1 million hand sorted coppers
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1 million hand sorted coppers
by alpacafarmer » Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:14 pm
Don't know how long ago I started but reached the 1 million mark this week.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by JadeDragon » Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:26 pm
That you looked at or that you kept? Either way that is quite a lot of pennies
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by justoneguy » Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:57 pm
What's your favorite cent, that you pulled from 1,000,000?
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by NotABigDeal » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:07 pm
Nice milestone to reach. Headed to another million?
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by coppernickel » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:32 pm
Bravo Silver Monometalism is the most permanent and stable form of money the world has seen. Natural law and history prove silver value is best multiplied by gold and best divided by copper. It is only in this counterfeit currency time when the natural law appears suspended.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by SilverDragon72 » Fri Apr 28, 2017 7:55 pm
That is YUUUUGE! 
Bigly, even! 1 million coppers.
Bigly, even! 1 million coppers.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by TwoAndAHalfCents » Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:34 pm
Good job on hitting that milestone. Your fingers must be awfully dirty from all that.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by mtalbot_ca » Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:30 pm
Huge mark!
Congrats!
Congrats!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by hobo finds » Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:42 pm
I think its 1 million kept!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by Recyclersteve » Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:47 pm
Congrats, but I'm not shaking your filthy hand!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by John Reich » Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:39 am
1 million is an amazing accomplishment! I sort $5.00 face per week, so let's see... I should match your achievement in 40 years!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by willy13 » Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:28 pm
congrats, thats 6850 lbs of coppers if that 1 million is kept. you have me beat
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by alpacafarmer » Mon May 01, 2017 9:30 am
justoneguy wrote:What's your favorite cent, that you pulled from 1,000,000?
1914 D back in Dec.
The 1 million coppers I have kept so I guess I have went through 3 to 4 million. My wife refuses to go in the local bank anymore because one of tellers introduced her to the others as the wife of the crazy penny guy.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by mtalbot_ca » Mon May 01, 2017 4:28 pm
alpacafarmer wrote:justoneguy wrote:What's your favorite cent, that you pulled from 1,000,000?
1914 D back in Dec.
The 1 million coppers I have kept so I guess I have went through 3 to 4 million. My wife refuses to go in the local bank anymore because one of tellers introduced her to the others as the wife of the crazy penny guy.
LOL...
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by hobo finds » Mon May 01, 2017 5:00 pm
How many left to find to collect a complete Lincoln set?
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by alpacafarmer » Tue May 02, 2017 8:44 am
hobo finds wrote:How many left to find to collect a complete Lincoln set?
09s , 09svdb, 22d, 31s I have found a 10s and 13s since the 1st of the year.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by Numis Pam » Fri May 05, 2017 12:46 pm
alpacafarmer wrote:hobo finds wrote:How many left to find to collect a complete Lincoln set?
09s , 09svdb, 22d, 31s I have found a 10s and 13s since the 1st of the year.
Wow! This is awesome!!!! Keep searching and I hope you continue to share your progress with us!!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by Recyclersteve » Sun May 14, 2017 6:11 pm
alpacafarmer wrote:hobo finds wrote:How many left to find to collect a complete Lincoln set?
09s , 09svdb, 22d, 31s I have found a 10s and 13s since the 1st of the year.
Impressive feat- I think my eyeballs would fall out after looking at that many coins. I can imagine getting a 1969 and flipping it over looking for a VDB only to see the Lincoln Memorial. Then I'd know it was time for a break!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by hobo finds » Mon May 15, 2017 12:58 pm
Do you have these rolled up? Or containers by weight? That would be a lot of rolls!
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by oober » Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:01 pm
10k in copper,nice. 150 coppers to a pound, that's a lot of weight.
I figure, if you have that amount in copper, you probably sorted 5mil plus. When I sorted, I would find about 20% copper.
I figure, if you have that amount in copper, you probably sorted 5mil plus. When I sorted, I would find about 20% copper.
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Re: 1 million hand sorted coppers
by Recyclersteve » Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:23 pm
Let's just say that it is about 5 million pennies that you looked through. It is hard for me to think about a number that big. That would be 100,000 pennies a year every year for a whopping 50 years. If you did this five days a week, then it would be 400 pennies each and every day. And without a Ryedale or some kind of machine to separate out the zincs, amazing! If you have a spouse, then that is one very tolerant person!
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