Copper Pennies are Disappearing
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Copper pennies are disappearing from circulation. If you are thinking of hoarding copper pennies, you should not wait any longer. They are getting fewer and fewer , and the copper penny price is going up and up.
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I am from Canada, keep posting and happy weekend.
Will do. I hope you are doing well in Canada, I sure enjoy finding your pennies. Thanks for watching
I have noticed them disappearing from my pocket change. I always pull out the copper ones, but they are becoming rare.
Yes, slowly getting harder to find for sure, plus as all the news ones come out, it also just drops the percentage
Always interesting stories. Sorry you didn't meet your goals, but that's the way things go sometimes. In the past, it seemed that about 1/3 of pennies were still Copper, and today it's usually hovering between about 10% to 15% being Copper. Just like with Silvers, I think people are just pull Copper out of circulation more than we would expect. You do it regularly on CZcams. I do it in the change that passes through my hands and have been for 30 years. How many more people like you and I are out there? Probably quite a few... Take care & keep stacking those monetary metals!
I'd say our hobby has many many companions. I know making videos probably increases that number, it's what got me back into collecting years ago, and I like to pay it forward. I do enjoy posting the videos, and talking with so many people like yourself. Good hunting.
I’ve been collecting wheat pennies well over 50 years ago.
About 10 years ago when I was able to I bought other peoples pennies so they wouldn’t have to take them to the bank, (win-win for both of us) and search for Wheaties.
About a year ago, I started digging the copper ones out of the pennies I came across and about a month ago I started buying rolls of pennies from the bank. $5.00 at a time and I still yet have to go through them.
I guess this is my little story 😁
@@noicue8078 well first off, I like your story. I'm curious when you think you will take time to begin separating the copper out of the rolls? When you do, I hope you find more wheat pennies.
@@TwoshedsGabby well I finally got called back to the workforce. So that will push that project back. but I’m still going to stack rolls up a little at a time and wait for the day that I can go through them. And thank you for the luck.🙏
Fun Hunt, I am seeing less copper for sure, but wheat cent count staying around 10 per box, which doesnt make a lot of sense...
That is pretty interesting. Hard to explain. This box didn't get 10, but, yes, most of them have.
Yes they are disappearing 8-9 years ago I was getting 20-22% of copper’s out of a box now it’s about 12-14% average
Yes, a noticable difference...
..I save scrap copper like piping,wire..started saving the English 2 & 1p coins that are copper as well..metals are the future/ I have several one cent coins which have errors on them,I keep them in a coin album.. and I have several quarters as well..as I've been trying to advance my learning on coins..I started with English 50p coins and then took an interest in American coins..I have only been a collector 4 just over a year..they are mini works of art to me..🪙
I agree about the works of art. Some of them are so nicely designed. An odd one that I like very much is the Early 20rh century U. S. A / Philippines centavos
Hey, we're over the 3 cents line for pennies!
We sure are.....! ! Thanks for letting me know
@@mikhailkalashnikov4599 don't you hate that we dropped back again? It'll be back
Yes, but we're playing the long game. Nothing goes up in a straight line, right?
@@TwoshedsGabby I think the over all trend is clear.
@@mikhailkalashnikov4599 for sure, not slowing down any here....
About ten years ago, a clerk at my local convenience store handed me my change and I noticed three wheat pennies among the change. When i turned them over, I was shocked to see two of them were in the teens and the other in the 20s. Since business was slow in the store, I asked the clerk if she had any more in the register. She said, "Yes, I've been giving them out in change all day." I asked her how she happened to come by so many of them? She said an old man walked into the store and paid for his purchase with them. She let me pick through the cents and I walked out with 42 wheat cents. All of which were dated prior to 1945 and most were in the teens, 20s and 30s. The earliest was coin was dated 1914. And though they were well circulated, all the dates and mint marks were easily readable. The sad part was - she said the man had given her four rolls and that the 42 I took was the last of them. I wish I had stopped in earlier. 😥
Wow, those are rare, fun situations. Wish you could have gotten more, but it's nice that you got what you got.
@@TwoshedsGabby I have always wondered what else might have been in the rest of those rolls? I don't know why anyone in their right mind would spend them like that because he could have gotten more for the coins at our local coin shop. The only thing that makes sense is he just didn't realize that - though worn - they were worth a lot more than face value. At the time, even sight unseen, I would have given him $25 for the four rolls.
@@TwoshedsGabby That wasn't the last time I got some great coins at that store. One day I popped in to pick up a lottery ticket and a drink, and the clerk handed me three Mercury dimes in change. I pointed out to her that they were worth a lot more than ten cents. She said, "I don't care you can have them." When I asked her who she got them from, she said a migrant worker came in and spent them to buy his lunch. She said she noticed they were a little unusual looking, "But hey, it's just money to me." That convenience store sits on the outside of town and a lot of migrant workers go there for food and drinks.
Over the years, I've managed to pick up a lot of wheat cents and even a few pre-1965 Washington quarters at that store. I keep them all in a special jar with a note saying, "Believe it or not, I picked these up in change!" 🤑🤗
@@rvalens2 that's really cool. I am happy for you. I hope you are able to get more and more as time goes by.
I found a Ten Yen copper coin on the ground of a store parking lot.
Somebody comes here from across the globe, just to lose their coin, and then they have to go back home.
I only find 1.50 to 1.60 Copper pennies in AVG: $10.00 . Just 2 wheat too.
