"One person's junk is another's treasure" "Salt" an appropriate area with the junk coins, then invite a curious child to use one of your metal detectors to find and keep some coins . . . Think about it, the child wins, the hobby wins, and you win.

That's really cool that you actually clean the coins. I made the mistake of taking a bunch of dirty "metal detecting" coins to my bank a couple years ago...they weren't very happy with me (small town...no coinstar machines around here). I did wash them off, but they were still in pretty rough condition

I have five gallon buckets. I have one for zinc, one for copper cents, one for nickels and one for dimes, quarters and half dollars. These are all trade units backed by the metals they contain.No need for melting even if it were legal. Melting would devalue the known metal coin alloys. I would love to get this coin lot if I could. People don't know what they have.

Well that was interesting! Thanks for sharing.

You should drive around to gas stations and plop a few at each one in the "take a penny leave a penny" bowls. I'm sure it would help someone when they needed it.

Donate those rejects to a politician if they can't waste it, then it truly has no purpose!

A good tip of mine is any park i go to and find only zinc penny's tells me that place has already been combed over !

Great video Ed!

Honestly, I think you had a great idea burrying the jar of rejected pennies in a metal detecting hot spot. While it make not be worth alot, someone would get the thrill of finding it.

Take them to Walmart when they're nice and crusty then spend them in the self checkout.

They can be used for jewelry or people like the rusty crusty old original stuff put it in a Mason jar and sell the hole jar as a antique rusty coins. Someone would love it I'm sure. Cool video and thanks.

Great video young man I don't know what to do with my junk coins either

Use reject coins to buy a nice McDonald meal and let someone take care the damage coins.

Up here in Canada back in 2012, we stopped producing the penny because it was costing 1.3 cents each to produce. How long did it take you to find all those coins? BTW, coinstar should be called corn hole star.

great video and info about age of coins. 🙂well one idea, could be, make a metal plate with laser print, put it in with couns into a container, future people metaldetecting can find them and read and maybe do the same thing, read , write and put in something too.. it would be learning and fun. a bit like the Geo treassure. 🙂 best regards from Denmark

Melt the rejects for the zinc since they're already considered "defaced" currency 😂

Nice job 😊😊😊

Take the rejected coins , and get penny rolls and roll them up, cash them in at bank!

Be aware, Coinstar at Walmarts don’t give you the option for Amazon.

Great garden fertilizer 😆

No such thing as a shake-proof wingnut? Nice video! Thanks for sharing!

I just spend all the coins at businesses as I find them, because they still are legal tender and when those coins go to a bank, they are taken out of service by the bank through the mint.

Those crap Pennie’s work perfectly as fender washers for screwing down hardware cloth for chicken coops. I drill holes in useless Pennie’s and use as washers. Also rejected coins like quarters and half dollars and dimes could be silver. All 1964 and older are silver.

your videos teach me alot about scrapping thank you

My friend who is an avid metal detectorist once found a 1793 chain Cent. Unfortunately it is in very poor condition and was only recognizable by a couple of links of chain on the back.

1964 silver is (curently) worth about 10 X face value ,a dime is a dollar a quarter is $2.50 cents Don't let it get away

Thanks this helped alot

Keep a handful of those corroded coins in your pocket and drop a few into tip jars when making purchases. And you can donate them to the Salvation Army red buckets at Xmas time.

I saw where someone used zinc cents as washers, just drill a hole. Maybe they could be used as moss kill on roofs?

Put your coinstar reject coins back into your tumbler add a little dab of soap or shampoo let it tumble for 1 hour you'll probably be able to get those to shine up a little better. I'm not sure if you added rocks but fishbowl rocks are very cheap. Thank you for sharing. You are right putting the left over coins in a metal detecting hot spot area would be mean. I know I wouldn't appricate that...neither would you but it is a funny suggestion in a really mean spirited way. lol. I got my tiny rock tumbler from walmart and I love it. was 20$ How mush was your giant harbor freight tumbler...I'm looking around for a larger inexpensive tumbler to tumble real rocks. Thanks again.

Thanks! I have foubd a '92 penny worth over $10,000 maybeyou added another one into cerculation..thanks again!!

If you have some paper rolls to roll up your pennies, you can turn 100 or 200 pennies in for a few dollar bills. So long as they are rolled up, the teller isn't going to care if they are in good or bad shape. Beyond that, you can use them for exact change on incidental purchases and try to get rid of them a few pennies at a time. I keep all of my Copper pennies, and I even keep Nickels from 2003 and before for their Nickel & Copper content. I don't expect that to pay off in a large way, but I suspect that they will useful in either my future or that of my children.

Roll 'em up in "penny roles" you get from the bank and then turn them in for the big bucks.

when we were kids we’d put pennies in coke or lemon juice to clean them up. then try them in the machine again

Just how many cents would you need to save to make it profitable enough to do so? 100,000 cents is only $1,000 and unless you can take them to a smelter that pays over 95% of melter value, the shipping cost itself would eat most of the profits? I once found a roll of cents that alas were all zinc. Nothing more sad than digging up 100 of them, all way too corroded to save 😢

spend them a few at a time. most cashiers don't even look

I always take the rejected coins and spread them all over where people metal detect ....they look like chickens picking up feed.... great videos 😂. Small bits of copper wire are also hilarious. Hours of fun watching the person running around looking for something better 😂.

The pre 1981 cent is the only US money that is legit and backed by itself in its copper content. In a barter economy with silver being traded, perhaps copper cents will be used to round up or down an exchange.

What other government would make coinage that costs them more to make than the face value of the coin. Gotta love it!!!

