Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82s

[klava]

Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

A friend from work brought her penny jar for me to look through. Not sure how many there was but it was a bunch lol.

8 wheats:
37
42
44
45d
49d
50d
57
58d

7 Canadians
53
66
67
84
93
00
00

Misc:
59:2
59d:4
70s:2
73s:1
74s:1
BU 63

18 rolls of copper cents


I also took my 82's to work and finally weighed them out. i eneded up with.

486 copper
67 zinc

so 87% of them were copper. For the hand sorters who keep copper you are throwing away alot of copper if you throw your 82's back.

I am now around 65 dollars in copper cents for the year.

HH
-K

 

[Seagates]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

Yeah i had saved up like 15 bucks worth of 82s until i finally got a machine that can determine copper from zinc. I'd say a good 80% were copper. Did you give her a tip for the copper and wheats or was she just glad to get rid of some of the pennies for face value?

 

[klava]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

Im paying face and rolling her zincers up for her. Its win win for me. i searched them at work and will roll them at work lol I love doing my hobby while getting paid lol

 

[Diver_Down]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

I keep my 82's, but I never got around to weighing them yet. Now that you have the copper, you should separate them by small date variety.

 

[garbageman]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

Good job on all the keepers. I only keep the copper cents that I get in pocket change not from CRHing. It would be way too many to save so I drew the line there. I use my Whites XLT detector to check the 1982 cents. The copper reads higher than the zinc. Good luck and keep them wheaties coming!

 

[mistergee]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

Good job on all the keepers. I only keep the copper cents that I get in pocket change not from CRHing. It would be way too many to save so I drew the line there

ditto....wouldn't have the room for all the ones found while searching

 

[silvercop]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

if my silver totals don't pick up soon i am going to try pennies for a while and do copper. anyone here got a ryedale? if so tel me a little about it

 

[davest]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

I still don't understand the value in saving the copper cents. And I've got a bunch.

 

[klava]

Re: Penny Jar and finally weighed my 82's

Reydales are great! I ended up trading mine off due to the lack of getting alot of pennies at a time plus i can only afford to do a certian amount and save a certian amount. I also love hand sorting as i like to pick out alot of coins that others dony.

Google reacent and check out the forums there all kinds of great info on ryedales and the value of copper.