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Pillar of the Community
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Last time I searched penny rolls, I found 3-4 wheats/5 rolls. Half of these were in the 30s, strangely enough!
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Yes, all the time. I found about 110 this week alone. I did have to look through $450 in cents though. I do not look at every coin, that would burn me out real quick. I always try to get customer wrapped coins. I open 3-4 rolls on a towel and quickly spread them out. Wheats have a slightly different color to them than regular coppers so they are easier to spot. I do a quick harvest then move on to the next few rolls. I know I miss some but I don't have the time to examine 45000 coins. When I run them through my copper sorter I also spot more and grab them too. This week the oldest was two 1919s and last week a 1909.
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I'm done searching my box. Not much in there. 3 wheats, 9 Canadian pennies, 1 Bahama cent.
Though my oldest date was a 1918 so :P lol
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Valued Member
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I'm a roll searcher and it's free money. If you want to Kennedy half dollars you can fill your books. There's silver out there but it's drying up as many know about it. Try it and see. There's still wheat's out there but I wouldn't expect to fill a book that way. |
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If your bank(s) have them always ask for a $50 bag of cents. The reason is the chances of a bag being left in their vaults for many, many years is fairly good. Most rolls are from people that have dumped coins into the banks, run through counters, run through rolling machines. Bags may have coins from many, many years ago and just sitting there. I've found many, many very old cents including Indian Head cents that way. |
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Yes, all the time. I found about 110 this week alone. I did have to look through $450 in cents though. I do not look at every coin, that would burn me out real quick. I always try to get customer wrapped coins. I open 3-4 rolls on a towel and quickly spread them out. Wheats have a slightly different color to them than regular coppers so they are easier to spot. I do a quick harvest then move on to the next few rolls. I know I miss some but I don't have the time to examine 45000 coins. When I run them through my copper sorter I also spot more and grab them too. This week the oldest was two 1919s and last week a 1909.
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Hey Dan...I am curious about your copper sorter. Do you have some mechanical coin counter/sorter that can separate out the 1982 copper and earlier from the 1982 zinc pennies? I'd love to get my hands on one of those if such a thing exists!
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Pillar of the Community
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I just finished going through about 50# of pennies our family tossed into a box over many years....after sorting out the Wheats, there were probably 35# remaining. Out of those 35# I found one faux 1986-D DDR (it's said only to be Machine Doubling) and one 1960-D RPM-001. Sad; but true. As someone else stated, buying boxes/rolls of pennies isn't, in my experience, the optimal way to fill out a coin collection. |
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When searching pennies, I generally do it for the coppers. Before you know it, each pre-82 will be worth a nickel in melt value and we'll start seeing them disapear. Also, with the release of the new Cent next year, the Memorials from the 60s should start to slowly gain in value, in Numismatic terms.
Wheaties are still out there and in large numbers. Working at the register at my job, I generally find 2-3 a day, 1916 in AG condition being the oldest. Old nickels are much more common, but silver dimes/quarters are nearly impossible (1 quarter/0 dime) in the 4+ months I've been working for this company.)
"When I run them through my copper sorter I also spot more and grab them too"
Interesting Dan, very very interesting....where does one purchase a copper sorter and how much should I be expecting to spend?
--Gary
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I do not have time to get a $50 bag, or a mint box but I went thru 6 rolls the other day and did not find one wheatie! I did find a 1962-D in AU condition, though. It is alot of fun!
John
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Pillar of the Community
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Ok there was mention of a copper sorter earlier and after doing some research, I found some made by Ryedale: http://www.ryedalecoin.com/Products.htmlThere are some videos showing how these look and work. Dan...is this the coin sorter you are referring to? |
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Ok there was mention of a copper sorter earlier and after doing some research, I found some made by Ryedale:
http://www.ryedalecoin.com/Products.html
There are some videos showing how these look and work. Dan...is this the coin sorter you are referring to?
Yes, that is what I have. I posted a link to that site when I first started on this forum and it got deleted because I was too new to the forum. It is a great machine. I have the $350 model. The company owner, Andy, is a good guy to work with and very honest. It is a fun machine to work with. feed the coins in the top and they come out the front, copper to the left and zinc to the right. Ocassionally the machine will jam, but that is to be accepted. Will any vending machine take a bent penny or two stuck together? Also I had one jam because a 1833 1/8th Real got stuck in the chute. It is just a bit oversize from our cent. |
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Yes, that is what I have. I posted a link to that site when I first started on this forum and it got deleted because I was too new to the forum. It is a great machine. I have the $350 model. The company owner, Andy, is a good guy to work with and very honest. It is a fun machine to work with. feed the coins in the top and they come out the front, copper to the left and zinc to the right. Ocassionally the machine will jam, but that is to be accepted. Will any vending machine take a bent penny or two stuck together? Also I had one jam because a 1833 1/8th Real got stuck in the chute. It is just a bit oversize from our cent.
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Ok good that's what I thought. Do you feel that the machine is really accurate and also do you know how it determines which are copper and which are zinc? I have noticed after searching through 10000 plus pennies that the copper ones seem thicker (in addition to the weight difference) so do you know if it weighs each coin individually or does it go by thickness?
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Do you feel that the machine is really accurate and also do you know how it determines which are copper and which are zinc?
Yes, I feel it is very accurate. Not 100%, but so close as not to worry. It is much more accurate then a human that is tired of looking at all those dates and throws one in the wrong pile. It works like a super miniture metal detector. There is a slot where you put in a known 95% copper cent. Then the coins are fed past a small metal detector and each coin is compared to the 95% coin. If it matches it falls into the left chute, if it does not match the electronic signiture of the 95% coin it is re-directed off to the right. It can do this over 300 times per minute. That is a $25 box of cents in less than 10 min. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, I feel it is very accurate. Not 100%, but so close as not to worry. It is much more accurate then a human that is tired of looking at all those dates and throws one in the wrong pile.
It works like a super miniture metal detector. There is a slot where you put in a known 95% copper cent. Then the coins are fed past a small metal detector and each coin is compared to the 95% coin. If it matches it falls into the left chute, if it does not match the electronic signiture of the 95% coin it is re-directed off to the right. It can do this over 300 times per minute. That is a $25 box of cents in less than 10 min.
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Wow that is pretty cool. I agree that a tired human is going to be prone to many mistakes. Especially with such small coins with small dates/mint marks. I do mine in small batches but I am seriously considering getting one of these.
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