Yep, we all know it's going to be shrinking. Just the amount of new ones coming in will lower the percentage. Not the mention those of us that stash them away
Are we really two guys in Louisville Kentucky searching penny rolls at the same time 🤣🤣🤣
Hello fellow Louisvillian. Good luck in your hunts
One pre-82 Lincoln cent has hit $0.03007 today, May 13th 2024.
I know, so exciting....
You’re a good storyteller. Enjoying the videos.
Oh, wow, thank you for that. Very much appreciated
I enjoy collecting coins made before 2000s. I got a few shops by my house that are always on the look out for me. I also get coins from all around the world.
What is your method of getting coins from around the world?
I've started purchasing copper pennies in bulk for under 2 cents each.
That's a good deal.... I enjoy the hunts, but your way is definitely easier.
Never found a wheat ender
I didn't this box. I hope you are not saying you never have. If so, I sure hope you finally do get one. Be sure to get a photo of it when you do.
Cool stories
Well thank you indeed
I see that you are still at it just got a new safe to fill up with pennies and yes copper is slowing down for sue but still getting some nice older date ones keep stacking that copper
Yep, still plugging away. I am still getting some nice wheaties. I may need another safe. LoL
Yeah i can say the same thing about copper pennies are definitely slowing down
You see it too? To me it's still fun and well worth the time, but it is getting fewer.
Do you live in Tennessee
Why are you weighing the 1983 pennies? Wasnt it 1982 when there was two different weights?
@@michaelramsey3986 yes, the 1982 was the transition year. 2.5 grams is zinc, and 3.2 grams is copper. But a few of the copper planchettes got through in 83, and if you find one, it is quite valuable.
@@TwoshedsGabby thank you, I never knew that.
@@michaelramsey3986 glad if I was some assistance. Thanks for watching, I hope you find my videos worth subscribing to. Good day
Hey Bro, I got another $20 of member rolls at credit union. No wheat pennies but got $1.77 copper cents. Is that good or am I wasting time? What's cool is the girl at my C.U. calls me when she gets member rolls in. I never asked if I could order boxes, maybe I should. I Love Texas Roadhouse! Thanks for the share🤟
I'd say that is about average for today's finds,. If you have a bank teller calling you for those rolls, keep getting them and thanking her. Maybe take her, her favorite candy bar too. You never know, you might get something amazing one day. And in the meantime, just keep hoarding that copper away. Good luck
Oh, and maybe we'll cross paths at a Texas Roadhouse one day
So when you say order a box, do you literally mean order? Or can you just walk into a bank and buy a box?
Well I do frequently buy boxes of pennies and nickels from back branches, but I also order them from banks. One of my banks I have a standing weekly order of 2 boxes of half dollars, and a box of pennies... Sometimes I change it up a bit.
Will you change your name if you get a 3rd shed lol.
That's funny, but no. Truth is I already have 3 sheds, but I like the name twosheds
Thanks for another interesting hunt, you and I might be the reason that a few are disappearing. HaHa (check your email)
Thank you, and I guess you are right
LoL... I'm heading that way
I didn't see an email
Pennies , nickels, dimes
@@TwoshedsGabby Yes
@@mesalyn you package is ready, mailing in the morning
Again, sorry to hear about your family member. But I think it’s better for all that he goes back to the hospital. They are better to handle any situation to make him comfortable.
Love at first sight I’m not too sure about, I think love has to grow.
I have a question about the 1982 weights that I’ve come across. Maybe not a question but a scratching my head moment. Just wondering if you can help me out.
Here they are around about:
2.55 / 3.07 / 3.11 just wondering why there’s 3 different weights?
I cringe every time I hear the price of copper dropping. Only because I have about 800 to 1000 pounds of copper wire I need to strip and I’m nowhere close to doing it. 🫣
Sorry you didn’t reach your goal. And looking forward to your next hunt. Take care.👍😁🙏
Thank you for writing, good to hear from you.
Thank you also for you condolences.
The 2.55 g is the zinc, and the 3.07, and 3.11 is copper, not sure why the variation. But I see that too. Could be slight wear, could be the scales, but I think it's another answer, I just don't have it.
For my collection, anything under 2.99 g I toss in with the zink just to be safe, unless it is an obvious copper coin with a lot of wear. If I sell copper to someone someday I don't want them to say they found some zinc cents in there.
But sometimes I weight a coin and it says like 2.97, then I weigh it again and it's 3.1, so I do feel like my cheap little scale is not perfect for sure. In fact, I've dropped it once or twice and need to just get another one
I think I have a back up somewhere, but not sure where. LoL.
Copper is on the rise, but like all commodities, it fluctuates as it goes up.
I have another box of pennies I hope to get to in the next day or two. Spending most of my day at the hospital, and going home in the evenings.
@@TwoshedsGabby thank you for the information. They didn’t look worn, but still not as nice as you’re 1958-d, what a great find. But there’s so many of them (3.07), I think I will keep them separate and roll them up separately.
I know you have a lot on your plate with your house and your family member but take your time and take breaks doing the things you enjoy to help relieve stress. Take care. 🙏
@@noicue8078 thank you for mentioning those things. You are right, it's easy to get wrapped up, and then burned out. 👍👍
..because people are hoarding them in giant water containers..saving them up 4 years on end..🪙🤔🪙
Yep, for sure. Do you have a pretty good stash?