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What would you do with $650.00.....( ANSWERED) ) THANK YOU.

JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 7, 2018 5:55AM in U.S. Coin Forum

In lincoln memorial copper pennies from circulated rolls ?

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Trade them for a decent circulated three legger ?

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  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,757 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If mine they would likely become a foot rest under my desk for a few years. After that, who knows..
    I doubt you would be able to get more than face value for them in a way that's worth your time(or legal), if you figure it out be sure to let us know.
    I am also guilty of tossing the copper ones into a bucket for some future unknown reason.

    Collector, occasional seller

  • BobSavBobSav Posts: 937 ✭✭✭

    Don't buy Silver price is too high right now..
    Bob

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    make a floor to a room somewhere?

  • carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had been saving them from circulation for a few years, but recently cashed them in at the free coin-counter at our credit union. (only about $20 worth)

    Gawain

    Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ...drive it to Las Vegas and lay it all off on Georgia +4 over Bama on Monday night ;)

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Deposit them.

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cash them in then buy some reverse proof silver eagles I'm missing for my set.

    Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value. Zero. Voltaire. Ebay coinbowlllc

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    HMMMM........a nice 1914-D Lincoln.....look for the obverse die with the sharp strike.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AllCoinsRule Great sense of humor!

  • jonrunsjonruns Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    coinstar

  • CoinPhysicistCoinPhysicist Posts: 603 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 5, 2018 7:12PM

    @3keepSECRETif2rDEAD said:
    ...drive it to Las Vegas and lay it all off on Georgia +4 over Bama on Monday night ;)

    I'm thinking Georgia outright. Now, watch them get demolished just because I said this here. But yeah if you are going to bet on Georgia +4 already, just take them outright.

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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    HMMMM........a nice 1914-D Lincoln.....look for the obverse die with the sharp strike.

    Pete

    I like this idea.

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bring them to a scrap yard.

    Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 5, 2018 7:11PM

    That's thirteen really, really nice paperweights that look surprisingly like Priority Mail medium flat rate boxes.

  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,436 ✭✭✭✭✭

    All those pennies would go back 1-1 and I'd get a nice CBH to fondle.

  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Throw them in the hole with the rest of them.

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mvs7
    That's thirteen really, really nice paperweights that look surprisingly like Priority Mail medium flat rate boxes.

    You opened my eyes to a different way of thinking.

  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @totally said:

    @3keepSECRETif2rDEAD said:
    ...drive it to Las Vegas and lay it all off on Georgia +4 over Bama on Monday night ;)

    I'm thinking Georgia outright. Now, watch them get demolished just because I said this here. But yeah if you are going to bet on Georgia +4 already, just take them outright.

    ...you are correct...as long as money keeps pouring in on the Alabama side, while the line drops a hook tells me the house probably makes $$$ on this baby...Always take the points man...Always ;)

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Take them to a wishing well with a bottle a whiskey.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Crypto said:
    Deposit them

    This. And hope that you don't get whacked a fee for doing so.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jonruns said:
    coinstar

    Why do they deserve a cut?

    theknowitalltroll;
  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have a lot of patience? Check 'em for doubled dies.

  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Guess I should add good eyes, too.

  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @jonruns said:
    coinstar

    Why do they deserve a cut?

    Get payment as an iTunes or Lowe’s or Starbucks gift card. No cut to Coinstar if you get a gift card. This is what I would do if it were $650 in Zincoln (1982-present) cents. ;)

  • skier07skier07 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Take the Falcons and the the Under

  • KccoinKccoin Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Take 'em to the coin shop and grab a good date for the lincoln album

    The owner takes rolls (unwillingly).

  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Check to make sure you don't have any duplicates.

    My Adolph A. Weinman signature :)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Make a trip to a couple of banks/credit union and cash them in.... Then take your wife on an extravagant date night to include dinner and entertainment of your choice. That is an investment that will enrich your life far more than your next coin purchase. Cheers, RickO

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mvs7 said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @jonruns said:
    coinstar

    Why do they deserve a cut?

