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Valued Member
United States
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My "finds" in boxes of cents varies greatly. One box had over 50 wheats. Best ever. Several boxes have had 0 zero wheats. A month ago I bought 4 boxes of cents at two different banks. all 4 boxes had cents dated 1982 and later. These were regular bank rolled, etc. A few years ago I think I averaged about5-10 wheats per box. Now it seems to be about 2-5. So as others have pointed your, your results will vary. You just never know what you will find.
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Valued Member
United States
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Oh, and it is a labor of love. You will not get rich doing this. I do it for the pure enjoyment.
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Valued Member
United States
74 Posts |
If you can try to get the paper "customer wrap's", seems to produce better than bank rolled plastic wrap's. I have been averaging about three to five wheats per box, and I have never found a steel cent in circulation. Not yet anyway. Seem t find alot of foreign coin's, to bad I don't really collect those, they just end up in the foreign jar.
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New Member
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I made it through the cents this evening my haul:
3 Canadian Cents
4 Wheaties
1 Proof (1968 S)
What do you think of that haul? To me I think it is kind of low, I was expecting more wheat cents.
That does sound a bit low on both the Wheat cents and the Canadian cents. I usually get about an avergage of 11 wheats per $25 box and 9-10 Canadian cents per $25 box. It might just be an anomaly or you might be competing with other penny searchers in your area that are doing this on a large scale. I know of one guy in Michigan that is hoarding these pennies for copper to the tune of 100K copper cents put away per month, while another in Illinois is about to hit his 3 millionith copper cent saved. |
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Valued Member
United States
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The great thing about pennies is, there is a ton of them. No one person can get them all. But I'm going to try.
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
its nice to have all that money just to hold the copper penny.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2049 Posts |
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its nice to have all that money just to hold the copper penny.
Yeah youre not kidding. For the guy doing 100K in pennies a month, that's $1000 saved in pennies per month. Alot of people dont make enough to save that kind of money per month. For the guy with 3 million, that's $30K in pennies which is also more than most people have. |
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Valued Member
United States
74 Posts |
If all doesn't go as predicted, and copper doesn't go sky high, at least there saving more money than they otherwise would have. That's the way I look at it.
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Valued Member
United States
120 Posts |
mrotkin, please send me an email. I need to ask you something. Thanks.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You'll definately find it a ROLLER COASTER RIDE !......There are "highs" & "lows" that you've got to be braced for.......you can have long droughts that will depress you and make ya want to give up....but if you just keep at it through thick and thin.......you'll have your "time" as so many others have posted with their goodies found...  Me ?...I'm just currently on a break ! Ha Ha...  Edited by eaglefoot
03/29/2008 10:29 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
On average I find 10 wheat cents.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
Well back to topic, you did pretty good for your first haul!
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Valued Member
United States
176 Posts |
as for the rolls in PLASTIC here where I live BRINKS is the only one that does the PLASTIC wrapped pennies. And the other banks I get from are paper wrapped. I been doing this for 3 months now and I have a great ERROR collection with Double dies, and Die Varities. It is really fun for the hunt and finding the coin thst you been looking for that is what I like about it.
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Valued Member
United States
336 Posts |
my last roll from my box of pennies.i got a 1943 D steel.this is the first time I got one from a box.
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