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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
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 Posted - 02/03/2008 : 04:48:45
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Sorted 10,000 tonight.
It sounds like so much more when you say it that way as opposed to 4 boxes.
OK, OK, I know I'm slackin'.. but I had to work yesterday.
2067 Copper
20.67% |
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 02/03/2008 10:59:48 |
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 Posted - 02/03/2008 : 16:58:20
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Hello all.
I have just finished off my third $25 box of copper and am starting the fourth. Have $76 in copper. My percentages have been very consistent per $25 sorted. 20-23% copper, about 7-10 wheaties and 4 or 5 candian copper. I have started to hoard the 1982's separately and maybe at a later date i will try tp separate the copper from the zinc. I was dumping alot of 82's so I decided to keep them now, separate from my copper hoard. Fortunately, I have yet to acquire a box of pennies that have been searched. I have noticed that fewer seem to be showing up in day to day change. This is just anectdotal evidence from my kids, parents and others who are searching for me. |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2008 : 20:03:23
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5000 sorted tonight
1532 copper (30.64%)
14 wheat |
Happy Prospecting! |
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Art Tatum
Penny Collector Member
USA
400 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 00:24:23
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24% yield this week! highest in a month plus.. |
my machine is running! |
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Posted - 02/04/2008 : 01:54:31
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| found a penny at the grocery store today along with 73 cents in other change just walking around town, it seems people are losing and leaving the dimes to lie even more these days... |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 02:18:48
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Sorted another 10,000 tonight.
2330 copper
3 darn dimes
One of those dimes was a Mercury dime! 1944-D. This is a first for me. I never found a mercury dime in a roll of pennies before. I am always finding regular dimes, and even found a silver Roosie once, but this is the first time I found a mercury! I think they are even harder to find in a roll of pennies than an Indian. I only remember seeing one other member post about finding a mercury dime in a penny roll.
23.3% - a little better than average.
-a few more than I had before. |
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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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 16:22:05
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| HCBTT---wow, a merc dime in a penny roll! That's remarkable! I've found a few silver dimes in penny rolls before (1 roosevelt and a few Canadian), fbut inding a merc? That's wild---Congratulations! What a rush that must have been! |
"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 - 02/04/2008 : 19:20:28
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Originally posted by fiatboy
HCBTT---wow, a merc dime in a penny roll! That's remarkable! I've found a few silver dimes in penny rolls before (1 roosevelt and a few Canadian), fbut inding a merc? That's wild---Congratulations! What a rush that must have been!
I was shocked when I saw it sitting in the box. I realize it is only $1.20 coin, but I have not received one in circulation for about 35 years.. and the odds of getting one in a customer wrapped roll of pennies.. Wow! 
Ah, the beauty of cheap thrills.. |
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 02/04/2008 19:20:56 |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 19:53:55
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5000 sorted
17.9% copper
Not one single 'reject' wheat (42 or older).
If your percentages are low...that's too bad because I have to wait till Friday to get more to sort :(
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 20:29:30
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Originally posted by Epaphras
If your percentages are low...that's too bad because I have to wait till Friday to get more to sort :(
LOL.. how many times have I told you.. ya gotta keep a few spare boxes on hand so that doesn't happen.
That is just the main reserve pile. Heck, the auxilary pile now has 70 boxes in it. One of these days I will have to take my own advice and "sort more" I keep getting further and further behind. |
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 02/04/2008 20:30:15 |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 20:32:04
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 21:37:07
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10 boxes - 25,000 coins
2 dimes
7,655 coppers 30.62%
of this:
129 CU Canadian
76 wheats
My percentages slipped about 2 points. I'm worried.
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Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 21:56:44
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Originally posted by Tourney64
Those unopened boxes alone may be worth more than face even unsorted.
I think you may be right. I once sold 1 of them on eBay for $30. The good thing is that no matter how fast I sort, I never run out of pennies to sort. That used to happen to me a lot in the early days.. and I hated it! Also, if one of my banks shorts me on a shipment it doesn't kill me for the week. The other thing is that as percentages start to slip I will have locked several boxes at the old percentages. I figure the longer you wait to get them the lighter they will be. Of course the percentages in my area are already significantly lower than what El Dee's percentages have dropped to, so I better get what I can while I can. |
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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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 22:18:08
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$25 Brinks box yielded:
17.9% copper
33 wheats!
