Ten reasons why I scratched #3 off my numismatic bucket list.

DocBenjamin

Always wanted to acquire a million Lincoln cents. After some thought, that is not practical so it is off the list!

1. If I pick up 20 rolls twice a week, the bank will not be thrilled and it will take a bit over 9 and a half years.

2. Have no basement. Not something that you would store in the billiard room.

3. Mining is not without consequence. Don't need the footprint.

4. Got to have a long and straggly beard to do this. Don't look too good with a beard.

5. Costs a couple cents to produce a cent. Don't want to burden the Mint.

6. I would probably start searching the damn things. That should be reason number one!

7. No end game. PITA to dispose of such a hoard.

8 9 and 10...help me out with those.

pursuitofliberty

A good fork-lift to move them, and all the storage containers to keep them might cost at least half gain as much as the hoard

ifthevamzarockin

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/819143/my-wheat-cents-hoard/p8

CRHer700

@ifthevamzarockin said:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/819143/my-wheat-cents-hoard/p8

I was going to post that!

oldabeintx

No. 8. Can’t think of a single rational reason to do this.

MrEureka

8. Because my heirs would not be amused.

CRHer700

What are nos. 1&2 on your list?

Mr_Spud

You should reconsider and go for it.

jayPem

I'd be tempted to pave the driveway and cover a couple vehicles with them.
Seems like that could be parlayed into some kind of goofy tourist attraction?
Cuz I love tourists...

Old_Collector

Reason 10 Only 95% copper or you have a giant bucket of zinc rot that is not worth nearly as much but those are harder to find now.
Love those giant plastic containers of cents!

DCW

Years ago I kept all pre-1983 copper cents. Put them aside while searching for varieties, and they accumulated. Now I look down in the basement at the 3 or 4 hundred pounds of pennies and I just want them gone. You can't legally melt them and they are going to be a pain in the ass to haul to the coinstar .machine for Amazon credit

jacrispies

Dig a swimming pool and fill it up...

DocBenjamin

@DCW said:
Years ago I kept all pre-1983 copper cents. Put them aside while searching for varieties, and they accumulated. Now I look down in the basement at the 3 or 4 hundred pounds of pennies and I just want them gone. You can't legally melt them and they are going to be a pain in the ass to haul to the coinstar .machine for Amazon credit

Friend presented me with 30,000 cents twenty year ago. Brought them to coinstar which was at the front of the supermarket. Took three, about 45 minute sessions to feed the coins. Not good when an old lady sympathetically handed me a can of tomato soup.

Yeah...you are sort of stuck.

Manifest_Destiny

DoubleEagle59

8. There's no chance when I bring a woman back to my place, that she'll stay longer than 10 seconds when she sees all those Wheaties.

vulcanize

@jayPem said:
I'd be tempted to pave the driveway and cover a couple vehicles with them.
Seems like that could be parlayed into some kind of goofy tourist attraction?
Cuz I love tourists...

Or finish floors

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1aqylck/nextlevel_penny_floor/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1dwvt5u/making_flooring_out_of_pennies/

Must admit that the end product turned out mighty nice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/eax9rg/i_made_a_penny_floor_that_worked_out_cheaper_than/

Lots of work but looks amazing.(scroll through the pics to see progression)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/ppjhjk/the_process_of_a_penny_floor/

Or Mosaic art.

https://i.redd.it/rwgi0cni95ed1.png

Many many more of such examples on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DIYHome/comments/zr71lf/penny_floor_finished/

Woman uses 13000 pennies to renovate old floor

https://preview.redd.it/bquzmrkdcug61.jpg?auto=webp&s=da58955f4c3683f82f21c9d1433b991a48f0e5d8

Coinscratch

8. You could cause a sink hole.

Overdate

8. It's likely that I would wind up with some duplicates.

FrankH

@MrEureka said:
8. Because my heirs would not be amused.

I think I may have just stumbled into a terrific thing to do.

Randoms

You could spend a million cents on certified Lincoln’s. Take up way less space

sellitstore

10) When you reach 1 million, what's the next mountain to climb? 10,000,000?

Creg

Doc, do you have a pile of cents, or do you want to mound up a million from scratch?

DocBenjamin

@Creg said:
Doc, do you have a pile of cents, or do you want to mound up a million from scratch?

Couple bucks worth.

Gonna work on bucket list #1 and find an impaired Stella.

skier07

I’d rather have a million gold coins and I think my heirs would be very happy.

mr1931S

@CRHer700 said:

@ifthevamzarockin said:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/819143/my-wheat-cents-hoard/p8

I was going to post that!

There's gotta be at least three SVDB's in this hoard.

tcollects

@CRHer700 said:

@ifthevamzarockin said:

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/819143/my-wheat-cents-hoard/p8

I was going to post that!

this is my favorite collector, not only the barrels of copper cents, there was the red Ferrari and briefcase full of slabbed $20s, follow your heart