Truck carrying Penny blanks crashed in Delaware

So, apparently this morning, a tractor trailor truck carrying 40,000 pounds of blanks for pennies on route to the mint in Philadelphia crashed, spilling them all over the highway. Oops.

So, if some pennies come out later this year that have mint-made road rash, we know why!

http://www.wboc.com/story/33046502/truck-overturns-spills-blank-pennies-over-i-95-in-del
http://6abc.com/traffic/i-95-nb-clo...l-on-roadway/1502898/http://6abc.com/1502898/

 

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PMD... "PRE-minting damage"!

 

Special I-95 Great Penny Crash grading label?

 

I can see it now, Jason. 10 years from now, a person walking along I-95 finds several blanks. He posts them here, and nobody believes they are real.

Chris

 

"Highway effect"

 

Wait till the insurance co offers the mint 1/10th of a cent per piece.

 

Anyone walking along I-95 near Philly frankly deserves a Darwinism award for thinning the herd of idiots. There are a few Interstates where I WOULD walk from a disabled car, and two where I HAVE done so, but I-95 near Philly is not one. That is a "grab the revolver out of the glove box and hunker down and hope a cop stops first" kind of place.

 

Remember, the Philly area is where a travelling robot that made it all the way across Canada and then Europe met its final violent demise soon after being set loose out of Boston. It entered the greater Philly area and was promptly destroyed. Not a coincidence; a lesson.

 

Oh no that will make the Philly cent a rare key date now

 

It's not a penny crash! It's a cent clash!

 

Actually occurred in a construction zone south of Wilmington, DE. Walking there isn't advisable either. Some blanks probably made it into the open dirt. May see some turn-up on eBay. Next time construction is done there, some corroded blanks will probably be found.

Cal

 

quick, find some and get them slabbed !!


they had video ==> http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/09/delaware-pennies/499133/

 

They're Zincoln cent blanks. They're ALREADY corroding, by their very nature. There was a passing shower in the PA/DE area this morning - acid rain. What do copper, zinc, and a low pH fluid make? A battery. The corrosion and "carbon" spotting is already well underway. Any Zincoln with a pinhole in the copper that gets any acid on it is already dissolving.

 

Oh God... you're an SOB for giving them the idea. Lmao

 

Am I correct saying that equates to 7,257,478 cents in total. Not only is that a huge loss since we already lose money making a cent. Had these been post mint it almost reaches $73,000

Glad the driver made it without any major injuries, for now.

 

Yeah, and there was a time in Prince Georges County, Maryland northeast of DC when cops drew their weapons on routine traffic stops. So what!

Chris

 

And now it depends on the ethnicity of the driver and whether the cop thinks they're in "too nice a car".

 

To bad it didn't happen closer to Chester,PA
https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/pa/chester/crime/

 

Amazing how much crime you can cram into a city with so few buildings still standing, isn't it? Imagine the "density" required.

 

Their was also a fire. So add in heat, then being sprayed with water and maybe fire suppressants. Emergency equipment rolling over them, spilled diesel fuel, maybe battery acid. But, hey, there were so many, there must be a pre-MS70 in there somewhere!

Cal