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 Posted - 08/07/2006 : 20:37:24
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| It might be that the Fed isn't doing the sorting. Maybe there are other people sorting the coins and returning them to the fed. You might just be getting what they've turned back in. |
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 08/07/2006 : 21:24:55
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Perhaps, but I find it odd that well over 90% of the coins are 2006. Probably around 96%.
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 08/08/2006 : 16:03:42
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Box #2 from last week:
1 Wheat
0 Canadians
13 '82's
82 Coppers
2,404 Zincs
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3.28% Copper.
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/08/2006 : 22:56:25
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I was in London, Ontario today, and picked up 2 boxes of Canadian Nickels. Here is the breakdown. About as expected. 1 pure pre-81 roll in the second box.
Box 1 ScotiaBank London, Ontario
458 Older Elizabeth .999ni
20 Round Young Elizabeth
5 12-sided young elizabeths
3 "Rabbit" Bicentennial nickels
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486 /2000
= 24.3%
Box 2 TD London, Ontario
415 Older Elizabeth .999ni
12 12-sided Young Elizabeth
33 Round young elizabeth
1 "Rabbit"
1 12-sided George head
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462 /2000
= 23.1%
Also in this box:
1 steel war nickel
1 old irsih 10p |
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 13:37:37
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.999 Ni in Royal banks of Vancouver, Canada:
1st box: 330/2000
2nd box: 384/2000
3rd box: 368/2000
total: 1082/6000 = 18.03% or 7.21 pieces per roll |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 19:24:35
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As you know, I'm not into sorting pennies like most of you guys, but I noticed that the pennies I get in change now are about 90% zinc. I hope my penny and nickel donation jar brings in a better return.
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/12/2006 : 00:04:56
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1 box of Canadian nickels from the Collingwood TD Bank. Full box of hand rolls:
Breakdown:
424 older elizabeth .999ni
4 12-sided young elizabeth
18 Round young elizabeth
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446 /2000
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Posted - 08/13/2006 : 16:46:58
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| gone through over 100 rolls of nickels(canadian) last week, the avergae drops to just over 7 pieces of .999 Ni per roll, or 17.59% :( |
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 08/14/2006 : 18:51:03
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Last weeks box:
8 Wheats
7 Canadians
99 '82's
762 Coppers
1,624 Zincs
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30.48% Copper.  Now I'm back on track!!! Bought another good box today.
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Posted - 08/14/2006 : 21:10:00
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| So what's a pure nickel nickel from Canada worth anyway? |
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/14/2006 : 22:03:55
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Take the day's nickel price and move the decimal point two places to the left (each one is .01 lb):
Today: Nickel = $13.2411 US so one .999ni nickel is worth 13.24 US cents.
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 02:53:07
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Originally posted by Canadian_Nickle
Take the day's nickel price and move the decimal point two places to the left (each one is .01 lb):
Today: Nickel = $13.2411 US so one .999ni nickel is worth 13.24 US cents.
and times $13.2411 with the exchange rate of 1.129, we have $14.494 per pound, so each canadian nickel's metal content(.999 Ni) is worth 3 times it's face value
Hong Kong is my origin, each of those nickel(metal content) is now worth over HKD $1.00; |
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 17:29:56
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Yep. Tripple your money immediately with no risk of loss. Not a lot of investment vehicles offfer numbers like that.
Looks like ni's going up even more - it peaked over 13.45 today, before falling back a little. LME stocks are still insanely low, and we're just getting into the pre-christmas season. |
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Posted - 08/15/2006 : 19:28:27
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| i went to a local coin dealer today; in my last visit, i vaguely remembered he's selling those canadian nickels from around late 1930s to 1967 with the commerative rabbit nickel for about 10 cents each or less if you buy bulk; today i checked, but he is on vacation, but his helper said someone came in the other day to buy all of them the owner was showing up front, i don't know if that same guy had cleared all of his stock or not; i will give it a serious thought if i can buy those nickels for 10 cents each or less |
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 12:42:47
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Bought my first $25 box today
450 CU
5 Canadians
1 Bermuda
1 Bahama
1 Fake Plastic
3 US Dimes
5 Wheats
So that's 18%, not do good. I'll do this a few more times. don't know if it's worth it to keep doing it if I don't get more. |
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 18:03:07
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| ?? fake plastic? Like from a kid's coin playset? |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 18:14:02
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I'd really like to know where some of the members with their sorting percentages are located. Bermuda and Bahama penny maybe yeldarb is located in Florida. I think each area is going to have much differnt sorting percentages.
For the record, I'm located in Indianapolis.
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
217 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2006 : 20:25:48
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I am in Indy too. Stay away from my bank Tourney! 
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 08/17/2006 : 11:26:29
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Alas, I'm too busy with my job, my autistic child, and my in-laws visiting for several weeks to do any penny searching. I do have about $60 face pre-82 pennies that I put away as a teen-ager many years ago. Maybe I'll get some boxes to store away and sort later. Problem with my bank seems to be that when I order by the box, 2 of 2 times I've gotten all new uncirculated coin. I have $100 of 2006 nickels and I had $1000 face of uncirculated 1997 Kennedy halves! 
Happy searching to all!
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 21:08:04
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Got a not-so-great box of Canadian nickels today, from the TD in Collingwood. About 1/2 of the rolls (22, to be precise) were hand rolls in a variety of tubes (some cardboard, some plastic) that contained nothing but 2005 steel "victory re-issue" nickels. Very strange - it was as though somebody had got a bunch of mint rolls, opened them up, and then packed them into other random rolls. Anyway, here's the breakdown of what good NI I did find:
250 Older Elizabeth .999 NI
11 Round Young Elizabeth
4 12-sided young elizabeth
2 Round (1940) Goerge Heads
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267 /2000
= 13.35 %
or, for the percentage in the rolls that weren't 2005 rolls:
267 /1200
= 22.25%, about average for mixed rolls in ontario.
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Posted - 08/19/2006 : 11:29:54
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Breakdown of my first $25 Brinks box:
1555 Zincs
816 Coppers
109 '82s
11 Wheats
6 Canadians
3 US Dimes
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32.64% Copper |
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Posted - 08/19/2006 : 18:23:48
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Had a co-worker buy a $25 box on break. Details follow:
631 Copper
9 Canadian Cents
12 Wheaties
1845 Zinc
25% Copper
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 08/19/2006 : 22:25:25
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This weeks box:
8 Wheats
8 Canadians
20 Zn '82's
76 Cu '82's
761 Coppers
1,627 Zincs
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30.44% Copper excluding Cu '82's
33.48% Copper including Cu '82's
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 08/21/2006 : 18:20:10
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Imperial Fleet says - I am in Indy too. Stay away from my bank Tourney!
I live in Brownsburg, and bank in Northwest Indy. I have been getting my coins from my credit union who will call me any time an individual turns in coins. I've stopped getting the Brinks boxes as they have been junk recently. The Walmart I get pennies from has been the Brownsburg Walmart. I have been returning my coins at a couple of different Union Federal Bank branches. They hate me there. I definitely don't want to see any of your coins come my way either. |
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