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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've been crh'ing but I've heard (& read) about purchasing bags of cents.
Where can I purchase these said bags of cents?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Look for a bank that has a coin machine and see if you can buy from them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My daughter works at Publix and I'm able to buy bags from their machine at face. I usually end up with a tiny built-in profit on each bag, since every bag of 5,000 cents contains at least $1.00 in dimes (and I've had as much as $3.60 in dimes).
Edited by mahgobbi
02/08/2016 6:28 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2253 Posts |
You can buy bulk copper pennies on the web. Search "bulk copper pennies." I got 10,000 of em a couple weeks ago.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
558 Posts |
My dump bank has a coin machine. There is another branch across town. I'll call them and see if I can buy from them. And I'll call my local grocery stores to see if I can be as lucky as you mahgobbi!
One of my local coin dealers has bags of cents that I can purchase but I don't want to purchase bags from someone who has already gone through them. They said that they haven't looked through them bc it isn't worth their time to go & look. But somehow I think that they probably did at least one look see through.
Of course they told me there I wouldn't find any good/valuable cents in crh'ing but that has proved wrong!
Thanks everyone!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you bought a bag from your dump bank, wouldnt you be buying coins you have already searched?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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my lcs buys wheats 2 cents each fills huge canvas bag I can pick it up for about 3 to 4 cents each 25 lbs he does not care and does not search he is more a silver guy or 5,000 coin bags of single year uncirculated if he can make $25 or so he good
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02/08/2016 7:08 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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The busier the LCS the better the chance that they sell bags of cents that haven't been searched by them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
558 Posts |
Would the branch across town that I've never been to have my coins that I dumped at the other location?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Very few banks around here have coin machines.
They just accumulate coin until they have enough bagged up to ship out. I just ask them to sell me a bag.
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Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
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Aren't bank wrapped rolls from the coin machines?
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Valued Member
United States
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Aren't bank wrapped rolls from the coin machines? Most banks once they have a full bag of coins from a coin counter send them out to the fed to be re-rolled and re-distributed to banks/businesses. Recently I've been buying cent bags off the counter at the bank I dump my halves. If you know of a bank that has a coin counter ask them if they will sell bags of coins from the counter, some will and some won't. I've got a good relationship with the bank I get my cents from, not only do they sell me bags of cents, but they order me $2000 of halves a week, take about $3000 in dumped halves, and never complain. I take the tellers something such as a pound of chocolates every few months to show my appreciation for their extra effort. A few months ago the head teller told me how disappointed she was about finding a Buffalo nickel at the bank and misplacing it before she got it home. A couple weeks later I took her a nice common date Buffalo nickel. Little things such as this seem to go a long way toward tellers trying to make you happy. If you find a bank that will work with you be sure to take care of your tellers. |
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Posted 02/08/2016 6:12 pm
