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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
301 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 15:27:09
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well I took in the clad and one bucket of zink I still have a LOT of zinc to return.
Gate city bank was nice about taking it in I told them I still had a lot of pennies to take in so they gave me 5 bags (I did not need them)
I felt sorry for them counting all the dimes/quarters/nickels and one bucket of pennies. I was a little off on my guess of total I was thinking $5500 but it was $6285 and I still have $500ish in zinc to return
My kids get their girl scout cookies in next week I will take in a box down for the ladies when I make my next deposit. Or should I save all the zinc for my MI trip?
They even gave me a road side tool kit (opening an account gift)
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aloneibreak
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
672 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 16:25:33
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todays $25 sort
733 copper
1686 zinc
71 82's
6 wheats
4 canadians
733/2500 = 29.32%
got 4 boxes ordered from each of 2 different banks for late next week. hope to keep up these percentages. gotta try to dump a little more zinc tomorrow.
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Robarons
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 17:25:13
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11/8 $10 BWR From a Citizens bank on the shady side of town
258 Coppers
5 Can. pennies up to 79'
10 Can. Pennies 80-96
7 Can. P's 97-07
5 wheats
Is it hard to find dimes in BWR of pennies? I havent stumbled upon any yet. Thanks
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
 Posted - 11/08/2007 : 19:05:42
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Originally posted by Robarons
Is it hard to find dimes in BWR of pennies? I havent stumbled upon any yet. Thanks
Nah, I have found 116 of them in BWR pennies in the last 2 months.. one of them was even Silver! Finding silver dimes in penny rolls is hard. 
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"
HoardCode0.1:M49/15USCA:US1Cu690700(60000 Reserved):US1Zi150000:US5Ni9500:CA5Ni1150 |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2007 : 21:13:53
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Today was another good day for drive bys. Hadn't even really planned on getting any coins today. The plan was just to dump off a couple of bags of zinc at another branch of my dump bank to see if there would be any hassles.. Trying to spread my dumping around a little. Not planning any trips to MI soon, so I need to dump my zinc locally.
Bank of America - Livermore
1 Box BWR nickels
10 CWR nickels
95 CWR pennies
Washington Mutual - Richmond
35 CWR nickels
18 CWR pennies
$17 FV half dollars - No silver
Mechanics Bank - Richmond
1 box CWR nickels
1 box CWR pennies
I will have to see about getting more boxes of pennies from this bank tomorrow.
Loomis Coin Drop at work
5 BWR nickels
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"
HoardCode0.1:M49/15USCA:US1Cu690700(60000 Reserved):US1Zi150000:US5Ni9500:CA5Ni1150 |
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centsless
Penny Pincher Member
119 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 16:35:15
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20 handwrapped rolls today
267 coppers for 26.7%, with 5 wheats, 1938,1940,1942,1946s, and 1958D
37 1982's
3 copper canadian
and another dime! in a handwrapped roll! |
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Robarons
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 21:18:30
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11/9 $25 BWR from a 5/3 Bank
713 coppers
28%
13 all dates canadain
As I posted I never got a dime from a BWR, I got one from this box.
Yet No wheats!
I live near Flint/Northeast Michigan which only yields 26% most of the time, so Southern Michigan near Kalamazoo is better to unload your zincs!Snappy, by the way theres no wells Fargo branches over here, mainly dominated by Chase or local banks. |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2007 : 21:59:31
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Sorting analysis Nov 9
$25.00 in cents. FWR (box)
0 dimes
11 Wheats
4 Canadian
0 others
21.6% copper cents
78.4% zinc cents |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2007 : 02:49:22
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Congrats on getting your first dime Robarons.
Sorting Report for today:
3 BWR boxes pennies
1544 Copper
3 darn dimes
20.59%
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"
HoardCode0.1:M49/15USCA:US1Cu692500(60000 Reserved):US1Zi150000:US5Ni9500:CA5Ni1150 |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
 Posted - 11/10/2007 : 09:17:59
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Last weeks results:
11 boxes sorted
19,963 zincs returned
7,537 copper kept
27.4%
The percentage slipped a little as 6 boxes of customer wrapped rolls that I sorted were a bit on the light side.
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aloneibreak
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
672 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2007 : 16:07:56
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todays $25 sort
733 copper
1665 zinc
89 82's
7 wheats
4 canadians
733/2500 = 29.32%
identical percentage to my box on thursday. whats the odds of that?? maybe i'll win that powerball tonite.... |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2007 : 20:26:29
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Got 2 Brinks Boxes and 4 loose rolls from my local bank.
17.62 % Copper (pretty sad)
4 dimes
8 Canadians
19 Wheats
A lot of 2007 pennies in the batch, and a lot coppers that were almost perfect.
Several of the wheats were pretty old 1919, 1930, 1931. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2007 : 22:57:51
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Picked up 5 boxes a few days ago...all were 2006's.
