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merc49
Penny Sorter Member
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 Posted - 06/23/2009 : 17:43:37
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stopped at one of my pick up banks today and asked for 2 boxes. the only 2 they had were deposited by a guy they called the penny guy. I decided to take my chances and take the two boxes. one was marked 1970's and the other 1960s. i spot checked 4 randome rolls from each box and they were all coppers in the date range written on the boxes.
wish it were that easy every time.
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Heavy Metal
Penny Sorter Member
USA
86 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 18:02:46
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| Amazing this guy would go through all that trouble to sort them by date and then just bring them back to bank. I guess he just needed the money. |
Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal! - Steven Wright
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Corsair
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 18:05:08
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| It's interesting how the economic troubles have trade-offs. This, for example, is one of the positive things to come out of it for us penny sorters. And then, of course, there's the lay-offs and inflation and unemployment that present a negative side. I guess there is a silver lining (or at least copper) to every cloud. Congrats. |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 18:19:31
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| That is being at the right place at the right time |
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Ardent Listener
Administrator
USA
4841 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 18:30:01
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| Maybe the guy is just looking for wheat cents and has a sort by date compulsion. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 20:01:42
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Originally posted by Ardent Listener
Maybe the guy is just looking for wheat cents and has a sort by date compulsion.
I think so.
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."
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merc49
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 20:11:09
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| The next bank i was able to snag 15 rolls of log splitters. No boxes though. will try them again in the morning they said they could not get in the vault because the main vault teller wasnt in. |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 21:19:18
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| I think the guy just needed the money. Nice score |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
441 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2009 : 21:20:30
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merc you have the craziest luck ever. You might think about following up with the bank. leave them your business card and see if they can hold whatever boxes the guy brings in.
Alternatively, you could hav ethe guy contact you, but you might be paying more than face for the boxes this way. |
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merc49
Penny Sorter Member
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 Posted - 06/23/2009 : 21:50:04
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Originally posted by buyingsilvers
merc you have the craziest luck ever. You might think about following up with the bank. leave them your business card and see if they can hold whatever boxes the guy brings in.
Alternatively, you could hav ethe guy contact you, but you might be paying more than face for the boxes this way.
I would say 1 part luck to 3 parts "getting after it". Once i found a couple boxes of the new stuff at the same banks i went all over the city to every branch i could find. Put about 500 miles on the suv in two weeks just on bank runs. Sorted about 75 boxes of the older stuff and not to mention about 5 post office trips to mail the new stuff auctions. I also work 50 hours a week at my job, have a wife and 3 kids. The wife was kinda irritated with my new hobby until she saw me leave with a couple hundred dollars one morning and come home with $1300 5 hours later. Concidering the fact that the two hundred I left with was our last 2 hundred till pay day a week away it made a big difference in our finances. if you keep after it you will hit some pay days. if you do it right you should always be able to make a little money, and at the very worst just be out your time doing somthing you enjoy. If you dont enjoy this then I would recomend another hobby. |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 22:23:18
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Some of us havent even reached the first step of getting the new stuff. if I did, you'd better believe I'd be slamming the banks with orders. |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2009 : 13:45:11
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Originally posted by merc49
stopped at one of my pick up banks today and asked for 2 boxes. the only 2 they had were deposited by a guy they called the penny guy. I decided to take my chances and take the two boxes. one was marked 1970's and the other 1960s. i spot checked 4 randome rolls from each box and they were all coppers in the date range written on the boxes.
wish it were that easy every time.
I think I have stopped drooling long enough now to post a reply--wouldn't want to short out my keyboard/computer!!! 
Congratulations!!! Were there many S mint marks??? That is one super, awesome find to have to sort.
Continued success. |
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Maine_Jim
New Member
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Posted - 06/24/2009 : 21:55:57
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Had a similar hit last month. I was picking up my weekly halves at my bank when the teller asks if I was interested in pennies and old bills. Sure I say! I got fifty dollars in silver certificates and then $125 in cents. The rolls were as faded as could be and the teller said they came from an old lady that just went into the nursing home. I'm getting pretty excited as I haul the boxes out. Trouble was when I start looking closer at them they all have "to spend" written on them! I was thinking wheaties galore. Alas not to be but it was solid 60s and 70s. Many bright BU that had been all rolled back then and thrown in a box. I'm not a big copper collector but I mentioned on another forum this find and was told to check in here and I've been kinda lurking ever since. Since that find I've started looking at the cents again. Scored a box and a half of Log Cabins and this week got another solid box of copper - this one was from brinks and included the wheats!. Been getting kinda skunked on the halves so the pennies are looking a little better nowadays.
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Silver Surfer
Penny Pincher Member
USA
148 Posts |
 Posted - 06/24/2009 : 22:27:34
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Is there any chance the guy returned these boxes by mistake, thinking they were his zinc boxes? 
You really got lucky. Way to go. |
"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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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1664 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 09:12:13
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| I think this is one of the best penny finds ever! Congrats |
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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 12:49:21
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| Nice score and good work ethic, merc! |
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merc49
Penny Sorter Member
88 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 13:03:03
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| Thanks all. |
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phildogg
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 06/25/2009 : 21:42:18
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great finds.. I'd love to run across a couple boxes like that.. I'm having a hard time getting banks to sell me pennies..
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2 solid copper boxes from one of my banks.
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