To destroy coins or not?

I have a stack of wheats that are damages beyond collectible status. The question is, do I finish the job? I wouldn't want them to be passed along to others.

What would yall do?

 

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Put em back in circulation, some youngun might get sparked into collecting if he finds em.

 

You could always save them for the copper

 

People always say that and then I ask OK so now you have this mountain of Copper. What are you going to do with it? Where will you take it for the amount you see advertised? Do you know someone that will pay you more than a penny each?
If I were you take them to a bank, cash them in and maybe make some future roll hunter brag right here how he found a fortune in Copper coins from the bank.

 

I'd put em back into circulation myself, no point in destroying something that someone else might love to have.

 

That's just it, they are barely recognizable as wheats. Most have no dates or date's I can only decipher because I know what I'm looking for. One is even acid washed and the next person will think it's stuck on the wrong planchet.

 

Buff 'em up nice and shiny, solder them together and voila!:

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That would be something if you sent it back out into circulation and a few months later a new collector would be showing it on the what it's worth forum.

You could take it to the railroad tracks and then sell it on ebay as a rare mint error...
You could buy a propane torch and test out the melting temperature of copper,
You could invite a bunch of the guys over for penny ante poker and deliberately lose,
you could find a wishing well and make some wishes...
you could use them for target practice,
You could experiment and make a die and see if you have what it takes to hammer strike coins,
you could spoon them and make rings,
You can do anything you want with them, they are your coins.

 

I think I'd need a few more pennys lol

 

Ill take them.

 

Save them like you have been or leave them somewhere where a homeless person can use them. :thumb: Come to think of it, I got a few I can leave for the homeless myself. I even have an old beat up IHC!! The possibilities are endless!

 

What would y'all do? One of us collects ALL, regardless, ALL copper cents in a half gallon milk carton [washed clean]. When a scouting group comes knocking on the door, I give them a filled carton.

This makes mom light-up with a beautiful smile, the kids act as though they have struck a gold mine and take turns carrying the heavy treasure back to mom's car. Counting and rolling the coins keeps the kids busy for their next scout meeting, taking the pressure off mom for a short while. I'm the winner here, I was rewarded with a beautiful smile from a pretty mom and saw the kid's faces light-up with unexpected joy. Same results, every time. All that happiness from a few cents save here and there. Priceless!

 

Is it not illegal to destroy coins?
If they are all messed up, just put them back into circulation.. there are penny pinchers everywhere

 

How about this. Next time you go a big grocery store and there's someone collecting for some good cause give the coins to them.

 

spend them, give someone a thrill.

 

Last x-mas I put several steel cents around a Wal-Mart inside and out just for kicks. You'll be surprised how excited people become after finding something whether mangled or not...

 

I agree!!!
put them in a roll and let someone find them!!
It will make someone smile!

 

I used to repair a lot of coins and spend them but pennies were never worth the trouble. Most of them went in the garbage except during a time I saved up all old copper for an art school that made a lot of copper sculptures.

It's illegal to melt copper pennies now so they would go in the garbage unless there were tons of them in which case I'd dump them in a hole in the ground for later retrieval.

I've got enough stuff to keep track of without worrying what I did with that handful of beat up worthless pennies. A lot of people just pull the pennies out of their change and throw them all away. This gets a lot of nickels as well.

 

So what is your point? Ever see a little kid with a penny? Usually they don't care how bad it looks if it's one they want. And in most cases better than what they now have.