Searching Bank Penny Rolls, Help.

Welcome to the forum and roll searching!

I personally after going through any coins put them in a free coin counting machine at my credit union. Some people re roll the coins but that is intirely up to you.

As to you question about paying for wheat cents, I saw the average Wheat cent is between 3-5 cents. Though I would not pay more than $2 or 3 dollars for a roll of average wheats.

If your looking to score big try searching silver in halves and dimes. Hope my advice helped.

awe you guys are lucky for the free coin counting. which banks do you guys use? I doubt my wells fargo would have that.

and I'm not looking to score big just yet. recently purchased a dansco 1909-present album of lincolns and I would like to fill it out :)

Many credit unions have coin counters. Some offer free use of them to account holders. Fewer still offer them free to everyone. Looks like you found one of the latter which is an awesome score for you (saves so much time not having to re-roll to return stuff).

One other tip. At banks that have coin counters, see if you can just buy the filled bags (usually $50 face each) as they come off of the machines. This avoids paper rolls entirely and really helps speed the searching process:). This may also save the bank $$ because they then don't have to pay an armored car service to come pick them up. Thus, a win win for everyone!

Good luck with your searches!

Chugly

I buy the $25.00 box. Sort. Pull the wheats. Pull the pre 1982's. Pull toned coins with nice eye appeal. (Putting together a 1941-2010 toned cent set). Take unwanted cents back to the bank in a tupperware food container ($19.00 AVG.) Teller takes the cents and puts in large counting machine (FREE) comes back and tells me how much it was. I add about $6.00 to the amount and buy another box. My bank is U.S. Bank. Have to have an account at the bank for them to do this service for you. If you take rolled coins in there they will have you open them all up. There are several banks in Oregon that have the counting machines and will do this for you, if you have an account, for no charge.
Another good idea is to buy your cents at one bank and cash them in at another. That way you're no looked upon as a pest so much.

K, so save all wheats, copper and MS coins ya find. That's what I do anyway. Their is a guy here where I live that pays $97 for 5000 copper cents. Thats just under 2 cents a piece. Have seen them on e-bay sell for $20 for 1000. But I don't have to deal with listing them and shipping etc. I don't save the S mint coppers unless they are MS or AU. Which a lot still are out there. The rest just go in my copper pile. If ya find an S later then 74 then it's gonna be a proof coin. I've also found proofs roll searching. Make sure you look for the error coins also. Good luck and as someone has said it is addicting. WOLF

Hi !

I'm curious about the price of the copper at scrap yard. I'm from Canada and the cent was in copper until 1996.

Help me with the right price, number and calcul if it's wrong...

The price of cooper are around 9500$ ? by ton, 1 ton is 2000 pounds ?

2000 pounds is 907185 Grams ?

A canadian cent weight 2.5 Grams but are copper at 98%, the weight of the copper is 2.45 grams.

9500$ = 907185 Grams of copper
X = 2.45 Grams

The result is 2.5 cents

Right ?

I'm not too great at math but I think that sounds about right.



and so in the first $25 box I opened, I got 9 wheats. crazy how out of 2,500 pennies I only got 9. that is a .0036% chance of finding one. but I did get about 30 s mint mark pennies from about 1970 to 1974. probably cause I live in san diego which is close to San francisco. anyways I'm also setting aside coppers and '09 + '10 pennies cause they have low mintage and look great.

Murrelington : I mist a lot of "S" mint mark, if you have some spare you can conctact me, I can be interrested.

I live in Quebec, Canada, I just call at scrap yard for fun and the price is 3.52$ CDN by pound.

If you tell that it'S 153 by pound, it's around 2.3¢ each

Any buyer ? lolll