Oh my flipping @&$&@&!! (Added pic)

[reddirtcoins]

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.

[bman]

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

[everything]

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.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

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.

[SilverDragon72]

Too many zincs!!

[highroller4321]

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

[knibloe]

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.

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

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.

[reddirtcoins]

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.

[Sheba]

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.

[bazmonkey]

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

[Hawkeye]

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

[HoardCopperByTheTon]

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.

[RichardPenny43]

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!

[chris6084]

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.

[John_doe]

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

[rockme54]

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!