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theo
Penny Collector Member
  

USA
325 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2009 : 10:53:08
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I found a brown one a couple weeks ago and thought it was a freak occurrence. I figured it was from some type of board game. I told my wife it was the coin of the future.
I have a penny from the Bahamas as well and I agree that it looks pretty cool. |
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merc49
Penny Sorter Member


82 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 21:28:41
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| Found a plastic dime in a penny roll last night. |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
    

USA
1971 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 22:13:56
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2009 plastic penny finds!
Highroller 2 (1 gray 1 copper color) Daviscfad 1 Tourney64 2 (2 copper color) Slickeast 1 (1 copper color) jonflyfish 7 Kurr 4 Jadedragon 1 coppernicus 2 CuproNickle 1 JP_007 2 (2 brown) Pennyworth 2 fb101 2 magnasort 10 Jerryspringer 1 theo 1 (1 brown) Merc49 1 plastic dime
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Copper penny Investing www.portlandmint.com |
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jadedragon
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Canada
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
  

USA
267 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 14:56:51
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| i've found a couple of the copper-colored ones this year, both in CWRs a local convenience store turned in to my bank. They must be nearsighted, because i tend to get a lot of dark-toned dimes from their rolls. Somehow i'm not too surprised that the locals are buying their malt liquor with fake pennies... |
Considering Verizon Business service? Perhaps you'd like to consider a nice drain cleaner enema instead? |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
  

437 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 20:26:02
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| Ran $500 with no jams before a damn plastic penny backed everything up. The comparitor was completely jammed up. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
    

USA
1293 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 09:01:55
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Found my first plastic DIME. Says School Money on it. It appears to be in AU condition
Not bad when it also had a 1907 IH in the mix too. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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Gr33nday43
Penny Hoarding Member
   

Uzbekistan
882 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 15:01:28
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| I found a brown variety last night handsorting...I threw it away as well. |
Rand Paul for 2010 KY Senate Race - http://www.randpaul2010.com
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Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does. – US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991
http://coppermillions.blogspot.com/
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smartinson
Penny Pincher Member
 

USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 23:02:27
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| I found one Jefferson Nickel play School Money grey in color. Also, found what I thought was play money but was not plastic. On one side it reads: TO MAKE CHANGE FOR 1 CORRECT SALES TAX PAYMENT. The other side reads: ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION - DITAT DEUS. Not sure what it is made of but doesn't stick to a magnet. 1.2 grams. Any ideas! |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
5165 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 02:31:12
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Man, I am going through a drought.. I haven't found any plastic pennies or Indians for months.
Smartinson.. your Arizona Sales tax token is most likely made out of carbon fiber or aluminum. There were a bunch of these issued back in the old days when sale taxes were less than a penny. My how times have changed. Sales tax for me is now 9.75%. Makes a guy not want to buy anything. The good news.. there is no sales tax on a box of pennies.  |
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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smartinson
Penny Pincher Member
 

USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 07:38:48
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| Thanks, HCBTT. Googled it and You are right and I think they were called Mills. 1/10 of 1 cent. Not plastic but interesting. |
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sheba
Penny Pincher Member
 

USA
107 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2009 : 23:19:39
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My wife found our first plastic penny tonight in a BWR. It is dark copper brown color and slightly smaller in diameter than a real penny. It kind of fools your eye at first.
It has no date on the obverse but it does have a very stylized picture of Mr. Lincoln. Where the date should be it simply says 'money'. Where the 'Liberty' should be it has 'PMC'.
The reverse is pretty close to real and kind of 'threw' my wife until she looked closer and saw that it is missing the phrase 'E Pluribus Unum".
I am positive that this is a rare plastic variety that all plastic penny collectors are searching for . I'll be glad to make a straight trade for an XF - AU 1914D if anyone is interested
Actually, the most interesting thing we've found in our roll searching is a silver 1944 25 cent coin minted in Philadelphia and from, I think, Belgium or maybe the Netherlands. I think the silver content makes it worth a little more than a penny! 
Sheba |
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cwgii
Penny Collector Member
  

USA
496 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2009 : 23:37:18
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| it has been months since i got one. but. alas, a brown 'imperial' plastic showed up in a cwr yesterday. |
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Silver Surfer
Penny Pincher Member
 

USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 17:19:53
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| It happened to me today. Kept getting shorted cents and dimes by an incompetent/lazy/ugly woman at the Shell station so I went to a different Shell station where I received a clear plastic penny in my change from the clerk. Exact same circumference, diameter and thickness as a real cent. First time I've seen this and I'm 40 something. |
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis |
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knibloe
Penny Hoarding Member
   

USA
766 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2009 : 11:49:40
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| I got one last week |
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cwgii
Penny Collector Member
  

USA
496 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2009 : 15:58:18
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| yesterday, i got a gamut. first was ih. number 6, then a 1961 dime, then........... a plastic penny. oh yeah, and 50 1974d that were au. |
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JobIII
Penny Collector Member
  

USA
442 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2009 : 21:31:11
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| found one plastic penny today with, "school money" written on it. |
Selling Coppers 1.35 + shipping. *800.00* ~Pending~ |
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jadedragon
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Canada
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PennySaved
Penny Collector Member
  

325 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2009 : 10:25:34
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| I found one over the weekend. |
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knibloe
Penny Hoarding Member
   

USA
766 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2009 : 19:34:56
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got another last week
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
    

USA
5165 Posts |
Posted - 09/24/2009 : 02:28:14
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Is a Canadian Plastic penny still worth just a little bit less than a US plastic penny?
This is a rough year sorting for me.. I haven't gotten a plastic penny in many, many months.  |
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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metalmoney.ca
Penny Sorter Member


Canada
43 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2009 : 12:53:29
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this thread is hilarious. i never read it past the title...until i found my FIRST PLASTIC PENNY! WOOT! so, its an american penny "imperial" above abes head, abe himself seems to have dreadlocks and to the left of abe is "play money". found in a CWR and diameter and thickness slightly bigger than a "real" penny |
metal is a claim on future human labour. let's all go get some while the getting is good, eh? |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
5165 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2009 : 22:49:08
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WhooHoo.. I found one! Finally on the board. Just shows that if you sort enough, you can find the elusive plastic penny. This one was out of a bank wrapped roll from Loomis. Their machines must be set a lot looser than mine. None of my rolling machines would roll this up.  |
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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2old
Penny Pincher Member
 

130 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2009 : 08:29:35
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Found one last night sorry for poor image, fist scan with new scanner.
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2old
Penny Pincher Member
 

130 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2009 : 08:31:03
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