Unbelievable numbers

[corky569]

So this guy calls me yesterday and asks me if I would like to buy some pennies. (I have an ad on Craigslist.) It turns out they were his dead Father's. He says he has $69.00 face, and it's all rolled. I say of course. I cashed in all of my zincs, and headed over. When I got there he said he found $17.50 more. I unfortunately had no more cash so had to leave them. When I got home my first roll had 5 zincs in it. It only got better from there. Almost every roll was like that...quick stop at the atm and I bought the other rolls. I only had one solid copper roll, but the rest were great too. The only complaint was that Dad obviously knew what a wheat penny was, 8650 pennies, only 8 wheats. Here are the totals.
8650 total.
6190 coppers.
868 82's
1582 zincs.
8 wheats.
1 Canadian copper.
1 with a car rental sticker.
What a day!

[beauanderos]

Nice score! Were you able to get them at face value?

[corky569]

I almost forgot, I cashed in 6190 zincs this morning. Weird!

[corky569]

Nice score! Were you able to get them at face value?

Oh yeah, for face. I would've tried to pay less, but they were rolled.

[slvrbck]

How exactly do you go about buying pennies for less than face??

[drofdrugs]

Great score! As for buying pennies below face, you have to find someone with unrolled pennies. Then weigh them and since you are a penny expert you just estimate the dollar value based on weight and offer less than that. But not substantially less because that would be taking advantage of someone, which isn't cool. So about 10 to 15 percent less which we will call an adjustment for the work it will take you to sort them. Unless you are corky, because you got such a good score that no sorting is really needed.

[corky569]

How exactly do you go about buying pennies for less than face??

The last time I offered 1.50 a pound. He said no problem, I was actually only about ten dollars off on 90.00 worth. I believe I paid 82.50.