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Gotta love them. My turn came today. Added $240 to my normal pickup. Not huge, But I'll take it.

off to run the Ryedale,

Doc

always love getting penny drive coins.usually a fair amount of wheats. Gotta ask,just pennys or did you get other denominations?

Looks to be a just a penny drive.....but this could be just the "first wave" from this event

New training employee even helped me carry them to the Jeep.

I hate to ask, but what exactly is a penny drive? I have never heard of one

It must be the time of the year. I got pennies from 2 drives last week.

The first one my bank was tickled pink that I wanted to buy all of them. The teller was just starting to crack rolls and fill bags to ship out. Didn't find anything special, pretty much mirrored what I normally find in bank boxes. Was kinda hoping to find some older stuff, or at least a higher percentage of Canadian. I thought every one would utilize the drive to empty out the jars and cans full of the Candian coins everybody accumulates.

The second apparently had people buying and donating whole boxes for the cause. I bought 3 unopened CWI boxes from the lady who was dumping her drive's coins into the lobby coin counter. She had already dumped the CWR's.

RD5 wrote:I hate to ask, but what exactly is a penny drive? I have never heard of one

It's typically where a school, church, Boy Scouts or some other organization seek donations in penny form.

Thanks! What is your strategy to get them to hand over the pennies ?

What a good feeling to have piles of pennies fall at your feet like this!

I snagged over $200 as well from a local school penny drive a few weeks ago. Then the following week another $100. A few wheats and about the same % of copper, but you never know what might pop up.

Bluegill wrote:

RD5 wrote:I hate to ask, but what exactly is a penny drive? I have never heard of one

It's typically where a school, church, Boy Scouts or some other organization seek donations in penny form.

Likewise, a penny war is when competing teams (Class grade levels in a school for example) try to sabotage the other teams totals by dumping "silver" into the other teams collection of pennies. The silver deducts from the copper total.

For example, if Team A's jar has 125 pennies ($1.25), but Team B decides to dump a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin ($1.00), Team A's total penny count drops to 25 cents. Dunno how it works with the Sacajawea and Presidential Dollar coins as of late.....