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Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby Pennysaved » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:21 am

I picked up some customer wrapped pennies yesterday and noticed one of them was marked Contaminated.

Makes me wonder if I should wear a hazmat suit to open it :-)

I haven't opened it up yet
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby amalekidad » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:39 am

Copper contaminated with Zinc :!:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby mtalbot_ca » Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:41 pm

Personnally I would not mess with it.... but keep us posted. :lol:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:10 pm

Wheat contamination???
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby HoardCopperByTheTon » Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:18 pm

I am thinking it is just a rol of Irish pennies. :mrgreen:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby twentybux » Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:20 pm

Homer Simpson pennies he found at the nuclear plant???
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby jasmatk » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:55 pm

I bid 55cents per roll of said contaminated rolls
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby hobo finds » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:00 pm

You gotta open it up! Could be the last name of the old lady who just turned in the rolls! :lol:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby creshka46 » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:12 pm

You know how kids often swallow coins and then their parents have to search throught the "waste" to make sure they've passed through? Maybe that coin roll came from a daycare center or something..... :shock:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby knibloe » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:46 pm

maybe they were in the toilet
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby cesariojpn » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:25 pm

Open the roll into a cup full of disinfectant.
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby HoardCopperByTheTon » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:21 am

Yes... open them up.. perspiring minds want to know.

When I was a kid we used to swallow copper pennies. If a kid swallows pennies now can he die from zinc poisoning? :mrgreen:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby NoCents » Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:44 am

Anyone remember "ASS PENNIES?"

Could be his.....
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby TXBullion » Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:15 am

did you check them
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby hobo finds » Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:52 am

Maybe he did and thats why we haven't heard from him? :shock:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby hobo finds » Sat Nov 19, 2011 10:04 am

A link here on contaminated currency and coin. http://www.frbservices.org/operations/c ... _coin.html
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby twentybux » Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:19 am

hobo finds wrote:Maybe he did and thats why we haven't heard from him? :shock:

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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby hobo finds » Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:00 pm

Did you open them up?
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby cupronickel » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:52 pm

You should contact the Federal Reserve immediately !
Ask to speak with Ben (I think he is in the European affairs office today)
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby Numis Pam » Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:20 am

Sheesh Pennysaved.... :roll: Come on now, it's been 2 years! :o
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby Morsecode » Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:55 am

My question is: why would a bank accept, and later distribute, a roll of coin marked "contaminated"? :sick:
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby messymessy » Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:10 am

The pennies obviously had "cooties".
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby ToothDoc » Sun Nov 10, 2013 8:19 pm

I want to open it!!!
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby cooyon » Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:33 pm

Get your mother-in-law to open.
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Re: Penny roll marked "CONTAMINATED"

Postby Engineer » Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:33 am

cooyon wrote:Get your mother-in-law to open.


That's not very nice...

I want my mother-in-law to open it! :mrgreen:
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