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Copper Penny Hoard - How Big Is Yours?

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 Posted 04/08/2016  01:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add greenprint to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I read some where of people having over 3000 in copper pennies. I'm just wondering what you guys here who hoard have? I have about $140 rolled.
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 Posted 04/08/2016  02:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add benjaminfailor01 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have about $40 of copper cents, 1959-1981. & about $100 (face value) in 1909-1958 wheat copper cents.
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 Posted 04/08/2016  07:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCollector2000 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have $0 in copper cents. I just search for the errors.
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I count my Wheats by the number of full quart canning jars I have. It's a little over 23 quarts, right now.

The only reason I even look at coins past 1958 is to see if there is any outstanding error. Especially if its a really a nice error like a DDO 1972. Those I spend a bit more time examining.

Otherwise, I don't save copper for the sake of copper.
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Approx $5 face in copper cents. I don't go out of my way to get them but save them if I find them in change.

(Not including Wheat Cents, which I keep as collectables, not for copper content).
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 Posted 11/17/2016  8:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sandv555 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
hey I'm new here.
i was looking over my collection and I have about $2500. in pre 1982 cents. the bulk is wheat. I still have two water barrel that I didn't search as of yet. this is exciting.
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 Posted 11/18/2016  11:25 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GR58 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I do not try to hoard copper cents ... but have ended up with a good amount.

Over 5000 rolled cents, wheat and BU 1959 and up.

A lot more in bags a jars that I doubt I will ever go thru.
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 Posted 11/18/2016  11:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add 999fine to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Life's too short to horde copper.
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 Posted 11/18/2016  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add grinx76 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
850. all used, nothing pretty, some are ancient
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I can't stop myself from holding onto all copper cents that I come across. Luckily, nobody uses cents anymore, so I don't have too many.
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I keep all of mine as well. I have no idea how many I have, but it probably a lot less than I think. I do not get as much change as I uses to, thanks for the ease and ubiquity of electronic payments.
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 Posted 11/18/2016  10:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Libertad to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Technically bronze, not copper. I have enough that they're hard to move around without breaking my back.
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Technically bronze, not copper.
Technically cents, not pennies, but we all know what greenprint meant.
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Despite not living in the USA, I still managed to hoard a few hundred of them. Not for the copper content, but simply because I got them and it's not so possible to spend them here and I really don't care bringing them to the USA every time: there are restrictions on maximum hand luggage weight.
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I have about $300 worth. I would, one day, like to get rid of them. It gets heavy after a hundred dollars.
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In my bulk coins, I have about $14 in copper LMC and just over 1 roll of LWC. I don't coin roll hunt, so most of those were from change.
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