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I thought this told an interesting story. It's a picture of coins I've gone through from rolls and are separated out by decade. Based on the image below you can see how the coins taper off as they get older. The biggest difference is from the 80's to the 70's. I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with people hoarding them for the copper content and the hopes that the melting ban would be lifted. After that the other noticeable difference is that there are very few wheat cents. Not surprised though. Just thought this was interesting.  *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
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United States
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I think the zincs die faster faster. I believe in 20 years the 80s group will be smaller than 70s.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As someone who separates copper cents from the zinc ones, I can easily believe this observation. Going forward, there will always be less copper cents than zinc cents because of the hoarders. There are too many zinc cents out there to ever drop off significantly, even if they don't last as long.
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Pillar of the Community
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how many rolls is that? The ratio looks about normal to me, roughly 1/5 coppers. I don't think the melt ban matters to a lot of copper hoarders as people will buy copper pennies as is for copper bullion if you want to sell them. the people who want to buy up tons and melt it down for copper when its legal probably care though. I've also heard rumors of smelters who will melt pennies regardless of the ban. its always neat to put your searches by decade and see how it all adds up. nice thread :)
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Not sure how many rolls it is. I get a box, search through 5 or 6 rolls for errors, then separate them by decade. Once that's done I take each decadfe a separate them one at a time by year and look for replacement couns for my books. Then all the coppers go into one pile and the zincs go into the "return" pile.
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I actually made a grid with 10 spots across and 7 rows down. The top row I made 2010-, Second row 2000-2009, third row 1990-1999...etc...etc...It was pretty cool seeing which years stacked up more.....Its also easy to notice slight difference while CRH if you are looking at a bunch of the same year coins. You can also see how various die stages change the look of the coin. I made an excel document of a box of pennies separating years mints etc etc (I was pretty bored).
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United States
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i admit whenever I find a 1981 or older penny I throw it into a huge plastic box, and I got around 20 pounds now and I just starting saving about a year ago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm saving all copper just for fun.
Lincoln cents that are zinc do rot faster.
It's because zinc isn't the best metal to use.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do not save copper because it takes up too much space and too much money. I also believe the Zinc Cents will die out much faster than the copper
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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if you do look at the zinc coins from the 80s you will rarely ever find any in AU condition I have a feeling one day early 80s zinc cents in high grade will command a premium
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Cool, what year wheats were the wheats?
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