The reject pennies are fun to take back to a park and scatter them all over the place. Someone else can have the thrill of finding them.

You need a flat washer an a lock nut to fix your lid problem try it 😊

If you pull the Ethernet cable out the back before throwing your coin's into coin star, you won't have to pay any commission.

Some bank have machines that take coins at no cost if you have a account.

Fun Fact! The US has never minted a penny as pennies were and still are a British coin. When we gained independence, the founding fathers wanted an unalike economy to that of Britains with our own currency, so we had our version of the coin made which is just called a cent or one cent coin.

I would like to find it, Excited for a moment anyways

I soak mine in vinegar and salt and they usually clean up good enough to spend

today i found a £1 coin! and the other day a 50p. also we got that machine at asda near me and sometimes there is coins in the reject bit. i have those

I always check the reject tray at Wally World when i shop there. Some folks leave the rejects, why I have no idea. Have found silver, good looking coins, and even a gold English guinea along with other foreign coins over the years. Most times though there is nothing, but as long as I am already there why not ?

This video going viral.

WOW!

Considering there is a $10,000 fine if you melt any pennies or nickels, I wouldn't do it.

You bought something at harbor freight and it still is working after 15 years, everything I bought there breaks after 15 days.

Use a rock tumbler, they clean the coins MUCH better let it run over night, half full of coins a bit more water than half way, also use borax to help clean them. I use some sort of abrasive, aquarium gravel, very small stones, "pee gravel" very course sand. You have choices. You can not do as many at a time. also you may not have to run over night. Play with it, figure it out... The reject coins do not look bad compared to the ones found at salt water beaches, some times they are mostly gone and cannot tell it was ever a coin...

Well done! I roll my super corroded pennies in with a few decent ones(end caps)and take them to the bank. Not sure if I’m doing anything wrong, but I’m sure the bank has a system to deal with corroded coins

People toss coins into fountains and make wishes,

in Canada we god rid of the 1 cent coin a number of years ago although they still get dug up in the ground daily

What are you cleaning them off with in the mixer/tumbler? Just water only?

Loctite on the wing nut? Maybe Loctite red? Or the generic Harbor Freight versions.

You should take a closer look at the 1982 and 1982 d. An error on these coins are worth thousands if you find one.

I keep the corroded pennies in my coin purse. I spend them when checking out at the self service lane at the grocery store. If they don’t work, I will exchange them with the cashier. Then it becomes somebody else’s problem, ha ha! Little by little. I always check the Coinstar reject slot. I’ve gotten very lucky there. 12% is outrageous. I think it’s 7% here but I may be wrong on that one. I don’t use enough coins to worry about it

How about using penny wrapper's provided by your bank for free. You can wrap them and deposit or exchange for cash at said bank. I do this at my local Well's Fargo, they have no problems with it.

I wonder if a mild vinegar and water solution would make some of them go through the coin star . Probably not worth the effort haha .The only ones I keep separate are the wheat Pennie’s not sure why I haven’t found any worth more than a few cents . I do have one real old one it’s a Indian head 1868 it’s worth a few bucks , no where’s near enough to want to sell it .their getting so hard to find I’ll keep it .

There is a small credit union in Ohio that would let you use the coin counter for free if you had an account with them.

Shake’s in white vinegar? Might eat a little more of the gunk …

Don’t forget those pre 65 gems

How much change was there left over from the 211.84 in dollars that got excepted in the Coin star machine please mate?

Roll those recjects and deposit them.

The shipping to banks alone adds greatly to the cost of coinage.

put them in a coin roll and put nice looking coins on the ends and then you get the full face value.

I would roll them coins.

pennies haven't been copper for some time and not sure when the switched

I was at the Denver and Philadelphia mint's last year. And according to them it is not illegal to melt or make jewelry from coins you have. Just fyi

Please tell me you also look for 1964 and earlier silver coins!

put the rejects in rolls and bring them to a bank

pennies that can’t be exchange melt them. Bank or machine rejects them

I make it a point to save the nastiest reject coins and pass them out to the folks looking for spare change in town..they seem to take them no issue

Do you go through these pennies looking for collectible ones?

Run them through the tumbler a second time, roll them up and deposit it in the bank

I tumble coins by type, it seems more efficient.

I saw another dude on yt seperate the pennies from other change then add salt, pebbles, and white vineger to the tumbler and they clean better. I been doing that.

Coin art project

Cant you still use the rejects when buyin say a candy bar....cause it is still real money?

my coin star does a 5% fee for amazon now it’s so annoying

Never clean coins

Im sure you picked out the constitutional silver, right? RIGHT? RIGHT!!!

i collected NZ silver coins in circulation, i will sell them when i retire. NZ has stopped minting 1, 2, 5 cents,

wow lots of coins, Sub

I was thinking you can give them to the homeless but they might reject them too 🤣

salt lemon juice cleaning them

Check those Dimes and Quarters for Silver!!

Ebay... its where junk goes to die.

It’s a simple solution, roll the rejected pennies & take them to the bank. The pennies are still money in your pocket.

Big like number 367! Excellent video and thank you so much for sharing!

Maybe another liquid to clean more therly the pennies?????

Put them in penny rolls & take them to a bank, as long as they don't have chunks missing they're still good pennies. Put a regular nut on your shaker along with your wing nut, that should do the trick.

A 1982- 1983 that is over 3grams is worth much more than 1 cent

Check them for silver coins!

Jesus. 12%??!!?? It used to be 8% which I still think is ridiculous. Roll them up and take them to a bank

At least check for silver coins.

why would you give up the 10% at coinstar?