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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 01/24/2008 : 19:10:46
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
....What I want to know is.. how do you dump zinc on a Sunday?...
I joined a bank about 17 miles from my home. They are open on sunday from 10A - 3P....they have a Scan Coin Machine...reasonably fast at about $400/hr...so, I have to feed it.....I just take my MP3 player and listen to the Jim Puplava Financial Sense Program....everyone should check him out! |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2008 : 19:15:05
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They are open on sunday from 10A - 3P
I love those Sunday banks! |
"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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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2008 : 19:17:32
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Originally posted by El Dee
c140-
How are you storing the hoard?
I currently have 4 gal pails I've been getting from local donut store every week. They hold about 150 lbs each. Have lids...I pack tight so I can stack them and have lid support the stack. I have these on a pallet in a 3 x 4 pail foot print...I stack only 2 high...that makes just under 2 tons...the limit of my import pallet jack....so i can move around garage for cleaning.
Plan on switching to 55 gal drum on a pallet.....one drum should hold 1 ton.
My current pace is to sort $600 per week...assume copper still runs about 30%....thus hoard $180/week....that's about $9,000/year....which is about 3 tons per year.
I plan on hoarding at least 10 tons (2 more years) ...perhaps 20 tons (5 or 6 years)... |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2008 : 20:29:15
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Sorted 9 - $25.00 Brinks Boxes + $7 CRW
4892 Copper 21.1 %
Not Included in copper #'s
29 Canadian CU
20 Canadian Other
52 Wheats 2 - 1927's
1 Dime
CRW were crap. Brinks boxes weren't much better. |
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2008 : 20:41:46
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| Ten rolls of Canadian nickels--131 .999 Ni - almost 33%! (closer to 20% is average now). Also had a few King George V (pre-1935), and one 1937 dot. |
Not all who wander are lost. |
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 01/24/2008 : 20:49:49
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Originally posted by mickeyman
Ten rolls of Canadian nickels--131 .999 Ni - almost 33%! (closer to 20% is average now). Also had a few King George V (pre-1935), and one 1937 dot.
Where in Canada....we are about dry in S.W. Ontario... |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 07:46:31
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I plan on hoarding at least 10 tons (2 more years) ...perhaps 20 tons (5 or 6 years)...
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Every so often on this forum, I see people talking about tons of pennies. What I always wonder is what kind of tons everybody is using? I always figured pennies should be referred to by the metric ton, but maybe I am wrong on that. My reasoning is that copper prices are commonly either quoted by the pound or by the metric ton (a metric ton of copper is currently about $7092) Thoughts?
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 09:35:05
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I'd like to see pennies measured in troy tons, but that's just me.  |
"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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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 15:50:25
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Sorted 61 loose pennies received as change in 2008
17 Copper 27.9 %
No wheats or Canadians
This is a similar % to my Brinks boxes.
I was expecting a lower number.
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 15:54:48
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Sorted $15.00 CRW
427 Copper 28.5 %
Not Included in copper #'s
1 Canadian CU
2 Canadian Other
9 Wheats Oldest 1945
0 Dimes
Still looking for my first Indian Head. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 18:34:04
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$25 Brinks box yielded:
27.4% copper
8 wheat pennies
2 darn dimes |
"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 - 01/25/2008 : 20:18:19
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Today was a pretty good coin buying day.
Started off with 80 rolls of customer wrapped dimes and 50 rolls customer wrapped nickels from the same bank that gave me a bag of loose pennies earlier this week. Then they asked if I would like some quarters also. So I got a brand new box of 50 rolls of South Dakota quarters. They also gave me 2 free canvas bank bags to haul the dimes and nickels out in. I gotta hit this bank more often.. I love those free bank bags.
Later today I stopped off at a branch of my main bank to replenish cash for my weekly penny pickup at another bank. They surprised me.. they had 200 rolls of customer wrapped pennies for me.
Then I went to my other bank to pick up my regular weekly shipment from them. Guess they had a bit of a run on pennies today.. they only had 4 boxes for me. I was cool with it. Maybe they will give me some extra boxes next week. Pretty sure I'm not gonna run out this weekend.
Even found a free range penny in the parking lot of the bank.. zinc of course.
Got 4 more rolls of pennies, 5 rolls of nickels and 5 rolls of dimes from the daily Loomis coin drop at work. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
Edited by - HoardCopperByTheTon on 01/26/2008 00:40:12 |
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 20:30:19
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Twenty rolls of Canadian nickels
258 .999 Ni = 32.25%
1 US war nickel (1943) - my first one ever - they're rare up here.
A whole pile of King George V nickels (earliest 1922) |
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 20:33:33
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Reply to C140cessena
I am collecting in different parts of Toronto. Check out the older neighbourhoods.
It's true about SW Ontario. I tried buying some in Guelph but they were pretty dry. Are you in London?
Also--two rolls of quarters, but only 13 .999 Ni = about 16% |
Not all who wander are lost. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 20:46:43
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Wow, mickeyman---a U.S. war nickel, and a bunch of Kings! Nice finds! 
