Looking for close, and wide AM’s drives me nut!!! I think I found one. Needs further investigation when I get a chance. I would love to see you find one!
@@timgrote7163 enjoy the vacation. Stop in at an unfamiliar bank and ask for halves... If they don't have any then say. Well I guess I'll settle with $10.00 in pennies
Hello again. Just started doing this with my wife a few weeks ago and we are hooked. Subscribed to your channel and love watching you. My question is do you just keep the coins or do you sell the ones that are worth a few buck and up?
@@ArnieBlankenship-n5i Hello again, thank you for subscribing. My wife is enthusiastic enough about me doing this, but she likes doing house stuff. I mean repairs and everything. She calls me in for the heavy stuff. I do sometimes sell coins. I've sold several error coins, at one time I sold a boatload of NIFC coins. But since then I've kept most of them. If I get my hands on a bunch of 2024 D nickels I'll sell most and keep a few for myself
We are only doing pennies right now. We are on our 2nd 25 dollar box and have found 5 wheat pennies so far. I was going through your older videos and was wondering if you did a video on which wheat's to sell or collect? I do thank you for your time and help.
@@ArnieBlankenship-n5i I don't take the time to do it. But if you are looking to find coins to sell, you best bet is to slow way down and look for varieties. I have spoken to one individual that said he makes money on every box. But you need a little more in-depth guide of the coins to look for, and not only that, just look closely at each coin and if you find things different from the mint than what was intended, you probably have a money maker.
To be honest with you the copper in landfills is not as cool as the green motherboard in landfills. Gold and silver recovery from scrap electronics is also a great hobby. Sometimes you get nothing of value and sometimes you get boards that have gold everywhere, while the coating of gold is thin it adds up. IC chips can go for $5 a pound to as high as $200 for some of the gold legs ones. CPU's can run about the same price. Ram sticks from $8-25 per pound. Factor in Tantalum, MLCC's, Aluminum (mainly heat sinks and hard drive casings) you can also hoard those metals for next to nothing as far as costs go.
I have wanted to do that, it's super fascinating. Do you recover the gold yourselves, or just sell it? But you are right, there is a lot of precious metals being thrown away. I suspect if a person did the research, and really hustled one could even make a fair living at it (Especially if a person made a UA-cam channel with the business)
@@markwilliams5811 Unless you have a private buyer (you might find one on marketplace, or a Facebook community) I would be watching what it is selling for on eBay. Without a specific outlet, I'm aware you won't get top dollar. Kind of like silver, you pay a premium, but sell for a little less. Good luck.
I'm haven't bought rolls to search in a good while, but notice the ratio of copper to zinc has dropped a lot in the last few years. I'm thinking it is down near 10%. What ratio are you seeing?
I was going to ask if you weigh the '83s then I saw you hold one out to weigh. One of the members on Realcent forums found a copper one not too long ago.
@@stephenhall3647 no, I like going through them myself. I would still have to separate the wheaties. If someone brought me one to try, I would certainly give it a try. But I don't want to buy one. I'm pretty happy with my slow method.
@TwoshedsGabby Yeah, I guess I'm just too impatient. I cobbled a device together a while ago from a coin comparator and some various bits. You still feed it by hand, but it is really fast compared to visual sorting. I get the impression you are "up North", so I doubt I could run it by from Texas for you to try 😊
WHO TOLD YOU COPPER IS RUNNING OUT? I FIND POUNDS OF COPPER MONTHLY ON SCRAP RUNS, FOR FREE. THIS YEAR ALONE I SOLD 1500 LBS OF FREE COPPER JUST FROM SCRAPPING STUFF PEOPLE THROW AWAY, NO SHORTAGE OF COPPER
@@tvoprosucks If you read in the news. You will read over and over that the supply is getting harder and harder to meet demand. The world demand is growing immensely. And the copper mines are getting less and less copper. And just like I said in the video, the forecasted result is estimated that by 2030 the world copper mines will only meet 80% of demand. These forecast don't take into account that 1 scrapper sold 1500 pounds in 2023. Are these forecast always 100% accurate? No..... But you are welcome to go read the articles for yourself. I'm just reporting the stuff I read, and enjoying sharing videos with people. And I do thank you for watching. God bless
The mere fact you find copper scrap to have intrinsic value is proof that the demand is out stripping supply. Copper scrap has 5x’d in the last 20 or so years. I’ve been holding my high grade copper for the last few years.. and copper Pennys of course.
There is still a huge amount of copper underground. If the price of copper goes up the interest in digging it out goes up as well.
@@antoniolen-rios8482 absolutely, also more interest in lower grade mines
Good stuff. Thanks.
Hey, thanks for watching... I'm getting pretty close to my goal. Just need 65 more pounds
@@TwoshedsGabby Keep up the good work.
Just curious. What's your goal and what do you plan to do with them?
(I've been pulling them from circulation too...have approx 20 lbs)
Looking for close, and wide AM’s drives me nut!!! I think I found one. Needs further investigation when I get a chance. I would love to see you find one!
I don't look for them real often, because like you. It drives me nuts. I will look occasionally
I hang onto 60's and early 70's " s " mint marks. I don't know about value but in my experience, they are quite rare.
They do seem to be harder to come by for sure.
Good show, on vacation this week so no hunting for me.
