Money laundering

[Redmt]

Literally money laundering! I posted a picture a while back of a burned, partially melted bunch of coins that were recovered from our 2020 wildfires. I started to try and get them cleaned up. The melted pile was near impossible to move so I broke it up enough to lift and put in buckets with a hand pick and a sledgehammer. I threw the chunks in my cement mixer with Dawn and Lemishine. There's still blobs of zinc melted to them but many are pretty good.

 

[Potsie]

You’re almost ready to open your own mattress store. I’m convinced they’re all money laundering/smuggling fronts.

 

[TheTone]

You’re almost ready to open your own mattress store. I’m convinced they’re all money laundering/smuggling fronts.

You find it weird how many there are also? I especially like when you can see multiple stores from one location

The coins are kinda cool and kinda crappy at the same time. Any rough idea how much the dollar value is? Sure looks like a lot

 

[Hem]

You have alot of washer holes to drill.

 

[Redmt]

There's pounds of melted zinc blobs. Most coins have a percentage of zinc either mixed in them or an inner core of zinc. Quarters seems to have that inner core. Many of the quarters are swollen where the zinc inside them melted. A lot of the zinc seems to have leaked out of them.

 

[Caseknife]

Cool idea to use a cement mixer, looking good.

 

[Potsie]

You find it weird how many there are also? I especially like when you can see multiple stores from one location.

Ya, and there’s never anybody in them! Unless the margins are like 2000% on a Serta, they have to be subsidized from some other entity.

Drugs. That’s the only plausible answer.

 

[Redmt]

You find it weird how many there are also? I especially like when you can see multiple stores from one location

The coins are kinda cool and kinda crappy at the same time. Any rough idea how much the dollar value is? Sure looks like a lot

The original pile was too heavy to even flip over. I haven't weighed them yet. They are spread out on the back of my ranch truck flatbed to dry. There was 4 , 5 gallon buckets too heavy to throw on the truck one handed.

 

[Redmt]

The coins are kinda cool and kinda crappy at the same time. Any rough idea how much the dollar value is? Sure looks like a lot

A wild guess is there's around $1000.00 salvageable. It's going to take a while to sort through them.

 

[Brad W]

Might sound crazy but I believe you can turn them in to the federal reserve and they will cut you a check for the face value even if things are damaged. I heard a podcast about it years ago. Might be worth looking up.

 

[Redmt]

Might sound crazy but I believe you can turn them in to the federal reserve and they will cut you a check for the face value even if things are damaged. I heard a podcast about it years ago. Might be worth looking up.

The Federal reserve in CA won't take them. They would have to be shipped to Philadelphia ( I think) for evaluation. It could take up to a year for them to even deny it.

 

[Redmt]

A wild guess is there's around $1000.00 salvageable. It's going to take a while to sort through them.

I got them weighed up today. There's 160# of salvageable and identifiable coins. If they were all in good condition it puts the value up around $3000.00