    Get payment as an iTunes or Lowe’s or Starbucks gift card. No cut to Coinstar if you get a gift card. This is what I would do if it were $650 in Zincoln (1982-present) cents. ;)

    I guess if you want any of those gift cards. So if a cup of Joe was $3.59 at Starbucks would you run $3.59 worth of cents thru the Coinstar machine?

    theknowitalltroll;
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    put it towards some nice coin that you want.

  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @mvs7 said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @jonruns said:
    coinstar

    Why do they deserve a cut?

    Get payment as an iTunes or Lowe’s or Starbucks gift card. No cut to Coinstar if you get a gift card. This is what I would do if it were $650 in Zincoln (1982-present) cents. ;)

    I guess if you want any of those gift cards. So if a cup of Joe was $3.59 at Starbucks would you run $3.59 worth of cents thru the Coinstar machine?

    No, based on the parameters of this thread, I’d have $650 worth of gift cards that I’d put in my wallet and take roughly 10 years to use up at Starbucks (I don’t go there a lot). My 80’s fixer-upper home, however, causes me to spend a lot at Lowe’s and Home Depot, so that would be my preferred route. If Coinstar will count for free if I take a gift card instead of cash, and it’s to a place I’d be spending money anyway, then that beats rolling 65,000 cents by hand and taking them to a bank.

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mvs7 excellent point.

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 6, 2018 2:05PM

    @mvs7 said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @mvs7 said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:

    @jonruns said:
    coinstar

    Why do they deserve a cut?

    Get payment as an iTunes or Lowe’s or Starbucks gift card. No cut to Coinstar if you get a gift card. This is what I would do if it were $650 in Zincoln (1982-present) cents. ;)

    I guess if you want any of those gift cards. So if a cup of Joe was $3.59 at Starbucks would you run $3.59 worth of cents thru the Coinstar machine?

    No, based on the parameters of this thread, I’d have $650 worth of gift cards that I’d put in my wallet and take roughly 10 years to use up at Starbucks (I don’t go there a lot). My 80’s fixer-upper home, however, causes me to spend a lot at Lowe’s and Home Depot, so that would be my preferred route. If Coinstar will count for free if I take a gift card instead of cash, and it’s to a place I’d be spending money anyway, then that beats rolling 65,000 cents by hand and taking them to a bank.

    My bank would promptly have them unrolled and run thru the counter. My gist was that it would be silly to put the whole $650 towards either a Starbucks or Itunes gift card. Lowes would be ok, but it would take me longer than you to use up the $650. Can a Coinstar machine even hold that much? Since there's no charge to me, I'd just take em to my bank, tho I long ago gave up accumulating change.

    theknowitalltroll;
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    13 bags of pennies? After lamenting at the effort involved and procrastinating, I'd cash them in. Is this a trick question?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Balely For real..No trick question, I honestly don't know what to do with them. I keep thinking they're all copper cents.

  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,399 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jimnight said:
    @Balely For real..No trick question, I honestly don't know what to do with them. I keep thinking they're all copper cents.

    Even if some are, is it worth the effort to hand sort them to save the ones that are pure copper?

    theknowitalltroll;
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jimnight said:
    @Balely For real..No trick question, I honestly don't know what to do with them. I keep thinking they're all copper cents.

    Well, if they're not in your way, then just store them. If you're asking how can i sell them fore more than 1c each, my question for you is, what is your time and effort worth? For the answer is: Retail them to Collectors.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Spend $650 on Buffs, what else.


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

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  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BAJJERFAN said:
    My bank would promptly have them unrolled and run thru the counter. My gist was that it would be silly to put the whole $650 towards either a Starbucks or Itunes gift card. Lowes would be ok, but it would take me longer than you to use up the $650. Can a Coinstar machine even hold that much? Since there's no charge to me, I'd just take em to my bank, tho I long ago gave up accumulating change.

    Up here near Seattle, none of the big banks have free-to-customer coin counting machines and my bank would charge me to count them on their machine. I think there are only a few credit unions up here (none near my actual house) that provide counting for free. I remember on the east coast that TD Bank had the lobby counting machines, but nothing like that here.

