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The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby JerrySpringer » Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:58 pm

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Postby 68Camaro » Sat Sep 27, 2025 5:50 am

Guess I'm not surprised, but I didn't know there was a RC-style reddit group. They do seem to be active, more so than seems to be the case here these days, so God Bless them.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby JerrySpringer » Sat Sep 27, 2025 10:14 am

68Camaro wrote:Guess I'm not surprised, but I didn't know there was a RC-style reddit group. They do seem to be active, more so than seems to be the case here these days, so God Bless them.


A lot of newbies stream into that group too. Posts about what I should look for when getting halves, is this 1964 Jefferson nickel worth anything, etc.
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Postby shinnosuke » Sat Sep 27, 2025 1:50 pm

Gotta watch those Reddit guys. I used to participate in the WS Silver group and saw on multiple occasions where click-seeking members would steal the pictures of previous posters and claim that it was their own stack.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby JerrySpringer » Sat Sep 27, 2025 8:42 pm

shinnosuke wrote:Gotta watch those Reddit guys. I used to participate in the WS Silver group and saw on multiple occasions where click-seeking members would steal the pictures of previous posters and claim that it was their own stack.


Kind of floors me that people post their stacks' photos on WSS so often. Sure, it is probably not going to catch up with them, but bragging is the last thing you want to do concerning stuff you should keep q-u-i-e-t about on a stranger-filled forum.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby Silver4face » Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:47 am

Certainly no shortage in my area. Obviously that may or may not change.
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Postby JerrySpringer » Tue Sep 30, 2025 12:00 pm

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Postby Cu Penny Hoarder » Sat Oct 04, 2025 6:19 am

I hope so. I still have many unopened skunk boxes. 8-)
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Postby Silver4face » Sat Oct 04, 2025 10:36 am

Cu Penny Hoarder wrote:I hope so. I still have many unopened skunk boxes. 8-)


Are they truly skunk (ZERO copper) boxes OR are they basic sh*t boxes (5-10 percent copper)?

I have 20 unsearched Loomis boxes.
($500 face). Mine are around 20 percent copper.
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Postby JerrySpringer » Tue Oct 07, 2025 1:36 pm

Stopped in a TD bank today in Portland and they told me they are not giving out boxes of pennies possibly anymore. Could be that branch policy. I got some last week from them, a box, no problem. Will see if other branches start doing the same.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby cwgii » Tue Oct 07, 2025 2:31 pm

https://youtu.be/ZZg73-7sZbw?si=D3b-N-wKJLPblcjZ


Not due to shortages. But several businesses here have eliminated ,change, altogether.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby cwgii » Sat Oct 11, 2025 6:26 pm

Saw this yesterday.
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Postby JerrySpringer » Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:38 pm

cwgii wrote:Saw this yesterday.


May be a chronic thing for Dollar Tree. Google gave me the Reddit thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DollarTree/com ... ange_only/

and then I found this FB thread:

https://www.facebook.com/Ethereal.in.E/ ... 860613286/

some of the comments are pointing out they are no longer making pennies. Wonder if it works like that.
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Postby shinnosuke » Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:43 pm

I have seen a penny shortage for over a year in the parking lot of our grocery store. Hardly ever see a fallen coin these days.
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Re: The Great Penny Shortage of 2025 begins, lol

Postby Cu Penny Hoarder » Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:55 am

Shortage?

:roll: :?

There are billions upon billions of pennies in circulation.
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Postby chris6084 » Tue Oct 14, 2025 2:04 am

My kids were having a "penny war" at their school last week. A jar in each class with a competition on which class collects the most pennies. I wanted to get $5 in pennies. I went to THREE banks and only got a total of $3 face before I gave up. I miss the days of walking into random banks I passed by and getting boxes with no questions asked.
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