Low copper percentage, but lots of good-looking wheatears. |
"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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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 22:36:36
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10,000 sorted tonight
3,756 copper (37.56%) WOW! Not my best but a lot better than normal.
12 wheat pennies
1 nickel
2 dimes... not mercury :-( (I remember when I was happy to get 10x my money with a dime then I hear that HCBTT is pulling out SILVER!!!)
1 cool penny with a heart stamped through it
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Happy Prospecting! |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 23:08:53
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I am new to this but have done 4 boxes, hand sorted.
10,000 coins
38 wheat cents (oldest 1919, nothing rare though)
3267 copper cents 1959-1982 (1982 coins were measured individually)
41 Canadian copper cents (oldest 1928)
Total 3346 copper, 6654 zinc pennies (no dimes, Indian heads, or other foreign coins) |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2008 : 23:10:23
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That is just the main reserve pile. Heck, the auxilary pile now has 70 boxes in it. One of these days I will have to take my own advice and "sort more" I keep getting further and further behind.
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Wow! How many do you order per week? And are you going to the same bank over and over? What about the zincs...how do you dispose of these? |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 00:48:33
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PennyProspector.. I would trade that silver mercury for 1 day with a percentage like yours! That is actually the second silver dime I have found in a penny roll.. but you have to remember, I go through a lot of rolls. Silver dimes are even tougher than finding Indians. Heck, I found 9 of those last year.
CoinHunter.. Welcome to the forum. 4 boxes is an impressive number to sort by hand. And over 33% is a great percentage! My weekly orders vary from week to week depending on how much spare cash I have and how cooperative the various banks I deal with are. I get regular orders from several banks. It is best to spread your action across a few banks. That way if 1 starts shorting you on your shipments you still have pennies coming in from the others. My weekly orders vary from a low of 8 boxes to a high of 100 boxes. At the 100 box level the zinc disposal became a problem. The banks don't like you bringing in that much zinc.. LOL. There are no banks with free coin counters near me so I have a few ways I dispose of the zinc. My main way is to bag it loose in those plastic coin shipment bags (provided free by the bank) I have 3 counters for doing this. The 2 Glory machines each count 1800 per minute and the De La Rue Mach 7 machine counts 4,000 coins per minute. I also roll up several rolls with my 2 Glory automatic coin wrappers since most of my other banks will only take coins if they are rolled. Each of those machines will roll 10 rolls per minute. Just for fun I try to spend some of those rolls of zinc for daily purchases such as gas, groceries and lunch. It is a challenge to drop an entire brick of pennies on a gas station. The reason I am getting a bit behind on my sorting is because this is the busiest time of the year for me at the day job, so I haven't had a lot of time to devote to sorting. I will catch up eventually though.. that Ryedale can saw through them. |
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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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 03:00:43
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Even though I got home pretty late from work tonight.. after reading about the high percentages PennyProspector and CoinHunter got I had to get my sorting fix in so I did a couple of boxes. Didn't get quite as high a percentage as them, but a much better percentage than normal for me.
Sorted 5,000 coins - 100 CWR
1527 Copper
1 Darn dime - Unfortunately just a clad this time
30.54%
With everybody's percentages picking up.. does this mean the economy is starting to tank and more folks are rolling up their pennies and turning them in?
-a few more than I had before..
