Loading ...Thanks for the comeback. I agree on all that. Yes I also noticed as I was collecting them after a while you learn to spot them real easy. A bolder strike and thicker rim, different color etc. I have ammo cans full, $10 face value in zip lock bags. I think about $600 face value, maybe 400 lbs. 🙂 Crazy me. I have enough and stopped.
One time at a garage sale a lady had a big old glass 5 gallon drinking water bottle, with pennies about 2 inches deep. She wanted $25. I had $17 in my pocket and she took it. I counted it all $53 in pennies. 🙂 And a free vintage jug in a wooden crate. Naturally I separated the copper. They were more abundant back then, maybe 1 copper out of 3-4 zinc.
I used to take then out of the “have a penny take a penny” cups at cash registers. I don’t see them lately and use credit card mostly. I hate change in my pocket. Lets say I buy a bottle of wine with cash and its $12.18. I ask the cashier, can you absorb the 18 cents? $12 even? (I don’t was .82 cents) Normally they say ok. If they don’t? I take out the credit card to avoid the change in my pocket. 🙂 And the store has to pay the credit card company maybe 50 cents?
Did you have the same handle on Vronsky’s place? What a shame that site died. He had culled a really good group of people, a few of which are here.