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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.

Time to buy a few more Ryedales

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.

Man I wish I could find a 1914S or any of those other early S's.

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.

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...

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?

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.

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'?

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.

Supposedly, after a reporter asked John D. Rockefeller "How much money is enough?", he said, "just a little bit more..."

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?

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!

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!

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