Odd Bag Pick-up Numbers this Week???

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

It took a LONG time to find a bank that will sell me their coins from their coin machine. I'm lucky for 1 bag a week. This is the average for over two years. My new source bank, which I found 2 months ago, is getting me 2 bags a week. Never any more.

So, I've been getting 3 bags a week between the 2 sources. This week something happened. My new bank had 8 bags and the old one had 3 bags.

11 bags to work on!

I wonder what caused the big spike in piggy banks being dumped???

[reddirtcoins]

Schools... The have penny fund raisers (penny wars)... They are collecting in my area now. I love hitting those banks after they dump.

BTW: remind the bank how much money in transport costs you just saved them...

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Schools... The have penny fund raisers (penny wars)... They are collecting in my area now. I love hitting those banks after they dump.

BTW: remind the bank how much money in transport costs you just saved them...

I asked them where all the pennies were coming from......I was told EVERYONE coming in had change.....I asked about any fundraisers....nothing yet.

[dakota1955]

tax season and winter cost

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Now I'm thinking it's somebody's dumps. The coppers are low so far.

We'll see later if they get better. This is one of those times I miss the Ryedale!

[Dinero2005]

Funny, I had a bit of a surge in bags this week as well. One CU that typically has 1-2 per week suddenly had 5. My first thought was another hoarder dumping but so far I'm actually way above my average of 22% copper plus over $5 in dimes. No complaints here.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

These bags are LOADED with 1982's!

[cesariojpn]

These bags are LOADED with 1982's!

People were hoarding rolls in 1982?

[knibloe]

My bag source had 10 bags this week. They usually only 2-3 maybe 4.

The wife wouldn't let me get all of them. I settled for 6. The bank set them aside for me when Loomis came and picke dup the rest.

[68Camaro]

There may be other specific reasons, but this is a charity drive season - my coin counter bank was the official dump site for one a couple weeks ago. They had 20-something bags one week, high teens the next.

[tuleja]

Yeah, my first thought would have been the penny wars as well. My oldest child started school this year and when we got the penny war paper in her back pack a couple weeks ago, my wife immediately handed it to me and said "This one is for you penny man", so I threw some rolls of zincs in her backpack.

If you lived in Michigan I might have said you might be running into my dumping I got a Ryedale from Andy this week. I used to buy the bags from the only coin counter I know of in town, but now due to my increased penny consumption from hand sorting to Ryedale I've been dumping at the coin counter instead.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Slowly getting through these......so far best wheat....1911D.

[fb101]

why are you guys wasting time posting?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

why are you guys wasting time posting?

Gotta take a break every once in a while!

[knibloe]

I sorted the six bags that I got. They were the most aweful coins I have ever seen. There must have been 20-30 bent coins in the one bag alone. I coudn't fill the hopper because the bent ones kept jamming the wheel.

I must have $5 in pennies that were so fat with corrosion that they jammed the machine also. I wish I had got there before Loomis. I would have looke dthem over.

Would it be in bad taste to take a scale into the vault and weigh the bags before I choose which one I want to take home?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

The only thing odd so far in finds is a 2004S proof and a Kennedy counterstamp. 1-foreign panamanian cent and 10 dimes.

Still alot to go.

[cesariojpn]

I must have $5 in pennies that were so fat with corrosion that they jammed the machine also.

Fountain Pennies a/or pennies that have been sitting in the ground/water for a long time.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Both banks called yesterday...one bank has the usual 1 bag while the other has 2. Looks like things are back to normal....only if I can get through the rest of these 11 bags. I'm working on bag #6. So a little past halfway...!

Still low on wheats...about 150 so far. The canadian coppers are pushing towards 100!

[knibloe]

I must have $5 in pennies that were so fat with corrosion that they jammed the machine also.

Fountain Pennies a/or pennies that have been sitting in the ground/water for a long time.

There were a fair number of "dug" pennies, so I suspect that these might have been dug as well.