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 Posted - 05/06/2008 : 11:00:58
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Location: Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania.
My friend Maggie, who thinks it's hilarious that I've started hoarding,
was in line at the checkout when the lady in front of her remarked to the cashier-
"you know- people are crazy, I heard they're saving these copper pennies because they're worth like, 1.6 cents or somfin'..."
To which Maggie diligently interjected, in a more monotone voice than usual-
"Actually my friend does that...and he has a lot of them..."
Maggie didn't correct the woman as to the real value of a copper cent-
(2.5 cents) so you can all rest assured she'll continue to shop at Walmart to find value in her fiat currency...
hope this little anecdote was amusing.
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 05/06/2008 : 21:56:23
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Another amusing story. I was at the store the other day and bought $50 worth of parts for my tractor. It took a while for me and the service mgr to get everything that I needed. He took the parts up front and told the cashier to be nice to me. I pulled out $50 in half dollars. She said "is this the part where I am supposed to be nice?".
Joking, the man behind me said "I'm going to pay for mine in pennies." Little did the teller know how close she really came to that!! |
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simplicitycounts
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - 05/08/2008 : 01:50:05
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| Actually, I use my Walmart bank to dump all of my zinc pennies. I bring in $25.00 to $45.00 a day in a combination of either 1 cool whip and 1 large yougurt container or 2 large butter containers. They find it amusing that I spend the time to check the date on every penny so they don't care about dumping them in their machine. If I have change back and some is pennies, the teller digs through their stack and pulls out coppers for me :) |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 05/09/2008 : 11:05:13
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Originally posted by 20cc0
Location: Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania.
"you know- people are crazy, I heard they're saving these copper pennies because they're worth like, 1.6 cents or somfin'..."
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I find it funny how many people dismiss coin hoarding as "crazy." I was always under the impression that 1965 saw a mad dash to hoard silver quarters, even among your average joes who would normally never consider doing such a thing.
I've been given some really odd looks by bank tellers when I've told them "pennies, please!" in response to how I want my withdrawal given to me. Some have been outright inquisitive and rude about it too. "Pennies? you want PENNIES? why would you want it in PENNIES? No seriously, why do you want pennies? That's ridiculous!"
Really though it doesn't bother me. It actually works out for the best. The more people who dismiss this as crazy, the less people who sort among us! |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 05/09/2008 : 12:15:18
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I have a feeling that most didn't sort out the silver dimes, but all of that was before my time.
They might have started keeping them after they started getting rarer. By that point, the big sorter had gotten most of them.
It wasn't like they were worth a lot over face in the 60s. Now the silver melt crazy in the early 80s wiped out so many silver coins.
-SWUSC
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`Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.' Will Rogers
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/09/2008 : 14:28:57
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Originally posted by swusc
I have a feeling that most didn't sort out the silver dimes, but all of that was before my time.
They might have started keeping them after they started getting rarer. By that point, the big sorter had gotten most of them.
It wasn't like they were worth a lot over face in the 60s. Now the silver melt crazy in the early 80s wiped out so many silver coins.
-SWUSC
I was born in 1966, and my grandparents had a store. I started noticing coins in the mid 70's, especially when the bicentennials started rolling out. I recall seeing very few silver coins (including dimes) from the early - to mid 70's onward. They were already gone. However, I did clean our local small town bank out of halves during the 70s - 1980, and a good number of those were 40% |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 05/09/2008 : 15:29:00
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Originally posted by knibloe
Another amusing story. I was at the store the other day and bought $50 worth of parts for my tractor. It took a while for me and the service mgr to get everything that I needed. He took the parts up front and told the cashier to be nice to me. I pulled out $50 in half dollars. She said "is this the part where I am supposed to be nice?".
Since i've only gotten into this, so far i've used half-dollars as payment in three places. All three thought they were silver dollars. i corrected them, because i hate to cheat somebody doing an honest job. i'm seriously thinking about trying to pay my car insurance with them, tho... |
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