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 Posted 03/23/2024  4:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add halfamind to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
A box of 2,500 copper cents (face value of $25) would weigh about 17.1 pounds, so $250 of copper cents at face value would weigh a little over 171 pounds. Yeah, that would be a big jar. Anything under around 60 pounds and you're not even getting copper melt value (which you're not allowed to melt, anyway).

Then again, that 1909-S VDB might be lurking in there. Good luck!
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A box of 2,500 copper cents (face value of $25) would weigh about 17.1 pounds, so $250 of copper cents at face value would weigh a little over 171 pounds.


Seems to me a normal glass jar would not be able to contain that hefty a mass without cracking.
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 Posted 03/25/2024  10:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jk109e4 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Good luck. Keep us posted.
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Yes! Please let us know what you've found.
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GOOD LUCK!

I've searched a lot of these jars and didn't find much. I suspect it will mostly be 1940's and 50's coins. It better be a huge jar! $250 is a hefty sum. I can get 5000 ct bags from my local shop for that.
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