What am I going to do with my loafers?
Larry
Larry
question for the coin collectors
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cougar14
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What am I going to do with my loafers?
Larry
Tell them it's time they got a job and stop freeloading off Mom and Pop.
If memory serves, 40 were made and something like 27 still exist.
What am I going to do with my loafers?
Larry
Use dimes in case they bring back pay toilets.
In a cashless society we'd be SOL.
no more "a penny for your thoughts".... stock up on dimes and quarters.....
Per Red-Book, about 3 dozen are thought to have been made on bronze blanks.
Recent values are:
About Uncirculated: $235,431
Uncirculated MS60: $428,634
Only one is known to exist with a "D" mint mark and it sold for $1.7 million.
Likewise, some 1944 pennies were mistakenly struck on steel planchets. Some were struck at all 3 mints, and range in value, depending on condition and mint, from $29,916 to $786,431.
I knew an old timer that was into all kinds of neat stuff. His dad owned a Chevrolet dealership so he grew up spoiled and had managed to collect some amazing baseball cards as he was born back in the early 20's. His family left him a great place at a local lake which encompassed a complete bay named after his family on the lake with over a couple hundred feet of frontage. He was into sapphire collecting, every year he took his summer vacation from work and went to Montana in the area around Ft. Peck reservoir and panned/sifted for sapphires off the shoreline and areas that he kept secret. I had another friend that went along on one of those trips and told me the old guy worked like a maniac all day long, digging, sifting, sorting, etc. I saw some of the results of this escapade and was amazed at the sheer numbers of sapphires he kept in mason jars, ranging in size from your thumbnail to less than 1/8" across. While I was looking at that I noticed mason jars full of pennies lined up along the wall of his shop. I mean a line of jars completely down one wall, over sixteen feet or so, over fifty probably. I asked him what the fascination over pennies was, his response was "They don't make those years anymore." This was back in the mid 70's. He told me that he got into collecting pennies and stamps at about the same time. Told me he had three complete penny collections. He was a single guy until he was in his forties, married a great woman that was also a bus driver that had a son. He was very generous and one the greatest guys you would ever meet, everybody loved Don and Marie, they are both gone now. When I hired on he was the high seniority driver #1, I was the lowest at 101. He drove the same route for many years, he knew everyone, their kids and grandkids. There was a pair of old ladies that rode the bus everywhere, they were sweet looking old girls, always clean. The first day they got on a bus I was driving I was met with a smell the likes of which I had never quite experienced, it almost made me gag. I was in my early twenties and privately gave them the nickname of "The Stink Sisters." One day on my way out of town I see the S.S's waiting for the next inbound bus and see him coming down the street my way. I know its Don and can see his white hair behind the wheel and wonder to myself "I wonder how old Don deals with those two." I soon found out because he blew right by them as if he didn't see them. That meant they were going to be there waiting for me and I was prepared to treat them the same way figuring if it was good enough for number one, it was good enough for number one oh one. Sadly there were other people waiting for me on that corner, so I was bound to stop and dealt with it as I had before. I mean you would almost think they stunk so bad you could see it.
You meant STEEL blanks, not silver.
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I don't know this for a fact, but don't bet against the Gov't making it illegal for citizens to sell or melt down wheat penny's for copper scrap value. Hmmm, it may be illegal already. Why? Because they can do it themselves and make a profit since a copper penny is supposedly worth about 3 cents.
Both pennies and nickels. There is more than $.05 of copper in a nickle.
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There are so many pennies out there that it won’t move the market, valuable pennies are already owned by collectors. But, have fun with it, why not.