@@timgrote7163 enjoy the vacation. Stop in at an unfamiliar bank and ask for halves... If they don't have any then say. Well I guess I'll settle with $10.00 in pennies
Smart move 😁👍 I’m going to be doing the same
@@Difficultcat7000 👍, thanks, seems like the thing to do to me.. good luck
Hello again. Just started doing this with my wife a few weeks ago and we are hooked. Subscribed to your channel and love watching you. My question is do you just keep the coins or do you sell the ones that are worth a few buck and up?
@@ArnieBlankenship-n5i Hello again, thank you for subscribing. My wife is enthusiastic enough about me doing this, but she likes doing house stuff. I mean repairs and everything. She calls me in for the heavy stuff.
I do sometimes sell coins. I've sold several error coins, at one time I sold a boatload of NIFC coins. But since then I've kept most of them. If I get my hands on a bunch of 2024 D nickels I'll sell most and keep a few for myself
We are only doing pennies right now. We are on our 2nd 25 dollar box and have found 5 wheat pennies so far. I was going through your older videos and was wondering if you did a video on which wheat's to sell or collect? I do thank you for your time and help.
@@ArnieBlankenship-n5i I don't take the time to do it. But if you are looking to find coins to sell, you best bet is to slow way down and look for varieties. I have spoken to one individual that said he makes money on every box. But you need a little more in-depth guide of the coins to look for, and not only that, just look closely at each coin and if you find things different from the mint than what was intended, you probably have a money maker.
To be honest with you the copper in landfills is not as cool as the green motherboard in landfills. Gold and silver recovery from scrap electronics is also a great hobby. Sometimes you get nothing of value and sometimes you get boards that have gold everywhere, while the coating of gold is thin it adds up. IC chips can go for $5 a pound to as high as $200 for some of the gold legs ones. CPU's can run about the same price. Ram sticks from $8-25 per pound. Factor in Tantalum, MLCC's, Aluminum (mainly heat sinks and hard drive casings) you can also hoard those metals for next to nothing as far as costs go.
I have wanted to do that, it's super fascinating. Do you recover the gold yourselves, or just sell it? But you are right, there is a lot of precious metals being thrown away.
I suspect if a person did the research, and really hustled one could even make a fair living at it
(Especially if a person made a UA-cam channel with the business)
Who would buy my copper pennies? I Have a large amount? What would a roll of copper pennies sell for? Thanks for the info.
@@markwilliams5811 Unless you have a private buyer (you might find one on marketplace, or a Facebook community) I would be watching what it is selling for on eBay. Without a specific outlet, I'm aware you won't get top dollar. Kind of like silver, you pay a premium, but sell for a little less. Good luck.
I found a 2009 Lincoln penny.
With him sitting on a log. I Got 3.1 g. Copper.
In perfect condition. You think it's worth anything
They go between $6 & $10 I think
Due to the hurricane hitting my state I could not get a box pennies
I hope you have not been negatively impacted other than not getting coins. God bless
@@TwoshedsGabby nope, lost power for an hour
@@southerncoinhunter good, could have been much worse, I'm sure. Hope you can get back to the Hunt soon
I'm haven't bought rolls to search in a good while, but notice the ratio of copper to zinc has dropped a lot in the last few years. I'm thinking it is down near 10%. What ratio are you seeing?
I'm guessing you are about right. I feel like the ratio of 82 zincs have certainly gone up. It's getting closer to 50/50
I was going to ask if you weigh the '83s then I saw you hold one out to weigh. One of the members on Realcent forums found a copper one not too long ago.
That's really Cool. I don't weigh all of them, some of them you can just tell are zinc, the ones I can't tell, I weigh
Have you tried any kind of mechanical ( electromechanical) method of sorting the coppers from zincs?
@@stephenhall3647 no, I like going through them myself. I would still have to separate the wheaties. If someone brought me one to try, I would certainly give it a try. But I don't want to buy one. I'm pretty happy with my slow method.
I completely agree, doing it by hand just gives more thrilled to the hunt.
@TwoshedsGabby Yeah, I guess I'm just too impatient. I cobbled a device together a while ago from a coin comparator and some various bits. You still feed it by hand, but it is really fast compared to visual sorting. I get the impression you are "up North", so I doubt I could run it by from Texas for you to try 😊
i have 53 pounds of copper pennies
@@timskylark cool. Will you keep saving more?
WHO TOLD YOU COPPER IS RUNNING OUT? I FIND POUNDS OF COPPER MONTHLY ON SCRAP RUNS, FOR FREE. THIS YEAR ALONE I SOLD 1500 LBS OF FREE COPPER JUST FROM SCRAPPING STUFF PEOPLE THROW AWAY, NO SHORTAGE OF COPPER
@@tvoprosucks If you read in the news. You will read over and over that the supply is getting harder and harder to meet demand. The world demand is growing immensely. And the copper mines are getting less and less copper. And just like I said in the video, the forecasted result is estimated that by 2030 the world copper mines will only meet 80% of demand. These forecast don't take into account that 1 scrapper sold 1500 pounds in 2023. Are these forecast always 100% accurate? No..... But you are welcome to go read the articles for yourself. I'm just reporting the stuff I read, and enjoying sharing videos with people. And I do thank you for watching. God bless
The mere fact you find copper scrap to have intrinsic value is proof that the demand is out stripping supply. Copper scrap has 5x’d in the last 20 or so years.
I’ve been holding my high grade copper for the last few years.. and copper Pennys of course.
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