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topeka
Penny Pincher Member
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 Posted - 04/10/2008 : 21:05:27
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I was in the parking lot today putting my groceries in the car when a customer walks to her car calls out "pennies" and throws her cents on the ground and drives off.
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Copper..peasant silver |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
 Posted - 04/10/2008 : 21:08:41
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Yeah, you should be embarrassed.. Only 33%?.. I got 35% the last time I got a pennies from heaven like that.  |
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 04/10/2008 21:09:40 |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 21:08:58
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2008 : 21:55:14
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I read that post as if the lady were exuberantly hurling the cents into the air and calling all who could hear, "come hither and gather these pieces of copper as they fall from the sky"
Then I realized it was more of disgust as she said "Pennies"....... |
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WilliamC
Penny Collector Member
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 06:32:30
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This is why the average person won't be sorting copper out of pennies any time soon.
Gotta love the USA, where money is so cheap people throw it away.
And where even many "poor" people are obese, drive nice cars, have air conditioning, big screen TV's and so on. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 06:50:00
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Originally posted by WilliamC
This is why the average person won't be sorting copper out of pennies any time soon.
Gotta love the USA, where money is so cheap people throw it away.
And where even many "poor" people are obese, drive nice cars, have air conditioning, big screen TV's and so on.
The thing that sucks, is that we as working stiffs support their lifestyles. Easier to have kids and stay home and get paid than it is to work....Good 'ole U.S. of A.
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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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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 08:07:48
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Something wrong in the head of someone who would do something like that. People who are in debt up to their necks will refuse pennies as a false social statement that they are well to do. Come the end of the month she may be raiding her kids piggy bank to make her car payment. I don't think many real wealthy persons would do what she did.
What happened to you is more proof that the economy is going to take a big hit soon. I bet she will be one of the first to go down. |
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 08:18:01
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| I read the post as if she knew about your hoarding and she threw them at you or threw them down and yelled out to get your attention...lol. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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Delawhere Jack
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1680 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 18:02:46
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Originally posted by CopperBar
Something wrong in the head of someone who would do something like that. People who are in debt up to their necks will refuse pennies as a false social statement that they are well to do. Come the end of the month she may be raiding her kids piggy bank to make her car payment. I don't think many real wealthy persons would do what she did.
What happened to you is more proof that the economy is going to take a big hit soon. I bet she will be one of the first to go down.
This is the God's honest truth. In the mid 1990's, when NASCAR was in Delaware for the Dover race, they had Jeff Gordon's Dupont car on display (a backup car I guess) outside the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington. Some team guys where there answering questions for fans and passers-by. A man pulled up in, (I kid you not) a Chevette! He parks, and comes over to look at the car. He's wearing a tweed coat, the type with the leather patches on the elbows, it is VERY worn.
The guy approaches the car, and starts asking questions - commenting on how nice the paint looks, etc. The NASCAR guys nod and smile, but basically show mildly restrained contempt for someone they thought was some eccentric kook. I'm from the area, and knew better, the man was a DuPont, in fact, he was the chairman of the DuPont Co.....
And I can say without a doubt, he doesn't throw pennies on the ground! |
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson
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Posted - 04/11/2008 : 18:28:30
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Originally posted by CoinHunter53562
I read the post as if she knew about your hoarding and she threw them at you or threw them down and yelled out to get your attention...lol.
that was exactly what I thought! |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 21:46:33
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Someone's bag of coins burst (I'm assuming) on the way into the grocery store where there's a Coinstar machine. There was change all over the sidewalk and NO ONE would stop to pick up any of it. There were quarters in there, too. We cruised on up in the fire lane and picked it all up, almost $10!  This was in the pre-hoarding days, so I didn't do a check for coppers.  |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
 Posted - 04/11/2008 : 21:50:17
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But that is so strange that the woman would toss her pennies on the ground in the first place, much less yell out "Pennies!" 
topeka, are you developing a reputation around town? |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
 Posted - 04/11/2008 : 22:21:13
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Yesterday I came across a bunch of change just lying in the grass and gutter mixed in with alot of cigarette butts next to the curb. It looked as if someone dumped out a car ashtray as they drove off. Not a great copper haul (only 8 cents), but I walked away with an extra $3.47 in ash covered change. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2008 : 22:21:45
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We had a local coin show recently(3 weeks ago)...
I was walking out and there were these copper tokens all over the ground.... I didn't know them very well at that time, but they turned out to be the Mint tokens struck on penny planchets... P and D mints. About 30 of them. I stood on guard so that the passing cars wouldn't run them over, and then their owner came out and said they had fallen and he'd left them for whoever....
So I picked them up!!!!
Anyone have an interest in these? Still in their mint cellophane square... I thought of salting them into rolls of cents. But I checked on ebay and saw they carry and nice little premium.
Not as cool as the busted bag, but it made my day! (unfortunately, they were zinc, not 95% copper) |
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Cody8404
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2008 : 07:10:44
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| The kids in this area will buy rolls of cents to "snap." They put them between their thumb and finger, when you snap your fingers in a game to see how far and how acurate they can be. They rarely pick them up after they have snaped them. Some kids get pretty good too. |
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JSutter
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 04/15/2008 : 08:07:07
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| I find change at the bus stops and next to the parking meters downtown by where I live almost every day. Then not 50-100 foot from there there will always be people asking if you can spare change. |
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thebeave
Penny Sorter Member
USA
49 Posts |
Posted - 04/15/2008 : 23:16:10
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I read the post as if she knew about your hoarding and she threw them at you or threw them down and yelled out to get your attention...lol.
Yea, I definately thought she was mocking you and basically saying look at this crazy man who sorts pennies, he'll go after these ones I throw on the ground. |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 04/16/2008 : 19:39:50
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Originally posted by JSutter
I find change at the bus stops and next to the parking meters downtown by where I live almost every day. Then not 50-100 foot from there there will always be people asking if you can spare change.
There we go, I'll get a sign and a bucket "Will work for Copper" |
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