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Ardent Listener
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 Posted - 11/04/2007 : 16:02:25
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Let's continue with the sorting and buying reports.
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2007 : 16:04:36
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$25 CWR
670 Cu
2 nonCuCA
10 wheats
no Indians....
$25 down, $50 to go.
Deal
I'm so sick over pennies....I frequently trade a dime or two for the whole "take-a-penny" container if sufficient coppers exist. That will get you some odd looks. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 14:23:29
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Yesterday was a good day. I managed to do a couple of things I have not done before. I got pennies from a bank on a Sunday.. and I bought an entire bank out of pennies. I was in the grocery store and saw that it had one of those in-store banks. They are actually open on Sundays.. imagine that! I remembered creekrat telling us about getting pennies at a grocery store bank so I figured I would give it a try. It was a bank I didn't have an account at yet (hey, it could happen) so I opened an account. You only had to have $1 to open a free account. They even gave me a really nice blanket as a welcome gift. Not sure it that is to keep you warm cause the bank has all your money now, or just to spread out in the trunk of the car to load pennies on. Then I bought them completely out of pennies. Yep, took all $4 worth! Wish they had more cause it was one of the best percentages I have had in a while.. 30.25% They didn't seem too keen on the idea of ordering me 24 boxes.. they said they had no place to put them. Maybe I can get a smaller order from them.
Sorting Report for Yesterday:
9 Boxes BWR pennies
4892 Copper
1 darn dime
1 1 Euro cent
21.74%
Knocked off another 8 boxes this morning before heading off to work. I don't have a nice quiet park to sort in like Dan, but I do manage to get a few sorted occasionally. Will have the #'s for those plus whatever I sort this evening in tonight's post.
-a few more than I had before..
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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aloneibreak
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
672 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 18:18:44
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todays $50 sort
1344 copper
3413 zinc
197 82's
42 wheats
4 canadians
1344/5000 = 26.88%
gotta find a better spot to dump zinc. im a few hundred behind... |
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2007 : 18:39:19
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
I don't have a nice quiet park to sort in like Dan,
What do you mean quiet,  the geese were particulary noisy this AM and one didn't like me for some reason. There is also a middle school near the park and their marching band is pretty good. They start with warmups at 7:00. They wern't there today. |
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Posted - 11/05/2007 : 19:48:19
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Yesterday I sorted my first box. Here are the results.
555 copper
2 wheats
Today I picked up $9.50 CWR today while I was picking up a box of halves.
208 copper
14 wheats
2 Canadian
1 Panamanian
1 dime |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 02:34:58
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Sorting Report for today:
10 CWR boxes
5338 copper
21.35%
If you are just going to sort a few rolls of pennies then use a popsicle stick or a digital scale, but if you are going to get serious about sorting.. Get a RYEDALE!
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 06:46:38
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Originally posted by h2daddy
Yesterday I sorted my first box. Here are the results.
555 copper
2 wheats
Today I picked up $9.50 CWR today while I was picking up a box of halves.
208 copper
14 wheats
2 Canadian
1 Panamanian
1 dime
Careful, it will become addicting. You will find yourself "whoring"* yourself out to all the tellers, just to get that all important phone call about that new shipment. I started VERY small time (one box per week). Then I became completely addicted. Traveling around to different banks just to get "their" pennies. Then I couldn't keep up with the counting. So I came into a Royal Sovereign and I can't sort fast enough. Now, REALLY contemplating getting a Ryedale machine. If I did that, I would have to buy even more pennies than usual....endless cycle. Good luck and welcome to the sickness.
Deal
p.s. 22.2% not to bad either.
* Real/fake smiles, conversations about their lives, doughnuts, candy, etc. Anything else is up to you....
I'm so sick over pennies....I frequently trade a dime or two for the whole "take-a-penny" container if sufficient coppers exist. That will get you some odd looks. |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 12:43:53
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| I figured it was time to step up my game before the evil 2008 zinc pennies come out so I "hired" a helper. It is a barter arrangement and let us just say I'll be spending some significant time remodeling the house soon, but in return I have *gulp* 54 boxes of pennies ordered for next week from 6 different banks. Of course, I have no way to sort or return that many, but it looks like the increasing the inflow part of the equation has been solved. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 16:46:53
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Way to step up, horgad! I'm proud of you. Welcome to the big leagues. Hope you have a nice cart to haul those 54 boxes out of the banks with. That is one of the best investments you can make. Please share with us how you talked your banks into ordering so many boxes for you. It might help others here to solve that part of the equation. What is this about having no way sort that many? What I have read here you have the best sorting system short of a Ryedale of anybody on this board. Might be time to treat yourself and get a real "Ryedale." Hey, Christmas is coming, and you have been good.. maybe your helper will buy you one for Christmas. I have worked out a similar arrangement at my house. Major remodeling going on there right now. Of course one of the first projects is redoing the garage to convert it into a proper penny processing center and make room for all my great machines. You might want to see if you can find that link for "coin stacking" the was posted a few months back. You should see the pic of what happened after I added a bunch more boxes to this incoming stack..
