Roll Searching Delimna

[robroy]

Well, Friday afternoon I picked up a couple of boxes and I started to go through them this afternoon and saw that there were a lot 2012's in there. I've gone through about half a box and have amassed 7 rolls of 2012's. The amount of copper is well below what I have been finding so I am a point of trying to figure out if I want to save the 2012's for posterity. I mean I usually save about ten rolls of current year coinage. Been doing that for awhile now (mostly for grins).

The second box looks to be almost an identical repeat of the current box and yet I got them from different banks but they come from the same coin service.

So what would you do. Call it a night and give the coins back Monday morning or continue to wade through the coins and pull out a low percentage of copper. I'm tempted to continue plodding through for the copper. For the half a box that I've gone through I found 15% copper and few wheats.

[scyther]

15% sounds worth it to me... but I don't know.

[hobo finds]

you have gone this far why not! Who knows whats in there

[robroy]

Not trying to be snobish, but the latest box is 1/3 below what my usual find is. But you're probably right, I might find something interesting in these boxes.

I was really wondering about keeping the 2012 for posterity. Does anyone think that they are worth keeping?

[fb101]

Continue the sort.
I'm going through similar, the flood of 2012s is temporarily (I hope) diminishing the returns.
In the meantime, consider that while not likely, pennies could be removed from circulation overnight, then the returns will be nil.

[RichardPenny43]

Send all zinc back, just go for the copper.

[everything]

Two boxes I picked up Friday are kind of like what you have as well. A few weeks ago, I had a couple of boxes that were just about all 2012, nothing to do but suffer through it for now.

[tractorman]

I have kept new pennies when I get solid bank rolls of them. I leave them wrapped and put them away. If they are mixed in, I'll search through them for the copper and dump the rest.

[jacer333]

At the least, sort the rolls that are showing a circulated coin. Might as well keep those BU rolls for your ongoing collection, hard to be certain if they are solid BU rolls though without opening them when you have other mixed coins in the box.

[robroy]

Jacer333: A few months ago I came accross 2 or 3 boxes of mostly solid 2012's. Only then Brinkks seemed to have had a perverse sense of humor. They inserted an one older penny in the midst of the solid roll. There was no completely solid roll of 2012's in any of those boxes. So back they went to the bank.

Now at least I do have the opportunity to make solid rolls where none existed plus search for copper. Something that I was frustrated in before.

Who says that Brinks isn't a practical joker at times.

[Morsecode]

you have gone this far why not! Who knows whats in there

Exactly. I finished off a crappy box this morning and found an '03 Indian in one of the last rolls.

Search 'em if you got 'em

[jacer333]

Oh that is quite cruel. In the stack of 2012 boxes I have gotten this year, I have just assumed them to all be BU cents and offered buyers a refund if they discover otherwise..I'm doubting that many folks would break open the rolls though