How many Pennie’s do you have for a rainy day ?

[Charles Cook]

How many pennies have you guys stashed over the years ?

 

[T2R9]

All Wheat cents. I still have about 20,000 to sift through.

 

[hunt2elk]

Yikes, no wonder the Fed is complaining about a coin shortage.

 

[Charles Cook]

All Wheat cents. I still have about 20,000 to sift through.

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Damn I thought I had a lot. Lol

 

[T2R9]

Damn I thought I had a lot. Lol

Coins are my other hobby when I get pissed at cars.

 

[Charles Cook]

Coins are my other hobby when I get pissed at cars.

I collected silver coins at one time, they are scarcer now a days. Every now and then I’ll run across a younger person that just want’s to sell.

 

[T2R9]

I found a standing liberty quarter in our front yard when I was like 12 with a cheap metal detector I got for my birthday. I was hooked cause that coin was so cool and it made me think about all the people that had it in their pocket. Got a 1794 large cent I bought a few years ago. George Washington or Ben Franklin could have had it in their pocket. Kinda cool to think about.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Parents were in dry cleaning business. We always checked pockets a Cheshire Academy student left a 1792 half cent in his pocket. Normally we;d keep change unless it dollars worth. Returned it. Once they found $300, this was in early 60's customer was really happy.

Edit: Had 1972 half cent corrected to 1792.

 

[Charles Cook]

When I picked up a 1/2 a dime I thought that was the coolest coin I had ever seen. That was the bug for me. Now I have a pretty nice collection including a slave nickel. There was a black collector that was buy up the slave coins to take them out of circulation. So I was told when a guy tried to buy mine. Told him it was not for sale. Then he labeled me a racist. Oh well, I don’t pay that crap any attention at all. No time for that crap.

 

[Photon440]

Pennies? Never see them in the real world here, Canada stopped minting them ten years ago and pulled them out of circulation.

 

[GetX'd]

When I picked up a 1/2 a dime I thought that was the coolest coin I had ever seen. That was the bug for me. Now I have a pretty nice collection including a slave nickel. There was a black collector that was buy up the slave coins to take them out of circulation. So I was told when a guy tried to buy mine. Told him it was not for sale. Then he labeled me a racist. Oh well, I don’t pay that crap any attention at all. No time for that crap.

You forget my friend - if you’re a white male you are deemed racist no matter what the case These days.

 

[GetX'd]

I don’t keep any coins never have - save a stack of 19aughts silver dollars. I’ve had them for 40 years - no real reason. And yes my father gave each of his children a minted set of Kennedy half dollars when they came out maybe in the sixties. I just want enough to conclude my life and make sure my wife is taken care of afterwards.

 

[Builderguy]

Not all pennies but it is for a Rainy day (gas for our tour around the country). Last time it was this full there was about a $1000 in it. We did hand roll it all looking for some rare coins. We will do the same this time around.

 

[kiwigtx]

Pennies? Never see them in the real world here, Canada stopped minting them ten years ago and pulled them out of circulation.

We lost our 1, 2 cent coins back in 1990, and the 5 cent in 2006...due to it being worth bugger all.

We also lost our $1 and $2 bills back in 1991.

I collected coins when I was a kid, and amassed quite a nice collection....found a few nice ones, but the real value is in coins that are usually priced just out of reach.
Silver content pre-decimal coins are very scarce now - most went to scrap metal.

I know it's not a penny....but I found this on my change a couple of weeks back....special limited release to celebrate 100 years of Armistice Day

 

[Charles Cook]

Very nice.

 

[Hey-O]

How many pennies have you guys stashed over the years ? View attachment 1301437

I had two of those, one for, nickels, dimes and quarters and the other for pennies. I quit when I needed a dolly to move them. I still have one for all change, but I now pay with plastic, very little change anymore. I still have many old coins, stamps from Germany from the 30's and 40's with Hitlers face on them. When I moved this last time I picked people with these interests and gave away most of it. I've made a lot of people happy on my way to down sizing.

 

[joe smith]

Yikes, no wonder the Fed is complaining about a coin shortage.

Hoarders.... The sad thing is you only have about $10 there.... Pennies take up more room than they are worth

 

[Photon440]

It's easy to estimate, depending on whether they're mostly newer copper covered zinc pennies or older copper. If zinc, about 180 per pound and 145 in a pound of the old copper pennies. Throw that jug on a scale!

 

[Fran Blacker]

Hoarders.... The sad thing is you only have about $10 there.... Pennies take up more room than they are worth

Those water bottles I bet hold $500 to $700.

 

[69Coronetrt]

As they started to go out of circulation, I started 'collecting' various denominations of old style paper money. My fear is some young person will think the bills are counterfeit and not accept them as valid currency.


Got a 1794 large cent I bought a few years ago. George Washington or Ben Franklin could have had it in their pocket.

(FYI....Ben died in 1790 so him having that particular coin would be a little difficult.)