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Why I Search For Pennies (Hint-Coin Metamorphoses)

John-Edmonton

John-Edmonton

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I am a coin shooter first and everything else shooter second. I have lots of jewelry and great relics like every one else, but I just got to pick up those coins lying around. And of course the majority are pennies. Some guys can't stand them. They try to disc them out, but you can't....plain and simple! Too much variety for one thing...ie zincs, wheats, indians, large, Canadians, Canadian steel cents. If you try to disc out all these....you are losing too many great finds! But, go ahead, disc them out. I tip my hat to you.

Alchemists tried for many hundreds of years to change cheap metal ores into valuable metals such as gold and silver. Welcome to the millennium. Now it can be done :). I go out of my way search out those pennies. Show me a junior high school and I'll show you how to pop those endless pennies out, sometimes 100 per hour. Of course I also get rings (gold & silver), silver coins and other surprises. But I'm talking about pennies......



As of last year, I had accumulated a total of 69,689 ($696.89) worth of those most hated coins. And, each year I wash those suckers, roll them and cash them in at the bank. Then comes the "coin-metamorphasis"......I purchase a gold coin. That's right....enough pennies to buy a gold coin each year. And I have 14 gold coins to date. As I said....I "CAN" change copper to gold.
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Below is last years purchase. I suspect this years purchase just might require a little addition of other clad for a purchase, as the price of gold keeps going up and up and up............

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And below previous years gold coin:

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John, nice read, great idea and gold certainly has been a wonderful investment. I, too, cash in all my annual clad finds and buy some special coin. HH jim tn
 
Nice concept John. It goes to show we can justify about anything. I used the clad found last year to purchase a 1909-S VDB cent to complete my wheaty collection. It seems to help justify digging all of those cents knowing we have a purpose for them. Another way to look at them darned cents on a smaller scale is for every 100 of them you dig, you can go buy a silver dime. I love the idea of rewarding yourself for your efforts of finding and rescuing lost money. :crazy:
 
HI John-Edmonton
Thanks for the info.
What do you do with the pennies that are damaged? The bank told me the throw them away because that is what they do. Just can't get my self to do that. I have a nice cup full of damaged pennies. Thanks Jer
 
Some I flatten with a hammer, and the ones in real bad shape....they get thrown out. You got to draw the line somewhere.
 
Was that 69,000 plus, or a miss print.
My God thats a lot of coins..wait till DFX Greg reads this post !!!!
 
Spend them at the discount store Zeekeys.half a penny for half price items.........
 
I think I will throw them away. I thought that maybe someone was doing something with them. Jer
 
That's 69,000 pennies since I started metal detecting nearly 15 years ago. I hope to break the 100,000 coin mark in 2008.
 
I am impressed !! Thats a lot of coins my friend..and a lot of time swing a detector...Whats your main detector ?? Wow 69,000 and still counting.
 
Melt them down. The price of copper is way higher than the price of the cents. Anymore people are stealing everything they can find made of copper. The other night here in Portland they raided a cemetary and stole all the copper urns from every grave.

Bill
 
I think I am gonna keep my pennies seperately for a year...see how I do just in pennies..after, I am the penny queen ( smart remark here) at this time..lol
 
I believe your totals. I just hunt those pennies with a screwdriver and pop them out as quick as I can. After digging thousands of them, you get real proficient at pinpointing and popping those coins.
 
Hi John,

Most people in Alberta won't pick up a penny, except you and I it seems.

Maybe we'll bump elbows some time.

David at Edmonton
 
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