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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Still new at this roll searching; however, I finished a box tonight that is clearly the best yet for me. Nothing really spectacular, but I did get 13 rolls of copper and 37 wheaties. There were about three rolls of reds, lots of 60's, 70's. Multiple 60 and 60D's; will check those closer tomorrow for small or large dates. Again, nothing spectacular, but lots of fun!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4541 Posts |
nice finds! 37 wheats is a lot if you ask me
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Pillar of the Community
United States
781 Posts |
that's pretty good. I also had a box similar to yours, I think of the 2500 cents in there, 2100 were copper. I pulled 30 or 40 wheats as well. that was a fun box.
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
Is it worth cherry picking out 1982 & before copper cents ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
 nice one. That was a good box. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
811 Posts |
good box. in 25.00 boxes here I average 5 wheats.later greg
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Valued Member
Canada
60 Posts |
Wow! Great Box! I usally get about 10 wheaties per box! :)
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Valued Member
United States
487 Posts |
That box held a bonanza of copper!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1599 Posts |
Parkquarters-as to your question...even though you cant smelt them, the copper in the cent is worth over 2 cents currently. I suspect that value will continue to increase as does the nickel in in the nickels (I am waiting on the change there also). I am not really collecting them for the metal value, I hope some day my grand kids and/or great grandkids will show their kids these old copper coins that their weird grandpa collected. And besides that, its a lots of fun.
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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
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I hope some day my grand kids and/or great grandkids will show their kids these old copper coins that their weird grandpa collected. And besides that, its a lots of fun.
Thats cool & it is alot of fun,puting together better condition sets of them .  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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37 wheaties is great, congrats!
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Valued Member
United States
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37 wheaties is very awesome! My last box I found 11 wheats...including a 1926 D!
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 United States
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Is it worth cherry picking out 1982 & before copper cents ? I keep all copper cents and nickels. My reasoning is that regardless of the legality, there could be a large melting of these in the future, making them a bit scarcer than they are now. I also keep all red zinc cents, because many of these are just disintegrating! Most of them are going into some large containers, sorted by type (copper, zinc, nickel). I am not doing it for profit, but to give my son something to search through and build sets once he is old enough.  |
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Valued Member
Canada
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My last cent box here in Toronto yielded 41 King Georges and 35 wheaties. In Canada!
I also found two MS-60ish Canadian varieties: 1965 large beads pointed 5, and a 1979 double date. It was pretty clear some older collector had some of his coins dumped intentionally or by accident.
That was definitely my best box as well
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Posted 06/26/2010 03:57 am
