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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 02/15/2010 : 22:05:27
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Well, it finally happened to me too. Don't know whether to call this getting skunked, because this isn't a solid box of searched zincs, these are all BU straight from the Treasury.  What's really weird is that most of them are solid 2008, but about a third of them have maybe one or two at most darker rimmed cents included. Weird. I plan on returning them unless someone is interested in 2008's. Should I just sock these away and forget about em? Any thoughts?
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 22:07:52
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That is what we call a dirty box. I want them!  |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2010 : 22:10:05
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| The coin processors often toss in a few handfulls of ugly coins to make the rolls come out that way. It is to discourage hoarding of BU rolls. This practice started back in the 70's. |
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 02/16/2010 : 10:47:31
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thats funny i've found something like that back in 2008. The box was all zinc but some of the rolls weighed a little heavier (still zincs) due to the couple older coins in the rolls. Kind of late to find a BU box from 2008 isn't it?
Did you go to a bank that pulled this out of storage? I bought a box of dimes from a bank a couple weeks back that had a stamped date on the box from 2007, nothing specatular in the ag finds though |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 02/16/2010 : 11:11:24
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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1720 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 11:49:41
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Bart
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
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Posted - 02/16/2010 : 20:18:42
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I got one of those boxes from my last visit to the city. It was a $25 box full of new 2007 Cdn pennys. My local TD was nice enough to exchange it for a box of CWR pennys. I toyed with the idea of keeping them but they just weren't old enough to be worth while. |
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psi
Penny Collector Member
Canada
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 08:07:13
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| I kept all the BU rolls I found last year (cdn nickels and dimes) but it's getting to be a lot of money to keep tied up. With BU pennies I would probably hang on to a box per year indefinitely but I haven't come across any yet. There are two online retailers I know of that deal in cdn mint rolls including recent years, retail prices range from 1.5-2x face by the roll for the recent years. Even if the year is nothing special there is still a limited population of uncracked rolls as time goes on, there's also the chance of finding uncirculated error coins if you do crack them. |
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 09:25:31
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| a member here gave me around 80 lbs of zincs that has a box of bu-99's in it |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 02/17/2010 : 10:01:12
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if Hoard isn't actually working this deal, then I may be interested....
2008 is a good year for me!!! |
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