Going to give CRH a try this morning. Wish me luck!

[zaxfire69]

Well think I am gonna go and withdraw $25 and go inside the bank an see if I can buy 2 rolls of halves. If they don't have halves I will buy a box of pennies 50 rolls. I have never done this and would like to see what I can find. I think it would be real fun. We shall see. What should I expect?

 

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[AGCoinHunter]

Halves - Clad and lots of it. Pennies will be about 20% copper if your lucky. Maybe a few wheats and if you get really lucky a Indian Head. Any idea what you are looking for? Metals? Dates? Errors?

 

[zaxfire69]

Agcoinhunter i guess if i buy a couple of rolls of halves silver. If I buy the pennies I will look for like you said wheats and errors. I am just bored sitting around today watching my 2 year old. I saw a post where a fellow found alot of silver halves. I mean heck what is the worst that could happen I get skunked, take the couple of rolls to another bank and cash them in for my money back. With all the pennies I am bound to find something. I find error coins sometimes detecting so maybe I can run one down CRH.

UPDATE: It is a good thing I didnt go for the Halves. The young lady teller said "You must be a coin collector..I said somewhat. She then said "I got through all the change i get and get the silver coins out. I was like....Man..Ok...I know I won't find silver with her around...lets see what these pennies have in them. Most are wrapped by local people. We shall see..

 

[zaxfire69]

Never going to believe this...First roll I unwrap and pour onto the countertop...There is a wheat penny looking right back at me. I will add all the pictures later...This is going to be fun.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

If you want to become a penny sorter and want a cool little machine to help you look into the Ryedale Ace. I just started using it and am keeping all copper cents I find. Good luck!

 

[zaxfire69]

Can you shoot me a link to this sorter? I see the Apprentice not the ace. I was going to hand sort all the copper out. I actually got more copper than I expected. I also ended up with 9 wheats, 72 of the 2009 Lincoln pennys and 3 canadians. The earliest wheat was a 1919. The others were 1950s. I am going to check the 2009 pennys for double dies, die cracks etc. I have a microscope to help me there. Should be alot of fun. I might start doing this bi weekly at different banks and see what happens. It is fun.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

The Ace is priced around $100 and I dont think Andy has it on his site yet. Just shoot him an email and he will give you some info on it. [email protected]

Oh yea check the post on here that says Ace in the subject. I posted some pictures of it.

Here is the post... http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,285785.0.html

 

[zaxfire69]

Hey Agcoinhunter. I just found a Log cabin Double Die...
http://www.dvnmagazine.com/eccddr025.html

That is the one I have. I wonder how much it is worth?? It has every die marker and is plain as day. I gotta do some more research and see how much it is worth. If you know let me know. I will take pictures of it and post it up.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

I dont really search for errors. I only accumulate copper in anticipation of rising copper prices. The melt ban is another discussion, but I figure copper is going to be like silver one day. We are happy to pull a silver coin out of 10 rolls, copper will be like that eventually. Why I decided to start hording copper. Who know, call me crazy but its fun to operate that machine. I just throw my zincs in my halves back I run through the coin machine.

 

[zaxfire69]

Cool. So you just hoard copper pennies. I see. You can't melt them? I had a good bit of copper coins in my pennies today. I will sort them out and roll the zincs. Good idea. Explain how you get money for the copper coins. If you can't melt them and all.

 

[AGCoinHunter]

There are small markets out there right now for copper pennies. I am anticipating that eventually the melt ban will be lifted. Who knows when that might be. Next year or next decade. I am just sorting them out and storing the away. Figure it will be easier to get them now then try after a melt ban has been lifted. Right now melt on a penny is just over 2 cents. If you get a chance go over to the real cent forum and read up on copper there. Some of those guys are into serious hording, as are a few regulars here.

 

[Coins4Cheese]

If you get a chance go over to the real cent forum and read up on copper there.

I've been looking for a site like that. Can you send me a link?

 

[AGCoinHunter]

If you get a chance go over to the real cent forum and read up on copper there.

I've been looking for a site like that. Can you send me a link?

http://realcent.forumco.com/

 

[golden silver]

Welcome, you are the first of a new wave of CRHers that are about to say hello. Nice finds.

Golden Silver