edges and the face. I hope it doesn't mess up the coin machines. I don't really see any reason to use a felt marker but this is just pure stupidity. If you are a lurker and reading this, I think you are an idiot.

10-4

 

[Silver_Fox]

And I still got 40's, a 64 and a Walker mixed in with them.

 

[fiatboy]

Don't mark your coins. Got it?

 

[thudson]

I was just wondering why someone marking or painting coins would get you so upset ? Does it make it harder for you to sort through the coins? Do coin counting machines reject marked coins? Do tellers ban you from returning them with marks on them? Are you unable to spend the coins if they are marked ? Does it diminish the value of the coins? I suspect the answers are probably no. I used to mark coins for awhile just to see what would return to me, but i got tired of the hassle . I guess I see no point in down grading or calling names about people you don't know . Making broad and disparaging statements about people only reveals ones character or lack there of. Maybe it is a waste of time but i guess it doesn't bother me to see marked coins because there is always silver getting mixed back in . My opinion . Tyler

 

[Silver Stripe]

I don't care as long as they're not marking the edges with silver fingernail pollish haha. I'ts bad enough the foreign coins look like silver at a glance. HH Mark

 

[TxTim]

I was just wondering why someone marking or painting coins would get you so upset ? Does it make it harder for you to sort through the coins? Do coin counting machines reject marked coins? Do tellers ban you from returning them with marks on them? Are you unable to spend the coins if they are marked ? Does it diminish the value of the coins? I suspect the answers are probably no. I used to mark coins for awhile just to see what would return to me, but i got tired of the hassle . I guess I see no point in down grading or calling names about people you don't know . Making broad and disparaging statements about people only reveals ones character or lack there of. Maybe it is a waste of time but i guess it doesn't bother me to see marked coins because there is always silver getting mixed back in . My opinion . Tyler

It bothers me because I like to put them in books and when I see an AU coin that could have gone in my book with sharpie marks on it I get irritated.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Just thought I would throw in my two cents. I never mark coins, and it also irritates me to find a nice AU clad coin with a sharpie mark on it. To mark them is illegal, although to my knowledge the only ones that got into trouble over circulated coins were the ones that took the state quarters and put the Silver Surfer sticker for the movie release on them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18873168/

http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/us...tml/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000331----000-.html

§ 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins

Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States; or Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Happy Hunting

Scott (Mich)

 

[Silver_Fox]

I was just wondering why someone marking or painting coins would get you so upset ? Does it make it harder for you to sort through the coins? Do coin counting machines reject marked coins? Do tellers ban you from returning them with marks on them? Are you unable to spend the coins if they are marked ? Does it diminish the value of the coins? I suspect the answers are probably no. I used to mark coins for awhile just to see what would return to me, but i got tired of the hassle . I guess I see no point in down grading or calling names about people you don't know . Making broad and disparaging statements about people only reveals ones character or lack there of. Maybe it is a waste of time but i guess it doesn't bother me to see marked coins because there is always silver getting mixed back in . My opinion . Tyler

I've got plenty of character. and I hope the paint gobbed on them doesn't jam the machine and I hope the tellers don't ask a bunch of questions when they see them through the bags. Felt markers on them I still think is a waste of time. Thick paint can paint, it takes a rel idiot to do that. Makes us CRHers look like a bunch of coin defacers.

 

[thudson]

Scott, I believe the keyword in the passage you posted is "fraudulently". If you alter a coin to fraudulently pass it off as something else , that is where this law comes into effect. Otherwise how could they sell the goldplated and colored coins on TV? Just marking them with paint or markers doesn't fraudulently do anything. Tyler

 

[RED THUNDER]

I see no point in it.

Red Thunder

 

[jewelerdave]

Its just pointless and a waste of time and brings attention to them in a bad way. A couple here and there is like ok...what ever, but people who have to mark thousands of dollars of them then deposit them together so they all end up back in the same box... Pointless.

I mean dogs/animals mark there territory by pissing on things and marking them, but these are coins. Marking them Is pointless...Hey, that gives me an Idea. I should start pissing on my coins and then turning them in. that way no one will want them or to even touch them...but wow thats a dumb Idea because Silver coins are still going to get mixed in with them, and I am gonna have to touch them again. If people want to track money there is that where is George thing.

The only marked coins that make any sense are the old red ones where a company would use it to keep there coins separate in arcades, music boxes and free bee's to keep the coin audit straight. But they rarely left the business they were used in. Even after decades of circulation you still find paint on them. But they are in frequent.
Otherwise I find some with stickers on the backs as they were used for advertising, Illegal but less annoying,

If one needs to mark halves do it with a small sticker, or piece of tape. And do it too a had full, not every one you touch.

I have thought about putting a little sticker tag on maybe 2 or 3 per box with a Hi CRH, Email me if found!
Heck if you have to mark em put a message on it or something intelligent. But dont mark them like a dog pisses on things and on EVERYTHING, makes ya no better than an Animal.

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Scott, I believe the keyword in the passage you posted is "fraudulently". If you alter a coin to fraudulently pass it off as something else , that is where this law comes into effect. Otherwise how could they sell the goldplated and colored coins on TV? Just marking them with paint or markers doesn't fraudulently do anything. Tyler

Yep, putting it that way you are probably right. I bet the law was put into place to make sure that you do not try to change the value of a coin. For example, when some nickels were minted in the 1800's, they just had a Roman numeral "V" on the back without the word "cents". Some con artists gold plated them and passed them off as five dollar gold pieces to the unsuspecting. Once word got back to the mint what was going on they added the cents to them. Some V-Nickel information: http://www.coinresource.com/guide/photograde/pg_05cLibertyHeadNickel.htm

Happy Hunting,

Scott (Mich)

 

[Silver_Fox]

Scott, I believe the keyword in the passage you posted is "fraudulently". If you alter a coin to fraudulently pass it off as something else , that is where this law comes into effect. Otherwise how could they sell the goldplated and colored coins on TV? Just marking them with paint or markers doesn't fraudulently do anything. Tyler

Yep, putting it that way you are probably right. I bet the law was put into place to make sure that you do not try to change the value of a coin. For example, when some nickels were minted in the 1800's, they just had a Roman numeral "V" on the back without the word "cents". Some con artists gold plated them and passed them off as five dollar gold pieces to the unsuspecting. Once word got back to the mint what was going on they added the cents to them. Some V-Nickel information: http://www.coinresource.com/guide/photograde/pg_05cLibertyHeadNickel.htm

Happy Hunting,

Scott (Mich)

Thanks for the link to the nickel story. Pretty interesting reading.

 

[patpall22]

does anyone know why those machines that are found in novelty shops , or piers that flatten and put a insignia on a penny for 50 cents are legal. If they aren't legal then why?

 

[imafishingnutt]

I dont know not all marked coins are bad i have a nice Hobo nickel

 

[Silver_Fox]

I dont know not all marked coins are bad i have a nice Hobo nickel

That's different. Did you find it CRHing?

 

[Silver Stripe]

I dont know not all marked coins are bad i have a nice Hobo nickel

Picks please. Do a search- those are cool. HH Mark

 

[CaptainRobin]

Who cares? Not me. I wouldn't paint 'em, but if you come across any '74Ds with a sharpie mark through the date/"we trust" there ain't a bit of use magnifying it. It's been looked.

Robin