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cents piled up

Postby snappy » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:10 pm

the cents have been piling up I have been getting them from bank as normal but not running them I did not realize how many had built up until last week so decided to run them all ($4000) took a long time ended up with 35ish% 1900 wheats, 2 steel 43's 1 IH 1898, 1 1909 EF no S no VDB, 1 1910, 4 1912 ppsd,3 1914 pps,1 1924 d, 8 1933d, 40 1920-1929, 80 1930-1939.


the dumps are going to take for ever or they will hate me. took in $800 yesterday still have tons (true tons) to take in.
still wondering if my hands will ever get clean.
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Re: cents piled up

Postby slickeast » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:12 pm

Time to buy a few more Ryedales
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Re: cents piled up

Postby misteroman » Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:45 pm

Yes two or three more if you're accumulating that many before sorting. I'll take some of those as a down payment on a low mileage ryedale if your interested.
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Re: cents piled up

Postby uthminsta » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:45 am

Man I wish I could find a 1914S or any of those other early S's.
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Re: cents piled up

Postby knibloe » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:51 am

Nice,

I thought my zincs were piling up because my back hasn't felt good enough to do a lot of hauling. However, I only have about $500 to dump. I don't know were I would ever be allowed to dump several thousands.
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Re: cents piled up

Postby snappy » Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:52 pm

slickeast wrote:Time to buy a few more Ryedales



naw 1 is fine (I have a tripple hopper). I only run a few times a year but when I do run I run for days...
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Re: cents piled up

Postby JerrySpringer » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:55 pm

snappy wrote: so decided to run them all ($4000) took a long time ended up with.... 1900 wheats,



That is what I am finding is about right as an average for wheats. Roughly 0.5% of the raw boxes are wheats ( 19/4000 ~ 0.5%) . That is my running average. About 12 or 13 wheats per a $25 box is typically what I get. Probably can assume that that is the national average?
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Re: cents piled up

Postby jacer333 » Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:29 am

Wow, you weren't kidding with cents piled up....that is some volume to sort! I couldn't stand running that many at once-I like to quickly get my boxes in, sort, and dump without leaving much pile up.
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Re: cents piled up

Postby GTOJohn » Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:49 am

wow - and i thought i was the only one who kept buying - but not sorting as much.
i only have about $2000 piled up waiting to be sorted.

i've been thinking about taking a break from sorting, but have to catch up first.

How do you know when 'enough is enough'?
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Re: cents piled up

Postby HPMBTT » Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:27 pm

GTOJohn wrote:wow - and i thought i was the only one who kept buying - but not sorting as much.
i only have about $2000 piled up waiting to be sorted.

i've been thinking about taking a break from sorting, but have to catch up first.

How do you know when 'enough is enough'?


Well, that's easy to answer. You can never have enough.

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Re: cents piled up

Postby TwoAndAHalfCents » Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:48 pm

GTOJohn wrote:wow - and i thought i was the only one who kept buying - but not sorting as much.
i only have about $2000 piled up waiting to be sorted.

i've been thinking about taking a break from sorting, but have to catch up first.

How do you know when 'enough is enough'?


During the fall I stocked up on pennies for sorting in the winter. About $2000 worth with 2/3 in boxes in 1/3 CWRs. But with 80 degreee weather lately, I don't find myself stuck indoors sorting now.

I did sort a Brinks box last night that I picked up this week to see if 2012's are showing up yet and to see if the Brinks super sorter is turning the boxes into skunks on the west coast. It was not what I expected. Got a 20% copper yield which is above my average. I may just leave my winter stash alone and go back to picking up more boxes and sorting those. Having 200,000 unsorted pennies laying around won't hurt anything, will it?
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Re: cents piled up

Postby jacer333 » Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:22 pm

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:During the fall I stocked up on pennies for sorting in the winter. About $2000 worth with 2/3 in boxes in 1/3 CWRs. But with 80 degreee weather lately, I don't find myself stuck indoors sorting now.

I did sort a Brinks box last night that I picked up this week to see if 2012's are showing up yet and to see if the Brinks super sorter is turning the boxes into skunks on the west coast. It was not what I expected. Got a 20% copper yield which is above my average. I may just leave my winter stash alone and go back to picking up more boxes and sorting those. Having 200,000 unsorted pennies laying around won't hurt anything, will it?


If that was me, only thing it would hurt is my sanity. I gotta know what's inside those puppies! :shock:
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Re: cents piled up

Postby TwoAndAHalfCents » Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:50 am

jacer333 wrote:
TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:During the fall I stocked up on pennies for sorting in the winter. About $2000 worth with 2/3 in boxes in 1/3 CWRs. But with 80 degreee weather lately, I don't find myself stuck indoors sorting now.

I did sort a Brinks box last night that I picked up this week to see if 2012's are showing up yet and to see if the Brinks super sorter is turning the boxes into skunks on the west coast. It was not what I expected. Got a 20% copper yield which is above my average. I may just leave my winter stash alone and go back to picking up more boxes and sorting those. Having 200,000 unsorted pennies laying around won't hurt anything, will it?


If that was me, only thing it would hurt is my sanity. I gotta know what's inside those puppies! :shock:


I tell myself there's an Indian in there somewhere. One of these days I'll hunt it down.
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