1.3 million penny collection

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  • cimperialis
    Member
    • Mar 2011
    • 1968
    #1

    1.3 million penny collection

    This has probably been previously discussed: http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/23/news...nies/index.htm

    Does anyone know more about this story? Is this guy an actual coin collector, or did he really save that many pennies for his retirement? I like the part about the truck sinking in the mud.

    Also, what does Coinstar do with the coins? Does it just give it back to the bank? Is there a way to find out where they go, so I can avoid getting my cents from there?
    Last edited by cimperialis; 04-04-2011, 03:21 PM.
    -Sean
    Search started in Sep 2011. 913,650 cents searched as of 9/24/13.
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    • jcuve
      Moderator, Die & Variety Expert
      • Apr 2008
      • 15458
      #2
      That would have been a good multi-year hoard to go searching through...



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        • atarian
          Member
          • Jun 2010
          • 1572
          #3
          he basically saved 13k and gave back 1177.00 to coin star. Should have gone to a bank with a coin counter opened a checking account and saved nearly 1200.00
          <3 In memory of Tiggar 5/21/1994 - 5/28/2010 <3 WAM Count : 025 .
          Founder of the NDCCA. **           NDCCA Catalog Database Total          . : 2,735. ** -- Jay --

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            • coin-crazy
              Banned
              • Nov 2010
              • 1181
              #4
              Wow,I'd love to search that hoard....If he was smart, he could have sold them on ebay and really made a killing!!

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                • mustbebob
                  Lincoln Cent Variety Expert
                  • Jul 2008
                  • 12758
                  #5
                  I guess I got a pretty good jump on beating that record...huh? Only 800,000 more!
                  Bob Piazza
                  Former Lincoln Cent Attributer Coppercoins.com

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                    • lara4228
                      Member
                      • Mar 2011
                      • 2116
                      #6
                      Yeah Bob you do...but would you coinstar them? That seems to be the question as of late...to coinstar or not?
                      What ever you do...do it with passion

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                        • atarian
                          Member
                          • Jun 2010
                          • 1572
                          #7
                          THINK ABOUT THE DIE CHIPS. Man Im glad they are set loose after all those years. Imagine what we can now find
                          <3 In memory of Tiggar 5/21/1994 - 5/28/2010 <3 WAM Count : 025 .
                          Founder of the NDCCA. **                           NDCCA Catalog Database Total                          . : 2,735. ** -- Jay --

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                            • cimperialis
                              Member
                              • Mar 2011
                              • 1968
                              #8
                              From what I've read on Coinstar, I'll probably return my pennies that way. I'll just get Amazon giftcards that I can use for school books. Does anyone know where the coins go? Can I find out specifically where they go from my local machine?
                              -Sean
                              Search started in Sep 2011. 913,650 cents searched as of 9/24/13.

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                                • hasfam
                                  Paid Member

                                  • May 2009
                                  • 6291
                                  #9
                                  I've bought $50 bags from coinstars in the past, just to mix up my searches ever so often. You never know what people might be dumping in them with their jars of pennies.

                                  Bob, some how I have a feeling you will eventually pass that up. 20 years from now we'll all be reading an article online about the "penny guy" in Florida who neatly stored away millions of Lincoln cents...ALL SEARCHED. Man, I don't want to be around when all those go back into circulation. it'll mess everything up
                                  Rock
                                  My LCR Photo Album of Graded Lincoln Cent Cherry Picker Varieties

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                                    • RWBILLER
                                      Member
                                      • Jul 2008
                                      • 6870
                                      #10
                                      i cant come close to that by any means - we do have 28,000 wheats that we have found searching over the last tree years - but thats all.
                                      roger
                                      Roger
                                      ""Time and Tide wait for no man"

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