ray, I just sit on all the copper I have them stored in old metal coffee cans (anyone remember those) they take up one full closet haha I also found the other day 5 full coffee cans of 1982-1985 zincs that I separated all those yrs ago and forgot all about those!! they are beauties still with their original luster
I save mine and roll them. I let my grandson take them to coin shows. He can usually get a good deal from someone and then he has some extra spending money.
I also roll the copper pennies and hold on to them, but I've only started with CRH, so we'll see what happens once it all stacks up. Maybe I'll give ebay a shot then.
That's some very interesting responses. I haven't been separating copper. I'm just looking for wheats and error pennies. Right now I'm going through a 30 year hoard of pennies and checking them. My wife had gone through them about 5 yrs ago removing all the wheats. Ha, I've found a cpl wheats already.
I am saving them from certain death, that is, from melting.
I suspect that acquiring cents and nickels in change, let alone in rolls and boxes, will be a distant memory by the time my son is old enough to search. I am keeping my hoard for him to look through.
I have about a hundred pounds of copper cents and had stopped saving them. Now that they will stop making the cent here in Canada, I may just have to start saving again and increase my hoard
Yes, I search boxes of pennies primarily to accumulate copper. I believe that these smaller copper cents would be better to trade and barter in tough times rather than silver which I can't afford. Copper pennies allows me to sell some off on ebay for Books!, because I'm a poor college student. Pennies are the most fun and entertaining to search with nickels being 2nd, dimes 3rd, halves 4th.
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Posted 04/08/2012 7:40 pm
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