How Do You Store The Pennies You Horde!?!

I keep the copper back in the boxes I get the coin in (as long as they are the brinks boxes and not the cheaper ones).

Unless you are hoping to save these coins for 200+ years, any clean, sturdy container will work for the 95% copper cents. I personally use a wholesale club-sized pretzel barrel (maybe 4 gallons?) for mass storage, and keep an applesauce jar (again, a huge one) so I'm not making 20 trips to the basement every week for every penny I get back in change. I keep MS coins separate in rolls organized by year, and a separate roll for all S-mints and '82 zincolns.

ASLAN, the "Bicentennial cents" are the 2009 cents with the 4 designs featuring Lincoln's life and presidency. Due to the recession, the Mint was instructed to produce them in reduced numbers, resulting in a very low mintage; about 250-370 million each for the first three designs (per mint), and significantly less for the fourth design (130 M for P, 200M for D). The coins were hoarded by collectors and ebay barons, and have always been extremely rare in circulation.

Deli buckets.


Holds 50 pounds of copper each

1.3 gallon. And no handles at all they hold potato salad.

I just realized I am up to 600 pounds of pennies. I would call my horde a better grade because I sort out the damaged and corroded pennies.

Until I found this place and started boxed roll hunting in 2013, I was just keeping change in a 5 gallon water jug (plastic) to sort at a later time. now that I have more than just a few pennies kept I have a box of 1970s in new rolls in one of the 12 boxes that I got of pennies last year. Works great as a door stop for my closet. Wheats are in cleaned medicine bottles (the orange prescription type) and those screw top coin tubes. My 2009 horde is in a few cleaned out Tums containers. 1982's (one have been sorted on composition yet) are in some kind of tube like thing that chips came in. Not the cardboard Pringles type, but a plastic one. I got lots more pennies I don't even know where are, I think they have been left alone for so long they are breeding, because I am always finding more just laying around on various furniture, in pockets. so I guess I keep them just about everywhere.

Oh, also any that I have that are NOT for keeping go back into the shotgun rolls they came from in the bank to buy lottery tickets with, since it requires cash, and they can not refuse any sort of cash payment for them. Coins are still money to spend so without a no-fee coin counter option I just spend ALL my leftover coins that are not to be kept.