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This forum is probably the only place where this accomplishment may be appreciated. It has taken my daughter and I almost three and a half years of hand sorting bank roles to reach this level. We enjoy most the hunt together as well as the occasional treasures we find. The US authenticated copper discs (946.4 calculated pounds of Lincolns) is simply the dividend.

Keep up the search everyone... and may all your 82's be heavy!

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Congrats on the milestone!

Wow, just wow

Pure Awesomeness!! Nice that your daughter is involved too.
Love it when I can get a grandkid or two to search with me.

That is awesome. When you going to step up to a Ryedale? Eliminate all the zinc quickly, as it makes looking at the copper more interesting.

Bully!

Nice, can't even fathom handsorting that . I salute you and your daughter.

Good job. Keep it up. The one million mark will be upon you before you know it.

So-wheat on the milestone...keep on keepin on! Do you have any stats on those 1/2 million copper cents...we like stats!

Awesome!

Congrats!

Thanks for the encouragement everyone,

JD, a Ryedale is sure tempting. We do idolize the professional sorters.

2 1/2 cents, our goal is to reach one ton of copper cents - still have a loooong way to go.

Eddy, we do like to keep stats, ...

Boxes searched: 200
US Copper face value: $1,380.31
% US copper: 27.6 and declining about 0.5%/yr
Pre-1940: 179 - including 1912-d, 1921-s, 1924-d, 1928-s, 1932-d, 1939-d
Tribe: 6 - 1892, 1903, 1905(2), 1906(2)
Wide AM: 10 - 1998 (8), 2000 (2)
Steel: 3 - 1943 (2), 1943-D
Geo V: 2 - 1929, 1933
Blank Planchet: 1 (Zinc)

We set aside the top condition examples for all dates/mint marks for my daughter. Her collection, the best-of-the-best and entirely plucked from rolls at a cost of 0.01 each, is actually quite impressive.

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It is absolutely amazing to me that you only found three steel cents and yet you found six Indian cents. Did the public hoard the steelies or did our government engage in some kind of "asset recovery" program to pull them out of circulation since they rusted so easily and could potentially impact the appearance of other coins in circulation? Anyone know?

Recyclersteve wrote:It is absolutely amazing to me that you only found three steel cents and yet you found six Indian cents. Did the public hoard the steelies or did our government engage in some kind of "asset recovery" program to pull them out of circulation since they rusted so easily and could potentially impact the appearance of other coins in circulation? Anyone know?

I'm surprised he found any steel.

Recyclersteve wrote:It is absolutely amazing to me that you only found three steel cents and yet you found six Indian cents. Did the public hoard the steelies or did our government engage in some kind of "asset recovery" program to pull them out of circulation since they rusted so easily and could potentially impact the appearance of other coins in circulation? Anyone know?

coin counter magnets get most of them

Good point- never thought about that!