I've got to find that pic and post it here. I think I will start a fresh thread on getting rid of the zinc so we can all brainstorm and share ideas about it. It is a common problem for many of us. It became a real problem for me when I stepped it up to a hundred boxes a week.
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 18:51:35
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5 boxes
3265 copper 26.12%
27 wheats
16 canadian coppers
1 1990 bahamas cent-looks to be plated zinc |
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fiatboy
Administrator
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Posted - 11/06/2007 : 19:46:44
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They even gave me a really nice blanket as a welcome gift. Not sure it that is to keep you warm cause the bank has all your money now, or just to spread out in the trunk of the car to load pennies on.
hahahaha.
Today's box was unusual:
Zero wheats
Zero Canadian
But 33.4% copper.
I did miss finding the wheaties, but I'm not complaining about having more copper than yesterday!
"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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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 20:54:07
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"Please share with us how you talked your banks into ordering so many boxes for you."
Time during business hours has always been the biggest obstacle for me when it comes to getting pennies. I've never had a bank say no when I tell them that I am a coin dealer. But I wasn't on the front lines of the mission so to speak and my helper had free reign to come up with a story. 
Half-lies, semi-truths, white lies, and a little stretching are best. If you have a base of truth to build off of the words flow nice and easy. In any case, the story involved a certain unnamed non-profit organization and a group of kids with an educational project goal of seeing what a million of something looks like. (These million penny projects are pretty common right now and most people have heard of them.)
And the truth is I'll be happy to show the kids my hoard when I get that many...yes the kids exist so the only stretch is that there is multiple motives 1 for the bank tellers and the kids and 1 for me. Thus a perfect cover story was conceived by my more devious half...scares the bejesus out of me that she can think like that. 
Also you probably already thought of this, but you can use one account to hit-up multiple branches of the same bank and still be able to answer yes if they ask you if you have an account. That can save having to open a lot of useless accounts.
As for the Ryedale, is a matter of when not if. I plan on being months and then years behind on my sorting in short order.
As for returning, I am going to check with Brinks and seeing what one or a couple big pick-ups would cost. If that doesn't work, I'll be calling every bank in town until I find one or more that will let my "coin dealer" business return sacks of $50 if I open an account there. In either case, I will likely be buying a coin counter and bunch of those plastic sacks.
Or maybe I'll be calling the banks in a few months and saying "You see we did this million penny project for the kids and now that it is over we don't know what to do with all these pennies. Can you help? By the way, all the copper pennies have mysteriously disappeared and all that is left are zincs. Is that a problem?"  |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2007 : 21:02:00
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"You should see the pic of what happened after I added a bunch more boxes to this incoming stack.."
How high is too high? That is something that I am going to need to know. I was thinking that I would go 10 high.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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 Posted - 11/06/2007 : 21:37:30
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Originally posted by horgad
"You should see the pic of what happened after I added a bunch more boxes to this incoming stack.."
How high is too high? That is something that I am going to need to know. I was thinking that I would go 10 high.
I think I can get over 10.. but this is earthquake country, so I need to rethink my stacking strategy. There are 2 other solutions to the problem.. Buy less (Like that's gonna happen) or sort faster. I think this third option sounds the best. Guess I better get me another Ryedale or 2.
Don't buy those plastic bags if you don't have too.. they are kind of pricey. When you find a bank that will process your bags of zinc you can probably also talk them into providing the bags for free. Hey, it's for the kids, right?
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 19:59:14
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Had a half way decent day at the banks today.. no evil eyes from any bank managers.. LOL
Washington Mutual - Livermore
40 CWR pennies - Wasn't even expecting any pennies from this bank today. Maybe someday they will figure out their coin ordering system and I can start getting stacks of boxes from them again. For now I will just be happy with whatever customer wrapped rolls come in.
Bank of America - Livermore (My dump bank)
Stopped by here today to move a bit of my play money into this bank since they have been so good to me and to get a larger safety deposit box. Their safety deposit box setup is really cool.. the door has a hand scanner and you just enter your box number and have it scan your hand to get into the safety deposit box area.. then you can use your key to open your box.. no waiting for bank employees to let you in and find the second key to get you in the box and then waiting for the bank employee to come back with the key so you can lock the box back up. Also no comments from the bank employees about workers comp claims and such when they can't slide your box out. One of the tellers told me he had a pretty good amount of CWR and he will get it ready for me to pick up tomorrow. Now that more of my play money is in this bank I am going to try to see what kind of action I can get at some of their other branches.. I think they have about 45 branches between home and work. 
