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fiatboy
Administrator
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 Posted - 02/10/2008 : 20:11:21
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Let's continue our discussion of sorting percentages and buying reports.
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"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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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 20:17:55
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I'll start. $25 Brinks box yielded:
19.7% copper
14 wheats
1 darn dime
1 King |
"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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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 20:18:29
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Twenty rolls of Canadian nickels
148 .999 Ni
18.5% |
Not all who wander are lost. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 20:24:09
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Twenty rolls of Canadian nickels
I admit it---I'm envious. Finding .999 nickels sure must be fun! |
"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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klava
Penny Pincher Member
USA
192 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 21:25:32
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| I agree with fiat @ .12 a peice I would love to have a source to be able to search soem canadian coins lol |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/10/2008 : 21:39:13
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Yeah, I wanted to sort Canadian nickels since before I even joined here but I am just way too far from the border.
Sorting Report for today:
25,000 coins - 10 boxes
4773 Copper
20 darn dimes - ALL CLAD-SO SAD 
19.09%
Wheats of note - 1911, 1918-d, 1919-s, 1925-d, 1946-s BU, 1955-s BU
Still looking for that first Indian of the year. |
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 02/10/2008 21:40:43 |
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 10:42:09
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Only got $96 in cents for the weekend. Couldn't go out banking on saturday. We took our daughter to visit UCLA on saturday to see if the school was worth going to. Her grades are good enough but I will have to do some serious silver hunting to pay the $22,000 per year room & board. That school has 40,000 students!
Opened $96 in cents got:
almost 19% copper
1 plastic thingy with VIPS, INC. printed on it.
2 mexican coins
1 1934 canadian coin
3 dimes
counted all afterward and it came to $96.31 |
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Posted - 02/11/2008 : 13:59:47
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Perviously I had only sorted about $6 in pennies. I had mainly been focusing on halves. However, this weekend I sorted a whole $25 box and this is what I found;
2500 pennies sorted
700 coppers (28%)
6 Wheats (all 1940's)
3 canadian (1 1954)
As for halves;
$1180 sorted
3- 40% silver
When I went to the bank I got $500 in customuer wrapped halves! I didn't look at them until I was home. Someone else in my neighborhood of DC must be doing the same thing? I have the day off Tuesday so i will hit the halves hard. Maybe some pennies or nickels if I feel up to it.
I have still not found anyone who will buy these locally? Any ideas? |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 22:39:18
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5000 sorted
1504 copper (30.08%)
14 wheats
1 plastic penny
1 un centesimo - 1978 (Panama)
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Happy Prospecting! |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 22:44:17
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10 boxes - 25,000 coins
8,004 coppers - 32.02%
of this:
123 Canadian Cu
96 wheats
1 Jamaica Dollar, mon |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
 Posted - 02/12/2008 : 01:25:35
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Oh mon.. you sooooooo lucky.. me nevah get no Jamaica dolla' mon!  |
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 02/12/2008 01:33:38 |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 01:52:29
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Woooohooooo! Found 2 Indians tonight!!!
1929-S & 1931-S.. both in VF condition!
OK, OK, so they weren't pennies.. but actually they are even better than Indian pennies.. especially the 31-S. They were both found in rolls from the Loomis coin drop at work that I swap 5 rolls of nickels for each day. |
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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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 07:03:26
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
Woooohooooo! Found 2 Indians tonight!!!
1929-S & 1931-S.. both in VF condition!
OK, OK, so they weren't pennies.. but actually they are even better than Indian pennies.. especially the 31-S. They were both found in rolls from the Loomis coin drop at work that I swap 5 rolls of nickels for each day.
All the luck, never found one in circulation. That is awesome man! One of my favourite coins. I wish I had a coin drop at work. Were the rest of the coins older dates, or just two random beauties?
I didn't sort or buy anything, but I did order some more for later this week. I sort when I can, but I think I might try to really start building my reserve.
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."
