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Pillar of the Community
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Thank you, Bassmaster! Yes, yes it was.  |
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United States
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i have found several plastic pennies in my cent hunting.just friday I got a really bent up pennie in a roll of halves.at least there were still 10.00 of halves in the roll.ive also got them bigger watch batteries.later greg
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United States
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Last May I was in St Louis and picked up 10 rolls of quarters, mostly to find Philadelphia minted State Quarters to complete my album. Living on the west coast, it is hard to find P-minted coins. Since bank rolls are clear plastic now, not paper, I began to look over the rolls for anything that stands out. I found one! This coin didn't have the copper band around it as did the other 39 coins in the roll. My heart jumped thinking it is a pre-1964 quarter. I tore in to the roll only to find a 2005 Canadian 25 cent piece. Oh well, at least the Canadian is near BU condition. I was able to fill 75% of my Philadelphia album with the St. Louis bank rolls. I only had 5 P-minted State Quarters prior. |
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I once found a live silverfish in a roll of nickels. He fell out and started scurrying around on my desk when I broke the roll open.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I remember reading a member found a tooth a couple of years ago. I think it was a bicuspid.
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 United States
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Too bad it wasn't a gold tooth...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The silverfish was actually in a plastic tube roll in a Brinks box. Must've fallen into the machine while the coins were being wrapped. Interestingly enough, the box was dated as having been sealed over a month before I searched it. No idea how he survived that whole ordeal. Well, at least until I squished him...
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Wow, that must have been something for the silverfish!  |
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United States
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Just yesterday, I opened a CWR from a local bank and it contained 25 1971 and 25 1972 Lincoln cents, all with mint luster, but not all uncirculated. Very strange... I'll bet some kid took Dad's "pennies" to the bank....
I also found a 1982 cent which initially appeared as steel. It is non-magnetic, so it must be a zinc planchet which was not copper plated.
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Valued Member
United States
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Perhaps the copper was worn off? Usually the zinc goes first though.
My most interesting find is a Panaman quarter in a roll of quarters.
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Valued Member
United States
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The entire coin is all gray in color, and looks exactly like a circulated 1943 steel cent in color, but is a 1982 Memorial cent, in probably VF condition. It weighs 2.48 grams, so it must be all zinc. I tried taking photos with my iphone but I cannot seem to get it right. I wonder if anyone else here has encountered this, also. I also just found 1-Euro and a 2-Euro coins in different CWR rolls from the same bank. I guess the silverfish was better than finding a goldfish... Edited by Centurion
12/13/2013 3:39 pm
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I also found a 1982 cent which initially appeared as steel. It is non-magnetic, so it must be a zinc planchet which was not copper plated You should start a thread over in modern coins. |
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My weirdest find in a cent bag was an 1884 Canadian Large Cent.
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Canada
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I've found many oddities such as subway tokens, corporate issued medallions, and foreign coins including 1 & 2 Euro coins. The thing about the Euro is each country has their own engraving on the coin so you have to look it up to figure out whether it came from Germany, Greece, etc. I get a kick out of finding those little oddities and have devoted an entire section in my collection to foreign finds.
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Posted 11/23/2013 3:42 pm
