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Hypothetical Copper Cent Question

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Hypothetically speaking.....

Just suppose you had 250,000,000 pre 1982 Copper cents acquired in the last 10 years sitting in a warehouse. Now suppose you had a high speed programmable optical scanner that you could program to search for anomalies, such as specific doubled dies (1969-S 1970-S 1972 etc).

Question #1. What specific coins would you program the scanner to look for?

Question #2. What do you think the probability would be of actually finding anything of value?

Question #3. Or would you just throw them on eBay as unsearched bags?
I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.

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  • atarianatarian Posts: 3,116 ✭
    I know what auction your talking about. I would just use the computer to search for anomalies then sell on ebay as pennies I would also besides the DDO and DDR coins I would look for die chips if that was possible.
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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    How much would $2.5 million in cents cost? Nevermind... how much do 250,000,000 cents weigh?
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a whole lot of pallets....
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    First - count & roll them, just to be sure they are all there.
  • PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 5,927 ✭✭✭✭✭
    better count by hand, you can't always trust machines!

    Why would anyone have 250,000,000 cent in the first place?
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  • UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How much would $2.5 million in cents cost? Nevermind... how much do 250,000,000 cents weigh? >>



    About 1,714,094 lb
    I used to be somebody, now I'm just a coin collector.
    Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>First - count & roll them, just to be sure they are all there. >>



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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>How much would $2.5 million in cents cost? Nevermind... how much do 250,000,000 cents weigh? >>



    About 1,714,094 lb >>



    I'm sorry... can you do that in grams or troy ounces? image
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  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd dump the cents for spot and put the high speed programmable optical scanner on the Bay.
  • fiveNdimefiveNdime Posts: 1,088 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i> how much do 250,000,000 cents weigh? >>



    About 1,714,094 lb >>



    I'm sorry... can you do that in grams or troy ounces? image >>


    777500 Kg

    2.499721e7 troy oz
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