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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 03/07/2008 : 14:21:49
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New to the forum.
Started small with $10 in pennies.
When I told the teller that I wanted my withdraw in pennies, she said "really....ok." She was sort of taken back and said "I'll have to get that from the vault"
5 hand rolls and 15 bank rolls.
160 (16%) coppers, including a 1955 wheat
813 zincs
25 '82s (keeping for now- trying to decide what to do with them)
1998 and 1994 Canadian
In your (anyone) experiences, do the smaller banks and branches usually have medium to large amounts of coin on hand or do I have to make requests ahead of time.
Thanks, this forum is really "neat" and I have learned allot!
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 16:23:24
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| It really varies from branch to branch. Most smaller banks will probably have fewer rolls on hand, but the bigger banks that have several boxes are often hesitant to sell you a lot of them. If doing mass quantities it is often best to preorder several boxes. Don't ignore the smaller banks though.. that is part of the fun of the drivebys.. sometimes they have a stack of customer wrapped rolls that they have not gotten around to shipping yet and they are glad to get rid of them. I got a nice group of CWR from a grocery store bank the other day just by asking. |
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 - 03/07/2008 : 16:28:09
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Originally posted by El Dee
11 boxes - 27,500 coins (one box 99% 2007)
8,517 copper 30.97%
Impressive number.. great percentage too! Just imagine how many you could sort if you could get them out of the rolls faster.. 
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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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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
629 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 16:28:20
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Picked up 6 CWI boxes- all weigh exactly 14.5 lbs. and have #13 dated Feb. 25 on them.
I sorted one box and got 17% Cu and 4 wheats. |
Beer is my currency. |
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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
629 Posts |
 Posted - 03/07/2008 : 16:35:23
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
At the current price of silver that half dollar is even better than an Indian! It is OK if I don't find another Indian for a while.. I worked out a deal to buy 700 of them this week from a guy at one of my coin clubs. Since I will be having so many I will send out one Free to the first person to claim it here.
Mind if I ask what kind of deal?
How many 40% or 90% halves did you give up for that many IH's? |
Beer is my currency. |
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Posted - 03/07/2008 : 18:38:52
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ok, finished my first $25 today. some ($5) from around the house and the rest from local banks.
From around the house: 23% CU 1 wheat
from local banks: 18.1% CU 2 wheats 3 canada $0.01
overall 19.08% |
"There would be no First without the Second" |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 19:29:03
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Originally posted by TXTim
Mind if I ask what kind of deal?
How many 40% or 90% halves did you give up for that many IH's?
I got them below wholesale 
I didn't give up any silver halves for them.. I paid in fiat currency of course.. LOL.  |
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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lukeownzu
Penny Collector Member
364 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 19:52:23
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My first time doing it:
1,000 pennies
305 coppers (%30)
5 Canadian coppers
Just found out wheats are pre-,1958 so there was a couple I missed. |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 19:54:22
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mickeyman
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
243 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 21:15:27
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Twenty rolls Canadian nickels, 263 pure Ni (32.9%) - far above average. Very few steel coins, only one 2007.
All in identical (and new) wrappers.
Looks like a coffee can collection. |
Not all who wander are lost. |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 05:42:45
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Sorting report for yesterday
$100 sorted
1748 coppers=17.48%
Down 2.22% from yesterday. |
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139 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 11:00:14
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2 boxes
still getting about 30% or better in rhode island.
must be the only weirdo buying boxes here
thats good though, more for me |
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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
629 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 12:04:53
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| Picked up 2 CWI boxes this morning - solid 2007 D's. |
Beer is my currency. |
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lukeownzu
Penny Collector Member
364 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 15:24:10
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Originally posted by aboxaweek
i would look through those coppers again then
Really? Most wheaties are only a few cents. |
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WilliamC
Penny Collector Member
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 18:18:14
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Sorted $115 this weekend, three boxes from my second $100 purchase and $15 I picked up today (Saturday). Don't have an exact count of the coppers but I have about $91 in zinc so that would put me right at %20 copper.
For now all my copper is going into an empty box that the Tidy Cat scoopable litter comes in, and it's getting about 1/5th to 1/4th full just on the $235 I've sorted by eye so far. |
Sorting In Northwest Mississippi |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 18:56:05
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| Good choice of storage buckets William.. I think the standard Tidy Cat buckets hold about 18,000.. but they make a larger size bucket for the serious hoarder. |
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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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 19:15:37
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Ok I did 20 rolls each of pennies and nickels...
