Anybody got a truck? 4,000 pounds of copper pennies

Just saw this ad on Facebook Marketplace. "4000 pounds 1982 & before copper coins mixed with 1958 & before wheat coins". He is asking $12,500. I don't think I have enough time left on this earth to go through these, so I'll just pass.

 

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Just a little over 2 cent's a piece.
It's only worth it if he just put away copper and never searched them.

 

If I did my math right, ~150 cents per pound x 4,000lbs = 600,000 cents. ($6k f/v)

I started roll searching cents in 2012 and have searched somewhere north of 2 million cents.

This little hoard would only take less than 5 years to search

 

I have enough Cents to search through at home..
My wife would kill me if I brung 2 tons more home!

 

Could you imagine carrying those up the steps to your apartment?

 

What a burden. Should be lucky to get face value.

 

My wife is very generous with me and my coins. She’d still let me get these and go through them but not a day would go by without a reminder of my being a coin nut. He should sell be the bucket instead.

 

A more famous and daunting hoard. All wheaties.

 

Get 'em while you can. The Mint has announced cent production will soon cease! !

 

Got a link for that?

 

OK, I see the 2023 final limited production date as 4-1-2023

 

4-1-2023 April Fool's

 

Every year someone says the same thing. And every year it links back to the same April 1st "article".
There truly is one born every minute.

 

That looks like a CRH that never cashed in their rejects.
I agrees with @Collecting Nut that he would do better selling them by the bucket, but postage would be more than they are worth. LOL

 

@Wizank Where is he located? Might be worth a drive. Probably
more than half of the 1982 dated cents are zinc.

 

The guy is in Leesburg, Virginia. It was a FB Marketplace ad.

 

The must of took a little while to accumulate...LOL

 

The guy was buying those for several years. One of the pictures he shared showed a few hundred USPS boxes that were empty and strewn in a corner of his garage. He shared with a forum member that there were days when he received 10+ of those pre paid boxes. I think he's got 20 garbage cans full. His son is going to inherit that mess.

 

Lucky him

 

He really needs to just start going to coinstars one bucket at a time and get some amazon or some other store gift cards out of them.