Picked this up to start hoarding my copper cents in

[Coppercrazy]

Picked it up for 50c at a garage sale. It's a one gallon coca cola syrup jug from the 70s maybe? It should hold around 6,000 cents! Immediately when I saw it, I thought copper cents and heck it is kind of collectible. Can't go wrong for 50c!

 

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[Iamrussell]

Gonna be one heavy sonuvagun once its full-

;-)

 

[Coppercrazy]

For every $50 copper cents lot I sell on ebay for profit I'm going to throw in $5 of copper cents of my own, so I'm throwing $20 in now.

 

[Generic_Lad]

They might be fun to put in, but good luck getting them out of there when its time to sell....

 

[RamsesII]

Yeah, I agree. I'd go back to the yard sale and see if they had any mini sledges for $5.

Reminds me when I gutted my bathroom. Filled a regular sized trash can with debris, tile, drywall. Then duh - couldn't move it out. Ha.

 

[Coppercrazy]

Haha, they pour out fine! It would take probably 10 minutes to empty the whole thing, but the hole at the top is slightly larger than a quarter. It should be fine, but if not oh well the jar only cost 50c.

 

[PhattyB]

Haha, they pour out fine! It would take probably 10 minutes to empty the whole thing, but the hole at the top is slightly larger than a quarter. It should be fine, but if not oh well the jar only cost 50c.

I'm sure they pour out fine when you only have $5 in there. Wait until it's over half full and weighs 50+ pounds and then see if they come out fast enough....


Aww.. to have a young back again...

 

[Coppercrazy]

Haha it'll weigh roughly 50lbs completely full. Maybe I'll just buy a 5 gallon water jug?

 

[Generic_Lad]

Haha it'll weigh roughly 50lbs completely full. Maybe I'll just buy a 5 gallon water jug?

The problem is the narrow neck. At the coin counter a couple of times I helped some older people who've stored up their change in those and milk jugs and they simply don't come out quickly and you're left holding it awkwardly shoving a pencil or ruler in there to try to get the coins out quickly.

You're just as good to get a bucket and call it good.

 

[The_EE]

Haha it'll weigh roughly 50lbs completely full. Maybe I'll just buy a 5 gallon water jug?

A much better choice would be to get paper rolls and roll up 50 cents at a time and stick them inside the boxes you have searched. They stack much better, they are easier to ship if you choose to do so and banks accept them if your really need the money. Banks wont accept glass jugs of pennies, they will accept a $25 box full.

Also, I would say you could get about $20 or so for that bottle, depending on condition.

 

[Coppercrazy]

The condition is fair. I figured I could get something for it on eBay.

 

[Coppercrazy]

There it is with roughly $20 in it. It weighs 17.0lbs

 

[BuffaloBoy]

nothing is worse than walking up to the coin machine when the person in front of you is trying to empty their piggy bank or gatorade bottles full of change, it takes forever and is just frustrating, lol.

 

[nube250]

I'd fill that with beer and put the pennies in an empty milk jug:-) Brewing is one of my other hobbies..

 

[Coppercrazy]

Looks like it's a 1940's bottle! Pretty cool in my book! I love old collectibles. Not worth a ton, but it doesn't matter. I like it!

 

[mercury1]

CC. Maybe that jug would be good to hold your hoard of wheat cents.

 

[Coppercrazy]

My mom suggested the same thing, but I have them in this right now. It counts them as I put them in the jar but once I fill it up I think I will do that and move my copper cents to this 2.5 gallon bucket I have which will hold roughly 15,000 copper cents, about 100lbs. I don't know how I will be able to move that but it can be done. And I can stack those in my closet.

 

[FormerTeller]

The problem is the narrow neck. At the coin counter a couple of times I helped some older people who've stored up their change in those and milk jugs and they simply don't come out quickly and you're left holding it awkwardly shoving a pencil or ruler in there to try to get the coins out quickly.

The problem is both the narrow neck and the weight of all the pennies on the ones trying to exit the neck.

You might want to try emptying out the $20 you have in there now by first inverting the jug, then seeing how easily the coins drop out.

 

[Coppercrazy]

The problem is both the narrow neck and the weight of all the pennies on the ones trying to exit the neck.

You might want to try emptying out the $20 you have in there now by first inverting the jug, then seeing how easily the coins drop out.

I just did and put them into my new 2.5 gallon bucket took less than a minute.

 

[jamesg13]

reminds me of the old 64oz beers, ohhh the good ol days lol