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Canada
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Cool man.
I have been getting 5 or so wheaties a box and maybe a dozen or so Georgians.
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Canada
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nice finds with the coins mate!
i usally find about 10-20 wheat cents per box of pennys
but the oldest I've found is a 1929-s
also nice job with the steel cent I've got only one myself but mine is more dirty
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I just found another wheat today. A 1948 D in much nicer shape than the one above
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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hey guys! nice finds.
I got over $50 in change from the reject tray from my dump bank! 3 1943 pennies, foreign coins of several countries, and I haven't even searched the coins yet!
Do you guys know what I might be able to do with my canadian coins? I got a ton of em...brand new and older, all denominations
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United States
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I have Canadian Cents as early as 1920 that I found in circulation years ago.
Perhaps a testament that our border is open, after all?
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Canada
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The 1920 cent is the earliest year that you can still possibly find in circulation in Canada. (sort of like our equivalent to the first year of the Indian Head cent) Before 1920, we had larger pennies. The earliest Canadian pennies I seem to be able to find with any consistency are from the 1940s. |
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I find wheats in CDN rolls all the time. I had got some US boxes when I was in the states one time and boy was I disappointed. I only found 5 wheats per US box. I don't do that any more.
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Ya I have done 3 boxes of pennies and have found 17 wheats so far. Also today we (my wife and I) had a good search through 1 box. Filled up a lot of holes in our canadian penny album in the 40's and 50's. Also found 7x1920 1928 5x1932 and 1939. Was a good day! We just started and we have everything from 1940 to date with 3 exceptions and have a few from 1921 to 1938. Pretty good start. We have all the coppers from those 3 boxes as well, were thinking of maybe doing 2 albums. We have many multiples of each year pretty much so we could fill it up almost to the same point if we wanted too.
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Man I need to get me some boxes from Canada!!
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Canada
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I had an awesome find last week. My bank lady called telling me she had what looked to be old pennies. I went down and bought the $25 that she got from the guy. Almost 300 pre 1959 CDN, 30 wheats, 3 foreign with 1 being silver. I was very happy.
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Nice finds!  |
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Wow, some great stories on this thread. Yesterday I got my first 1943 steel penny. Was really excited about that, it was in a case of dimes though.lol Not as good as return on investment but will take it. I recently got a box of pennies that I just started going through. Looks like a lot was rolled in 2004 as that is the neest coin in there and are almost in au condition(note I don't really know how to grade, they are really shinny with no damage). Haven't got too many oldies though yet. One George VI and a lot of 64-53. Anyone else experience getting rolls that seemed to be rolled years ago?
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Canada
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I've had rolls before where the oldest coins were in the 70's. And shiny as well.
I'm not good with grading yet either. It will come.
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There is supposed to be a coin club that goes from sept to june up here in the north, I'm hoping when they start up I can go and get some help with grading. There are no coin stores or anything like it otherwise for me to get experience grading.
Coin chick, how did you get the relationship to the point where they call you when they find what looks to be old coins?
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. There was also a 1942, 1946, and 1948 
The 1913 is now my oldest circulation find!
(beating out a 1920 Canadian penny) Needless to say I was pretty shocked to get five wheats including a steel one but no George VI's in Canadian rolls. None of the wheat pennies are in particularly good shape but it completely made my day finding all of them. The way I look at is if I want a pretty example of an old coin I can buy it, but you can't buy the experience of finding an old coin in circulation or in a roll yourself. The oldest canadian penny I found in the 14 rolls was a 1958 (go figure!(I'm still happy though as I needed a 1958!)). 
Posted 08/08/2012 6:16 pm
