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Man cashes in 45-year penny collection

ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
With the help of friends and family, Otha Anders wheeled in 15 water jugs full of pennies to the bank in Ruston. The final count: 513,614 pennies, which comes to a little over $5,136...


I'll bet he never checked the dates.... image

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BryceM
    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.


    Or how bad his teeth are.
  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: gonzer

    Originally posted by: BryceM

    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.




    Or how bad his teeth are.




    That could be just 1 or 2 teeth these days. image



  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BryceM

    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.




    I have a 5 piece gold crown and bridge assembly in my yap. It has a small hole worn into one of the crowns. $5K or so to replace it sounds about right. I shud start wheeling jugs of coins into his office.image
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  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps if he searched them first, he could have a complete set of gold teeth and drive to the dentist in his new Rolls Royceimage
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    doubtful.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a shame, ....his insurance won't cover ........
  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Didn't see where it mentions he had dental insurance. . . may have missed it.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds to me liked he worked his whole life.


    Why won't his employers give him dental insurance, what a shame ......
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: abcde12345

    Didn't see where it mentions he had dental insurance. . . may have missed it.






    Most dental insurance won't cover 100% of dental charges. If I replaced my 5 piecer today my OOP share would probably be $4K or more.



    His homeowners policy wouldn't over his cent hoard.

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  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Didn't see where it mentions his work history or his opportunity to opt in for dental insurance. . . may have missed it.
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ErrorsOnCoins

    Sounds to me liked he worked his whole life.





    Why won't his employers give him dental insurance, what a shame ......




    Where does it say he doesn't have dental insurance?



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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: abcde12345

    Didn't see where it mentions his work history or his opportunity to opt in for dental insurance. . . may have missed it.




    Anders, 73, reportedly supervises in-school suspended children for the Jackson School Board. He says he finally cashed in because his insurance policy won't cover the collection, according to the News-Star.
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just don't seem right, I'm out, going fishin, sailing and lobstering .......
  • Coins101Coins101 Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BAJJERFAN
    Originally posted by: abcde12345
    Didn't see where it mentions his work history or his opportunity to opt in for dental insurance. . . may have missed it.


    Anders, 73, reportedly supervises in-school suspended children for the Jackson School Board. He says he finally cashed in because his insurance policy won't cover the collection, according to the News-Star.


    If he is full time (FTE), I am sure he has dental insurance but it generally doesn't cover 100% besides checkups. My guess he works part-time in a non-benefited position.

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: BAJJERFAN
    Originally posted by: BryceM
    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.


    I have a 5 piece gold crown and bridge assembly in my yap. It has a small hole worn into one of the crowns. $5K or so to replace it sounds about right. I shud start wheeling jugs of coins into his office.image



    Just got the same rig. Cost is double ($10,000) where PCGS is located (Newport Beach).
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, bad teeth will do to ya every timeimage
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: amwldcoin
    Originally posted by: gonzer
    Originally posted by: BryceM
    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.


    Or how bad his teeth are.


    That could be just 1 or 2 teeth these days. image



    it makes ya wonder if there worth it at that stage? image
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: johnny9434

    Originally posted by: amwldcoin

    Originally posted by: gonzer

    Originally posted by: BryceM

    He saved for a lifetime and is going to use it to pay a dentist office bill. That should tell you something about the worth of a half-million cents.




    Or how bad his teeth are.




    That could be just 1 or 2 teeth these days. image







    it makes ya wonder if there worth it at that stage? image




    Depends upon how bad ya like to eat. A root canal with a crown can go $3K I suppose.



    My insurance max with my plan is $1K per year.
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  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TopographicOceans
    Perhaps if he searched them first, he could have a complete set of gold teeth and drive to the dentist in his new Rolls Royceimage

    One could hope.

    More likely the man would piss away countless hours, have to wash his hands with industrial cleaner and have new chiropractor bills to contend with after weeks of being hunched over looking at copper / zinc slugs.

    You might get more value using the coins as some sort of landfiller for a landscaping project.

    Tyler
  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sometimes I feel that Dentist get as bad a wrap as coin dealers on this message board
  • epcjimi1epcjimi1 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭

    guy accumulated a half million cents since the sixties?


    No collecting involved.


    There has got to be a 1955 DDO in there somewhere.
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: TopographicOceans
    Perhaps if he searched them first, he could have a complete set of gold teeth and drive to the dentist in his new Rolls Royceimage


    Does PCGS slab that kind of crusty gold?
  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: fishteeth

    Sometimes I feel that Dentist get as bad a wrap as coin dealers on this message board




    My wife just recently had to have a 4 tooth bridge. We almost went to Costa Rica! Did help us Negotiate the price down a little from $7800! I called Costa Rica(an American Company) and asked how much they could supply the bridge for. It was less than $100 per unit(tooth). I then asked my dentist how much they were costing him. He replied it was....my memory is a little vague but somewhere approaching $1000 per unit(tooth)!



    After Obamacare causing my Health insurance rates literally double next year for a plan that is not as good as I have I am thoroughly disgusted with the ripoff healthcare in this country.



    I have a friend looking into doing invetro fertilization. The cost here is somewhere around 20K per try. In his wife's country it is $800!
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: fishteeth

    Sometimes I feel that Dentist get as bad a wrap as coin dealers on this message board






    Well there are those who let their teeth go to hell for whatever reason and wonder why they can't get em fixed for $100.

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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Enough with the teeth already.....geez.
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • All this about dental insurance when the only mention about insurance is presumably about home owners or renter's insurance not covering his collection.... lol



    "He says he finally cashed in because his insurance policy won't cover the collection, "
  • TrazTraz Posts: 377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: amwldcoin
    Originally posted by: fishteeth
    Sometimes I feel that Dentist get as bad a wrap as coin dealers on this message board


    My wife just recently had to have a 4 tooth bridge. We almost went to Costa Rica! Did help us Negotiate the price down a little from $7800! I called Costa Rica(an American Company) and asked how much they could supply the bridge for. It was less than $100 per unit(tooth). I then asked my dentist how much they were costing him. He replied it was....my memory is a little vague but somewhere approaching $1000 per unit(tooth)!

    After Obamacare causing my Health insurance rates literally double next year for a plan that is not as good as I have I am thoroughly disgusted with the ripoff healthcare in this country.

    I have a friend looking into doing invetro fertilization. The cost here is somewhere around 20K per try. In his wife's country it is $800!




    Ever watch "botched"?
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whenever I have some food stuck in my teeth, I just take them out and remove it. image

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: nankraut

    Enough with the teeth already.....geez.




    image

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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: fishteeth

    Sometimes I feel that Dentist get as bad a wrap as coin dealers on this message board




    They get mummified?image



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  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,234 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: epcjimi1



    guy accumulated a half million cents since the sixties?





    No collecting involved.





    There has got to be a 1955 DDO in there somewhere.




    Do you suppose he "searched" them before throwing them into a bucket or barrel?



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  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For there to be a 50/50 random chance of a 55DD he'd would have had to have 1.2 billion cents to go through.
  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep....



    Dental insurance is most often very weak and in the case of most seniors, non existant.



    Even with decent insurance, my cracked teeth and crowns cost thousands!



    I wonder if there were any goodies in that hoard?

    Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep... likely some cents of value in that hoard (not a collection).... but the time to search

    it was likely an issue since he had a pending need for cash. Cheers, RickO

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