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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 199248, member: 7033&quot;]We&#039;ve got an interesting situation brewing with the bullion value of both the one-cent and five-cent pieces now above face value. The best bullion value in the market is the copper cent 1982 and earlier that are now worth better than two cents each just in metal.&nbsp; Those who remember the late sixties will recall the period in which silver and clad quarters dimes and halves circulated together... but then eventually the silver dried up. I&#039;ve often thought I should have started pulling silver earlier, while they were still common. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can still pull copper from circulation of course... the trouble is that most people don&#039;t think it&#039;s worth the trouble, and anyway it&#039;s an eyestraining backbreaking task. I&#039;ve often thought about how cool it would be to have a machine capable of sorting the copper from the zinc pennies. Well... a guy up in Michigan has done it! Andy Ryedale of Ryedale Coin makes and sells a cute little desktop sorting machine for just that purpose. I just finished sorting a whole bag of 5000 in a matter of a half-hour or so. Basically as fast as you can break open and dump rolls into the hopper the machine will take them and spit them out from two chutes. There are a couple complications.... you have to be careful not to let any bits of paper from the rolls get in there as they will cause a jam. Jams are not too hard to clear but you need to power down the machine and open the front to get inside. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re interested in the whole idea of hoarding copper cents, there&#039;s a forum at <a href="http://realcent.forumco.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://realcent.forumco.com/" rel="nofollow">http://realcent.forumco.com/</a>&nbsp; which is dedicated to the premise that copper is the next big thing. Lots of folks jumping on copper while we can. Andy&#039;s coin sorter page is at <a href="http://www.ryedalecoin.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ryedalecoin.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ryedalecoin.com/</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun... and don&#039;t spend any more of those two-cent pennies!</p><p><br /></p><p>Tom[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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