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  • SpoolySpooly Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭
    (if he's going for 10 millions, and there are 175ks-180ks per can, that's 55-60 of those cans)


    60 trash cans of wheat cents = cracked concrete slab


    That collection is neat!
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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 11,660 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Part of me thinks the wheat cent hoard is neat and would be a blast to look through.

    Another part of me thinks that accumulating this hoard make no sense at all and that it would be pure misery/drudgery to look through.

    For all of the persons who think that this cent hoard is neat, great, cool, etc. would your opinion be the same if instead of wheat cents the hoarded item was single kind of:

    1. paperclips;

    2. toothpicks; or

    3. bottlecap?

    If your opinion is different, why so?
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,285 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Part of me thinks the wheat cent hoard is neat and would be a blast to look through.

    Another part of me thinks that accumulating this hoard make no sense at all and that it would be pure misery/drudgery to look through.

    For all of the persons who think that this cent hoard is neat, great, cool, etc. would your opinion be the same if instead of wheat cents the hoarded item was single kind of:

    1. paperclips;

    2. toothpicks; or

    3. bottlecap?

    If your opinion is different, why so? >>




    Hmmm...you are asking COIN collectors to evaluate a collection/hoard of COINS (what they collect) vs other items that they may not collect? image

    The only one, from what you list, that may be close, would likely be bottlecaps....as those are more likely to have unique pieces, or rare, or just be visually different enough to be "fun"

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  • SOMEONE STOLE THESE PICS AND IS TRYING TO SELL THIS HOARD ON EBAY

    LINK

    in case it dont work

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-millions-wheat-cents-hoard-unsearch-/200748115095?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item2ebd852497
  • smokincoinsmokincoin Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭


    << <i>SOMEONE STOLE THESE PICS AND IS TRYING TO SELL THIS HOARD ON EBAY

    LINK

    in case it dont work

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-millions-wheat-cents-hoard-unsearch-/200748115095?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item2ebd852497 >>



    I think it's the OP's listing. image
  • baddogssbaddogss Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭✭
    I think it's the OP's listing

    I agree.
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  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Keith has the same disease we all suffer from.

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    We should all be so lucky.

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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No matte rhow you slice it, this is darn cool. Maybe a little over the top, but cool.
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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,826 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    For all of the persons who think that this cent hoard is neat, great, cool, etc. would your opinion be the same if instead of wheat cents the hoarded item was single kind of:

    1. paperclips;

    2. toothpicks; or

    3. bottlecap?

    If your opinion is different, why so? >>



    Sure it's over the top in a big way. The big diffrence here is that paperclips, toothpicks and bottle caps are not desirable to anyone except perhaps someone with an excessive hoarding issue...
    They are not collectable (well, bottlecaps might be perhaps) and they certainly aren't an industrial commodity like copper is. The BIG difference is that
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  • ckrakowskickrakowski Posts: 157 ✭✭


    << <i>OMG! $20,000 in wheat pennies! I thought my son's group of $1,500 was a lot (I can't imagine how much that trash can weighs)! image >>




    the trash can weighs a couple pounds it is the wheat cents inside that make it so heavy.
  • ckrakowskickrakowski Posts: 157 ✭✭


    << <i>How much does one of those trash cans weigh? Do you have a fork truck to move them? >>



    the trash can weighs a couple of pounds and why would you need a forklift to move a trash can.
  • ckrakowskickrakowski Posts: 157 ✭✭


    << <i>
    No I had not search them >>




    imagine all of the key dates in there.
  • halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
    I think your hoard is awesome.
  • renomedphysrenomedphys Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My guess is that all of the cents pictured here will one day be consigned to the furnace.
  • bestclser1bestclser1 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Last one!!!!
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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 6,903 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Okay, I'm reluctant to ask this but I absolutely have to know --


    Are there any duplicates? image

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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019
    What in the world is he going to do with two 50 coin plastic tubes with all those?

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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did you find any mint errors in that hoard?
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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And I guarantee you still will not find a 09-S VDB. image
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  • halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
    I still think your hoard is awesome!!
  • daOnlyBGdaOnlyBG Posts: 1,060 ✭✭
    Next time I'm looking in the Red Book for wheat penny mintage numbers, I will think of your garage.

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  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭
    That is a lot of valuable metal. Nice.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Old thread alert


    Did anyone not offend the OP enough to get his email?


    I'm dying to know if the next milestone of 5 million wheats is complete...


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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife would divorce me if I tried to do something like this. Still, the guy isn't hurting anybody by doing it, so why not?
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  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭
    A classic thread from 2011, which needs to be updated.

    compromonedas, if you are out there, please post and update the status of your hoard.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    thats almost insane but a good insane image
  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 6,903 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>And I guarantee you still will not find a 09-S VDB. image >>


    About 3 of those cans would hold the entire mintage of 1909-S VDB cents.

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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It might be kinda hard to misplace these if you ever moved. image
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,480 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A classic thread from 2011, which needs to be updated.

    compromonedas, if you are out there, please post and update the status of your hoard. >>



    Based on the feedback history linked to the auction/seller in the previous page, it looks like he was selling quite a few, at least..


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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's crazy.

    And cool.

    In a crazy way.

    Wow.

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  • SoCalBigMarkSoCalBigMark Posts: 2,786 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love this coin.


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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd truck those barrels straight to the scrap yard.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I DO presume you look through the boxes before they get dumped into the trashcans?

    If not, you should.

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  • luckybucksluckybucks Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, with AAALLL of thos pennies, there has to be several rare and expensive coins in there.

    The problem is, with that quantity of pennies, it would take three eternities to find all of them.
  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>A classic thread from 2011, which needs to be updated.

    compromonedas, if you are out there, please post and update the status of your hoard. >>



    Based on the feedback history linked to the auction/seller in the previous page, it looks like he was selling quite a few, at least.. >>

    He said he planned to hold on to them "for a looooong time" so if he really did sell, I wonder what changed his mind.

    Still a definite accomplishment that demands to be noticed and remembered. I wonder if he ever contacted Guiness.
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  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    Whoa, what crawled up your @$$ image

    This "guy" is hoarding copper as a long-term bullion investment … I think it's obvious that he's interested in every penny of the dollar.
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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 6,903 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In the 1950's and 60's, many of us created mini-hoards of 1943 steel cents we pulled out of circulation. Some of those hoards were sizable.

    That's why they're so rare and valuable today! image

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This was the thread I was searching for, Ferrari and all! image
    I love the obsession!
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    When Congress demonetizes the cent, you'll be a copper baron.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll take chance.
    I'm in.

    A giveaway. How munificent!

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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Personally, I would rather have one coin worth $150,000 than 5,000,000 coins valued at 3 cents each. Much easier to store, hide and move. But to each his own. Nice hoard. Good luck~ I hope you never have to move.image
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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    When I see those cans I want to search for varieties.
    There must be some nice varieties lurking in that hoard! image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 43,796 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely one of the most accurate thread titles in the history of the forum. Opinions, thoughts and ponderances fail me image

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