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Going Through A 5-Gallon Jar Of Cents

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 Posted 03/28/2025  6:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Marve65 to your friends list

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1970-S Small Date VF30


That's a great find all by itself!
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 Posted 03/28/2025  10:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Nice finds.
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 Posted 03/29/2025  09:43 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list
Check out that 2006 Canadian, which one?
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 Posted 03/29/2025  11:01 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bear906 to your friends list

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Check out that 2006 Canadian, which one?

It's a No P, non-magnetic cent.

I'm starting to get genuinely curious about what might be lurking in my Canadian stash. Thus far, I've only gotten around to checking the Toonies for counterfeits.
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03/29/2025 11:14 am
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 Posted 03/29/2025  11:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list
2006 cents, what you want is 2006 no P steel or magnetic, and 2006 P zinc or non magnetic .
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 Posted 03/29/2025  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cabowabo to your friends list
Does anyone know why some canadian cents have a different sound to them when dropped against other pennies ?
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You have older copper then zinc and the newer ones have steel in them.
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 Posted 03/29/2025  5:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bear906 to your friends list
Just got done searching $8 more. The end is near...a box of 100 cent tubes arrived yesterday, and this mess will soon look like an actual collection.

2 Wheat cents: '46-D VF; '58-D VF
5 S-Mint cents: '68-S VF; '69-S EF; '70-S Lg Date EF; '70-S Lg Date AU; '73-S VF
2 2009-P cents: Formative Years in AU55 RB and AU58 RD
4 Canadian cents: '63 VF; '65 Small Beads/Blunt 5 VF; '74 EF; '84 EF
1 Euro 2 cent: 2004 Belgium EF
190 Bronze cents were in this lot.

39 Choice AU keepers turned up, starting with a pair of '74-D

One or two more sessions, and the big jar will be empty.

Next task: Going through the 1959-64 cents from this lot. 1959-D cents turned up with surprising abundance--how many will be RPMs? We'll soon find out!
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03/30/2025 11:56 am
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Always fun to search that kind of stash. Good luck on the errors and varieties now that you have them separated and good luck with the rolls, those are good dates for varieties, lots of RPM's and some doubled dies too.
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 Posted 03/31/2025  12:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bear906 to your friends list
Just searched the final $5.42 in the jar:

1 Wheat cent: '44VF
0 S-Mint cents
0 2009-P/-D cents
2 Canadian cents: '64 VF; '78 EF
117 Bronze cents were in this lot.

5 Choice AU keepers turned up, highlighted by a pair of 1963-D.

Now rolling coins and tabulating totals for this accumulation...
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 Posted 03/31/2025  9:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Nice finds, Bear906. Make sure you search them for any errors and varieties as well.
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 Posted 03/31/2025  11:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bear906 to your friends list

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Nice finds, Bear906. Make sure you search them for any errors and varieties as well.
That's the plan. Once I've got them all sorted by date and mint and counted, I'll be looking for errors and varieties. I have an older, inherited accumulation of Wheat cents that's already sorted and counted, but I haven't got around to hunting varieties and errors in that lot, either.

As of now, the Wheat and Memorial cents from the big jar are sorted and counted through 1969. Everything else is pre-sorted in five-year lots: 1975-1979, 1980-1984, 1985-1989, and so on through 2019. I've gotten the 1970-74 lot sorted out, but not yet counted.
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 Posted 03/31/2025  11:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Errers and Varietys to your friends list
Awesome.
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