I too found a strange residue on my coins.... I have a bag full of wheaties ( a leather headphone bag) and I went digging through it one night, and found a sticky residue on many of the coins, in preculiar places (on the underside of coins, along sides, as in it had not been dropped from the top). I gave them a rinse in hot water, with a bit of soap, and most of it came off, but some re-appeared in a different bag. Any ideas? It repels water, and is quite sticky.
Sounds like my kid's loose change after they go to 7/11 to buy candy...ahhhhh those sticky fingers on a coin's obverse. I guess with the millions of "commons" minted, what's a few sticky coins?
