A Weekend of Noodling

[purplepennyhunter]

I have a customer who is very excited that she's going to tile her bathroom floor with bright and shiny new 1c pieces ex roll. Photos to come once the job is done............

She allowed us to open her rolls, all 70 of them, that's 3,500 coins to make sure there wasn't anything more interesting contained in the rolls.

Now there might have been bright lustrous gem uncirculated:
clipped planchets
rotated double strikes
flip-over double strikes
indents
brockages
split planchets
planchet peels
strike through's
die break's
cuds
foreign planchets
wrong planchets
coin struck on a washer!!!

You can image what's going though my head whilst we open and noodle 70 rolls.


What we actually found......out of 3,500 brand new shiny coins...
1 tiny planchet peel
2 oily dies
1 piddly wannabe ramstrike (very good considering anything larger would have got rejected by the rolling machine)

Very dissapointing really, the coins were just too nice:(

[trout]

Just imagine all those coppers in a few years time.........................Green an Yuckky HeHe.

[purplepennyhunter]

I didn't ask too many questions. They'll be stuck  down onto some sort of mesh first. Then finished I guess with some sort of resin or something, they should hold their lustre then?? something like this

[trout]

I get a little shudder down my back when I see people doing this sort of things to coins :dash1:
I can't help myself PP. Money should be spent or collected not abused in this fashion:angel:
I have myself been guilty of buggering up the occasional coin in the interest of showing how PMD  happens on a coin, But this is simply Mass Murder in my view :dodgy:

[Robster]

3500 one cent coins. That equals $35.00 for a night "On the Tiles". Cheap at twice the price.!!:idea:

[purplepennyhunter]

I've seen error coins gold plated etc before, so I thought it best check them first. Imagine if she "tiled" a brockage......

[trout]

I've seen error coins gold plated etc before, so I thought it best check them first. Imagine if she "tiled" a brockage......

What I really cannot understand is why use nice coins from rolls when she could have used crappy worn coins destined for the scrap dealer instead.
I imagine that this "Person" has bought some Wedding sets to highlight the design as well :dash1:

[JeffH]

I had a lady bought every 1988 50¢ I could get for quite some months. She was getting them for her husband who was using them for a mural of HMS Endeavour.
Never did find out the end result. let alone get a picture. Pity; it could have been stunning if done well.

Jeff
PS. Any 1968 in that noodling lot?

[purplepennyhunter]

PS. Any 1968 in that noodling lot?

All 1979 1c.

[keldaw]

the sad thing is , once the gov get the money for them , they don't care what you do with them , . it is just a business to them ..

      ,, kel ,,

[Fulvio]

Blame the mint for this. She probably went to Canberra and walked up the coin staircase before deciding to murder those coins.

[Mister T]

I get a little shudder down my back when I see people doing this sort of things to coins :dash1:

You're not the only one.

[Robster]

130 Million minted, what's 3500 in the name of Art. Recycling at its purest, even Rundle Mall in Adelaide has coins set into the footpath. Prefer this to scrap bins or Silver scrap. (melted down they are definitely gone forever ):idea:

[trout]

130 Million minted

That may be the case , but what is the survival rate of pristine rolled coins:angel:

[keldaw]

looks good when new , but I wouldn,t do it in my place ..

                                           ,, kel ,,