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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My daughter left last weekend for a week as a camp counselor, so I took the opportunity to go through her change jar. I found 2 steelies and one coin from Malawi in there.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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When you call it an opportunity it sounds less like stealing from your kid lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The best way to put it is, they are not rare by any means. Millions were minted in 1943 and you can still pick up an example in MS for a little bit of money. Even though millions are still out there, these are rare to find in circulation. To date, I have only come across 1 and it looked like it may have been circulating since 1943.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very rare in the wild ! And how did you get to see the magnet in the counting machine?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I found a very grimy one in my change about six months back. I had never seen one in circulation before then.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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you can usually find them in customer wrapped rolls. they usually dont come in contact with magnets
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I had heard years ago that the government was dumping them in the ocean to get them out of circulation. Don't know if it is true or not. Not likely. But would give anyone with a powerful magnet something to go fishing for.  At a coin show not to long ago, a dealer had bags of pennies on his table for sale. Supposed to be 300 for $5. I bought one for the fun of it and found several 1943, rather beat up cents mixed in. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I had heard years ago that the government was dumping them in the ocean to get them out of circulation. Don't know if it is true or not. Walter Breen says the same thing in his Complete Encyclopedia. He claims "millions" were dumped, probably killing many fish with zinc poisoning. |
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Pillar of the Community
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When you call it an opportunity it sounds less like stealing from your kid lol That made me laugh. I actually left them on her dresser to show them to her when she returned. I'm still trying to get at least one of my kids interested in coins. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well best of luck to you with that. My fiance is kind enough to put up with me collecting but I don't think she'll let me get the kids into it when we have some. At least not unless they ask me first lol.
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Posted 07/28/2012 01:11 am
