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 Posted - 09/20/2008 : 17:55:00
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I'm running about 20% Copper here in Fremont, CA (SF Bay Area) since I started getting boxes about six months ago.
Broken down more specifically, in addition to about 10 dimes and two fake plastic pennies, five 2-Euro-Cents, and various other foreign coins, I've gotten:
Penny Type Count
"1959 D " 230
1959 Plain 34
"1960 D " 292
1960 Plain 31
"1961 D " 275
1961 Plain 43
"1962 D " 336
1962 Plain 40
"1963 D " 395
1963 Plain 51
"1964 D " 829
1964 Plain 230
1965 Plain 231
1966 Plain 349
1967 Plain 521
"1968 D " 585
1968 Plain 77
"1968 S " 190
"1969 D " 496
1969 Plain 72
"1969 S " 449
"1970 D " 316
1970 Plain 106
"1970 S " 464
"1971 D " 381
1971 Plain 104
"1971 S " 431
"1972 D " 527
1972 Plain 180
"1972 S " 355
"1973 D " 881
1973 Plain 205
"1973 S " 348
"1974 D " 1499
1974 Plain 242
"1974 S " 218
"1975 D " 1554
1975 Plain 315
"1976 D " 1988
1976 Plain 239
"1977 D " 1843
1977 Plain 237
"1978 D " 1077
1978 Plain 740
"1979 D " 1191
1979 Plain 1348
"1980 D " 1089
1980 Plain 2476
"1981 D " 1269
1981 Plain 2018
1982 D Lg Cu 810
1982 Plain Lg Cu 468
1982 Plain Sm Cu 30
"Culls " 1700
"Wheat " 583
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Cu Subtotal 32988
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"Canada " 184
1982 D Sm Zn 72
1982 Plain Sm Zn 27
"Total " 33271
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 18:26:52
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Howdy Neighbor! 
Welcome to the forum swimmingly. You are about 20 miles from me. Your percentages are exactly what I have been getting. Looks like you are getting a good number of wheat cents.
How do you dispose of your zincs?
Have you considered going to the Fremont Coin Club? They meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7 PM at the Elks Lodge on Farwell. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 18:39:41
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Howdy, I'm Dan ... yes, I attended for the first time at the last meeting held by the Fremont Coin Club -- sat in the front row, and had a good time. Were you there? I understand they're having hot dogs at 6:30 this Thursday, so I may take my whole family, and save on dinner expenses :)
I did join, so hopefully they won't evict me for being exploitative, but my sons (ages 11 & 9) are dabbling in coin collecting, and who knows but that they may want to join, too. I'm pretty sure my wife will want to attend too, but with a hidden agenda of reining in my spending at the auction. |
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jadedragon
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 18:41:59
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| you got a handle on the canadian pennies? All canadians 1996 and back are 98% copper. |
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NDFARMER
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USA
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 19:03:37
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| Welcome to the board Swimmingly, You sorted according to mint and year, WOW, that was a lot of work. Those are interesting numbers it looks like some of those P mint years with the lower numbers might be worth rolling up an setting aside. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 19:32:38
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Welcome to the board swimmingly. Nice record keeping. Tons of work it seems. Another Californian....
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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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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 21:22:10
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| i just saw the nombers for EACH DATE AND MINT and i said WOW |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
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Posted - 09/20/2008 : 22:06:32
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quote:
Originally posted by swimmingly
Howdy, I'm Dan ... yes, I attended for the first time at the last meeting held by the Fremont Coin Club -- sat in the front row, and had a good time. Were you there? I understand they're having hot dogs at 6:30 this Thursday, so I may take my whole family, and save on dinner expenses :)
I was there.. I usually arrive late because of the day job. I showed a low grade $5 Indian in the show and tell. Better come on Tuesday instead of Thursday.. there won't be any hotdogs left by Thursday. Yes, bring the entire family. It is a very family oriented club. I am a life member.. have been a member since 1975.
Maybe next month you can come to the Livermore Valley Coin Club. Don't bring your wife to that one though.. the auction is much better.. with about 200 lots. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 08:27:46
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| I tally all coins I sort this way (by hand, even). |
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 10:40:52
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I tallied my first box because I was going to volunteer for the Cent Project, but stopped when I got no reply from (Chris?). It was a bunch of work & I already check my stuff for key dates/errors and it was just eating into my sort time! Congrats, swimmingly, especially for sharing.
I made up an Excel spreadsheet with some macros that lets me rapidly use the PC keypad to enter dates & a symbol for mints, and it puts the totals in a little matrix box. If anyone wants to give it a try, email me and I'll give you a copy. I don't think you can attach files here, can you? |
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jadedragon
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 11:11:45
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| You must be logged in to see this link. I looked up the centproject and learned a few things. I'm going to change my sort method for older coins after reading this. |
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Posted - 09/22/2008 : 13:34:29
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Yeah, I read the same thing about sorting before I started & use a modified version of that with some success. I cut five 8 or 10" pcs of pvc pipe with a 3/4" i.d. in half lengthwise and mounted them at a backward angle in a block of 2x4. So I have 10 half-tubes to stack the coins in by last year digit, face up. I stack them for one decade (ie 80's first, etc) and throw the other decades into 20 cups also by last year digits. I then look through the stacked coins, zeroing in on key date/error year, throwing the junk (or copper) into a final coffee can to either roll (copper) or dump (zinc). Then I flip & look at the coins in the cups & do the same.
I picked up right away on his logic- handle the coins as few times as possible. |
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