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Some poor old guy who seems to have been collecting pennies for a long long time must have taken a lot of time to painstakingly roll up his coppers and bring them to the bank. I was lucky enough to buy them!

When I started running this box, I needed to check my Ryedale as I thought something had gone wrong with it. Almost every coin was coming out of the "keep" slot!

I starting looking through the accepted coins, and was like "OMG, SWEET!" IN the whole box, only 280 coins were zincs.

It made my weekend.

Impressive box! I'm sure most of us would kill for 88.8%. What were the years of the zincs in there, mid 80's or all around? Did you find any wheats?

It's a CDN box, so everything up to 1996 is good...and these ran all the way back to the 1940's. I only know that because I saw a King in the keeps, but I haven't sorted any of my keeps yet. I'm too busy sorting out zincs to bother sub-sorting my hoard. I figure when the returns go down and I'm not getting a good return on boxes from the bank, that's when I'll sort through the coppers.

Nice job...I love those KINGS!

Out this way in the Mountain State, I usually find around 28% copper (excluding 82´s). But every once in a while, like my last $20 worth, I´ll get 60% (1200+ pennies out of 2,000). Usually, there will be a few new zincs, and the majority of the coppers will be in excellent condition, with a bright red color. Is this from people who have had them sitting in a jar for 20 years and finally hauled them into the bank? Usually very few wheats though.