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Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby marine70 » Fri Jan 23, 2015 8:23 am

Alright has anyone figured how many copper pennies they have taken out of circulation?
10.232 # If I figure right that's 25.580.000 pennies just think that's the copper ones imagine how many I went through.
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby fasteddy » Fri Jan 23, 2015 12:52 pm

Are you saying ten thousand two hundred thirty two pounds? 10,232 lbs. Wouldn't that be about 1,493,872 cents?
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby willy13 » Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:27 pm

yeah there is 146 copper pennies per pound.

it seems to me that for some reason periods are sometimes used on the internet instead of commas. :?
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby marine70 » Fri Jan 23, 2015 10:13 pm

You are absolutely right I dont know how I came with that figure. 597 boxes 2500 in each box 1.492.500 I think is correct. The weight is right I believe still not too bad for hand sorting.
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Postby wheeler_dealer » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:14 pm

WOW. No wonder I can't find any copper cents roll searching.
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby TwoAndAHalfCents » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:23 pm

I have sorted just shy of one million pennies. With an average yield somewhere around 17% that would be 170,000 copper pennies pulled from circulation
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby RichardPenny43 » Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:57 pm

I've pulled around 700,000 coppers out of circulation, most of which I've sold.
That's about 2.5M sorted averaging 28%.
Another year or so and I should reach 1M coppers!
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby CardsNCoins » Sat Jan 24, 2015 9:04 pm

Sorted just over a million total, and pulled out 300,000 coppers.
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby KeepStacking » Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:14 am

At one point had roughly $500 face (50,000 cents) set aside, but ended up selling or dumping some (storage weight and to a lesser extent space were becoming an issue). I wish now that I had kept those. :(
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby OdedPaz » Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:30 pm

I just sort pocket change...
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Re: Copper Pennies taken out of circulation.

Postby everything » Sat Mar 07, 2015 6:49 pm

Probably $700 total.
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