Sorry, wasn't sure how to title this.
I was looking at a penny while going through some rolls (second part of question deals with this) and a 1994d attracted my eye, just because it had some funny stuff going on with the date. I don't think it's worth any more than usual, but here's the details: it's thicker on one side than the other, being thickest on the edge that the bottom right corner of the Memorial would point to. Then, the date kind of has a shadow behind it when you catch it in the right light - it's not shiny either, it just has something messed up I haven't seen before. Therefore, I'll ignore those who say it's just shiny. My thought was that because it was thicker on one side than the other, it got hit funny and made it that way? Hopefully the pictures explain it a bit more.
My other question - is it worth going through 2000 pennies to find 6 wheats (which I consider a lot, as two other 2000 penny lots I find less than that), 6 s-mint dates (which I just keep b/c they are different), and 30-50 Canadian pennies that I don't keep anyway? I did a few lots of my own roll searching, but I'm not sure it's worth it to go to the bank just to get $20 in pennies, nickels, and dimes and look through them and find nothing, except for in the case of the nickels, where I filled quite a few holes in my book (mainly because I had filled in very few holes in that book to start with). I was also thinking of buying a metal detector, but that takes money and time too. Plus, I'm starting school soon, so I won't be able to do too much coin searching. What is the best way I could use my time in regards to coins? I'm not collecting anything in particular, but is there a good place to look for coins? I'm going to check if the bank has Susan B Anthonys I can look through, or bigger dollars, such as buying Ikes they have, but is there any way to keep up with coins? I have a sister who sometimes does cash register at a bookstore where naive college kids buy books, but I'm not sure I'd be able to look in their coins, not being employed by the college myself.
Posted 12/23/2012 09:19 am