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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 02/05/2008 03:11:10 |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 08:10:34
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CoinHunter.. Welcome to the forum. 4 boxes is an impressive number to sort by hand. And over 33% is a great percentage! My weekly orders vary from week to week depending on how much spare cash I have and how cooperative the various banks I deal with are. I get regular orders from several banks. It is best to spread your action across a few banks. That way if 1 starts shorting you on your shipments you still have pennies coming in from the others. My weekly orders vary from a low of 8 boxes to a high of 100 boxes. At the 100 box level the zinc disposal became a problem. The banks don't like you bringing in that much zinc.. LOL. There are no banks with free coin counters near me so I have a few ways I dispose of the zinc. My main way is to bag it loose in those plastic coin shipment bags (provided free by the bank) I have 3 counters for doing this. The 2 Glory machines each count 1800 per minute and the De La Rue Mach 7 machine counts 4,000 coins per minute. I also roll up several rolls with my 2 Glory automatic coin wrappers since most of my other banks will only take coins if they are rolled. Each of those machines will roll 10 rolls per minute. Just for fun I try to spend some of those rolls of zinc for daily purchases such as gas, groceries and lunch. It is a challenge to drop an entire brick of pennies on a gas station. The reason I am getting a bit behind on my sorting is because this is the busiest time of the year for me at the day job, so I haven't had a lot of time to devote to sorting. I will catch up eventually though.. that Ryedale can saw through them.
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Wow sounds like you have a great system in place. The hand sorting is kind of a pain but I have a big table in the office. I sort the coins into piles: 1981 and earlier, wheats, canadians, zincs, and then a pile of 1982's that I weigh every so often. I then pile the zincs into a big coffee can, the coppers into another storage box, and leave the wheats and canadians in their little piles since there arent many. I usually break open two rolls at a time and sort with both hands. I can do roughly 20-30 rolls in one sitting before my eyes need a break...lol. Once I get really serious about it, I think I might invest in one of the Ryedale machines.
I saw another thread about storing coins and one thing I found that works great is the white cardboard baseball card boxes that hold 800 cards. You can fit 2500 pennies in them (with some room to spare but I stopped at 2500 for convenience), and they are sturdy as well as stacking easily. Plus they are easily moveable...small and lightweight (around 17#). Thought I would share that with everyone in case it hasnt been mentioned before. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 12:03:04
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| CoinHunter.. we all started out as hand sorters. The beauty of this hobby is that all of us can play at whatever level we want to play at. One thing I found back in my hand sorting days was that using the scale to seperate the copper from the zinc was actually much faster for me than eyeballing each coin. Also a lot easier on the eyes. The machines are merely for convenience and to speed things up. By the way.. every one of the machines, including the Ryedale were paid for from the sale of copper pennies. |
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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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 15:39:55
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
CoinHunter.. we all started out as hand sorters.
Hoard, speak for your self ! I know I couldn't hand sort, I would get board too fast. My eyes get too tired just looking at the dates on all the wheats I get.  If it wasn't for the Ryedale I know I would still only be doing half dollars. Even then I have to wear a jewelrs loop to look at the dates on halves. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 18:01:28
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| C'mon Dan.. be honest.. you know you looked at a roll or 2 to see if it would be worthwhile to buy the machine.. LOL. Besides, you freely admit to hand sorting half dollars. |
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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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 19:30:17
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Originally posted by cyberdan
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
CoinHunter.. we all started out as hand sorters.
Hoard, speak for your self ! I know I couldn't hand sort, I would get board too fast. My eyes get too tired just looking at the dates on all the wheats I get. If it wasn't for the Ryedale I know I would still only be doing half dollars. Even then I have to wear a jewelrs loop to look at the dates on halves.
Cyberdan....didn't you mom ever tell you if you didn't stop it....you'd go blind?!?!
I sorted 1 quart of pennies and bought a Ryedale. That was 5.5 million pennies and 3.5 copper tons ago... |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2008 : 20:52:04
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Originally posted by cyberdan
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
CoinHunter.. we all started out as hand sorters.
Hoard, speak for your self ! I know I couldn't hand sort, I would get board too fast. My eyes get too tired just looking at the dates on all the wheats I get. If it wasn't for the Ryedale I know I would still only be doing half dollars. Even then I have to wear a jewelrs loop to look at the dates on halves.
Yep, I started hand sorting with my daughter... FOR 3 NIGHTS!!! Then we both retired until we could find a more effecient system!
THANKS ANDY!!!
You made it possible for those of us with bad eyes to be able to sort LOL.
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