scyther wrote:Are any banks still giving out pennies? Any businesses still giving them out in change? Has the price of copper pennies increased?
My credit union still saves them for me when they get them but some weeks I get some,
some I don't, just depends on whether anyone else that deals with the same branch of
the same credit union brings any in that week.
I haven't tried any banks in the last year, the big 5 were quite adamant about not giving
out any more, so if I branch out my sourcing it will be to other credit unions or the smaller
banks.
I have not gotten any in change from any bussiness for quite some time. When I spend
some steel core pennies the clerks notice, most places take them but a few don't, pretty much the same as the last time I reported in on it.
Like brexzz1 I haven't been seing them in donation jars anywhere so most of the general
public seems to be tapped out. Also since nobody is getting them in change for those of
us that still posses them they aren't "extra" change.
I haven't sold any copper, for the amount that I do have I'll most likely hang onto them
for the long haul. It's not like i'll be getting (many) more at this point.
I had one person express an interest in even my steel pennies but that's at face, when I
catch up my sorting I'll put together some for them in $50 increments. (The most that's
safe to deliver to them transporting them in my bike basket, that's about where the
basket starts wobbling. ^_-)
I do have one friend that got another friend to import him a roll of U.S. cents so he can
pay exact where it's to his advantage.
johnbrickner wrote:I can't answer any of your questions but here in upstate NY, there are still more CA pennies in a roll than wheats and I save all the Cu and stainless (for I'm not sure what reason yet,) but still thinking it would make some cool scale mail.
Probably the same ones recirculating because nobody other than us pulling them out.
Kinda like why I'd more easily find wheat pennies in Canada than in the U.S. back before
the discontinuance. Nobody up here other than a few people like me were specifically
pulling them out of circualtion. (Canadian coin shops wouldn't buy them like U.S. coin
shops would so you really couldn't sell them above face without taking them back to the
U.S.)
I'm pretty much keeping my copper and (very) slowly spending the steel ones, may offer
some to friends at some point. As for zinc Canadian cents I still haven't decided whether
to hoard or disperse them. I'm thinking I sould leak the zinc ones into the U.S. so they'll
stay in circulation longer. ^_^