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Moderator
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There is no need to melt them. You can keep them or easily sell/trade as bullion. They will not make you rich, but they are still free money.
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Valued Member
 United States
458 Posts |
And who doesn't like free money?! :D
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
I'm surprised the government doesn't search the ones it has for a profit because for each one we save or gets melted/destroyed, the goverment loses a potential 1.8 cents.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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wulffy11, the government doesn't lose anything, the taxpayers foot all government expenses  |
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New Member
United States
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i save all my coppers!  |
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Valued Member
United States
111 Posts |
Been saving all copper pennies too. In bank rolls I get around 15 in each roll. And always find them in our pocket change. I keep all 1982's in a separate container. One day I might weight them or not. Need a scale first.  |
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New Member
United States
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^ I am doing the same thing to just dont wanna dish out money for one, I probably have like 20 dollars face of pre 82 pennies
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Valued Member
United States
458 Posts |
For the 1982s, I looked at it, dropped it a few times, and then decided from there lol.
If I was wrong, oh well. :P
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Valued Member
United States
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My piggy bank for the coppers, and so the thieves don't find it I hide it under a tree.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have been separating pennies for years into 3 categories, pre 1982, 1982, and post 1982. And for the 1982's I separate small dates from large dates. I was finding about 10% are small dates. I have 63 small date 1982p so far. Last night I weighed the small dates only and 36 were copper and 27 were zinc. This is 57% copper. Is this what others have found for the 1982 pennies?
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Ya wpd7. My grandfather was a dairy farmer and when he moved to the city he used them to save change in. This was one of his but it was no longer full when I got it.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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 I have 2 of those old milk containers......and had asked husband if he could get this lid off for me a few weeks ago that's painted as I had the same thought. I buy $5.00 worth of penny rolls each pay day along with some rolls of nickels to search through. Then just roll the pennies and nickels I don't want back into more rolls. |
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I saw a picture of a 55 gallon drum full of wheat cents on ebay the other day. I saw a picture of two little kids next to a pile of wheat cents as big as a mattress and a foot deep. |
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United States
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I can get roughly 3-5 cents a piece for them on ebay. |
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