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<p>[QUOTE="therocktjb, post: 1647835, member: 43258"]I'm a bit in the same boat as you. I pulled out 103 wheats this go with my $100 buy, and of that I pulled $22 in pre 82 coppers. I sort them all by decade and then check each of the 10000 for errors, takes me a good week to sort through them all. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I do though, is pull all of the bright shiny red pre 82's and put them into rolls. My ultimate goal being a 50 coin tube of each mint mark from each year. I'm up to 64, to include a roll of 60 D small dates and about a half roll of 60 small dates. I keep all 60's regardless of wear. This is memorial's only though, I have a few rolls of wheat BU's but that is a far off dream to get them ALL BU rolls.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Wheat Hoarding, I'm a cent lover, so I keep pretty much all of them that I come across, sort them by year and mint mark, roll them up and put them in $10 boxes by decade. Are they going to be worth much as an investment? No, probably not, but that's what I collect for me, not for money or profit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Copper isn't a precious metal, so it's value in a cent won't ever be an investment worthy hoard. It's a fool's dream that someday they can cash out on them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="therocktjb, post: 1647835, member: 43258"]I'm a bit in the same boat as you. I pulled out 103 wheats this go with my $100 buy, and of that I pulled $22 in pre 82 coppers. I sort them all by decade and then check each of the 10000 for errors, takes me a good week to sort through them all. What I do though, is pull all of the bright shiny red pre 82's and put them into rolls. My ultimate goal being a 50 coin tube of each mint mark from each year. I'm up to 64, to include a roll of 60 D small dates and about a half roll of 60 small dates. I keep all 60's regardless of wear. This is memorial's only though, I have a few rolls of wheat BU's but that is a far off dream to get them ALL BU rolls. As for Wheat Hoarding, I'm a cent lover, so I keep pretty much all of them that I come across, sort them by year and mint mark, roll them up and put them in $10 boxes by decade. Are they going to be worth much as an investment? No, probably not, but that's what I collect for me, not for money or profit. Copper isn't a precious metal, so it's value in a cent won't ever be an investment worthy hoard. It's a fool's dream that someday they can cash out on them.[/QUOTE]
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