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 Posted - 07/03/2007 : 15:35:11
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Greetings fellow hoarders. Went to the bank today for 10 rolls and my sorting percentage was 82%! Most rolls were all copper. I was like a kid in a peeny shop. Im 42 and Im running around the house and my wife is like whats up. All rolls were of the paper kind and it dawned on me and please forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I thought duh, the paper ones are rolled by folks and the plastic the government.
Chances are folks have old pennies they are rolling..double duh. im going back to bank in a bit and seeing if they have any more paper. i have a good relationship with them and will only be getting paper now. Also if all they have is plastic I will ask to see them and take the ones with the least shiny ones showing. I had some today that looked like new ones, mostly the 1970's. anywho just thought ya all would appreaciate my story and be happy for me...cause if I tell anyone else they would think Im crazy..except my wife. blessings to all and may your percentages be as high. cheers copperheads. Hey that's a great nickname for us, like the snake. T-shirts, etc...what do ya think..weeeeeee!
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 07/03/2007 : 17:50:13
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We all dream of having one of those days friend. Nice going. ;)
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centsless
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 15:50:52
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Congratulations. the same thing happened to me acouple months ago. i got 500 pennies and only 54 were zinc. almost all the rest were memorial coppers and many were BU.there was also a 46,57 and 57D in AU. i should have known when i was handed hand wrapped rolls that it could be a bonanza. i had just started doing this in april and this happened in may. my whole life i have had "beginners luck". the trouble is that i have no luck after that. but keep looking, dont let me discourage you. there are more of those treasures out there. you just have to be patient and keep looking.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/04/2007 : 17:24:41
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Congratulations stillinthegame! That is a great story. Glad you shared it with us. Who can appreciate your find more than your fellow "copperheads?" Glad your wife is understanding. My girlfriend just doesn't quite get it.. she complains I have too many pennies around all the time. Fortunately my boss at work is a fellow hoarder so I have someone to share my finds with. She actually found an 1865 Indian cent in a customer wrapped roll she got from a credit union this week.
I hit my own jackpot a couple of weeks ago. One of my banks that I have a good relationship with called me up to tell me they had gotten in $50 in pennies from a customer and they wanted to know if I would like to buy them so they wouldn't have to ship them. I told them of course I would like to buy them. Went by the bank the next day and picked them up. When I sorted them 4820 were copper! 96.4% my best percentage ever! Normally I get between 20-25% on both customer wrapped and bank wrapped rolls. Got a little over 26% on some plastic bank wrapped rolls I picked up the other day, so not all the plastic ones are bad. The customer wrapped rolls get sent to the coin service where they break them open and rewrap them in the plastic wrap, so you are getting the same coins, just in a different wrapper. The percentages might be slightly lower because they also get coins sent in by businesses and throw those in the mix too.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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Crash
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 13:18:48
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Went to the bank today for 10 rolls and my sorting percentage was 82%!
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One of my banks that I have a good relationship with called me up to tell me they had gotten in $50 in pennies from a customer and they wanted to know if I would like to buy them so they wouldn't have to ship them. I told them of course I would like to buy them. Went by the bank the next day and picked them up. When I sorted them 4820 were copper! 96.4% my best percentage ever!
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i got 500 pennies and only 54 were zinc.
You guys are really lucky. I can't break 20%. I'm going to hit the bank tommorrow after work and try my luck again. |
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 07/05/2007 : 14:41:10
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Like the gold prospectors of old said every morning, "Today is the day!"
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Fanaticism is doubling one's efforts, yet forgetting one's purpose.
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centsless
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 16:20:26
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| keep your chin up, there, crash. fate can be very fickle sometimes. |
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centsless
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Posted - 07/06/2007 : 16:36:06
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| i think i would have to be revived by strong smelling salts if i found AN 1865 INDIAN HEAD in a customer wrapped roll. thank god for the uninformed. dont tell me it was UNC or AU or XF or some high grade like that. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 03:27:08
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Originally posted by centsless
i think i would have to be revived by strong smelling salts if i found AN 1865 INDIAN HEAD in a customer wrapped roll. thank god for the uninformed. dont tell me it was UNC or AU or XF or some high grade like that.
Nah, it would be pushing it to call the coin an AG. I would grade it AG2.5
My best find so far in a circ roll was a 1912-S in VF-XF. That was my lucky night. Earlier that night I won a nice flat screen 13" TV at a company safety dinner and then a half hour after finding the 12-S I found a 1909-S VDB (a hole I have been trying to fill for 35 years)in XF in a little ziplock baggie of wheat cents that I had probably bought for 3 cents each.. though I don't know how long I have had that baggie of wheat cents sitting on the shelf or where I bought it.. it could have been there for 3 months or 3 years.
