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Picked up a box and 2 rolls of pennies at the bank today. Found 8 Canadian from the 1940's but no wheat cents. Best find was a 2006 magnetic no logo. Nicest one I've found so far. I also went through the penny books and my spare pennies to look for errors/varieties. Found 3 1953 SF and a 1979 DBL date.
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@ nickelfr33k
Interesting stuff , regarding the 100% nickels you found - were they round or were they the 12 sided ones ?
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Picked up 24 rolls of pennies at the bank today. About half of the rolls were American cents. Found 6 wheat cents and a 1940 Canadian.
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Back to hunting through vending machines for American and shiny coins - found a duplicate State Quarter that was nicer than my old one, and an acceptably shiny 2013 loonie. Still looking for that 1991 quarter... |
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@DaytR: Mostly round, I do get the odd 12 sider.
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A relative had a garage sale, so I got to roll all the coins (along with an old change jar). I found all this:  There are two rolls of copper pennies and 10 nickel nickels (one is 12-sided: 1961).  I found these two, along with a newer Monticello nickel and four American dimes.  Some commemoratives, including a grimy 2008 Remembrance quarter. Apparently, acetone gets the colour right off.  Like so many Canadians, the family goes to someplace warm in the winter, while I play in the snow. Anyway, there were two Mexican 5-peso coins, including something cool: a commemorative! I've never found one of these before. Mexico's Centennial was in 2010, but we were too busy issuing Olympic commemoratives to notice - they also did a Mexican States series! One day, I hope to have all the Provincial Quarters (with the Nunavut toonie), the American State Quarters, and the Mexican State Pesos. Then I'll get a huge map of North America and try and fit them all in. (There's also a Japanese 47 Prefectures 500-yen series, but that's getting expensive...!)  Two wheats! Lucky me. The 1929 is kind of blackened, perhaps to avoid confusion with the Quarter-Sovereign? (That was a joke.)  Instead of a 10-cent coin with a boat on one side and the Queen on the other, I found a 10-cent coin with a boat on one side and the Queen on the other. Edited by nalaberong
09/08/2013 5:48 pm
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i just finished 3 boxes of quarters, I got a 1967 , 1966, and a silver 1968, so I am averaging 1 a box. every time I am going through a box I am sure I will get skunked and then pow ..there it is.. I know it won't last , so I am enjoying now..
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Canada
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I got my first 10 rolls since schools started, and it my be the best so far...
131, 100% nickels (32.75%),
1 replacement (1957),
3 twelve sided,
2 other young queens,
5, 1991,
3, 2001 no P,
3 Americans (including my first S mint mark),
And 3 dimes... in the same roll, the clear type of rolls
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Quote:
1 replacement (1957) I'm confused - what's a replacement nickel? Quote:
3 Americans (including my first S mint mark),
And 3 dimes... in the same roll, the clear type of rolls Lucky! Have you looked it up? It could be NIFC. |
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Picked up 10 rolls of dimes and 10 rolls of quarter today and much to my surprise, 2 full rolls of quarters were various years silver, as well as 1 full roll of dimes. I feel like a kid that just found a treasure chest!
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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@ nalaberong,
By replacement I meant for my date set, my last 1957 nickel had a hole in it.
And for the S mint mark... all signs say that it was made for circulation. Partly because it was made in 1969.
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That's an incredible find Redzapsid! About $330 worth of silver at today's rate.
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3 full rolls of silver .wow..nice..
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also I searched another 500$ in quarters and guess what? skunk..new it was bound to catch up to me.
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