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Wow... So thought I would relax and slam 24 boxes this Friday night and what the heck do I get... 19 brinks boxes of zinc dumps... Maybe 10 coppers per box. Yes, I ran them...
One thing I noticed is that those plastic brinks rolls are hard to get zincs out of. What a pain.

That sucks!!!
I wonder how long it will take until that become the norm...

Ack, that sucks! Get a feel for them zinc boxes, I can now tell without opening the box up if it's full of zincs. I want to bring the tellers a scale and get them to weigh the boxes, giving me the heaviest ones but feel it might be to much to ask.

I actually have that scale. It came in really handy when this sort of thing happened a few years ago. I would go down and pick up a stndard 24 box order and bring them home. Then I would sort them by putting the sealed box on the scale and putting it immediately in the outgoing stack if it weighed 14.1 pounds. Some of the fastest sorting I ever did. The scale is one used by vendors and can either be plugged in or run off bateries. Even comes with a handy carrying case.

Too many zincs!!

If they were in the plastic wraps you should have just sorted them by hand if there was only 10 per roll! Would have been faster.... lol

Fortunately, the only times I got boxes like this were

1. The coppers were all older wheats
2. The zincs were new 2009 and I made a nice profit off of the dirty rolls.

We call those "zebra" rolls. They do that to discourage hoarding of new pennies when they first come out and have market value. I have been known to process a few of those dirty rolls and fix them. Having a few automatic rolling machines comes in handy sometimes. I would like to get 3 or 4 boxes of 2012 P's but can't pay too much since they don't have the market value they had at the beginning of the year. Of course if I can get the 13's early in the year they are worth more to all of us.

I can get new boxes easy from BancFirst and new $2 bundles from a local credit union. Just haven't seen the pallet bulks dumped out this way. It's just a matter of time before they're gone.
next on the list is a glory wrapper and a del la rue if I can find a steal.

So far, though only a hand sorter, the boxes I get have, with few exceptions, continued to run 28-31% copper (included weighed 82s). I have noticed a distinct decline in older date wheat ears. Generally average about 10-12 wheats per box ... sometimes more, sometimes less ... but about 95% in the past few months have been all post 1941. Where I live we get either Loomis or String rolls. Don't see the plastic wrapped rolls at any of the banks we pick up from.

I got a roll like that once... Last time I tried B of A. Wells has been consistently circulated rolls.

That sucks. I've never had one like that before, but I imagine it's just a matter of time.

reddirtcoins wrote:I can get new boxes easy from BancFirst and new $2 bundles from a local credit union. Just haven't seen the pallet bulks dumped out this way. It's just a matter of time before they're gone.
next on the list is a glory wrapper and a del la rue if I can find a steal.

Great machines.. I hoard them. I have 3 of the Glory wrappers and 4 of those DLR's.. a Mach 3, Mach 5 and a pair of Mach 7's.

reddirtcoins wrote:One thing I noticed is that those plastic brinks rolls are hard to get zincs out of. What a pain.

Use a sharp blade, score them from top to bottom, bend them in the middle and, they pop right open!

I don't think those are dumps. I have gotten many like that that are all brand newly minted coins with some dirty ones thrown in the mix.

I would have thrown em back into the wild. I commend you for your hard work.

As I've told you before my friend, you are ate up with metals! There are far worse things to be ate up with though, so you go!