Anyone hoarding pre 1982 pennies?

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Posted: 12/15/2018 10:44:05 PM EDT

Just started with my 6 year old daughter for father daughter time and found it quite fun. We will be going to the bank to get rolls to go through on monday.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:45:35 PM EDT

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My time is worth more than pennies.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:47:41 PM EDT

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Yes, I separate them when I see them in my change. Have a big plastic jug full of them now.

Also saving nickels as well when they come in my change.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:48:55 PM EDT

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Yes

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:50:11 PM EDT

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I throw away pennies. Thousands of years from now people will be mining pennies from land fills.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:50:45 PM EDT

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What's special about pre-82 pennies?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:51:46 PM EDT

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they're copper, not zinc coated in copper

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:51:52 PM EDT

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Copper

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:52:11 PM EDT

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Yes, I separate them when I see them in my change. Have a big plastic jug full of them now.

Also saving nickels as well when they come in my change.

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Why Nickels?

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Made of Copper

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:53:40 PM EDT

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No.

I could see sorting half dollars with your daughter for fun, but not pennies.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:54:40 PM EDT

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95% copper, 5% zinc..

In mid 1982 they switched the composition to 95% zinc, dipped in copper.

I started "hoarding" them many years ago, but since the last 2 or 3 years I hardly ever get any in change.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:55:23 PM EDT

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I was, then the jar I was putting them in found itself mysteriously emptied and I never bothered starting up again.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:56:12 PM EDT

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Nice low cost Father-Daughter hobby, but nobody is gonna get rich off it.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:56:17 PM EDT

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What's the approximate worth of one pre 82 penny?

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:57:00 PM EDT

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Shit it's wheat's for me

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:57:07 PM EDT

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Been doing it for years.

Posted: 12/15/2018 10:57:08 PM EDT

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Why?

I get that they are copper, but again, why save them?

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:00:47 PM EDT

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A pre 82 penny is worth about 2 cents.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:01:15 PM EDT

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They're on average worth two cents in copper so why not save them. I pluck them from my change since it's free money. People even sell them as bullion on ebay.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:02:12 PM EDT

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Not hoarding but I keep them when I find them. Just found a 1940 something wheat penny the other day.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:02:50 PM EDT

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The copper is worth more than a penny. The theory is that once we get rid of the penny as money then you might have pounds of scrap copper and make a profit.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:03:07 PM EDT

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When my Daughter was born, for some odd reason I started picking change that I found on the ground and threw it is a jug, when she was 16 I bought her a nice used car for her 16th birthday with the change I had picked up over that 16 years. I paid a little over $6000 dollars for that car and she still has it in her garage, so $6000 in 16 years of free money worked out good for her.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:06:36 PM EDT

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I pulled a 1919 out of circulation last month .

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:09:25 PM EDT

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When my Daughter was born, for some odd reason I started picking change that I found on the ground and threw it is a jug, when she was 16 I bought her a nice used car for her 16th birthday with the change I had picked up over that 16 years. I paid a little over $6000 dollars for that car and she still has it in her garage, so $6000 in 16 years of free money worked out good for her.

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Posted: 12/15/2018 11:09:26 PM EDT

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I started collecting them like 10 years ago, and after 5 years and having about $10 of pennies set aside, I said fuck it.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:10:54 PM EDT

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For that money, I cannot be bothered.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:19:28 PM EDT

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Okay.

You do realize, that is only $31.75 dollars a month right, hell there are days I can pick $5.00 up in a grocery store parking lot

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:21:36 PM EDT

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When my Daughter was born, for some odd reason I started picking change that I found on the ground and threw it is a jug, when she was 16 I bought her a nice used car for her 16th birthday with the change I had picked up over that 16 years. I paid a little over $6000 dollars for that car and she still has it in her garage, so $6000 in 16 years of free money worked out good for her.

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Where the fuck do live at to be picking up $375 a year just laying on the ground

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:23:21 PM EDT

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I have lived a lot of places in the past, most of them big cities, when I was stationed in DC you would be amazed how much change you can find laying around on the ground.

