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Centsearcher
Penny Pincher Member
USA
107 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2008 : 23:12:27
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| My last lot consisted of five MMF boxes with unmarked paper rolls from my regional supply bank. I put them through my rydale and got 30.79% copper, including canadians and excluding wheats. The percentage is about one point above average for my area. No really fantastic finds though, but an overall good pickup! |
--Misplaced Numismatist--
Democracy: The only system where any two idiots can out-vote a genius
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
64 Posts |
 Posted - 08/25/2008 : 11:54:45
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I normally get CWI boxes wrapped in NF String rolls from my primary supply bank, but they seem to have changed sources. I'm now getting unmarked boxes (no CWI stamp with date) in generic unmarked rolls. So far I'm not concerned though, as my percents are higher!
I was averaging 20-25% from the CWI boxes, but after going through 2 out of 4 of these new boxes I got about 30% in each. The remaining 2 have comparable weights, so I'll likely get a similar percentage from them.
Hopefully these new boxes continue, and double hopefully their half dollar boxes are also more lucrative.
I'm sorting in the central PA area, btw. |
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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Fortune favors the informed. |
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SANITARIUM_INMATE
Penny Pincher Member
211 Posts |
Posted - 08/25/2008 : 13:13:32
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| My last 2 boxes of cwr cents drew in a decent 29% including all the wheats and canucks. I have my brothers to thank for helping out til I can get a rydale. But we found 4 1998 wide AM ¢'s and a single 1999 wide AM ¢. The 99 has a lot of cancer and looks like crap but still a nice find. Still no injuns. YET!!! |
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Posted - 08/25/2008 : 22:46:33
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Ok this is my first box ever copper hoarding
1 BOX CWR
PRE 1982's 392 15.68%
WHEATIES 6 0.24%
1982's 55 2.20% I cant sort these confidently yet
Foreign 2 0.08% 1963 CAN & 2003 Euro 2 cent
I also took a shot at $50 in halfs and got SKUNKED but they said they had $350 more but I didnt have cash or an account there but I may go back tommorrow for those!
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
64 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 01:44:02
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Originally posted by crg0910
Ok this is my first box ever copper hoarding
1 BOX CWR
PRE 1982's 392 15.68%
WHEATIES 6 0.24%
1982's 55 2.20% I cant sort these confidently yet
Foreign 2 0.08% 1963 CAN & 2003 Euro 2 cent
I also took a shot at $50 in halfs and got SKUNKED but they said they had $350 more but I didnt have cash or an account there but I may go back tommorrow for those!
halves are a crapshoot. One day you'll get an amazing haul, the next you'll get nothing. there's no consistency like with penny boxes, so you'll have to keep at it, hitting a number of banks (volume is key) in order to see the really good results. Rolls returned by customers (CWRs) are usually where the good scores come from, though I've ordered some $500 machine wrapped boxes and found 20 or more silvers in the lot. Again, volume is key. Be the first to get ALL the boxes/CWR halves. Even the bad ones.
Be weary though if banks tend to have CWR halves frequently and in large quantity. You may be getting someone else's dumps. In this case it would likely be best to find another bank or branch. You'll just be wasting your time resorting his/her coppernickel.
You may not want to hear this if your funds are limited, but halves are not for sorters on a tight budget. You may get lucky, but in the end you likely won't find enough to make it worth the time. Not saying you shouldn't try, just trying to prepare you for the worst. Realizing even the slightest bit of consistency in halves takes patience, $500+ in cash or unallocated deposits, and a good dump bank outside of your source network. Otherwise you are completely at lady luck's mercy.
Location is very important as well. I notice I have better luck with halves than friends of mine in bigger cities. This could of course be entirely coincidental, though it's tough to call without a larger sample.
Good luck out there, halves can be competitive 
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 15:44:36
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Recently bought 6 boxes.
Box 1 -- 5 wheats
Box 2 -- 3 wheats
Box 3 -- 18 wheat
I don't remember the count on box 4 and 5 and I haven't opened box 6 yet. |
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M83striker
Penny Pincher Member
USA
108 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2008 : 09:36:05
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8/22/08 Sorted 3 - $25 Brinks Boxes-Sealed
$22.15 Cu/Can./Wheat - 29.53%
8/23/08 Sorted 3 - $25 Brinks Boxes-Sealed
$16.33 Cu/Can./Wheat - 21.77%
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When my wife got after me it sounded like "Blah,Blah,Blah", but now it sounds like "Clink,Clink,Clink". Its amazing what that Ryedale can do for a hounded husband. |
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klava
Penny Pincher Member
USA
192 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 01:03:24
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I really havent been able to do much hunting at all as of late plus my computer died so I havent been able to get online any I did make one huge score which I hope to post about tonight. Hope all is well with everyone and everyone is having lots of great finds!
