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Hello everyone! First, just want to say glad to be here, it looks like a great forum. Although I am mainly invested in silver I began hoarding copper cents almost two years ago and am up to around half a ton so far.

My bank (RBC in Canada) has a deadline of February 4, 2013 where they can accept one cent coins but no longer give them out. I plan on going February 3 and getting what they have left to sort over the upcoming weeks. What is the deadline in your area or is this the same across Canada?

Although I enjoy searching rolls I also have an uneasy sense of doom when I visit the banks. I realize that I am living in a world where 90% of the people alive today are drunk on cheap money and east credit that no longer believe "a penny saved is a penny earned". With consumer debt at all time highs, government debt at all time highs and housing at all time highs, this can only end one way and that way is very badly.

Some of the better finds in boxes I have saved from the melting pot so far:

1911-P Wheat Cent (G)
1916-P Wheat Cent (VG)
1918-P Wheat Cent (VG)
1929-P Wheat Cent (VG)
1930-S Wheat Cent (F)
1932 King George V (XF)
1939 King George VI (AU)
1945 King George VI (AU)
1955-P Wheat Cent (BU)
1955 Elizabeth II (BU)

Yea its coming faster than i like it too. jeeze like only 2 weeks left......

as for what i have saved from the melting pot...well maybe il make a post later on but what i can remember.
Wheats:
1884 IHP
1910p
1912p
1917p
1918p
1919p
lots of 20's 30's and 40's...too many 50's

CDN about 6 or 7 george V and probably a couple hundred george VI.

and a 1915 Netherlands cent lol.

as for fv of coppers i have no idea...7-800$ thats a lot of handsorting lol.

I'm guessing the states will follow in the next few years.

The funny thing is that the people who think that the one cent coin is annoying don't realize the same inflation process that killed it will kill the nickel, the dime, the quarter, the half, the dollar and then the Benjamin as well.

I always get a kick out of I miss the days when a fifty would fill up, now a hundred some times doesnt even cover, or some other line similar to that.

Peope know something smells... but they cant quite put their fingers on it. sheeple are slowly waking up.

I remember when not to long ago, gas stations would not accept fifty or hundred bills for fuel payment either.

Doug