Double your cents

[Dancer]

Some Giant Eagle. & Kroger shops Are buying back pennies two to one for gift cards. November 1st check your internet for shops

 

[Ted S]

I have a 1 pound coffee can full of wheats that I have been saving for years! No greenies or field finds in that can. I also started saving coppers pre 1982 a while back and have a 30 oz. can of those nearly full. The one pound can is metal and the 30 oz. one is plastic.

 

[Mark kus]

I cashed in over 5000 pennies!

 

[Donna(NJ]

I cashed in over 5000 pennies!

I assume they put them through a coin counting machine ??? or did they weigh them ???

Reason being, I have a bunch of rejects.

HH
Donna(NJ)

 

[Mark kus]

I assume they put them through a coin counting machine ??? or did they weigh them ???

Reason being, I have a bunch of rejects.

HH
Donna(NJ)

Yes my bank they have a counter so it costs me nothing

 

[Picketwire]

There is 3.2 cents worth of copper in each pre 1981 penny if they ever allow them to be melted.

 

[Donna(NJ]

I cashed in over 5000 pennies!

Some Giant Eagle. & Kroger shops Are buying back pennies two to one for gift cards. November 1st check your internet for shops

I dont have those stores in NJ but hopefully other stores will join the bandwagon. I see Aldi's has posted a sign saying they will 'round up' if they
dont have enough pennies.

I never got around to cashing these in. Here's 32 pounds +/- Govmt use to pay$1.50 a pound for rotten zinc's. So here's 4800
all cleaned and ready for a new life !!!

I have 6 buckets of rotten zinc's but they wont go through a coin counter ;( ;( ;(

HH
Donna(NJ

 

[Ted S]

Donna...How do you clean zinc pennies?

 

[Dancer]

I dont have those stores in NJ but hopefully other stores will join the bandwagon. I see Aldi's has posted a sign saying they will 'round up' if they
dont have enough pennies.

I never got around to cashing these in. Here's 32 pounds +/- Govmt use to pay$1.50 a pound for rotten zinc's. So here's 4800
all cleaned and ready for a new life !!!

I have 6 buckets of rotten zinc's but they wont go through a coin counter ;( ;( ;(

HH
Donna(NJ

G Eagle is paying by weigh. Supposed to be 181 pennies to a pound. So times 2, times your pounds.

 

[Donna(NJ]

Donna...How do you clean zinc pennies?

With GREAT CARE !!!! The zinc will react with any chemical, build up pressure in barrel and explode causing a giant mess..Dont ask !!!

Need a rock tumbler

Fill barrel 1/2" of stainless shot. Fill barrel 1/2 full of coins, add water to cover top of coins, a few drops of Dawm. Check often for expanding barrel. I usually run during the day, so I can keep an eye on things. Check after 4-6 hours and see if you like the results. Liquid will probably turn black. Rinse and run another cycle.

Good Luck.

Domma(NJ

 

[Donna(NJ]

G Eagle is paying by weigh. Supposed to be 181 pennies to a pound. So times 2, times your pounds.

Probably splitting hairs but Id count a pound of coppers and zinc separately.

Uncle Sam paid me $1.50 a pound for rotten zinc's back in the good old days.

GG
Donna(NJ

 

[tvr]

There is 3.2 cents worth of copper in each pre 1981 penny if they ever allow them to be melted.

That is why I'm holding all the copper ones I get. Easy to sort copper ones from zinc clad with the F75 set on four tone.

I have 6 buckets of rotten zinc's but they wont go through a coin counter

About half the ones that I get kicked out from the coin counter will get counted after I take a hammer to them to flatten the bubbles on the surface. Probably not worth the time to do it, but sometimes it is soothing to just sit for a few minutes and hit a pile of them, one at a time.

 

[markinswpa]

G Eagle is paying by weigh. Supposed to be 181 pennies to a pound. So times 2, times your pounds.

Tumbling mine as I type this. Have about 35 lbs of dug memorials and another 10 lbs of zincoln change. So that will be about 80 bucks for a gift card from a store I shop at anyway. Other wise they would just sit. Too lazy to roll them so 2 for 1, I'm good with that. Now I have around 2 coffee cans full of dug wheats, I will hang on to those till melting is legal.

 

[markinswpa]

G Eagle is paying by weigh. Supposed to be 181 pennies to a pound. So times 2, times your pounds.

Yes thats post 1982 weight. Headed there in the morning.

 

[BigTony]

This year I’ll wait until winter when the weather turns and then I’ll use a tumbler. Maybe by that time more stores will ask for them.

 

[markinswpa]

Yes thats post 1982 weight. Headed there in the morning.

OK , I bit the bullet. I had a little less than 18 lbs. total. Around 7 lbs. were shiny zincolns I had got back in change, the rest were dug memorials and crusty zincoln's I've dug over the last couple years. The coppers melt value is around 3 cents but the zincolns, well glad they weren't checking too close. So a little trade off.It could be a while before you will be able to melt them down. In the end I thought I had more than what they said but I got a gift card for almost 70 bucks for a store I spend money in every week. I'm good with that. One less headache for the kids one day.