John_doe wrote:Every bank employee in town knows you as the "penny guy", and has sent you away multiple times but you keep going back.
I once had a teller say "you're the penny guy" to me back in the late 1980s!
Of course back then (when I was a teen) it wasn't copper I was hunting (it was only 90¢/lb
back then ^_-) I was literally coin searching for U.S. pennies (they were worth more then).
This teller recognized me from annother branch as she had shifts at both. Back then about
4% of pennies circulating in Winnipeg were U.S. and 6% of those were wheats so I got 0.24%
wheats. If I knew then what I knew now I would have held onto the wheats rather than
selling them to U.S. coin dealers when I went south at 1.5 times face, then 1.3 times face,
then 1.2 times face. At least U. S. coin dealers would actually buy something, up here in
Canada anything other than silver tended to be illiquid. Even though it may sell in a coin
shop for a big mark up everyone was fully stocked and didn't need any more of anything.
Of course we didn't have Ebay in those days.
Many years later when I got into copper searching I wished my old dump bank was still open
because I suspect all my old dumps were still sitting in their vault until the day they closed
the branch....and they would be 100% copper since that's all Canada minted back then!
I stopped dumping there when they told me their vault was full, many months later I went
back and they said they had a limit they would take because they had so many in their
vault. They apparently didn't have many commercial clients requesting change.
But back on topic...
- You see a bunch of pennies on the floor in the mall and squint to see if any are copper
before bending down to pick them up. (Done it! ) - You write a parody rap song entitled "Funky Green Patina" (Didn't but had the idea. )