The Coffee House

[davidharmier60]

I go through a box ($25) each week.
Looking for nice copper coins and obvious errors. Then I sell that box to the store and get another. I say obvious errors because double dies and such is to hard for me to see.

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[wannabe photographer1]

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[waday]

Gotcha

 

[waday]

Just something to make my crappy day

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[SquarePeg]

I go through a box ($25) each week.
Looking for nice copper coins and obvious errors. Then I sell that box to the store and get another. I say obvious errors because double dies and such is to hard for me to see.

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What do you do with the nice copper coins and obvious errors?

 

[davidharmier60]

Roll up the copper and I haven't yet found an obvious error. Really REALLY nice ones go in flips.

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[SquarePeg]

Roll up the copper and I haven't yet found an obvious error. Really REALLY nice ones go in flips.

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What do you do with them when you roll them up? Do you save them? Are they worth more? Is this conversation going to be like pulling teeth Dave? lol.

 

[davidharmier60]

Well since they stopped making copper pennies in 1982 I figure at some point they will be worth something more than face value.

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[markjwyatt]

Sold my box of pennies.

When you say sold, do you mean exchanged for a higher denomination? Or are you selling the pennies that you found that have some value higher than one cent? ...

Pre late-1982 pennies are currently worth about 1.7 cents each. I collect those if I find them. I sort nickels out also. They are currently worth 3.7 cents each and fairly recently were worth 5 cents or above (copper and nickel fluctuate a lot). Canadian 1955-1981 nickels are pure nickel (US nickels are 75% copper/25% nickel)and are worth 5.5 US cents each now. Even zinc pennies are worth 0.6 cents now! Most other circulated coins are worth 5-15% of face value so are better spent than saved. My (ummm) 2 cents worth.

Resource: Current Melt Value Of Coins - How Much Is Your Coin Worth?

 

[davidharmier60]

I have approximately 80 rolls of copper.
Of those at least 50 are very nice rolls.
I figure I have at least a few more years of lucid thought. I just keep them and add to them as I go.

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[markjwyatt]

I have approximately 80 rolls of copper.
Of those at least 50 are very nice rolls.
I figure I have at least a few more years of lucid thought. I just keep them and add to them as I go.

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Yep. I bought some rolls of nickels in the 2008-2010 time frame (maybe 20 or so), and now I have a big plastic container and as I get them in change I sort them out (and darker pennies) and toss the nickels in. Pennies I just toss into another container to sort later.

 

[waday]

@markjwyatt , how do you get the extra value from those pennies? Say you have a penny that's face value is 1 cent, but it's really worth 3 cents. How do you go about getting that extra 2 cents? I'm honestly curious, not sarcastic--I didn't want this to come across as sarcasm.

 

[markjwyatt]

@markjwyatt , how do you get the extra value from those pennies? Say you have a penny that's face value is 1 cent, but it's really worth 3 cents. How do you go about getting that extra 2 cents? I'm honestly curious, not sarcastic--I didn't want this to come across as sarcasm.

At some point you can sell them. Look on ebay sometimes. Remember silver coins int he 1960s and early 1970s? They discontinued them and now they are worth over 10x face value. I remember working retail in the early 1980s. Occasionally a silver dime or quarter showed up in the coin drawer. When I counted at the end of the day, I just switched it with a current coin and kept it. Just stick-em in the garage and forget about them for a while.

 

[limr47]

Hey hosers.

My mother became a U.S. citizen this morning.

 

[JonA_CT]

Hey hosers.

My mother became a U.S. citizen this morning.

Congrats Momma R!