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CoinHunter53562
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 12/21/2008 : 14:05:07
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| I store mine in ziploc freezer bags, 500 to a bag. Then I take 4 bags and store them in a white cardboard box designed to hold 660 baseball or football cards (I get these at the sportscard shop for about 35 cents each). These boxes are sturdy as heck and stack very nicely, so this works out quite well for me. I use a digital scale to weigh out the 500 cents instead of hand counting each penny to save time. |
My hobby: collecting real money 1 copper cent or nickel at a time.
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3 Blue Stars
Penny Sorter Member
USA
76 Posts |
 Posted - 01/05/2009 : 12:49:04
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| 1,500 to a zip-lock bag. 12 bags to a cleaned cat litter pail. They stack nice and are fairly durable. |
You're kidding, right? |
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Lemon Thrower
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1588 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 15:23:19
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I get free plastic buckets at Dunkin Donuts.
Sometimes use the 5 gallon buckets that paint or drywall mud comes in, but you can't lift those once they are full. |
Buying:
Peace/Morgan G+ at $15.00
copper cents at 1.3X
wheat pennies at 3X
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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
811 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2009 : 15:46:38
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| Reroll, put $75 face in a plastic shoe box from Dollar General, store in basement of grandparent's house. Wash, rinse, repeat. |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
64 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 14:32:48
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When I started off counting pennies, I was storing all the coppers in 30 cal ammo cans. They held an awful lot, were neatly stackable, and had a convenient carry handle. The expense eventually got to me as the hoard grew though. It occurred to me how my margins were being thinned, paying $7-$10 per can, when I could just put them back in the cardboard box they came in.
Really, that's the best way to store the bulk coppers IMO. You pick up the pennies and you get the box for free. Saves money, and recycles the cardboard. The boxes are stackable too.
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Originally posted by Kurr
For the "bright and shiniest" ones I pull, I have about a gallon and was considering the vacuum sealed ziplocks with a silicon packet inside to preserve them.
I've started using the ammo cans to separate and store these now. They are perfect if you want to store the almost uncirculated pennies separate from the rest, and in a sealed environment. They have rubber seals around the lids, and close rather tighly. Nothing gets through when the lid is fully closed. Worth the expense for the coins you want to preserve, imo. |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
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goodcents
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2009 : 15:11:39
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I store all of mine so far in the new plastic coffee cans. I can usually hold 30.00 face in each one. Stack easily. Will last virtually forever and has a cap that seals really nicely. Nice handle too that I can use.
I get the coffee cans from work or people who were going to put them in the recycle bin.
The common ones are the red folgers and blue maxwell house. A person could use red for pennies, blue for nickels, etc...lol.
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 10:17:41
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| If you live in the midwest you can go to caseys gas stations and ask them for their iceing buckets. They are 2 gallon buckets and work nice |
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phillips24
Penny Pincher Member
USA
142 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 12:44:21
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| MMMMMMMM.....Caseys donuts and Pizza.....making me drool right now |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2009 : 13:48:53
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| I keep mine in jars. But then I don't have that much, maybe 200lb. I stopped there an went after silver. |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2009 : 22:01:35
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I agree with the Donut icing buckets... they are free (or at least really cheap)they are air (and water) tight, they stack nice (I bag $50 bags then use the buckets to store the bags...it is easier to lift $50 at a time also keeps a $value inventory) & you get a reason to visit Duncan donut!
After they get used to you they will call you to come get em.
They always asked what are you useing this many buckets for? ( I think they just didn't want me selling them on the bucket black market)
I would just tell them We use them at work for Scrap metal parts Etc.
But as the others have noted it is one of the few methods of hoarding large quantities that cost nothing (as long as there is a donut shop on the way to or from your buy or dump bank) its just one more clerk that thinks your crazy!
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starwarsgeek171
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
651 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2009 : 15:53:58
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I still stand by re-rolling the coins in nice/standard wraps (labeled is best), re-packing the rolls into nicer Brinx boxes I've put aside, and then vacuum sealing them. Uniform and waterproof stacks of clear-wrapped monetary rectangular prisms! A nice conversation piece. Too bad the Cu is pretty much at par with the penny now ($#!+).
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2009 : 17:31:32
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| I just keep copper pennies unrolled in cloth bank bags. |
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