"If your percentages are low......."
"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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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 00:06:32
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Have you guys ever gotten those grean nasty pennies in your rolls? You know the ones I mean.. the kind of thing that can give a Ryedale machine a heart attack. I found the source! Tonight I had to take my girlfriend out to the Urgent Care and as I was waiting outside I happened to look into the bottom of the fountain.. and there they were! What is it about water that makes people want to throw money in it? And why is it always pennies.. why can't it be quarters? Seems water and pennies don't mix so well. From the looks of some of these pennies it looks like this place never cleans their fountain out either. I thought about NotABigDeal and his take a penny trays and since I am such a nice guy I decided to help them clean out the fountain a little. I needed to rescue these poor little unwanted cents that were drowning. I also wanted to satisfy my curiousity a little to see if the money people throw away would have the same percentage of copper as what is in circulation or if maybe they might tend to throw away more zincs than average because of them being less desireable. In order to do a proper analysis I needed to gather a reasonable enough size sample.. so I scooped up 170 coins. Now I needed to sort them. I didn't want to run them through the Ryedale. As good as the machine is, it will choke on some of those nasty green cents. Fortunately I have not totally forgotten how to hand sort. So I pulled out my trusty Ohaus digital scale and got to work. In the pennies from my rescue mission there were 33 coppers, 1 wheat cent, 1 Norway 10 ore coin, and of course.. 1 darn dime! 19.41% Consistant with what I puil out of circulation in my area. Conclusion: Folks will throw any copper colored coin into the water without regard to value. Don't worry, I didn't contaminate my copper hoard by adding these to it.. I put them directly in my cull bucket. The freed zincs I put in my hand roll pile so they wouldn't jam up any of my counting or rolling machines.
Great new source of pennies? Nope.. you wouldn't really want any of these in your hoard. But maybe I should carry these around in my pocket in a plastic baggie and when I see one of NotABigDeal's penny trays I can swap them out for the nicer pennies.. that ought to get some looks
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"
HoardCode0.1:M49/15USCA:US1Cu692500(60000 Reserved):US1Zi150000:US5Ni9500:CA5Ni1150 |
Edited by - HoardCopperByTheTon on 11/11/2007 01:32:38 |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 00:19:21
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That was an interesting little story, HCBTT. Those disgusting little greenies drive me crazy sometimes! Were the coppers any more impervious to nastiness than the zincs?
There's an old saying: If you take a coin from a wishing well, the wish won't come true.....
....unless your wish is to have the coins from the wishing well. 
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and of course.. 1 darn dime!
LOL
btw, I hope your gf is well.
"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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Robarons
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
522 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 00:25:13
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11/10 $25 BWR from a local bank
742 coppers
29.5% est.
7 wheats
16 Can P's 80-96
17 Can p's up to 79'
HCBTT brings up a good point. I never thought what the local mall did with the coins they get in their fountains. They clean out theirs once every two weeks by my guess. I wonder what bank would take them? Also this local bank is in a grocery store so I got the dreaded 'Manager Talk' for my weekly penny withdraws. They said my taking of the pennies (mainly $25 boxes) was screwing up the balance and I need to order boxes now. I usually take out one box a week do to their late hours and being open on sunday, oh well.
By the way Monday is Vet's Day so its a bank holiday! Friendly reminder |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 10:17:02
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quote:
Originally posted by fiatboy
Picked up 5 boxes a few days ago...all were 2006's.
"If your percentages are low......."
"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
Those might be worth something. I would check E-Bay before sending them back. |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 10:19:49
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"Have you guys ever gotten those grean nasty pennies in your rolls?"
I've gotten entire boxes of nasty green pennies. They really are a pain when you are trying to read the dates as fast as you can. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 10:53:37
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I love it when they pennies are stuck together with pop or something. Those bottom-of-the-cup-holder pennies are the greatest. I have often wondered the legality of "rescuing" coins from fountains. You could claim you were removing foreign objects so that nothing could possibly damage the pumps in the fountain. I watched a man roll up his sleeve and clean out at least $5.00 worth. People just ignored it. I admit, I thought about joining him.
I ate dinner at a nice Japanese steakhouse last night, and they have a garden area with a very nice large fountain. There are so many coins in there, most being pennies, but there are actually a lot of quarters. I think HoardCopperByTheTon is onto something. It seems that it is in human nature to throw money into a body of water, as long as they can see it.
I have decided to put a labeled, "Wishing Well" in my front yard. I have a lot of foot traffic in front of my house. Another possible source of coin. Not green and nasty if removed regularly. Free at that! Worst case scenario is that someone steals money that isn't even mine. Huh.
Well I commented, and to conform to the topic I have one total.
$25 Brinks
574 Cu
3 CuCA
1 nonCuCa it says 1867-1992 and its one of those multiple sided coins.
7 wheats
22.9%
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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2cents
Penny Sorter Member
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 11:35:08
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Great story HCBTT !