Appco finds for August-08
Ive been working a partime job at a gas station for the last 3 weeks. While the pay is crap it is a quarter of a mile from home and offers free fountian drinks and hot dogs and corndogs while at work. Plus I get to do some searching. While Ive only got to run the register a few times I have found a few items. Nothing really great but hey when you figure in the fact that i am getting paid to search I guess Im getting them under facevalue lol. Heres my totals for the last 3 weeks. Figure Ill go ahead and post totals then do bnext month next month sinc ei have alot coming up the next few days.
Pre60 nickels-5 39,46,46-d,49,60-d
Wheats-2 41,56-d
Can Cent-1 1985
Can Nickel-1 1961
Pennys:*
59-2
60-2
60d-1
61-2
61d-1
62-1
82's-52**
Copper-141***
*Im counting these seperate because I am making rolls for myself, my god daughter, and my mom
**These are being set aside so oneday when im old and bored I can look through them for all the different varieties. Plues they run about 80% copper here
***I really havent pulled out anywhere near all the copper from the drawers but am going to start taking a little jar so that I can lol
Anyway nothing special but Ill take them all at face value and getting paid while I search lol
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 21:40:46
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Sorted 6 - $25 CWI Boxes-Sealed
Date Insp by # Weight
21-Jul 5020 43 15.10
21-Jul 5020 43 15.10
21-Jul 5020 43 15.10
21-Jul 5020 43 15.10
21-Jul 5020 43 15.00
21-Jul 5020 43 15.05
5882 Copper-Including Wheats 39.2 %
18 Canadian Pre 1997 KG 1940,1943, 1945
94 Canadian 1997+
88 Wheats 1918, 4 -1930's
0 Dimes
0 Indian Head
0 Other Foreign
0 Unusual |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 21:42:58
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Sorted 2 - $25 CWI Boxes-Sealed
Date Insp by # Weight
1-Aug 5020 43 15.10
1-Aug 5020 43 15.20
1513 Copper-Including Wheats 30.3 %
14 Canadian Pre 1997
2 Canadian 1997+
11 Wheats 1920, 1935
0 Dimes
0 Indian Head
0 Other Foreign
0 Unusual |
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ScottyTX
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
508 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2008 : 16:29:29
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Hand sorted 1 25.00 cwi box
478 coppers
6 wheat
19.3% right on with the % down here |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2008 : 16:43:11
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linc pre 82 are 18.8%. last three $25 brinks boxes had 4, then 5, and lastly 10, wheats. Southeast alabama.
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2008 : 17:02:25
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Hand sorted 6 boxes, 2 Brinks & 4 CWI
3821 Cu (includes 60 wheats, oldest a '35)
428 '82s
430 Canadian - 339 Cu (1 king, a '49)
1 Dime
1 Bahama 1 cent
27.7%
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chant1970
Penny Sorter Member
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2008 : 20:18:21
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Hand sorted my first box today (Brinks).
588 Cu (10 wheat all common)
96 82s
10 Canadian
24% if you take the 82’s out of the equation.
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2008 : 22:22:30
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chant1970, welcome to the addiction and to the forum. You will find the addiction only gets worse. Glad to have you.
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."
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2008 : 02:04:38
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Welcome to the forum chant1970. That is a good percentage for a first box. Figure the 82's will be about 80% copper. If you add them back into the equation that would be about a 27.5% copper yield! What part of the country are you from?
Had a good day at the coin show today. Started when I had to pay a bridge toll on the way there. Yep, you guessed it.. 8 roll of zinc.  You would have thought this cute little toll taker had never been paid in rolls of pennies before. Even though they were machine rolled, she insisted I wait while you took them out of the rolls and put them in her coin bag. She starts by trying to peel open the first roll. Now many of you experience penny hoarders here know that is not the most efficient method of liberating pennies from tighly wrapped bank rolls. I tell her she should just whack them to open them. She obviously had little experience doing this. She rears back slams the roll against her counter. Pennies were flying all over the booth! Half the roll fell down by her feet. I was trying not to laugh too hard. Very entertaining! I love paying bridge tolls with zincers.
Coin Buying Report for today:
Was quoted some really high spreads on some silver eagles and gold coins but I was able to do a few deals.
