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I have lived in my present location for 11 years, and have amassed a large number of the coins I have in that period. Little did I know just how many I had until I packed them for the move.
In the last week I have packed 16 strong boxes that are 32" X 17" X 12.5" and have latches. Each box weighs between 225 and 300 pounds each, and is full of tube boxes, bags of cents, and boxes full of rolls, tubes, and baggies full of sorted cents. I packed 14 small cardboard boxes with 60 pounds each. I still have 25 canvas bags full of cents that will go in the floorboard of my Highlander for the trip to Florida.
Doing the math, that's over 800,000 cents. About 60% of these are wheats, 35% are BU rolls of memorials, and about 5% are circulated memorials that were collected from change jars that were filled in the 70s and 80s. Fully 90% of these coins are all pre-zinc.
In copper weight alone, this hoard is about 6500 pounds. At $4 per pound, this is $26,000 in copper.
Anybody got more? I'd love to hear about it.
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 Nope, can't even come close. |
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16 strongboxes...I can almost imagine a stagecoach w/ marshals escorting that.
Edited by KurtS
12/28/2007 3:00 pm
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Ahhh to think someday we will see the "Daughtrey" hoard labels on some PCGS graded coin or for sale on ebay! We can then say we knew him when it was only 6500 lbs!! |
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I'm not even close to having 10% of your total. Maybe a couple of hundred pounds is all. On another note...what did you do in the Air Force? I retired in 2003 and was a MH-53 Helo machine gunner. Was born and raised just north of KCI, MO not far from your stomping grounds.
Have a Happy New Year,
Bill in sunny (under tornado watch) Florida
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Doing the math, that's over 800,000 cents. About 60% of these are wheats, 35% are BU rolls of memorials, and about 5% are circulated memorials that were collected from change jars that were filled in the 70s and 80s. Fully 90% of these coins are all pre-zinc.
In copper weight alone, this hoard is about 6500 pounds.
  No way, I'll never come close to that in a lifetime's worth of collecting. |
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In the Air Force - I was a computer operator, part time cop, then crossed over into computer tech in AWACS.
As for the coins - I had no idea I had amassed so much. I knew I purchased rolls every time I got close to them, single purchases of sometimes hundreds of rolls at once. One purchase was for two tube boxes (200 rolls) full of BU wheat rolls dating back to 1942. Another purchase was ten different BU wheat rolls from the 30s. Another was 8 mint sewn bags of BU memorials from the 60s, and another for 45 bags of wheat cents.
The other half was single roll to ten roll purchases, buying people's 'penny jars' at just over face, etc. I bought a guy's hoard of memorials he had saved all his adulthood - $158 in face for $200. So far I have assembled dozens of BU rolls from the mid-1980s from that group.
Oh...I also bought $372 in face of memorials that a dealer had purchased as wheats and was going to take to the bank. I bought them from him for face just to paruse through them before hauling them off myself - heck, no loss, might as well do it, right? Well, the whole hoard was rolled in 1980-1981 and all the coins are copper. Not only that, but there are a large number of 1972 cents and others that 'could' yield goodies that have been out of circulation for quite some time now.
And yes, I am still a buyer. I will pay 1.2X face for any hoard of memorials that were amassed before 1990, and 1.5X face for those containing no 1980s. There's a reason for this, and it has nothing to do with the value of the metal. It's the better chances of finding earlier die varieties in better shape than with current pocket change. For instance, the 1982 doubled die that's been all the fuss here - I would have a far better chance of finding it in coins amassed in 1985 than in coins I would buy from the bank today...so there you have it. My sickness in a single thread.
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Looks like there are a lot of us on this forum that also have your sickness. If my wife would let me, I would have the entire spare bed room filled with boxes of coins and accessories. Currently, only half of the spare bedroom is being used. Other half is for my cigar collection....I got the coin and cigar sickness :)
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Coppercoins with all that 800,000 coins in your life did you ever in your entire life time collecting and looking at copper cent run into to "THE 1943 COPPER PENNY"
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1943 copper penny? No...but I did find a few convincing plated coins.
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Nope; not more....I have about (guesstimate) 15-2000 pounds in 5 strong boxes and four footlockers...and I've moved them twice. Aargh.
Jim
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Homie said, "Other half is for my cigar collection....I got the coin and cigar sickness." Yeah, baby !! Me, too...and espresso symptoms, too. Nothin' like a cigar (Patel, Cuvee, and/or Padron) and 20 oz of espresso first thing in the morning. me at 5:30 a.m.  |
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Kudos to coppercoins, you have been a great help to many on this site, and I hope you continue to do so. Also USAF veteran 1980-1984 81152 SPLE 20th security police squadron, RAF Upperheyford UK
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Let me say this: I am NOT a USAF veteran, But that does not stop this Navy vet, (20 years flying sea-planes), from giving kudos and credit where credit is due! The AF hospitals have given me the pleasure of looking forward to Feb. 19, 2008 for our 53rd wedding anniversary. She had cancer in '72, and the AF gave her back to me! The Navy did SH*t!
Coop, what you have amassed in "good stuff", in 11 years, I am approaching, in just over two years. The difference is mine are all "used" Happy New Year to all, and to yours.
Dick
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