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This is actually a very common outcome with gun buybacks. I've seen tale of cops running buybacks and picking through the antiques that show up, taking home the valuable ones.
I mean, I understand that. Used to work a grocery store cash register. One day, one or two of our penny rolls were loaded with wheat pennies and Indian pennies. I even got my one and only steel penny that day. Shame that they were probably stolen and hawked or sold in tough times.
*hocked
But yeah
Although honestly it doesn't really make sense to use a collectible penny as currency these days, as 1¢ is worth so little as to be effectively insignificant now.
In the past, though, I definitely did cash in old collected dollar and half-dollar coins because of my desire to eat.
Til a new synonym for pawned
Also, most of what's turned in is absolute crap. All you have to present is the receiver, that's the "gun". Seen pics where they cops were bragging about their haul, loads of non-functional, incomplete, rusty crap.
Said this many times and took a beating here and on reddit: Gun buy backs are a fucking joke. I've got 3 or 4 pieces of shit I'd gladly ditch to get paid.