    Anyway, from a logistical standpoint, no one is going to run through $650 of cents through at one time... for one thing 3.11g per pre-1982 cent times 65,000 times (1/453.592) pounds/gram = just short of 450 pounds. The most I've ever done is ~$150 in mixed change (cents to quarters), and even that is like three quart jars in a backpack weighing around 40 pounds. I've also thrown in ~$200+ just in clad halves (silver hunting with the kids). The gift card limit for a single transaction at Coinstar machines is a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $500, so for more than that, I'd assume you'd just break it up into a few separate transactions. The bottom of a Coinstar machine is essentially six collection areas (one for cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half, and small-size dollar), so you can max it out, at which point the machine will either end your transaction and say that it is unable to take any more of a particular denomination or will "reject" through the reject slot any more of that denomination... that happened to me with halves at one time.

    You might ask, why not just take the halves back to the bank? I've found that my bank will happily sell you lots of rolls of halves, because they don't like them, but they really are unhappy if you just bring most of them back re-rolled the next day for them to schlep back to the vault. So, I blow that money at Lowe's instead. ;) . Win win.

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,411 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Deposit

    Latin American Collection

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 6, 2018 4:42PM

    @Boosibri you said...Deposit.
    @Crypto you said...Deposit them.
    @BillDugan1959...you said Deposit them.
    Or anyone.

    What do you mean by Deposit them??

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You may be able to find a shop or buyer who would pay you a premium over face.
    A local guy here pays 1.2 cents a coin.
    You'd be leaving 130 on the table if you just deposit them.
    Then again, maybe 130 isn't worth the time.

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog said:
    Take them to a wishing well with a bottle a whiskey.

    Best answer by a mile.

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mvs7 said:

    @BAJJERFAN said:
    My bank would promptly have them unrolled and run thru the counter. My gist was that it would be silly to put the whole $650 towards either a Starbucks or Itunes gift card. Lowes would be ok, but it would take me longer than you to use up the $650. Can a Coinstar machine even hold that much? Since there's no charge to me, I'd just take em to my bank, tho I long ago gave up accumulating change.

    Up here near Seattle, none of the big banks have free-to-customer coin counting machines and my bank would charge me to count them on their machine. I think there are only a few credit unions up here (none near my actual house) that provide counting for free. I remember on the east coast that TD Bank had the lobby counting machines, but nothing like that here.

    Anyway, from a logistical standpoint, no one is going to run through $650 of cents through at one time... for one thing 3.11g per pre-1982 cent times 65,000 times (1/453.592) pounds/gram = just short of 450 pounds. The most I've ever done is ~$150 in mixed change (cents to quarters), and even that is like three quart jars in a backpack weighing around 40 pounds. I've also thrown in ~$200+ just in clad halves (silver hunting with the kids). The gift card limit for a single transaction at Coinstar machines is a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $500, so for more than that, I'd assume you'd just break it up into a few separate transactions. The bottom of a Coinstar machine is essentially six collection areas (one for cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half, and small-size dollar), so you can max it out, at which point the machine will either end your transaction and say that it is unable to take any more of a particular denomination or will "reject" through the reject slot any more of that denomination... that happened to me with halves at one time.

    You might ask, why not just take the halves back to the bank? I've found that my bank will happily sell you lots of rolls of halves, because they don't like them, but they really are unhappy if you just bring most of them back re-rolled the next day for them to schlep back to the vault. So, I blow that money at Lowe's instead. ;) . Win win.

    What?
    Way to long, looked at it for a nano second and said...............NA!

  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 7, 2018 1:11AM

    @skier07 said:
    Take the Falcons and the the Under

    ...Good Lookin Out!...PM me an address where I can send u a small numismatic gift cause I parlayed that baby for a couple black chips...I love going against the grain...The house was well fed today with both dogs barking and both unders covering easily (1st & 2nd half’s & game)...Nice Pick man and Thanks for sharing ;)

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you again for your thoughts, I'll take it from here.

    Jim

  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Raybo said:
    What?
    Way to long, looked at it for a nano second and said...............NA!

    Wow. Ok, if three paragraphs is such a struggle, you could always stick with Twitter.

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