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fiatboy
Administrator
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 Posted - 01/14/2008 : 11:52:46
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To make a long story short, I first stumbled onto this forum via the link at www.coinflation.com.
How did you first learn of the realcent forum?
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"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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aloneibreak
Penny Collector Member
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 16:06:08
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| i read about the hoarding copper forum in a letter to the editor in the magazine Numismatic News. i'd been saving coppers from change for a few years but never realized it could go to this extent. |
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
5240 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 16:47:30
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| I found it through a google search back in October or November of 2006 when I was trying to find supporting documentation that melting pennies was legal so I could complete a deal for 2 tons with my metals dealer. When they imposed the ban he said "I guess you were right all along, but we can't do it now" I lurked for several months, reading the posts of others here and finally decided I needed to join so I could post too. It is now my favorite site on the net. I saw on the site the other day that there were 17 guests logged in. I think there are a lot of people that read the forum but don't sign up and post. C'mon.. join and participate. It's great that we have a place to share stories and experiences with others that truly understand our affliction. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Let me see if I understand this? If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor; the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the US border illegally, you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps, free health care!
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copperbullion
Penny Pincher Member
Australia
135 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 17:11:30
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| Google... type in copper bullion, and realcent comes up near the top! |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3250 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 17:17:40
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I'm not really sure where I heard of it....I think I saw Ardent Listener posting about it over on GIM. I have noticed an increase in new members even since I've been a member. A lot of posts by "new" guys. Pool's getting crowded in a good way. Better crank it up a notch....
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Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it harder for sober people to own cars.
If you want peace, prepare for war. |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
3446 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 17:28:56
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I was posting to realcent over the Home Page prior to the forums being started. As I recall I was saying that nickels and even zinc cents were going to be worth more as metal than their face value some day. When realcent started the forums I was the second member behind him. He said that at least we had two members if no one else came.
I miss you realcent. |
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2197 Posts |
Posted - 01/14/2008 : 20:20:33
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I found this site via coinflation.
Seems like the low men on the totem pole (pennies and nickels) are finally getting some respect, even if it is for just their metal content. |
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Crash
Penny Pincher Member
USA
154 Posts |
Posted - 01/15/2008 : 08:22:57
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| I googled hoarding copper pennies after reading a newspaper article about the metal value of copper pennies in late 2006. I've been hooked since. Even if I'm not posting, I try to check for new posts a few times a day if work allows. |
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RAlex
Penny Sorter Member
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 21:04:29
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| I too found this via coinflation. com . Having collected coins since I was around 12 some 48 years ago. Along with the fact that my step-dad had a scrap yard and I spent many hours stripping alternators and generators . I seem to fit in nicely :) ...Rick |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 21:24:20
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| well, after reading off an ebay listing, it had a hyperlink to coinflation.com. From there i found this site. |
*HUCKABEE*
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
5240 Posts |
Posted - 03/17/2008 : 22:05:09
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| I wonder if that hyperlink was the one in one of my auctions. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Let me see if I understand this? If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor; the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the US border illegally, you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps, free health care!
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Ant
Moderator
USA
844 Posts |
Posted - 03/18/2008 : 21:57:54
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| Googled "hoarding copper". |
No, man. You gotta keep goin'. What am I gonna do? Quit? That's not an option. Life's a garden. Dig it? You make it work for you. You never give up, man. That's my philosophy. --Joe Dirt
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Wag more, bark less. |
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
823 Posts |
Posted - 03/19/2008 : 13:05:10
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| Link from Coinflation. Been here since October 2006. |
Sorting Map
2009 First Finds Contest
Are you a Buffalo Hunter?
Wanna take seignorage away from the Fed? Spend *any* coins!
We cannot afford this government.
Cerulean's Standing Offer: $5/lb+shipping for foreign coins |
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Mantokir
New Member
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - 03/21/2008 : 23:23:01
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| Member at Goldismoney.com and found a link to this website in a thread there... |
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CoinHunter53562
Moderator
USA
1754 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 17:45:24
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| I was referred over here by cyberdan. He saw me posting on the coincommunity forums and thought I might be interested in this as I was already searching for silver in half dollar boxes. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1019 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 21:25:00
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Interesting thread. I started saving copper pennies on a small scale and wondered if there were any more people of a like mind. I was going to the bank and getting 5 to 10 dollars in pennies at a time and sorting them. Thought I was a big player in copper penny sorting. I found this forum through a google search. At one time, before finding this forum, I thought I might have one of the largest copper hoards out there. Boy, was I wrong.
Then, I got into studying the Indian Head penny....... |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2259 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 21:34:04
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| I found coinflation after wondering about the true value of junk silver. I looked at different auctions and coinstores and things that sold it, and I wanted to know how much the silver was worth inside the coin. From coinflation I found out about realcent. At first I thought I would just get nickels, then I saw that pennies have a chance to be worth a higher percentage so I got some pennies and nickels. Then from realcent I found out about ryedale... |
Government and industry "are not enemies," Sandy Levin said. "This shows what happens when we work together."
"99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name" 
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kieblera5
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
787 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2008 : 02:12:38
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| I found it via a google search. I have been reading for a while, and I just joined recently. |
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you mercilessly with experience.
"Any country where the central bank head is called 'Helicopter Ben,' you better own some gold," |
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
2809 Posts |
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nckt
Penny Collector Member
USA
304 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 09:07:36
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| i found it off a Google search for "hoarding copper pennies". |
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Steiner
Penny Collector Member
Canada
278 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2008 : 12:05:35
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Kitco's silver forum listed this site.
Been here ever since.
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ScottyTX
Penny Collector Member
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2008 : 20:42:16
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| I was thinking I was pretty clever when one day flipping around on the internet i found out that pre-1982 pennies were 95% copper. The the idea hit me like a freight train!!! Gee I should be setting those aside and maybe i'll look through my 3 gallons of pennies throughout the next couple of months. I took me a week and I've been hooked ever since. Then one day I thought there might be someone as smart as me but wasen't sure so i typed in saving copper pennies or sorting copper pennies and found this site alone with ryedale's machine. Its been great so far thanks guys!!! |
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kavajava
Penny Collector Member
USA
490 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2008 : 12:20:55
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| I won several auctions on ebay from Frugi. After the most recent one he told me about this forum. Looked interesting, so I joined. |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2008 : 13:17:51
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| Found the forum exactly 2 years + 1 weeks ago via searching for places to sell copper pennies and ran across this site. I was looking for what price I could sell pennies scrap copper for proof of concept. I called several places locally and none of them said they would take copper pennies. Imagine that ethical scrap dealers in Indy. I emailed a few others that had web sites and got the smae results. I never got the chance to sell any for scrap. Of course in late 2006 the melt ban went into place. |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
567 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2008 : 17:46:48
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| I found it looking for scrap metal sites. I figured there had to be a place online for people like me who see dollar signs when I look at scrap metal! |
Are you throwing that out? |
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jpf231
Penny Collector Member
USA
340 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2008 : 14:29:46
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| The Rydale coin homepage of course. |
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