I gotta start getting coins from credit unions like my boss. Today she found a 1939-S nickel, a 1927 Buffalo nickel and a proof 1969-S nickel in nickel rolls she got from her CU and a 1914 Barber dime in one of her penny rolls. I almost never find anything when I sort nickels.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 03:30:50
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Originally posted by Crash
You guys are really lucky. I can't break 20%. I'm going to hit the bank tommorrow after work and try my luck again.
We didn't tell you about the thousands of rolls where we didn't break 20%.. only the one good batch when we hit a main copper vein. LOL Luck favours the persistant. Keep at it.. one day you will get a great batch too.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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Jason
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 11:18:42
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| I haven't broken twenty precent yet, but the other day i got 16 rolls from the bank and found four wheats and a blank slug. That's the most wheats i've found at once so i felt fortunate, and that slug was something interesting. I got 14% out of those rolls, and 10% out of 10 i sorted yesturday. As long as i can still find some copper i'll be happy. |
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centsless
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 17:25:33
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| 1909 S VDB IN XF??? PASS THE SMELLING SALTS PLEASE. Now THAT must be nice, forget about 90% coppers in 10 rolls filled with nice shiny 1959's or 60's. belated Congratulations, Hoard Copper by the Ton, that's a great return on a 3 cent investment. i felt luck when i got a very worn 1910 yesterday. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 18:39:43
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Originally posted by centsless
1909 S VDB IN XF??? PASS THE SMELLING SALTS PLEASE. Now THAT must be nice, forget about 90% coppers in 10 rolls filled with nice shiny 1959's or 60's. belated Congratulations, Hoard Copper by the Ton, that's a great return on a 3 cent investment. i felt luck when i got a very worn 1910 yesterday.
Yeah, I had a hard time sleeping that night. I found it at about 1 in the morning. Next day I went to the Indian Casino and put 3 bucks in the Megabucks machine and... nuthin' LOL.. guess I used up all my luck that day. Congrats on finding a 1910 in a circ roll.. that is only one year too new. I actually have been putting together another set of Lincoln cents from all the ones I find in my circ rolls.. kind of fun and challenging putting together a set from circulation. The 1909-S VDB was the last hole I needed to fill to complete my main collection.. and it only took 35 years to find it.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 18:48:18
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Originally posted by Jason
I haven't broken twenty precent yet, but the other day i got 16 rolls from the bank and found four wheats and a blank slug. That's the most wheats i've found at once so i felt fortunate, and that slug was something interesting. I got 14% out of those rolls, and 10% out of 10 i sorted yesturday. As long as i can still find some copper i'll be happy.
I don't hit jackpots very often either, but I am like you, as long as I can still find some copper I am happy. I always consider it a mini-jackpot whenever I find wheat cents. Congrats on finding those 4 and the blank slug. Did you weigh the blank plancet to see if it is copper or zinc? What part of the country are you from? I am always interested in regional differences in what my fellow hoarders are getting. Here in CA it is running around 20-22%, in Michigan they are getting 30% and it seems guys in TX are lucky to get 15%. I got 111 rolls from 1 bank and 100 rolls from another bank today. It will be interesting to see what percentages I get and if one source is better than the other this week.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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centsless
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 19:30:14
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| in my coin prices guide, a 1909s VDB in xf retails for $1200. is your album an "open air" one? I would be putting it in a plastic holder or at least a 2X2 |
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centsless
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Posted - 07/07/2007 : 19:52:34
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| i can relate somewhat to finding something at night and not being able to sleep, although this has to do with coin collecting it is not about pennies. last summer there was an error found in the minnesota statehood quarter, where an extra tree showed up on the shoreline of the reverse. the process by which the error was made was explained by a coin expert and published in the nusmismatic news. upon reading the article i suddenly got the bright idea of searching thru my mint sets with the minn quarter in it (the 2005 year). lo and behold when i opened the first one and found the quarter there was the xtra tree on the reverse. (the other two sets had no error) what made this error rare even in the sphere of error coins was that it was in a mint set and not in a loose coin meant for regular circulation. I woke up my wife and told her the news, she just muttered something to the effect of "big deal" and went back to sleep.i got in on ebay as fast as i could (i think it was the 2nd error of its kind sold after the news broke) and it sold for $662.00 not bad for a $24 investment. when the bids started rolling in my wife, who sarcastically called it a big deal all of a sudden changed her tune and said "you got any more of those?" It sure was exciting to be checking ebay every hour or so to see if the bid had risen. one of those blind luck once in a lifetime happenings that you will most probably never re-live again. but it was fun. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 13:30:21
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in my coin prices guide, a 1909s VDB in xf retails for $1200. is your album an "open air" one? I would be putting it in a plastic holder or at least a 2X2
As soon as I found it I put it in one of those nice Capital holders with the screws all around it as soon as I found it. I was afraid I was going to misplace it, lose it or accidently ship it out in the next bag of wheat cents I shipped out. Was it synchronicity that I just happened to have an empty Capital cent holder waiting in a drawer for me to use? It also made a great holder so I could take the coin to my coin club meetings for show and tell.