I live in a small town now and yesterday picked a buck and a half of change laying in the parking lot at the convince store I buy my beer at.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:24:14 PM EDT

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Okay.

You do realize, that is only $31.75 dollars a month right, hell there are days I can pick $5.00 up in a grocery store parking lot

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Okay.

You do realize, that is only $31.75 dollars a month right, hell there are days I can pick $5.00 up in a grocery store parking lot

100% BS

I’ll find a penny/nickel/quarter about once a month

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:26:06 PM EDT

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What is there to gain by me posting a Bull shit story? Some of you guys are so fucking pessimistic that it is sad. All you have to do is pay attention to where you are stepping.

I started doing it as a hobby and have never quit since then, people are like many in this thread, not enough money to waste my time attitudes.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:32:19 PM EDT

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I know the typical reaction is to dig in, but that is making it worse. I'd guess that 80% of the square footage of a parking lot is covered with cars during the day. If you are going between cars all day the popo would roll up on you. Doubt you could find $1.00 in 12 hours of suction cleaning the Mall of America parking at night.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:34:28 PM EDT

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Another good place to find change is the self serve car washes with the bays that have a pressure sprayer, you would be amazed at how many quarters get dropped and roll in those places.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:35:12 PM EDT

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no... but I do collect the tv guide..

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:38:56 PM EDT

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Not with that attitude!

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:39:26 PM EDT

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When my Daughter was born, for some odd reason I started picking change that I found on the ground and threw it is a jug, when she was 16 I bought her a nice used car for her 16th birthday with the change I had picked up over that 16 years. I paid a little over $6000 dollars for that car and she still has it in her garage, so $6000 in 16 years of free money worked out good for her.

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You found a dollar a day in change for 16 years?

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:40:04 PM EDT

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I know the typical reaction is to dig in, but that is making it worse. I'd guess that 80% of the square footage of a parking lot is covered with cars during the day. If you are going between cars all day the popo would roll up on you. Doubt you could find $1.00 in 12 hours of suction cleaning the Mall of America parking at night.

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Don't really matter if I dig in or not. It is no skin off my nose at all., it is just a fun hobby for us old retired guys.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:41:56 PM EDT

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Some days less, some days more, weekends were always fun with a metal detector at a little league baseball park around the bleachers and the snake bar.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:43:40 PM EDT

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Quoted:Another good place to find change is the self serve car washes with the bays that have a pressure sprayer, you would be amazed at how many quarters get dropped and roll in those places.

so you basically go around all day long looking for change?
I saw this on South Park.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:45:20 PM EDT

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So you picked up an average of four pennys an hour for 16 years?

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:45:34 PM EDT

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I keep pre-89 dimes, Grandson and I love to sort em. They're worth 9 cents each and once we find 11.1 of them were gonna cash them in on a dollar. That's like 10% return, you can't even earn that these days what with the market and all.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:45:55 PM EDT

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Nope, not everyday, just walking down a city block in a big city you can find change on the ground, it is just a hobby. Look down at the ground where you are walking, there is always stuff laying around on the ground that others drop.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:46:18 PM EDT

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I keep pre-89 dimes, Grandson and I love to sort em. They're worth 9 cents each and once we find 11.1 of them were gonna cash them in on a dollar. That's like 10% return, you can't even earn that these days what with the market and all.

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Wat.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:46:31 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/15/2018 11:46:58 PM EDT

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I only save wheat back pennies

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:47:09 PM EDT

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If that is the way you want to figure it, but I picked up 3 quarters the other day at the gas pump when I was filling up.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:48:57 PM EDT

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When my Daughter was born, for some odd reason I started picking change that I found on the ground and threw it is a jug, when she was 16 I bought her a nice used car for her 16th birthday with the change I had picked up over that 16 years. I paid a little over $6000 dollars for that car and she still has it in her garage, so $6000 in 16 years of free money worked out good for her.

That translates to finding over a dollar a day in change, every single day, for sixteen years.

Posted: 12/15/2018 11:49:59 PM EDT

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lol...