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Pillar of the Community
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you have to give them back the way you got them.
in other words, bring out your paper rollers
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Same here, have to roll them. I imagine the same rules apply at all our banks. You can ask at your bank for the paper rollers and I think they just give them to their customers. I buy mine at the dollar store though. For a buck I buy a bag of 36 tubes that I just fill with 50 pennies each. Much easier on my hands, not to mention a whole lot quicker, to have ready made new tubes and with crisp edges that aren't previously folded that get in the way of inserting the coins. They do have those little plastic fold open ones too but they're way less for a lot more money and I find them annoying to try and fold and close them (interlocking male female parts like snaps) I always shoot my pennies across the table when I try to use them  |
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I have been buying $10 worth of pennies at a time, and finally broke down and got a box. They were mixed dates, dimes were fairly common - 1 per group of 10 rolls. I have had 1 US dime, and coins from Great Britain, 1 and 2 Euro Cents from France, and 1 cents from Bermuda. My oldest US coins (in rolls from Canada) were 1914D and 1919S. My oldest Canadian is a 1939 1 cent. I got 210 US Cents in 20 rolls from Canada, once. There have been many varieties- re-engraved dates, especially 1978-79, detached jewels, die-breaks, and the interesting features of the modern Canadian coins- spikes around letters, letters joined a few diebreaks on the reverse side, and usually coins from the70s that are uncirculated, or almost so. I have not yet come across the scarce 2006 pennies. It has been fun. |
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Thanks Coinsnpaper. That sounds good and shows you do get coins from boxes that have been circulating already so some older dates could be in the lot. It sure is fun cracking open rolls, that anticipation. I get excited to spot the first Queen, until the early 1960's, and King George's faces. I really do love those earlier images. And always get excited to spot American and any foreign or odd coin that spills out.
Congrats on those teen years US ones. My oldest Canadian cent is still the 1941. I have almost every year from 1941 to date. I look for King George especially, then first Queen faces right away, hoping!
I have a 2 Euro Cent from Italy I found too, plus a couple of badly damaged Panama/Uraguay? ones too, plus found that 1967 US dark dime
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sorry for bumping this old thread, I have few questions on buying boxes of pennies at Canadian banks, don't they charge a fee on each roll? which bank (CIBC, TD, Royal, etc) seems to be the most lenient towards these kind of business?
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I've yet to buy a box at a time but I don't think they charge fees or extras for ordering them. Maybe I'm wrong about that though? I'll be dropping into my bank on Wed, the Royal Bank of Canada, and will ask if they charge for ordering them in. I'll let you know what I find out, but I expect other Canadians will probably jump in and answer you before then :)
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Sometimes you'll get a GOOD box.I remember well,last year was one of those times.One box yielded a number of Young queen cents,a few george VI cents and one 1935 cent + 1 1909 U.S.cent+a couple of foreign coins.Another box yielded a 2006 no logo,no p magnetic cent + a couple of other goodies .This was in late 2010. NEVER GIVE UP !
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01/17/2011 8:59 pm
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Canada
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Here is true story of what happened to my daughter-in-law. She worked at a Starbucks coffee shop. She opened a roll of pennies, and saw that one coin looked different. She put a penny in and took the odd looking coin. She got a hold of me and asked what this coin was all about. I looked at it and asked where in heavens name did you get this coin? She told me the story of the penny roll,and I said that she had a "1909 American Quarter Eagle two and a half dollar gold coin." It is in excellent condition, and she asked if I could store it in my safety deposit box at the bank. Miracles do happen when penny roll and penny box hunting. I will get some photos when I am at the bank next time.
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when buying american pennies....22-28% copper
70-78% zinc
5-10 wheats
canadian pennies......44-48% copper
38-45% zinc
8-12% steel
hope this helps
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Valued Member
Canada
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One thing I have suggested is to put a small mark on the roll, somewhere that you would know what the mark is so if you get a roll with that mark, it will help save going through the same roll twice. If you go to the thread called one dot-two dot, you will find that Castor has done a marvelous job of pointing out the two differences. take care.
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I just purchased my first box of rolls this week. So far my notable finds include one US Steel penny and a 1936 George V penny(really bad corrosion damage though).
How exciting!
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Wow. What a find, that bad boy is worth at least $250 |
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In my home town pennies were great for a bit then they started getting full boxes from a company called LPS which copper sorts them so that was the end of those ( found about 10 copper cents a box) funny enough my oldest find a 1934 I think it was came from one of those boxes.. I've had a few tellers on a Saturday tell me they do not have the key to the coin vault as well which is understandable...
I've alto started going between pennies & nickels which makes it a bit easier. My luck with bigger city banks has not been so good, 1 box at BMO in London, sealed 2008 pennies & 1 in Kitchener sealed 2010 pennies.
WOW what a find uncle al
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Uncle Al, what an AWESOME!! find in that gold coin. Incredible. Makes me want to run to the bank and buy some more rolls of pennies ... but have to wait until Wed! Meanwhile, I've made lots of headway with re-logging coins I already have on hand before I start scanning in earnest. Maybe I'll find a super cent in my next batch of rolls. Don't think I can spring for a whole box this time though.
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