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Rest in Peace
United States
3039 Posts |
Last year I was finding 20-25% copper cents in a box. Now I'm down to about 10 or 12%. Has anyone else noticed this? I guess they're really being pulled.
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
One of the recent boxes I opened must have been closer to 40% copper (I don't count so it's a guess) but it was unusual in that it had tons of coins from 1965 to 74. Nothing exciting and almost all similar in color.
Other than that box I'm not sure, but I'll start paying closer attention because I too have been wondering if enough people are hording copper to make it disappear anytime soon.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
seems normal in my area.
i dont tkae into account the numbers of coppers being pulled but I would guess its around 15%-20%
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2130 Posts |
I have notice the decline myself. I pull all that I find.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
744 Posts |
I have a market for the coppers I pull and can get paid 70% of spot for them........ In northern New England, I'm still pulling 25-30% coppers here......I've noticed that there is someone else pulling coppers also, cause I'm finding copper free rolls......but they are not searching for WAM's in the rolls, so I look for the WAM's and ship the Zincoln's back in bags to my dump bank........ |
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Valued Member
United States
458 Posts |
I've been steadily getting between $8-$9 in coppers a box for the last year. Only change I've noticed has been in amount of wheats. About six months ago it was 30-40 a box, now it's down to 16-25.
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Valued Member
United States
364 Posts |
I get 20-25% per box, and have for a while. Sometimes I get a little more or a little less. I do agree with bvalania, the wheats seem down. However, they too can vary. This last box I started, I am about $10 into it and no wheats. However, I am finding about 25% copper. Go figure.
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Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
I recently searched two boxes. One box was pretty normal for me at about 20% for the box. The second was my worse box ever for copper. It yeilded only about 10% copper. However, I did pull 4 WAM's from that box so I was doing the happy dance. 2-2000 and 2-1998. The most WAN's ever found at a time. I usually find one WAM every 3 or 4 boxes. That box also produced the first roll I ever opened without finding at least one copper cent. |
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Moderator
 United States
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Quote:I have notice the decline myself. I pull all that I find. I second that. Although I should admit that my analysis is based only on change from transaction and not roll hunting. |
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Valued Member
United States
228 Posts |
In San Diego - it's still about 18.5% for me - been that way for over a year now...
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New Member
United States
40 Posts |
The last few boxes seemed low (about 10-15%), but then the next seemed normal (about 20-30%). It could be from all the copper I'm pulling!
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Valued Member
United States
213 Posts |
Last box I did in April was 15% copper cents - Las Vegas
The Danester
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Valued Member
United States
296 Posts |
No change here in the Metro Detroit area. Plenty O' copper to be had. Still running a tad shy of 30%.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1164 Posts |
The copper percentages are still averaging in the high 20% range. And the only difference is the amount of wheats. Those are going down like a rock!
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Valued Member
United States
187 Posts |
Finished a box yesterday and another today both at just around 18%
..in Colorado
Edited by rdlem
06/12/2011 02:33 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
9104 Posts |
Even without more people looking, eventually, you start checking the same coins.
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Posted 06/09/2011 1:42 pm