1000 pennies sorted
331 59-82 copper
5 wheat cents (oldest 1930-D)
2 Canadian (this is lower than usual percentage I see)
1 possible 1983 DDR
800 Nickels sorted
8 from 1939-1959 copper/nickel
0 wartime silver
39 Westward nickels 2004/2005
9 1969-2008 "S" mint marks if that's worth saving...please advise
744 common ones which may or may not go back to the bank |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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MormonMetal
Penny Pincher Member
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 19:45:09
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3-5-08 batch
$23.50 sorted (all customer wrapped rolls)
312 copper
13.28 percent copper
5 wheats
1 Canadian
4 dimes (a lot of times from such as small batch)
This batch, along with 55 coppers from circulation, brings my total copper hoard up to $125.00 face value. This batch had a lot lower percentage of coppers than normal, actually third lowest of the year, but still, more than I had before. Signature has been updated to reflect all current results. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 21:00:18
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Just sorted part of today's acquisition, $8.5 CWR = 31% coppers! Better than my box average.
Going through my second part, also CWR, looks about equal, or slightly better.
Sorter $100 of halves today, no 40%..... BUT TWO!! Walking liberties...look to have been cleaned at some point, but still...$14 worth of $1 face, not bad! |
"May your percentages ever increase!" |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 21:08:44
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tonights 1st sort
(rare sort with my oldest daughters help 10 years old... Usually she is too busy talkikn on the phone!)
5000 sorted
1462 total copper (29.24%)
52 wheat (nice)
1-1951D that was perfect & looked like it was gold plated.
1 1976 penny with USA and the liberty bell stamped on the front.
And then she couldn't stand the fun any longer and left me!
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2008 : 21:11:55
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2nd sort by mysellf
5000 sorted
1386 total copper (27.72%)
11 wheat
1 1953 Un Cetesimo ... Republic of Panama
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
 Posted - 03/09/2008 : 00:51:25
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Got the Mother of All Skunkings today! Those aliens that are sucking the copper out of the coinage supply have struck again!
Picked up one of my regular shipments of 24 boxes from a bank near home and every single one of them was a dud.. solid zinc.. not even shiny zinc.. the multicolored sorted zinc! Swapped 2 boxes at one of my other banks and both of those were duds as well.
The shipment of 8 boxes I picked up earlier this week from Dud Central Bank near where I work actually had 1 good box in it and only 7 duds. That was a real surprise since the previous 12 boxes from this bank had all been duds. I canceled my weekly order from them earlier this week. Against my better judgement I even let them sell me 4 more boxes yesterday.. Only one of those was a dud.. 3 of the boxes were actually normal. Now they are just messing with me. I was actually able to glean 22 coppers from these 34 boxes.. I think that qualifies as the lowest copper percentage of all time.
The good news is I got lots of pennies sorted today.
Sorting report for today:
100,000 coins - 40 Brinks boxes
From the 6 normal boxes
3024 Copper
3 darn dimes
20.16%
Interesting coins
Wheats - 16, 25, 25-S, 29, 38, 43-S Steel
2 cent Euro
1926 Silver 6 Pence - Never got one of those before
Highlight of the day:
Buying $51 of Gas with zinc cents in a single transaction - A New Record! |
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 03/09/2008 00:52:22 |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 08:08:13
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Just because you are having a bad day.. (low copper percentages, a few dud boxes in a row, etc.) never believe it can't possibly get any worse. This morning the cat crawled up on the end of the bed and really upset me to the point of seeing yellowed on me. I know she was miffed that I don't let her help sort anymore but I really feel this was highly unnecessary.
Ah, the start of a brand new day..
Will I win a nice prize in the raffle at the coin show today? .. I don't know.. but this is surely not a good sign. |
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 03/09/2008 08:10:10 |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 10:20:12
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Man oh man....24 dud boxes, that's a lot of zincs. If one of the cats really upset me to the point of seeing yellowed on me, I would have a nice warm hat, or maybe gloves....Good luck with the raffle.
Deal |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 14:49:57
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Sorted 1 - $25 Brinks Box-Sealed
Dated 3/4/08
Box Weight - 15 1/2 lb
727 Copper 29.1 %
Not Included in copper #'s
4 Canadian CU
4 Canadian Other - several older ones
36 Wheats 1934, 1935, 1936
0 Indian Head
0 Dimes
Most wheats ever I've had in a Brinks Box |
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