Also hope girlfriend is well now.
As a kid growing up in New Orleans in the early 1960's, I would go to Audubon Park, near my house.
They had an amphibian reptile building there. The building may have been one of the remaining buildings from the 1884 Worlds Fair that was held in Audubon Park.
In the center of the building was a sunken pit about 30 feet wide with a railing around t. In the pit were alligators. I don't think they ever cleaned the pit, just drained it and put fresh water.
At the bottom of the pit were loads of coins that people had thrown in.
I remember seeing plenty silver dollars, halves, quarters etc. and of course plenty of cents.
I used to dream about getting all those coins.
Eventually the pit was drained and the building was re-used or torn down (not sure which) for the expanded Audubon Zoo.
I would really like to see all the coins that came out of there!
Ebay buying report:
7500 cents
All copper
to be delivered soon
2cents |
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 12:51:01
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Report for 11 Nov 2007 (last report was 10-6-07)
Hi all. Been traveling on business for the better part of 1 month. My employeer (Aluminum and Magnesium Die Casting) is picking up a ton of business from Canadian Die Casters that are going out of business largely due to the currency exchange rate swing. These Canadians were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars of annual business by US Automotive Companies back when $1USD = $1.3CND...they are now being paid $0.9CND for the same parts due to exchange rate....they can't make it....they have gone bankrupt. My employeer (US based Die Casting Company) is now winning all kinds of business away from Canada and Europe...we are becoming a low cost manufacturing conutry due to the exchange rate!
I've been picking up coins when possible...but no sorting....
I got caught up this weekend - A NEW PERSONAL RECORD for ONE TIME SORT QUANIITY: $2200! I used all 3 of my Ryedale machines - and it was still a very long day....
US Copper:
Amount Sorted = $2200 FV (88 "boxes")
Copper Hoarded = $625 FV (25 "boxes")
Copper % = 28.4% (typical for S.E. Michigan is 29%)
Composition: 100% Credit Union Loose Bag
Added to Hoard = 442 lbs (US Cu total = 2679 lbs)
Canadian Cu = 2000 lbs
Total Cu = 4679 lbs
On my "Zinc Resort" I found Qty 2 1909 VDB.....wish they were "S". One will grade very high - it is at least XF! Amazing - these are still out there circulating.
Ryedale Machine(s) Total Sorted: 4,003,000 since Mar 2007. One machine has now processed 3 million coins.
The only "bummer" - I now have $1525 in Zinc that needs to be returned...
Hoard Code has been updated to reflect the above additions.
M41/1USMI:US1Cu397000,CA1Cu328000,CA5Ni35000....total Cu = 724k |
Edited by - c140cessna on 11/11/2007 13:16:24 |
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 13:06:23
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
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Great new source of pennies? Nope.. you wouldn't really want any of these in your hoard. But maybe I should carry these around in my pocket in a plastic baggie and when I see one of NotABigDeal's penny trays I can swap them out for the nicer pennies.. that ought to get some looks
I do the "Need a Penny / Take-a-Penny" thing all the time - But I do swap a Zn for a Cu.
I also have an outfit in Canada that I hook up with once per month for Canadian Pennies. They take in pennies from "Penny Drives"...but also take in "Fountian Pennies". It seems that sometimes, the "Fountian Pennies" are donated to charities. I have them keep the Foiuntian Pennies isolated.....I run them through a Commercial Cartridge Brass Vibratory Polisher.....they come out very clean...all green gone....but still heavily stained in color. |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 13:11:31
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Sorting analysis Nov 10
$25.00 in cents. FWR (box)
0 dimes
5 Wheats
4 Canadian
2 others (2 Panama cents)
19.4% copper cents
80.6% zinc cents
I think all of us here have had our fair share of those "nasty" coins. I had nothing but green, white, and foil-wrapped coins in rolls before. If I have to work hard to see the date, I just throw them in the zinc pile to return to the bank. That is why I started wearing gloves when I sort; all that stuff after a period of time make your hands look nasty. I hate getting half of a copper cent in rolls. They are not even fit for circulation. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 18:52:50
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Haven't posted or sorted in a while. But, did get to a box of pennies this weekend.
474 coppers
17 wheats!! About 2 1/2 times my usual take of wheats from a box. Included a 1919.
1 1944 Canadian -- had King George on it.
82 1982s.
Total copper haul when counting half of the 82s was 533 -- 21%. Six of the coppers from the 60s were bright, shiny and in AU condition. A couple looked BU, but I could not grade them that from knowing whence they came. With the normal than higher wheats and the new coppers from the 60s, I must have gotten into a very small run of granny's coin jar that someone turned in. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2007 : 20:25:00
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Another....
$25 Brink box
645 Cu
1 CuCA
12 wheats
25.8%
On a side note there were 2 1959's and 2 1961's that look every bit as good as a 2007. Pretty cool to me.
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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