Thanks for sharing your Jackpot story on the quarter find.. that is a great story. A lot of times spouses and girlfriends just don't understand our involvement with this hobby. All they see is money going out or time spent looking at coins rather than on something she would like you to be spending time doing. They figure they could find something more useful to spend the money on, like a new couch or a vacation. I just took my girlfriend to Las Vegas for 5 days and 4 nights on the strip. I made sure to tell her that the entire trip was paid for from profits from sorting copper pennies. Maybe this way she won't complain as much about the little bit of money I spend on coin machines to process all those pennies or the time I spend sorting them.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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centsless
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 19:04:13
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| you are absolutely right. Even though i thought my wife learned something from that incident last summer, i still believe that she cannot grasp the concept that when i get rolls of pennies and sort them out , that we still have all the money, and it is still in money form, it is just pennies instead of paper money. when she spends money , usually it is some consumer good which is "consumed" and is totally gone or valueless. i have tried to tell her that when i have bought coins also, that we STILL HAVE the money, it has just taken another form and can be converted back to cash (hopefully more than what was spent). For the most part the typical female has no idea that spending money can be done in order to make more money. |
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ME CO
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 20:09:13
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| It must be all females. My mom thought I completely flipped my lid when I told her I went to the bank and got 2 boxes of pennies. She said "How much did you spend?" I said "Nothing- its still $50." Mark |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 20:44:59
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It must be all females. My mom thought I completely flipped my lid when I told her I went to the bank and got 2 boxes of pennies. She said "How much did you spend?" I said "Nothing- its still $50." Mark
I like your answer, Mark. I think this happens to all of us.
Typical conversation at my house.. "You spent how much on pennies this week.. $1,000!!!!@$#@$"
I think we have to change the terminology from the word "spend." That is a word that can bring excitement to any woman's heart.. though she likes it much better if she is the spendee rather than hearing that some man wasted money on something he might enjoy. I think we must all start using the word "Converted" rather than "spend" when we discuss our quest for pennies and nickels.
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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pencilvanian
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 20:59:47
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"Swapped" or "Got rid of some dirty ol' dollars for coins that we can cash in for new crisp dollars any time we want"
might be the terms to use.
Maybe "Parked" is a good term, as in the way investers "park" their money in T bills and money markets.
It sometimes isn't the message but the way you say it that makes your audience relate to it and accept your arguement.
I should have chosen "Cut-n-Paste" as a forum name, since that is what I do, mostly. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 07/08/2007 : 21:16:02
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Originally posted by pencilvanian
"Swapped" or "Got rid of some dirty ol' dollars for coins that we can cash in for new crisp dollars any time we want"
might be the terms to use.
Maybe "Parked" is a good term, as in the way investers "park" their money in T bills and money markets.
It sometimes isn't the message but the way you say it that makes your audience relate to it and accept your arguement.
I should have chosen "Cut-n-Paste" as a forum name, since that is what I do, mostly.
Not sure if "Parked" would work at my house. She would say "You are taking up way too much parking space.. why don't you go down to the bank right now and "Swap" those dirty old pennies for some nice crisp new dollars I can have.. and then we can "Park" the car in the garage"
"Preserving coinage.. 2 tons at a time"
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Posted - 07/25/2007 : 21:40:05
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| Congrats! Best roll I've ever pulled from a bank was 80% copper with a few wheats ..oh yeah, and a dime. Can't forget the dime, bonus lol |
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Canadian_Nickle
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Posted - 07/25/2007 : 22:50:57
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We don't "spend" money on coins - we "invest" money in coins.
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just carl
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 17:18:15
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Hope your watching for many others worth lots an lots. For example the 14D, 17 double die, 22 NO D, 31S, 55 Double die, 72 Dougle die, 70S small date. And those are the popular ones. Note there are double dies of almost every year but difficult to see. Exaample is the 95 Double die.
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centsless
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Posted - 07/28/2007 : 17:58:24
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83 double die on the back is easy to spot, 84 had one also on the front, lincolns ear and chin were doubled. i have never heard of any of the more recent double dies being found in circulation. Have any of you?
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