Well Fargo - Pinole
Got a Free Horse!
I can put it on my Free blanket I got on Sunday at the other bank. All I had to do was open another account.
1 box CWR nickels
1 box CWR pennies
They volunteered to order me some pennies. I asked how many I could get. They said we will order you as many as you want. I said "oh, you shouldn't have told me that" "My standard order quantity is 24 boxes" They said $600? I said yep.. They said bring your cart in next Friday. Looks like I may have found another source bank. We will have to see how keen they are on weekly orders. Probably better is I sandbag a little and only order every other week or so. Of course I will probably get a phone call some time this week or next week when bank management sees how many boxes of pennies they are ordering for me. I asked about depositing some pennies and if I could bring them in loose in standard coin shipping bags. They told me they have to be rolled. Not a problem.. Guess I'll just have to fire up the old Glory wrapping machines again. I have lots of those 1000 foot rolls of automatic wrapping paper in stock and I get 2000 rolls out of each one.
One of the ladies at work told me her credit union is running a promotion where they give $25 each to somebody who opens a new account and to the person who referred them. Looks like I found my first credit union. I need to join a few more. I hear they are good places to get pennies.
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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Edited by - HoardCopperByTheTon on 11/07/2007 20:03:21 |
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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
301 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 22:23:26
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bank run today no cent bags only 2 boxes 1 was 100% 2007 so gave it back and the lady said she would have a bag or two for me next week they are very nice down there. I will give them a couple boxes of girl scout cookies (from my daughter) when they come in.
The one box was not the best did not check numbers only 6 wheats and 10 canadians. bag of dimes 3 silver, bag of quarters skunk, bag of 5c still working on it..
wife wants to go to MI this summer I am thinking about saving up my rejects and dump them in flint MI I have so many right now and would feel sorry for the people at my dump banks. If I save them up And dump all in flint I would never see the person again. I would guess My reject pile has over $5500 in it right now. |
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aloneibreak
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
672 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 22:28:39
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| $5500 in your reject pile now?? i cant imagine how much it will grow by summer. thats a long time to have that much capital tied up. hope theres no hoarders around the flint area. |
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Robarons
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 23:04:47
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11/7 $34 ($25 BWR, $9 CWR) Citizens Bank
888 Coppers
26%
handful of copper Can's
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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
301 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 23:21:41
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| my wife's father lives in davidson and flint is a large town near I was thinking they would have some large banks that I could dump pretty easy into... If the area is not safe I will not stop. I saw a lot of areas I would not stop or even slow down to much in MI. I try to stay away from those areas. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2007 : 23:22:23
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Yeah, right snappy! Try cashing in bags of rejects in a strange town where you don't have an account.. Good luck with that.. LOL. Ryedale and c140cessna would love it. Those guys are getting too high of a percentage anyway.. you need to go do something in their pool. Hey can you stop by CA on your way out and take my rejects too? I think those new airline weight limits are gonna be a problem though.
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 11/07/2007 : 23:32:59
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"Yeah, right snappy! Try cashing in bags of rejects in a strange town where you don't have an account.."
I have accounts at wells fargo and us bank (among others) They have tons of branches I am sure one or both would have some there. It would be a straight deposit (no cash back) I would be towing a camp trailor so weight would not be a problem. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 00:04:06
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Sounds like a great idea then. And you will be able to fund your vacation with pennies. Make sure to tell your wife it was all paid for by pennies. But don't you think they will not be happy to see you when you show up with thousands of dollars worth of zinc? I get the evil eye when I roll in with 12 bags. I checked with one of my Wells Fargo branches today about turning in pennies.. they said they had to be rolled. So I guess I will have to dust off the rolling machines.
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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Edited by - HoardCopperByTheTon on 11/08/2007 00:18:58 |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 02:40:15
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Sorting Report for today:
1 CWR dimes
Nada
2 Boxes pennies
1151 Copper
1 darn dime
23.02%
-a few more than I had before
If your percentages are low.. just sort more.
"Preserving REAL coinage.. 2 tons at a time... and FAKE coinage.. a quarter ton at a time.. just for speculation"
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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
301 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 07:58:19
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| The 5500 rejects are not all zink... listed in order of value 10,5,25,1 I guess I could dump clad so I can build a larger pile of zink for the trip (wink) |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 11:38:14
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Sorting analysis Nov 8
$25.00 in cents. FWR (box)
0 dimes
10 Wheats
5 Canadian
0 others
25.6% copper cents
74.4% zinc cents
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