Finding silver among nickels is a nice treat. |
"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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Posted - 01/25/2008 : 21:03:31
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sorted $25 brink box tonite
548 copper 1959-1981
6 wheaties (5 from the forties)
2 canadian copper
22.24%
running total $59 copper sorted in January to date. I am going tomorrow AM to the bank with the free coin sorter to dump my zinc and then score another brinks box. everyone have a great weekend
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 01/25/2008 : 23:40:33
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Originally posted by mickeyman
I am collecting in different parts of Toronto. Check out the older neighbourhoods.
It's true about SW Ontario. I tried buying some in Guelph but they were pretty dry. Are you in London?
Windsor, Sarnia and a little around London. There is a pretty serious guy in London...and London is a distribution hub to Sarnia and Windsor...so, he has the system cleaned pretty dry of .999Ni 5 Cents. I've also noticed the Copper Penny Percent is now down to about 35%...was near 50% a year ago...I wonder if the Alloy Recovery Program is hitting the Copper Pennies heavily? |
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2008 : 09:18:12
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Sort Report: Saturday 1-26-08
US Copper:
Amount Sorted = $620 FV (24.8 "boxes")
Copper Hoarded = $183 FV (7.3 "boxes")
Added to Hoard = 124 lbs
Copper % = 29.6% (typical for SE Michigan is 29%)
Composition: 100% Credit Union Customer Turn In (Loose $50 Bag +CWR)
US Cu = 3997 lbs
Canadian Cu = 2624 lbs
Total Cu = 6621 lbs
Ryedale Machine(s) Total Sorted: 5,240,000 since Mar 2007.
Hoard Code has been updated to reflect the above additions.
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2008 : 09:18:56
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I finished my resort of 20 boxes and found 193 zincs in the copper bucket and 82 coppers in the zinc bucket. I thought these numbers would be much higher, but I rescued 82 of them!
Final count: 13,641 copper cents 27.28%
247 wheat cents
105 canadian coppers
2 dimes
2 bahamas cents
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Art Tatum
Penny Collector Member
USA
400 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2008 : 12:30:19
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 $400 face= 19.6% copper
1924 and 1926 vf pennies~
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my machine is running! |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2008 : 19:15:08
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Sorting analysis for yesterday
one box
585 coppers=23.4%
1920 wheat
I like the percentages I have been getting lately. Hope they continue that way. |
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Posted - 01/26/2008 : 20:29:05
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My buying report on pennys are not that great this week. I bought 10 boxs of penny from serval banks. Lots of them are all brand new 2007 and 2008 denver pennys. I got flooded with about 6 boxs of brand new coins. Since my penny set builds and copper hoarding is not going be much this week since I flooded with new coins.
Since banks were flooded with pennys were flooded with new coins. I bought 2 boxs of halfs and found 12 silver and bought 8 boxs of nickels and 1 box quarters since I am short on pennys to play with.
Its sad I hit 6 banks totol and its seems all I got was brand new 2007 or 2008 pennys. Its seems in town where live all Fedboxs are brand new coins it seems on pennys. I live north of houston texas. Loomis and brinks are flooding banks with 2007 and 2008 denver pennys big time.
This week I have 4 boxs of totol of old pennys to play with. I never seen anything like it on brand new coins . Last year I would buy maybe 10 to 20 boxs worth pennys and onley get 1 brand 2007 denver box on an rare deal. All last year I got two 2007 denver boxs totol.
Ow well in houston texas we are flooded with 2008 and 2007 cents.
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I love those fed boxes and hoard up pre 64 silver coins such as rolls of 64 half dollers. Maybe copper will be very expensive such as silver is. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 01/26/2008 : 20:34:15
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Originally posted by chevrolet454ss
My buying report on pennys are not that great this week. I bought 10 boxs of penny from serval banks. Lots of them are all brand new 2007 and 2008 denver pennys. I got flooded with about 6 boxs of brand new coins. Since my penny set builds and copper hoarding is not going be much this week since I flooded with new coins.
Since banks were flooded with pennys were flooded with new coins. I bought 2 boxs of halfs and found 12 silver and bought 8 boxs of nickels and 1 box quarters since I am short on pennys to play with.
Its sad I hit 6 banks totol and its seems all I got was brand new 2007 or 2008 pennys. Its seems in town where live all Fedboxs are brand new coins it seems on pennys. I live north of houston texas. Loomis and brinks are flooding banks with 2007 and 2008 denver pennys big time.
This week I have 4 boxs of totol of old pennys to play with. I never seen anything like it on brand new coins . Last year I would buy maybe 10 to 20 boxs worth pennys and onley get 1 brand 2007 denver box on an rare deal. All last year I got two 2007 denver boxs totol.
Ow well in houston texas we are flooded with 2008 and 2007 cents.
Chevrolet454ss
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Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 01/26/2008 : 21:17:54
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Sorted 10 boxes
25,000 coins
8,119 copper 32.48%
of this:
110 Cu Canadian
102 Wheats
1 crusty 1890 Indian |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 01/26/2008 : 22:38:30
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Wow, El Dee.. you are cranking them out! You are putting the rest of us to shame. Great percentage too.
Stopped by the bank to cash in my 80 rolls of clad dimes I got yesterday. Got 2 boxes of pennies and 1 box of nickels. And, as luck would have it they were having a customer appreciation day.. so I got 2 free hot dogs! |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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