My friend cleans every coin, what do I do?

Harry's making my coins more valuable


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Forget shooting the coin, just shoot him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

No---when talking about a gun that will shoot a hole in a coin its not really safe to shoot that kind of gun in the air---in fact I've heard that a bullet comes down twice as fast as it goes up----but yes I do know a guy that could do it---he was a sniper and could throw a dime in the air pick up a .22 rifle and shoot it and then find the dime.
While I don't shoot in the air I do shoot some coins just to keep in practice-- :whistle:
Speedy

 

I heard somewhere once that an average of six people are hit at Mardi Gras every year by the downward trip of bullets fired randomly into the air.

Maybe someone might consider those coins for their holed coins collection, Speedy.

My brothers and I used to shoot at dimes with my .22 when we kids... fun times.

 

Well a firend of mine emailed me and told me that he always wanted a holded Sac to carry around with him and wondered if I could do that---at that time all I had done was the dime---I told him I would try and shot him about 3---he wanted a hole dead center---the problem with that is the SAC is soo big most of the time the bullet doesn't go through---it hits it and goes off to the side....like the photo shown below---I shot about 6 before I got 3 I liked---I sent them to hima nd kept the rest...

Speedy

 

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a few months back there was a show on the history channel about some top marksmen finding out if it was possable for a skeet shootist to hit ten clay pigions at one toss. they showed a first class marksman demonstrait the fiet, the first time he got nine the second time he got ten. they then had him shoot dollars, quarters, nickels and dimes, dead center for the most part with a 22. then he showed off a little and started to shoot a few asprin's. when he hit them center they blew into a cloud of dust. off center there was less dust. it was awsome to watch this man shoot.

 

The nice part about collecting holed coins is that they are easy to obtain. Any year, any type, any mint mark you want. Just send your non-holed coins to me or any person with a drill press and you can even pick out the size of the hole you want in each coin. Maybe that's why people laugh at this collecting variation. :mouth: :mouth: :mouth:

 

Moen, I think the real point to collecting them is that they can be obtained for extremely low prices, even lower than cleaned coins, so a type set can be assembled cheaply. Drilling a hole in a non-holed coin doesn't really save any money. So you can laugh, but they paid less than you did.

 

I found a good use for cleaned/reprocessed 1943 cents last weekend. I ran a few dozen through the elongated penny smasher at the Air Force museum in Dayton. Actually they are worth much, much more in the elongated form.

 

IM(humble)O Place holders only. I can scribble on an electical box punch out for less money and have pretty much the same thing. Holed coins are just scrap that haven't gotten around to being melted yet. At the point in which they recieved a hole, they became useless. I think assigning any real value to them is just wishful thinking.
You know me, I'm no purist in any sense of the word but at some point every coin will enter the realm of scrap. Putting a hole through it just speeds up that process. I'm not saying that anyone who wishes to collect them shouldn't, I'm saying that paying anything for them is throwing good money away that could be used to buy the same coin without a hole.

 

My kids have a collection of those elongated pennies. We have them from all over the place. They are worth 51 cents each.

http://www.ronald-dupont.com/pennies.htm

 

Need to get you some steelies. I sold a 4 coin set from Potowatamy Zoo that I made using those nice shiny re-processed (40 cents ea) steelies for $20. $16.40 profit for 2 minutes worth of cranking. I like that! The Air Force sets will probably bring even more money. It amazes me what some of those Japanese Disney elongated cents go for on ebay. Getting back on subject. I guess cleaned coins are good for something, different uses though to different collectors.

 

Why steel??? I have a couple of rolls of 1943's that I could use if I thought there was really a market. What are your most interesting places so far?

 

The reason for the steel cents was I came across rolls of them that a dealer ws selling. They had obviously been re-conditioned and he was selling them pretty cheap (40c ea). To look at them, they are just the prettiest shade of ultra shiny, proof-like gun metal blue. Not knowing what I would ever do with them I picked up a few rolls and they have been sitting with my collection for several years. Just recently I wondered if I could smash them. I thought the colors would make very interesting and pretty sets. When I inquired and found that they work really well in the machines I tried a few and yes, they were very nice and Lincoln's bust and the date almost jump off the coin when pressed for some reason compared to their copper cousins. I think what makes them desirable is the date of the coins and you just don't see many of them offered as elongates.

As far as my most interesting. Since I have only been doing the elongated coins for about a year I have only been able to hit the machines in this area and a few on vacation but I have come across some very nice designs. Probably my favorite are the casino designs from Vegas ( tons of machines) especially the ones from the M&M Works and Nascar Cafe. My most prized and unique one would have to be one I found in a dusty case at an antique dealer in Frankenmuth, MI from the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair. Collectors seem to favor the Walt Disney designs especially from Japan as I mentioned earlier. It must be popular in Japan because last weekend at the Air Force Museum I had to wait for a large group of young Japanese men that were smashing rolls of cents and organizing the 4 coin sets each in 3x3 ziplock bags. When I showed them the 1943 steel cents and what they looked like finished they bought every set I had made except for 2 sets I kept for myself. They were having a ball.

Here is a very nice website that lists all the machine locations by state in the U.S. and even shows photos of the coins. http://www.pennycollector.com/AreaList.aspxAlso remember to use non-zinc lincoln's for best results or Canadian cents also seem to give a better finished product. I have an extra set of all-copper from the Air Force Museum if your kids would like them. Let me know.

 

haha....presentation box sold seperately for $100.00.....this week only!!!

 

Wait, does he buy his coins from those guys on TV?
If so, he deserves to lose his money.
Seriously, rap him in the head with a hammer-- if that dosen't work, then find another friend.