| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 12:49:44
Went to my bank this morning and picked up 4, $10 boxes of LMC's. Opened the last box and thought "oh great a skunk box" then a closer look revealed a complete box of 09' formative year cents. I noticed that on ebay there are ton's of these for sale but they all seem to be in paper wrappers. Mine are in the plastic wrapper.
Are these worth more, less, or do I just have $10 worth of zinc?? Don't plan on tossing them just wondering? |
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| slickeast |
Posted - 07/04/2009 : 13:16:45
Save em and sell them empty.
I would like to have some of these.
Try to see what the cost would be to mail them using parcel post or flat rate. Since they are empty they might ship cheaper using parcel post. |
| PreservingThePast |
Posted - 07/04/2009 : 12:21:50
I've attempted to do several internet searches and my computer is lucky I haven't yet strangled it. Grrrrrr.......
If what I found is accurate it appears that the only ones in Florida are down on the Southeastern coastal areas. Too far for us to take an afternoon ride.
Thanks again for everyone's help. Guess I will have to wait to try to get those neat looking boxes of pennies. |
| PreservingThePast |
Posted - 07/04/2009 : 12:07:30
Thanks, everyone, for the info and the link. Even with the link it took a long time for the page to load. Wow! Interesting.
With a name like that no wonder they use an acronym. 
Will have to see if there are any around me in Central Florida. I would love to get some of those $10.00 boxes.
Enjoy. |
| jadedragon |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 23:55:59
HSBC is the world's largest and one of the most successful banks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 22:31:18
quote:
Originally posted by PreservingThePast
Very intriguing. I'm with everyone else on this in that I don't ever remember seeing anything like that from a bank before even when we had our own business as I was growing up and then when my husband and I had our fishing business for over ten years.
What do the initials of your bank stand for as I am not familiar with that and want to see if we have any here in Central Florida?
Thanks.
I am really jealous of the new pennies. I received one of the first ones in a card yesterday from my niece in Virginia. That is all I have seen except photos online and the ones for sale at the coin shop that are out of my budget.
Continued success.
HSBC is a London based operation with branchs worldwide. I'm in upstate NY and they have a large presence in NY. There are probably a dozen within a 20 mile radius of me. |
| Kurr |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 21:25:32
I got 4 red $10 boxes from a credit union. They said they jsut had them, couldn't tewll me where they were from either. Red though, not white. |
| Dalsuh |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 21:20:13
So how the heck do I get those $10 boxes in Cali? Please tell if you know lol. |
| PreservingThePast |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 19:30:44
Very intriguing. I'm with everyone else on this in that I don't ever remember seeing anything like that from a bank before even when we had our own business as I was growing up and then when my husband and I had our fishing business for over ten years.
What do the initials of your bank stand for as I am not familiar with that and want to see if we have any here in Central Florida?
Thanks.
I am really jealous of the new pennies. I received one of the first ones in a card yesterday from my niece in Virginia. That is all I have seen except photos online and the ones for sale at the coin shop that are out of my budget.
Continued success. |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 11:01:56
NiBullionCu, I think you are correct.
The brown box in the picture is manufactured by MMF Industries of Wheeling, IL. I checked the web-site and they do indeed refer to the box as "chipboard". Do cardboard and chipboard look similar? The white ones don't have any manufacturing information on them, but they do appear to be the same material.
If there is really an iterest in these I'll pick up some boxes from the P.O. and see how many I can squeeze in and let everyone know. |
| NiBullionCu |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 10:19:56
Let me pile on with the drooling over those nice looking boxes...
It looks like they may be "chipboard" instead of cardboard?
If so, they are even more durable than the standard $25 cardboard boxes we are used to.
A nice, handy, "brick" size to boot! |
| dakota1955 |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 09:20:07
I have to agree with the ones before me i have not seen that type of a box before but they do look nice |
| HoardCopperByTheTon |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 01:00:35
Those are great looking boxes! I would be willing to buy some, or trade copper for them.
In the past, Brinks rolled cents bring less in the open market than paper wrapped cents. They are not considered as desireable in that type of wrapper. If you want to send them to me, I would be happy to reroll them in nice N.F. String & Son paper with one of my automatic wrapping machines.
Now that you know your bank has the new pennies in stock, you should rush right back and buy up as many boxes as they will sell you. Worst case scenario.. you get more pennies to sort for copper and several boxes to sell to fellow members. |
| scooter |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 23:47:44
intresting |
| Gr33nday43 |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 23:32:28
Yes! I'm sure lot's of people would buy your unused boxes. I wouldn't get the prices too outrageous though, maybe $2 a box. That's a 20 dollar profit on top of the copper! They sure are nice looking boxes. |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 22:21:14
Nickles, Dimes & Quarters come in the same type boxes. Hmmm do I see a market for these? |
| ScottyTX |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 22:11:03
Wow, I'm with TX im on that one. The last time I had a box like that in my hand was an original 10.00 bank box of 1954-s rolls of pennies. I had no clue people were still using these today. It sure would be neat to have some of those laying around. I sure they stack nice and neat with 20 rolls of copper inside! I want some.....for free of course. Grrr guess we don't have HSBC down here, oh well. I learn something new everyday. Thanks for the post/pics.!!!
Scott |
| Publius |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 22:02:39
quote:
Originally posted by TXTim
Those boxes sure are pretty!
I know! Those are nice! |
| TXTim |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 21:37:12
Those boxes sure are pretty! |
| NDFARMER |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 21:35:42
Thanks for the picture. Those boxes are new to me. I've been sorting for a long time and this is the first I have ever heard of them. |
| highroller4321 |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 21:32:12
quote:
Originally posted by 3 Blue Stars
I'm pretty sure it's Loomis. (Hope that's spelled right.) HSBC bank.
I'd say that out of the 150K that I've hand sorted I've gotten probably 130K this way with the other 20K in $25 Brinks boxes. (These came from a credit union.) The $10 boxes are more the norm up here rather than the exception.
Hmm interesting! |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 21:30:17
I'm pretty sure it's Loomis. (Hope that's spelled right.) HSBC bank.
I'd say that out of the 150K that I've hand sorted I've gotten probably 130K this way with the other 20K in $25 Brinks boxes. (These came from a credit union.) The $10 boxes are more the norm up here rather than the exception. |
| highroller4321 |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 21:21:33
quote:
Originally posted by 3 Blue Stars
Thanks to highroller4321 for the link. Simple and quick.
Anytime!
Thanks for posting the pic.
HMM ive never ever seen these boxes before! Do you know what armor car service services your bank? I want to know more about these boxes |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 20:44:32
Thanks to highroller4321 for the link. Simple and quick. |
| 3 Blue Stars |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 20:42:09
Here's a shot of the $10 boxes I'm working on tonight.
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| NDFARMER |
Posted - 07/02/2009 : 19:21:57
I have never heard of $10.00 boxes either. I get all my pennies in $25.00 boxes or $50.00 bags. I tried to snag some new pennies by ordering boxes instead of bags for a couple of weeks but it is not working. I just get all mixed pennies. So I am going back to bags, it takes too long and makes an extra step to break open all those rolls each week. |
