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chant1970
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 02/08/2009 : 19:40:16
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My personal best.
Haven’t sorted in about 2 months. Went to my regular pick up bank to cash some checks and the teller ask me if wanted a box of cents. I wasn’t planning on it but couldn’t say no.
741 CU
78 82’s
3 Canadian
30.6% (with the 82’s and Canadians out of the numbers).
Only 4 wheat’s my average is 10, and lowest until this box was 8.
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c140cessna
Penny Collector Member
USA
419 Posts |
 Posted - 02/09/2009 : 19:26:35
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Sorted $1600 Canadian this past weekend. 37% Copper....lowest in the past 2 years....was 50% 2 years ago.
2 weeks ago I sorted $600 in US Brinks bank boxes I collected through 2008.....was 32%...above average of 29% here in S.E. Michigan. |
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Posted - 02/09/2009 : 20:46:04
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| sorted a box of CWR's. 100% zinc. clearly I'm not the only one in my area with the same hobby. |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2009 : 16:55:00
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Sorted 3 boxes and $30 in CWR.
U.S. Cu - 24.8% (including 34 wheats, oldest a '19)
Canadian Cu - 79.5% (including 5 kings)
7 dimes
1 Bermuda cent
1 plastic dime
Total Cu - 26.6%
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2009 : 17:10:08
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Originally posted by highroller4321
Finally getting around to posting this. Here are my totals for my Jan 2009 sorting
Sorted $1100 Worth of pennies (110,000 pennies)
Found 37,703 copper 34.275%
Found 351 Wheats (inclduing 2 teens, 9 twenties, and 15 thirties) .003%
Found 349 Canadain (Including 4 kings 91% of the canadains where copper) .003%
Found 4 dimes!
Found 1 Nickle! (I have no idea how a nickle gets in a bag of pennies)
Found 1 Austrailan 5 cent, 1 New Zeland 1 cent, 1 barbados 1 cent, 1 mint token from the mint sets, and 1 plastic penny.
My god...that's eerily similar to my totals for all of 2008!  |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2009 : 17:49:39
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Originally posted by CoinHunter53562
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Originally posted by highroller4321
Finally getting around to posting this. Here are my totals for my Jan 2009 sorting
Sorted $1100 Worth of pennies (110,000 pennies)
Found 37,703 copper 34.275%
Found 351 Wheats (inclduing 2 teens, 9 twenties, and 15 thirties) .003%
Found 349 Canadain (Including 4 kings 91% of the canadains where copper) .003%
Found 4 dimes!
Found 1 Nickle! (I have no idea how a nickle gets in a bag of pennies)
Found 1 Austrailan 5 cent, 1 New Zeland 1 cent, 1 barbados 1 cent, 1 mint token from the mint sets, and 1 plastic penny.
My god...that's eerily similar to my totals for all of 2008!
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2009 : 07:49:34
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one box--24.51% coppers
6 wheats--oldest 1944 |
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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
811 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2009 : 14:51:14
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| Best group ever - $20 from Grandma for B-Day. Didn't count, but averaged literally 50%. Plus two IHs. No Wheats. |
So long, Realcent 1. Come visit us at Realcent.org! |
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gothboi30
Penny Collector Member
USA
286 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 09:31:58
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| $25 pennies mixed cwr/bwr from WaMu yesterday. Results as follows: 1 dime ('95d); 1 Brazil 10 Centavos; 9 s mints ('68, '69(x2), '70, '72(x2), '74(x3)) 0.4%; 2 Canadian ('62, '68) 0.1%; 7 wheats ('40, '44, '45, '55d, '57(clipped planchet!!), '57d(x2)) 0.3%; 78 1982 (67Cu/11Zn) 3%; 655 Cu 26%; 1,747 Zn 70%. Slightly better than average Cu %, although I'd still like to break 30% on a regular basis.... |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 16:02:09
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Sorted 3 boxes and $30 in CWRs.
U.S. Cu - 27.1%
Canadian Cu - 77.2%
1 dime
1 Tiawanese 1 yuan
Total Cu - 28.4%
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 02:16:53
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Coin buying Report for today:
4 boxes and 8 rolls BWR pennies
102 CWR pennies
70 CWR nickels
88 CWR dimes
7 BWR dimes
3 CWR halves
8 small dollars |
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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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 11:02:49
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Ran a few bags (5). Average results for my area. I did find 45 dimes in those bags though. All those bags are from one credit union branch. I get all their bags.