- Samuel Adams |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 10:27:08
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10 boxes
7091 copper 28.36%
103 wheats oldest was a 1926
114 coppers from the great white north |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 11:30:06
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
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All the luck, never found one in circulation. That is awesome man! One of my favourite coins. I wish I had a coin drop at work. Were the rest of the coins older dates, or just two random beauties?
I didn't sort or buy anything, but I did order some more for later this week. I sort when I can, but I think I might try to really start building my reserve.
Deal
The rest from this batch were all common date Jeffesons. I just reroll them and use them to trade for the next batch. I have found a few Buffalo nickels here and there in the past, but usually they are low grade or dateless.. never this nice! 
I wish the coin drop at work was bigger.. it would be kind of like Penny Express.. that mythical company Creekrat used to talk about. I only get 5 rolls of nickels and 8 rolls of pennies per day.. but it adds up, and sometimes I get some good ones.
I have built up a pretty good reserve. I just add to it every week when I get boxes and sort however many boxes I want whenever I want to with no worries about running out of unsorted boxes.
Still looking for my first Indian head penny of the year. |
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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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 15:19:44
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...but actually they are even better than Indian pennies.. especially the 31-S. They were both found in rolls from the Loomis coin drop at work that I swap 5 rolls of nickels for each day.
*Clutches chest, collapses on floor*
I'll tradah you my Jamaica Dollar for the 31-S, even up, mon. |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 15:43:09
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Me no think so, mon. How big idda Jamaica Dolla' anyway? How you fine one inna penny roll?
An everbody say no sort da nickels.. who laffin' now?
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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. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 15:52:43
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| Congratulations on the buffies, HCBTT! Those are some real keepers! |
"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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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 16:59:55
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Jamaica $1 same size assa penny, but 7 sided anna made o' nickel o' plated steel.
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Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 17:44:57
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$109 sorted today
18.70% copper
1 dime
I also found a 1943 steel in Fine. I thought I found my first indian head because the reverse looked similar. But it was just some foreign garbage from 1966. Too corroded to tell where it was from. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 17:48:23
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HoardCopperByTheTon, hoping to follow up on your good luck, I made an "emergency" stop at a bank. Picked up two boxes of pennies AND 13 rolls of nickels....We'll see....
Deal
p.s. Come on lucky 13.... |
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."
- Samuel Adams |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2008 : 19:23:13
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Sorted 1 - $25 Brinks Boxes-Sealed
758 Copper 30.3 %
Not Included in copper #'s
4 Canadian CU
1 Canadian Other
21 Wheats 1936 Oldest
0 Dimes
Strange Find - An AU 1972 Penny stamped with an ecology flag and the words - Support Ecology on the obverse, and the back has some silver painted shape on it.
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Posted - 02/12/2008 : 21:24:06
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First time ever sorting, went through 1350 coins tonight by hand (just what I had laying around from the last couple months or so), came up with:
352 Copper (26.1%)
925 Zinc
6 Wheats (not counted in my Copper count)
44 1982's to be figured out later on
8 that I was unable to determine the year of,
15 Canadians
Hitting the bank tomorrow to see what they have for me, may have to order some boxes. We'll see. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2008 : 00:03:04
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| Welcome to the game ChangetheGame. What got you started on sorting? Good luck at the bank tomorrow. Careful.. this can be addicting. |
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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Posted - 02/13/2008 : 01:45:09
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| Some recent posts underestimates yet recognizes the power of enabling behavior in addictive relationships apparently...this was surprising... |
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Posted - 02/13/2008 : 01:55:48
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
Welcome to the game ChangetheGame. What got you started on sorting? Good luck at the bank tomorrow. Careful.. this can be addicting.
Thank you. Honestly, I saw something on another forum about the guy who is building the world record penny pyramid, got linked to his videos on youtube, saw a video about the RyeDale, and did a little investigating, which led me here. Did a little bit of reading, and now I'm ready to dive in head first. Just finished going through the $400 or so worth of spare change I have laying around, didn't find anything significant as far as silver goes, but I do have quite a large amount of nickels, and as posted before, the cents. I'll let you guys know how my trip to the bank tomorrow goes, although it may be postponed until the next day, as we're receiving quite a bit of snow here. |
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