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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
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 Posted - 08/05/2008 : 13:11:40
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
On a positive note.. I sorted 16 Brinks boxes last night from that same bank that gave me the massive skunking before. Got 7982 Coppers.. right at 20%.. the standard percentage for my area.. and 14 darn dimes (so much for that fancy new equipment Brinks is using) 
Figures... you get dimes, i get a penny-sized plastic chip 
Which reminds me of one other thing i don't like about the plastic rolls... i've had several of them come up short. Talk about a skunking! |
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Posted - 08/07/2008 : 22:05:23
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I'm also in the NC area. All of my good boxes lately have been string & son - A sealed brinks box brought out of the vault by at a new local bank yesterday yielded nothing. Inside the box were instructions on how to open a roll of pennies, and below was a grotesque dog pile of plastic wrapped mixed date zinc. I get sick over plastic. Paper makes good fire starter, and I can save it for winter.
So anyway I went to my friend bank and traded the box of trash for another string & son. A friendly teller told me they liked to support small businesses such as my penny hustling as they put it, even though for me it is all about hoarding. |
www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com --- Clearing the rubbish from the road to reality. |
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jorhyne
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 08/07/2008 : 22:21:45
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| I've finally been getting bags out of the coin machines around here instead of relying on brinks, and it makes this whole process about 100% easier. |
Pennies For Sale: http://tiny.cc/jorhynespennies |
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scooter
Penny Pincher Member
240 Posts |
Posted - 08/07/2008 : 22:29:14
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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 00:13:47
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Hi all,
I've been wrapping my head around the idea of large scale sorting going on elsewhere, and not to be a dissident or rabble rouser, but I'll believe it when I SEE it. (or rather , when I DON'T see it.)
I'm pretty darn sure that the same clueless, blank faces you see staring at you from across the teller booth when you ask for boxes of coins are the same clueless, blank faces operating the coin hoppers at Brinks, Dunbar, et al.
Don't get me wrong- I'm sorting like there's no tomorrow, but I just can't subscribe to the theory that EVERY copper(sorry, bronze) cent will be out of circulation in two weeks. Sheeple are just too clueless-"OH! What's on American Idol tonight?"
Someday, yes. Tomorrow, no.
wags |
Only when they CAN'T have it, ......THEN they'll want it.
I love Cents. If you get an UNC box, you win. If you get a regular circ. box, you win. If you get a zinc box, you don't lose....so you still win. |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 08/08/2008 : 05:28:03
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| My last pickup was 10 String & Son boxes, first time I've had an entire batch of them come from Brinks. I think I've received about 3 all year until now. |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 10:17:28
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Originally posted by wagsthadog
Hi all,
I've been wrapping my head around the idea of large scale sorting going on elsewhere, and not to be a dissident or rabble rouser, but I'll believe it when I SEE it. (or rather , when I DON'T see it.)
Hey, if you want a sealed box of mixed zincs in plastic condoms, i can hook you up any time from my main bank... i've been testing the waters with $10 pickups there every week for the past month, and the best i've done is a set of rolls with a single copper each. The rest have been weighed out and gone directly into the dump bucket. That's after getting 12 boxes of mixed zinc over the previous month.
Somebody in the Carolinas is pulling copper cents out of circulation on an industrial scale. i guaran-freakin-tee it  |
Considering Verizon Business service? Perhaps you'd like to consider a nice drain cleaner enema instead? |
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horgad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1641 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 10:25:22
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Originally posted by lanispet
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Originally posted by wagsthadog
Hi all,
I've been wrapping my head around the idea of large scale sorting going on elsewhere, and not to be a dissident or rabble rouser, but I'll believe it when I SEE it. (or rather , when I DON'T see it.)
Hey, if you want a sealed box of mixed zincs in plastic condoms, i can hook you up any time from my main bank... i've been testing the waters with $10 pickups there every week for the past month, and the best i've done is a set of rolls with a single copper each. The rest have been weighed out and gone directly into the dump bucket. That's after getting 12 boxes of mixed zinc over the previous month.
Somebody in the Carolinas is pulling copper cents out of circulation on an industrial scale. i guaran-freakin-tee it
If Coin-Star and Brinks have teamed up in some areas to pull coppers on a large scale, what are the chances that their automated system is missing the Indians and older coppers? Have you spot checked any of the dud boxes to see what coppers were missed? |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 11:11:39
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If an Indian got into their sorter, I suspect it would be missed, but you know what those odds are like.
Since i feed my coins into a counter at the bank, i do open all the rolls, so I skim them as I go (especially since I found a blank planchet in one)... They're not catching copper Canadians, so I imagine other non-95% copper coinage will also slip through. It could be that they've actually got the sensitivity turned up a little too high, since the coppers in the single-copper rolls are usually pretty cruddy. Can't have too much dross in the melt, you know! |
Considering Verizon Business service? Perhaps you'd like to consider a nice drain cleaner enema instead? |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 11:27:39
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| I found a 25-S in one of my dud boxes. |
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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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 11:41:12
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| If the percentages go too low, I will put a note in our office of 2,000 that I will cash their pennies at face value, thus avoiding Coinstar or other banks that I don't participate in. I may even do it without the percentages going low. Still haven't worked out the details. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 12:06:58
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I already do that for our office. Gotten some good batches of coins this way. Folks love the convenience. Plus it is a bit faster.
Mach 7 - Sorts and Counts 4,000 coins per minute
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Coin Star - Website claims 600 coins per minute.. actual is probably 300 coins per minute. |
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
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Posted - 08/08/2008 : 12:21:56
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| I did find an IH in my first dud box last year. That was the only non-zinc in the whole box. |
Beer is my currency. |
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