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Valued Member
United States
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Wished I lived close and had an interest when you did that....could have bought them and saved me some time. That was a lot of copper pennies...lol.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@ImTBM;
Like I said; It was more of an issue of moving soon. If I was 10-15 years younger, I probably would still have them. Comes a time in most of us, when downsizing becomes a priority.
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Comes a time in most of us, when downsizing becomes a priority. Inescapably true. |
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Valued Member
United States
174 Posts |
For sure...I guess that's why we still hunt. All of these coins coming from collections back into circulation keeps the dream of finding some gems alive.
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Moderator
United States
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All of these coins coming from collections back into circulation keeps the dream of finding some gems alive. This is true. Most heirs have no idea what they just inherited. They see a pile of money and deposit it at the bank. |
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New Member
 United States
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I took a look at the Web coins site on ebay. This would explain my difficulty in finding silver coins as well as the copper coins in the central PA / Eastern PA area. I traveled all over Pennsylvania and picked up rolls of coins at local banks. Central PA and the Philadelphia area always had the lowest percentage of silver coins in the bank wrapped rolls. Looks like pennies are going this way to. If I had the free storage space and the extra cash. I would be hoarding copper pennies too. Maybe I could bury them in a state game lands and leave a treasure map to my grandkids to be opened 50 years from now? |
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Rest in Peace
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UPDATELast Bank Box through Brinks Missouri Fed Region: Copper coins found: 493 or 19.7% Wheat Cents Found 11 or .5% Total copper(LWC, LMC, Canadian) = 20.2% Of these I had a "Second Look" of set asides for errors, RPMs , etc.: Copper 2nd look: 104 or 4.29% Zincolns 2nd look: 168 or 6.7% Total errors/RPM/DD or interesting found........1 Posted this yesterday, a big linear plating bubble...whoopee...  
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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WOW I am so mad that Strings & Sons here on the east coast is taking all the pre 1982 cents out they wrap the coins for all the banks around here.
I never saw such junky cents in my life as what are in rolls today. Not sure where they find so many dirty junky cents guess the cent coin roll hunting days are over.
I have been getting a few nice 2000 and up cents in some rolls though so I did keep them.
Anyway so sad that the cent coin roll days are over better get a lot's of nickel rolls they are probably next.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well I am going to start getting a box of nickels every week as I figure they will be next to go.
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Rest in Peace
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Brucec, did you notice the link Bobby posted a page or so ago regarding a Webcoins of PA? If you look at who owns this outfit that is sacking the copper it is none other than String itself! Say that pretty well wraps up the copper market in your area don't it?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well I give UP first Strings & Sons take all the copper cents out so I switch to nickel roll hunting. The first time I got 10 rolls WOW almost all of them were keepers in very good shape.
BUT now First National Bank must tell the tellers if anyone asks for rolls to give them CRAP. I got 10 rolls of nickles from one branch they were the most beat up coins I have ever seen. So today I go to a different branch and get 10 rolls of nickles and cents. The nickles were machine wrapped but again were all CRAP the 10 rolls of cents were hand wrapped and they were all crap.
The darn bank has me so mad I may switch banks they have to be telling the tellers to give as I said people that ask for a large number of coin rolls CRAP.
Will be a pain in the butt with all the direct deposits I have but I am going to maybe switch.
Is anyone else experiencing this new trend with their bank?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
772 Posts |
I am very surprised reading this topic. I don't know if it is just a Minnesota thing or not, but I seem to do just fine with copper cents in NF String Rolls. Fine is relative of course, and I do not pull out all of the copper cents, I only pull the pre 70s. But, that being said I average over 100 60's copper cents EVERY $25 I buy.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That sounds like a very good ratio to me.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1026 Posts |
Well maybe that is what I need to try get a box of nickels then they can't just get there crappy rolls out from under the counter. I will try and see if they will even give me a box.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My last 10 boxes here in FL have averaged right at 18% copper. But I did get one box that was someones dump. I didn't notice it wasn't sealed until I got home, and when I started going through the Customer wrapped rolls, it was obvious. I stopped after $9 and took it back.
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