$22.20 FV in coppers on my last box!

[TwoPenniesEarned]

Some poor old guy who seems to have been collecting pennies for a long long time must have taken a lot of time to painstakingly roll up his coppers and bring them to the bank. I was lucky enough to buy them!

When I started running this box, I needed to check my Ryedale as I thought something had gone wrong with it. Almost every coin was coming out of the "keep" slot!

I starting looking through the accepted coins, and was like "OMG, SWEET!" IN the whole box, only 280 coins were zincs.

It made my weekend.

[styropyro]

Impressive box! I'm sure most of us would kill for 88.8%. What were the years of the zincs in there, mid 80's or all around? Did you find any wheats?

[TwoPenniesEarned]

It's a CDN box, so everything up to 1996 is good...and these ran all the way back to the 1940's. I only know that because I saw a King in the keeps, but I haven't sorted any of my keeps yet. I'm too busy sorting out zincs to bother sub-sorting my hoard. I figure when the returns go down and I'm not getting a good return on boxes from the bank, that's when I'll sort through the coppers.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Nice job...I love those KINGS!

[centavosdecobre]

Out this way in the Mountain State, I usually find around 28% copper (excluding 82´s). But every once in a while, like my last $20 worth, I´ll get 60% (1200+ pennies out of 2,000). Usually, there will be a few new zincs, and the majority of the coppers will be in excellent condition, with a bright red color. Is this from people who have had them sitting in a jar for 20 years and finally hauled them into the bank? Usually very few wheats though.