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Valued Member
United States
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I was wondering if anyone has bought boxes of brinks pennies lately? The last few I got had no pre 82 pennies.
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Moderator
 United States
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I went through two boxes last month and it was well mixed. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Im surprised you had a box like that. Was it all of a certain year? Or somebody's zincoln dump?
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Valued Member
 United States
131 Posts |
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Valued Member
United States
66 Posts |
I just searched my first Brinks box and it had plenty of copper.
What I found odd was the large number of corroded and downright nasty Zink pennys present.
I also found 4 wheats, five canadian pennys and a BU/perfect Bremuda penny.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm working on a fresh Brink's box right now. Usual 25-30% copper. Sounds like you might be in an area of a heavy-duty copper investor or two. Some of these guys go through many boxes each day. There are still plenty of error varieties for you to hunt for in that non-copper box you have.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I just finished a $20 box and it had a good mix throughout. I found some 1969 s, 1970 s, about 40-72 p's, 71 p's, and about 20 wheat pennies a 1940 s, 1934P, 1935P, 1943P+D, 1952D, 1953P+D, 1955P, 1956P, 1957 P+D, 1959P, 1960P+D, plus more doubles for the wheat cents. Other boxes that I've searched had nothing but this last one was actually pretty good. Some of the rolls were plastic wrapped instead of paper wrapped which I've never seen before. I haven't went through the 1960 and up double die dates yet but usually put them into rolls and set them aside for later investigation.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I just finished a $20 box I noticed you are from Canada... the box you just mentioned, was this a US box or Canadian box? US boxes are $25... perhaps you just misspoke, or you found these in a Canadian box?  |
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Valued Member
United States
131 Posts |
All the boxes I've been getting lately are plastic wrapped
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10635 Posts |
Plastic is normal/typical.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2651 Posts |
TWIMC- If you get a box of rolled pennies with "X's" down the middle of the roll....don't bother looking through them....I already got the good stuff! :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1796 Posts |
Brinks uses plastic tubes, Guarda and pretty much everyone else uses paper.
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Valued Member
United States
131 Posts |
All the boxes I've been getting lately are plastic wrapped
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Valued Member
United States
275 Posts |
Brinks just landed a contract to pull like a million dollars in copper pennies out of circulation ,so they just turned their super sorter on. You may get the tail end of that
EDIT: Sorry It was ..."$5,000,000 FACE VALUE in copper pennies. Yes, that is 1,666.66 TONS!"
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01/11/2012 07:26 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Brinks just landed a contract to pull like a million dollars in copper pennies out of circulation Can you site us a link or reference for this statement? |
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Valued Member
United States
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....its all over realcent org
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Posted 01/09/2012 4:37 pm
