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What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from someone?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 9:14 pm
by Diggin4copper
And how did you transport it? Might have a few cents to buy in the next week or three..

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:13 pm
by misteroman
$200 in CU

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:24 pm
by VWBEAMER
300 hundred face of Copper Abes, put in the back of my car.

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:20 am
by Corsair
I sold $700 face about a year back. The buyer, a guy who contacted me through Craigslist, brought along one of those scales you might see in a doctor's office. He quickly put $100 onto the scale, checked to make sure it was close to 68 lbs, and put them in the back of his van. It took a bit of time, but we talked and shot the breeze while we worked, and things went pretty well.

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:28 am
by HoardCopperByTheTon
$1262 face in copper. Put all the sacks of coins in my Camry.. drove it home.. ran it through the Mach 7 to get the count.. and paid the guy the following week.

Used to deliver $500 every week or 2 to a fellow member.. he usually paid me in zinc. :mrgreen:

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:45 am
by dp2007
If you mean solid Cu cents my answer would be none.

If you mean how many cents have I bought at one time to sort for Cu I once bought
51 boxes of customer wrapped rolls from a local bank. They had just received the take from a
penny drive at a local church. It actually took 3 trips in 3 days to get them all home.
They produced 14 boxes of Cu and 37 boxes of zinc that I'm still returning (to other banks) slowly.

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:01 am
by Copper
Just bought 2200lbs (one metric ton) Canadian copper maples, that works out to about $3564.00CAD face. They were shipped in 5 gallon buckets, stacked on a pallet, and delivered by semi truck.

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:39 am
by Country
I bought $400 face of COPPER from bman last year. I put it in my car and drove it home. bman and his wife, my wife and I, had a nice Chinese buffet lunch together before we went on our way. :mrgreen:

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:43 am
by VWBEAMER
Wow, cool story.

dp2007 wrote:If you mean solid Cu cents my answer would be none.

If you mean how many cents have I bought at one time to sort for Cu I once bought
51 boxes of customer wrapped rolls from a local bank. They had just received the take from a
penny drive at a local church. It actually took 3 trips in 3 days to get them all home.
They produced 14 boxes of Cu and 37 boxes of zinc that I'm still returning (to other banks) slowly.

Re: What is the bigget amount you have ever bought from some

PostPosted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:35 pm
by pennypicker
dp2007 wrote:If you mean solid Cu cents my answer would be none.

If you mean how many cents have I bought at one time to sort for Cu I once bought
51 boxes of customer wrapped rolls from a local bank. They had just received the take from a
penny drive at a local church. It actually took 3 trips in 3 days to get them all home.
They produced 14 boxes of Cu and 37 boxes of zinc that I'm still returning (to other banks) slowly.


51 boxes of cwr's--now that's a dream come true! :D

Not to mention all the gas you saved.