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Valued Member
United States
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Does anyone here, like me, go out of their way to ask EVERYONE they know if they have a cent jar sitting around somewhere?  I personally love doing this.. searching through water jugs or coffee cans filled with cents. I have yet to find anything spectacular.. just some wheats and a 1998 Wide AM recently! So yeah.. does anyone else here do this, and if so... what have you found? |
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Valued Member
United States
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Moderator
 United States
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I have been known to sift through change piles people may have sitting on a counter or table.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1000 Posts |
I do  I went thru my sisters change jug recently and found about 20 wheats one of them an "S" from the 20s. And a 1943 Mercury dime. I almost fainted.  |
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Valued Member
United States
124 Posts |
My Father recently gave me about 8-10 rolls of pre 1960 jeffersons. While there weren't many silver war nickles, I did manage to get an almost complete 38-60 set (minus the 50D and a few others, which I had to purchase separately). Anyhow you would be surprised what people have sitting around.
I also tell all my friends that I will buy their change off of them at face. I use the argument 'that if ya have a 100$ in change Coinstar will only give ya 90$'... I figure if I keep bothering them about their change they will finally give it to me just to shut me up!
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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I figure if I keep bothering them about their change they will finally give it to me just to shut me up!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
i have made offers to my co workers who have said the have coffee cans full of loose change
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New Member
United States
38 Posts |
My in-laws actually have two glass jugs that are 10 gallons each chucked full of change waiting for me to go through. Mostly pennies, but in the bottom of one (the older one) I can see mercury and buffalos. I don't think they have spent any change in the last 60 years. One problem though, do you know what 10 gallons of change weighs? They can't be moved - not even tipped on their sides. This process is going to involve a hammer and a vacuum - that is why I've been avoiding it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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there has to be a way to tip em w/out breaking the glass
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
It cant weigh more then 500 lbs each. You should work out a little.
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New Member
United States
38 Posts |
Well let's see:
Water = 8.33lbs/gal X 8 (specific gravity of Cu is 8.6 ish - but there is some air in there, we'll go with 8) X 10 total gallons =
666.4 lbs each - I'm just a little guy!
Actually their location is the problem, kind of on a ledge near the entryway - no way to tip unless you can support 666.4 lbs, did I mention I was a little guy? One of them is also cracked, this is a disaster that I'm sure I'll be jumping into sometime soon...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3077 Posts |
maybe use a glass cutter and remove just the top
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
if there is room, maybe you could put a mattress or a lot of pillows or something for it to fall on, and then tie a rope around the top and get 3-4 people to help you tip it onto that.
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New Member
United States
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My preliminary plan is to apply a nice thick layer of duct tape the entire sides, bring in the hammer and see what happens - Tim Allen will be proud......
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
Tim Allen would use a jackhammer, or one of those machines that drive pilings... And break half the house too I believe.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1424 Posts |
are these the old water bottles? I think they are 5 gallons each...so they should only weigh 333.2lbs each
How big are the openings of the bottles? could you use a shop-vac to suck the coins out?
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Posted 01/21/2009 10:34 am
