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My dad collects coins and really likes digging through old pennies to find a gem. So I bought him a $50.00 bag of pennies at the bank. Kept him busy a week, weighing each one and sorting them into books.
Hard to get any Phillie coins around here (mostly Denver mint) so I got him a $25.00 unsorted box of pennies in Maine. Most were P mint marks so he could fill out his books.
It was a good way to connect with something he is interested in.
Old copper pennies are getting rare- he ended up getting 15% to 20 % copper out of the whole deal. A handful of wheaties and a few steel.
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