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 - 02/22/2009 : 14:05:49
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Went through one box of pennies today by hand:
758 1959-82 Cu cents 30.32%
10 Wheat cents 0.40%
8 Canadian cents 0.32%
Also picked up 1 each of a counterstamped LMC with a Kennedy face on it, and one 2000 Wide America variety
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My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1805 Posts |
Posted - 02/22/2009 : 16:50:08
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Just finished the 2nd box of pennies today:
965 1959-82 Cu cents 38.60% (3rd best % for a single box since I started doing this)
5 wheat cents 0.20% (tied for 2nd lowest % for wheats...lol)
11 Canadian cents 0.44%
No special extras to mention |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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Market Harmony
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1274 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 21:23:44
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I found this in the reject pile. A Swedish 50 Ore... anyone know what's it's worth?
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goto the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org |
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
10 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 21:47:23
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After taking a break for a while got 22% out of two boxes. 3 wheats and 2 canadians.
Pretty average for my area in western KY. |
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gothboi30
Penny Collector Member
USA
286 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 17:20:42
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$25 NF String box....results as follows: 6 s mints ('70(x3), '71(x2), '72) 0.2%; 8 wheats ('10, '39, '44d, '49d, '52d, '56d(x2), '58d) 0.3%; 14 Canadian ('53, '58, '62, '80(x4), '81, '82(x2), '83, '84, '95, '98) 0.6%; 96 1982 (76 Cu/20 Zn) 4%; 656 Cu 26%; 1,720 Zn 69%. Average numbers again. Highlights were the highest number of Canadians yet found in a box, the first time ever finding 2 Canadians in the same roll, and the 1910 wheatie (my oldest found yet). Unfortunately, it's in horrible condition, with what appears to be cement crusted on most of the reverse... |
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146 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 18:15:54
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On my 40th birthday (Feb 24th) I scored $14.00 in mostly CWR (one roll was an ancient machine wrapped paper roll)
There's nothing cooler than getting coins in old looking paper rolls...what is the copper equivalent of the Silver Santa? The Copper Fairy?
The yield was 100% copper pennies! Happy birthday to me!
Dates from 1940s (2 wheat cents) to 1977. There were 2 Canadian pennies in there both 100% copper both from the 1960s.
Other coins pickups are yielding from 30-40% US copper pennies for me. I actually saw a few more wheats in those percentage-wise as well as a few more Canadian copper pennies percentage-wise.
I love country living and this is the one upside to economic hard times (people definitely cashed in their change from home over the last several weeks and I'm the beneficiary).
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gothboi30
Penny Collector Member
USA
286 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 22:15:32
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| $25 NF String box....results as follows: 5 s mints ('69(x3), '72(x2)) 0.2%; 5 Canadian ('42 (king), '64, '82, '95, '99) 0.2%; 7 wheats ('28, '41, '44, '44d, '51d, '56d, '57d) 0.3%; 69 1982 (56 Cu/ 13 Zn) 3%; 762 Cu 30%; 1,652 Zn 66%. Above average copper percentage for my area.....a good box... |
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146 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2009 : 13:56:03
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Lowish percentage for me (worst ever was only 20% Cu US Pennies)
$35 sorted $26.11 zincs
~25.4% Cu US Pennies
I did get 6 wheats & 2 Cu Canadian pennies in this batch. About $0.85 in 1982 US Cu pennies this time. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 02/28/2009 : 19:00:16
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One box-28.58% copper
9 wheats- oldest was 1948
12 canadian, with a bright brand new 1966 Queen-almost thought it was a 2008
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penniesmakemedizzy
Penny Pincher Member
USA
135 Posts |
Posted - 03/01/2009 : 18:21:25
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Have not sorted in months....
one box - 17% - 8 wheaties
one panama coin? |
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Ryedale
Administrator
USA
523 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2009 : 05:02:25
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Picked up a few bags last week,
got one $50 bag that had about $1 zinc in it, the rest copper. Coins had that "been rolled for years" look to them, where they look kindof "dusty" for lack of a better term. There were many BU early 70's coins too.
The girls at the bank had already unwrapped them at the bank, then called. How helpful.
Andy
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2009 : 08:50:32
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One box of cents-
26.25%copper
12 wheats
7 canadian |
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cleminwbpa
Penny Sorter Member
USA
70 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2009 : 10:38:15
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The wife and I toss all of our pocket change into a very large jar. Well, I've been sorting and rolling it up and taking all the clad stuff to the bank. Silver, foreign and steel pennys never make it into the jar so that only leaves me with pennies to separate.
On that pocket change I am finding over 20% pre 82s. Not to bad I guess. |
Edited by - cleminwbpa on 03/07/2009 10:41:58 |
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