Surprise

[marine70]

I live in Southern Illinois I went to a local farmers bank,sometimes they have bags of pennies. Well I called they said they had (6) bags. My first thought was having three hundred dollars to hand sort over the long weekend. Well when I got home to my surprise all six bags were duds. The town I live in is not real large so I thought I was the only one sorting.
Well it looks like I have competition, anyone else experience this delima?

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

Ouch! This is when a scale comes in really handy. There was a time a few years ago that many of us were getting bank rolled boxes of solid duds. I once picked up an entire order of 24 boxes of circulated zincs. That was kind of depressing. Fortunately I knew after the first box to test the boxes on my scale before opening.

[bman]

I picked up a box of CW rolls once and they were all zincs but never a bag or machine wrapped box.

[Market Harmony]

Ouch! This is when a scale comes in really handy. There was a time a few years ago that many of us were getting bank rolled boxes of solid duds. I once picked up an entire order of 24 boxes of circulated zincs. That was kind of depressing. Fortunately I knew after the first box to test the boxes on my scale before opening.

Those days were the WORST... But, it actually got me into buying boxes of halves after I had gotten a bunch of zinc boxes for weeks at a time. I remember that the first box of haves that I bought had a Walker on one of the end rolls

The scales are a must have.