Canadian Roll Hunting

Picked up another six rolls of pennies. They've been added to my already large backlog of penny rolls. @o-train: I am doing the same. Trying to get a roll for each year dating as far back as possible.

Went to the Plains of Abraham today. A vending machine gave me a 1958 nickel! I also got 3 nickel nickels, 2 American nickels, 1 Secord quarter (non-colourized), 1 American quarter, and 1 Mountie quarter. Thanks, Americans! I also traded a toonie for 2 American singles, which is probably worth it.

I have also seen mixed quarter rolls in the clear plastic wrap. I think maybe those ones just look like mint wrapped rolls but are slightly different (not sure).

Went through the 7 rolls of pennies I was saving from yesterday. A couple of the rolls were all copper except for 1-2 pennies. Found 10 1967's, 15 young Elizabeth and 3 George VI's including 1943 and 1948. Also found 1 Wheat penny. Was hoping for a George V but still happy.

It is not a mint roll. In Canada...some of the coin distribution centers have started using the clear plastic rolls (Same as the mint rolls) to reroll and distribute the coins. I know Brinks in the states now uses the same process. The white distribution center rolls are going to be a thing of the past. I have opened several hundred rolls of the distribution center clear wrapped nickels. Nothing older then 2000 in any of them which knew ahead of time. I was searching them for the 2000P nickels. Not to long before the only rolls worth searching will be the customer wrapped rolls. Especially considering the government has started the recovery program...pulling all the nickel coins from circulation and the cent gone as well. Sigh.

Picked up 4 boxes and 15 rolls from the bank and went through the 15 rolls. Found a 1948 and a Wheat penny. The bank where I'm getting small cents seems to be getting quite a steady stream of pennies in which is nice. Have 5 boxes to go through now.

Thanks cladhunter13. I talked with the teller today and it seems like a lot of people/businesses are bringing in their pennies. I would try RBC's over TD's and avoid any bank with a coinstar machine. I don't have to ask for the pennies anymore. My regular teller was at the front "welcome" desk but she came over to the business section for me. Looked through the boxes and noticed a few of the rolls were low so she gave me 5 free rolls, really nice.

I'm just waiting on my scale so I can figure out how many pounds of copper I've pulled so far. My wife is getting annoyed because her shoe rack has also become my coin storage area.

Went through another box today. I've looked at so many 2006's that I'm starting to be able to separate the magnetic from the non-magnetic based on sight alone. The magnetic ones seem to have a deeper golden colour (but I still use a magnet).

Pulled a bunch of wheat pennies with the oldest being 1928. Eventually I'll go through them and look for possible key dates. Also found some Canadian cents from the 1940's. Rarely find anything before 1940 but I noticed 1949 is also a tough year for me.

No, we don't seem to get many San Francisco mint marks around here. I only have 1. Went through my wheat pennies and not surprisingly I don't have any rare dates: 1912, 1919, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1934 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1942D, 1943 Steel, 1944, 1944D, 1945, 1945D, 1946, 1946D, 1947, 1947D, 1948, 1949, 1949D, 1950D, 1951D, 1952, 1952D, 1953D, 1953S, 1954, 1954D, 1955, 1955D, 1956, 1956D, 1957, 1957D, 1958, 1958D.