2 Large Cents - Lots of copper in these!
2 Rolls (40 Rounds) Engelhard Prospectors
1 Roll (20 Rounds) Liberty Rounds
1 Box shiny new 2008-D dimes
Also made a deal for 10 Rounds to be delivered to me at coin club on Tuesday.
Sorry CopperCatcher.. didn't find any extra silver rounds for you.
Can hardly wait until the next coin show on Saturday. |
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 - 09/09/2008 : 02:20:48
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Just got home from the football game, so no sorting tonight. Boy, it's going to be tough to be a Raider fan this year.
Sorted a bag of CWR this morning.
1500 copper
Exactly 30%!!! - Much better than my typical 20% |
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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klava
Penny Pincher Member
USA
192 Posts |
Posted - 09/09/2008 : 02:32:20
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| Hoard I sure wish I had a coin club around here. Im always reading of the cool stuff you bring back from them lol |
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3 Blue Stars
Penny Sorter Member
USA
76 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2008 : 20:06:37
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2 Boxes of LMC.
0 wheat
1 pre 82'
1 82'
Is this the definition of skunked. Guess it makes up for the time I had 2,496 out of 2,500. Blanace?
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2008 : 20:12:56
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
Just got home from the football game, so no sorting tonight. Boy, it's going to be tough to be a Raider fan this year.
Sorted a bag of CWR this morning.
1500 copper
Exactly 30%!!! - Much better than my typical 20%
So, a Raider fan huh? Equally tough being my team's fan. Your team travels to play my team this weekend. Yep, Chiefs. Care to make a small wager?
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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Posted - 09/12/2008 : 08:29:26
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Haven't really kept close analysis of my sorting efforts in terms of the numbers and percentages but I have been informally sorting for maybe 8/9 months and I have some observations:
1) My percentages of late are going *up* not down
2) When I hit the local banks (the exception being my dump bank where I only take out nickels so I don't know what the penny situation is like there plus they have a coin machine that they're now charging everyone to use although its cheaper for account holders) lately I am getting more customer wrapped rolls than ever before
3) Plastic wrapped rolls of pennies are not yielding significantly fewer 82 and earlier cents than any paper wrapped rolls (customer wraps or commercial wraps)
4) While I was out at the local Wal-Mart shopping center I poked my head in there and saw on the shelves that they were totally sold out of quarter Coin-tainers and 1/2 sold out of penny Coin-tainers(they sell bags of all quarter wrappers, all penny wrappers, and an assorted variety of wrappers)
5) At the Dollar Tree 3 doors down they only had 3 bags of assorted Coin-tainer wrappers (36 to a package for $1.00 and they're cheaper than Wal-Mart where the same assortment is $1.96 for 48 Coin-tainers which is probably why Wal-Mart's Coin-tainer assortment stock looked untouched) available.
I think people are now more frequently searching the house and car and office for their spare change, turning it into the banks (or if they're really clueless CoinStar machines) and using the couple of paper notes (or gift cards/store credits if it's CoinStar) they get in exchange for their coins to pay their ever increasing bills. Some of them may now be forced into doing this because they've either totally maxed out their credit cards or are scared of pushing those balances higher and so if they are going to make it, they gotta turn in the spare change and use the proceeds to pay the bills.
I think this bodes well for those of us who want to continue to sort, at least in the short term. What worries me is when the little guys are totally out of spare change that's been lying around the house for forever :( |
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chant1970
Penny Sorter Member
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2008 : 20:29:58
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Deal & Hoard thanks for the welcome.
I’ve been reading the board for a couple of weeks and finally decided to see how friendly my bank was. I’m in central Illinois and get my cents from a small branch of a large bank, then deposit the zincs into another branch of the same bank.
Finished another Brinks box yesterday
651 Cu (10 common wheat, but filled a space in my Dansco album)
73 82’s
3 Canadian
Lots of pocket lint, sand and grime .
26% (with the 82’s and Canadian’s out of the equation. Those will be dealt with later)
Happy sorting
Chant
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2008 : 00:19:01
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At least two of you Illinois boys. Not a bad percentage at all.
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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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2008 : 00:26:31
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Sorted two boxes today:
Box 1
46 wheat cents
15 Canadian cents
769 copper cents 1959-1982
Box 2
9 wheat cents
6 Canadian cents
722 copper cents 1959-1982 |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2008 : 00:59:09
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| Wow, those are some great percentages CoinHunter. Much better than in my area. That's why I have to cheat and use multiple machines to sort more. |
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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