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theo
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
588 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2009 : 10:53:08
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I found a brown one a couple weeks ago and thought it was a freak occurrence. I figured it was from some type of board game. I told my wife it was the coin of the future.
I have a penny from the Bahamas as well and I agree that it looks pretty cool. |
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merc49
Penny Sorter Member
88 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 21:28:41
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| Found a plastic dime in a penny roll last night. |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 22:13:56
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2009 plastic penny finds!
Highroller 2 (1 gray 1 copper color)
Daviscfad 1
Tourney64 2 (2 copper color)
Slickeast 1 (1 copper color)
jonflyfish 7
Kurr 4
Jadedragon 1
coppernicus 2
CuproNickle 1
JP_007 2 (2 brown)
Pennyworth 2
fb101 2
magnasort 10
Jerryspringer 1
theo 1 (1 brown)
Merc49 1 plastic dime
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
3788 Posts |
 Posted - 06/11/2009 : 00:46:42
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Originally posted by merc49
Found a plastic dime in a penny roll last night.
darn those plastic dimes cluttering up the penny rolls. |
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw.
Why Copper Bullion ~~~ Interview with Silver Bullion Producer Market Harmony
Passive Income blog |
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PennehChaos.
Penny Collector Member
USA
269 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 14:56:51
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| i've found a couple of the copper-colored ones this year, both in CWRs a local convenience store turned in to my bank. They must be nearsighted, because i tend to get a lot of dark-toned dimes from their rolls. Somehow i'm not too surprised that the locals are buying their malt liquor with fake pennies... |
Considering Verizon Business service? Perhaps you'd like to consider a nice drain cleaner enema instead? |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
441 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2009 : 20:26:02
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| Ran $500 with no jams before a damn plastic penny backed everything up. The comparitor was completely jammed up. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 09:01:55
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Found my first plastic DIME. Says School Money on it. It appears to be in AU condition
Not bad when it also had a 1907 IH in the mix too. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
10 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 15:01:28
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| I found a brown variety last night handsorting...I threw it away as well. |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2009 : 23:02:27
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| I found one Jefferson Nickel play School Money grey in color. Also, found what I thought was play money but was not plastic. On one side it reads: TO MAKE CHANGE FOR 1 CORRECT SALES TAX PAYMENT. The other side reads: ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION - DITAT DEUS. Not sure what it is made of but doesn't stick to a magnet. 1.2 grams. Any ideas! |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 02:31:12
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Man, I am going through a drought.. I haven't found any plastic pennies or Indians for months.
Smartinson.. your Arizona Sales tax token is most likely made out of carbon fiber or aluminum. There were a bunch of these issued back in the old days when sale taxes were less than a penny. My how times have changed. Sales tax for me is now 9.75%. Makes a guy not want to buy anything. The good news.. there is no sales tax on a box of pennies.  |
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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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2009 : 07:38:48
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| Thanks, HCBTT. Googled it and You are right and I think they were called Mills. 1/10 of 1 cent. Not plastic but interesting. |
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sheba
Penny Pincher Member
USA
191 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2009 : 23:19:39
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My wife found our first plastic penny tonight in a BWR. It is dark copper brown color and slightly smaller in diameter than a real penny. It kind of fools your eye at first.
It has no date on the obverse but it does have a very stylized picture of Mr. Lincoln. Where the date should be it simply says 'money'. Where the 'Liberty' should be it has 'PMC'.
The reverse is pretty close to real and kind of 'threw' my wife until she looked closer and saw that it is missing the phrase 'E Pluribus Unum".
I am positive that this is a rare plastic variety that all plastic penny collectors are searching for  . I'll be glad to make a straight trade for an XF - AU 1914D if anyone is interested 
Actually, the most interesting thing we've found in our roll searching is a silver 1944 25 cent coin minted in Philadelphia and from, I think, Belgium or maybe the Netherlands. I think the silver content makes it worth a little more than a penny! 
Sheba |
woof ... wag ... whine |
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cwgii
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
924 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2009 : 23:37:18
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| it has been months since i got one. but. alas, a brown 'imperial' plastic showed up in a cwr yesterday. |
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Silver Surfer
Penny Pincher Member
USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 17:19:53
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| It happened to me today. Kept getting shorted cents and dimes by an incompetent/lazy/ugly woman at the Shell station so I went to a different Shell station where I received a clear plastic penny in my change from the clerk. Exact same circumference, diameter and thickness as a real cent. First time I've seen this and I'm 40 something. |
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2009 : 11:49:40
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| I got one last week |
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cwgii
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
924 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2009 : 15:58:18
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| yesterday, i got a gamut. first was ih. number 6, then a 1961 dime, then........... a plastic penny. oh yeah, and 50 1974d that were au. |
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2009 : 21:31:11
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| found one plastic penny today with, "school money" written on it. |
Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
3788 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2009 : 04:57:37
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| Was opening penny rolls and out popped another dateless Canadian plastic penny. I know its a Canadian because it has the maple twig design. School Money on the back. This is the second one of this variety I've found. |
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw.
Why Copper Bullion ~~~ Interview with Silver Bullion Producer Market Harmony
Passive Income blog |
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PennySaved
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1720 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2009 : 10:25:34
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| I found one over the weekend. |
SELLING COPPER PENNIES 1.4X FACE SHIPPED......“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale” Thomas Jefferson |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2009 : 19:34:56
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got another last week
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 09/24/2009 : 02:28:14
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Is a Canadian Plastic penny still worth just a little bit less than a US plastic penny?
This is a rough year sorting for me.. I haven't gotten a plastic penny in many, many months. |
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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metalmoney.ca
Penny Pincher Member
Canada
223 Posts |
Posted - 09/26/2009 : 12:53:29
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this thread is hilarious.
i never read it past the title...until i found my FIRST PLASTIC PENNY! WOOT! so, its an american penny "imperial" above abes head, abe himself seems to have dreadlocks and to the left of abe is "play money". found in a CWR and diameter and thickness slightly bigger than a "real" penny |
metal is a claim on future human labour. let's all go get some while the getting is good, eh? |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2009 : 22:49:08
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| WhooHoo.. I found one! Finally on the board. Just shows that if you sort enough, you can find the elusive plastic penny. This one was out of a bank wrapped roll from Loomis. Their machines must be set a lot looser than mine. None of my rolling machines would roll this up. |
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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2old
Penny Pincher Member
188 Posts |
Posted - 10/05/2009 : 08:29:35
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Found one last night sorry for poor image, fist scan with new scanner.
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3983970556_29dfd858aa_m.jpg[\img] |
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taijitu
Penny Sorter Member
74 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2009 : 19:48:28
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| Found copper colored cent from PMC today handsorting bank rolls in Oregon |
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