My First $25 Box Of Pennies!

It's always cool to find one in the teens or twenties.I found a 1917 two days ago.
John1

out of that whole box I found the 1910, a 57d, and a few canadian pennies :/ oh but I did find an 83 with a cool little engraving of new jersey. thought that was nifty. hoping to have better luck with the next box though.

its fun, because their is so many different things you can look for, all this talk.. now I want to get one!

Nice find. First of many many boxes to come......if your hooked!

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the first of many good finds to come..

That was a neat find. There have been a few times when the amount of copper pennies that I was finding sure was discouraging. However, I've kept at it. After you've been searching the pennies for awhile you will be finding a whole lot of different coins. I've found dimes included in the rolls plus a lot of coins from different countries. The foreign coins I keep a pill bottle just for the novelty feature.

Just out of curiousity, what courier does BB&T use? Well Fargo and Suntrust use Brinks, PNC uses Loomis but I know that there are other armored truck carriers out there such as Dunbar but I haven't found any bank that uses them.

Don't worry about beig questioned about why you want the coins, it is really just and intimidating thing from my point of view. I never tell them that I roll search, I just tell them that my boss wanted me to pick up the coins while I was on lunch. The really big stumbling question is when they ask if you have an account because some banks don't like to give coins out to non-customers. That's why I have a couple of small accounts at a few banks because I can then tell them that I am a customer, and then their attitude changes.

Seriously though, you do need to know how you're going to dump the unwanted coins. What I have been doing is rewrapping and dumping them at a different branch.

One of the items that most roll searchers try to do is to not use the same branck to pick up and dump coins at.

Right now I am averaging 25% copper from the rolls that I search.

Enjoy the roll searching and from time to time pick up a couple rolls of quarters or dimes and look for silver. It's still out there. The other thing is to ask if they are any half dollars. 64's = 90% silver with the 65 to 70 = 40% silver

thank you guys! and thats a great idea, I'm just going to say my boss asked me to pick up a box of pennies from now on XD
i also managed to find a dime in one of the rolls... it was pink looking like copper. I did a little test on it with ketchup and the area that I put the ketchup on turned lighter. I'm not to sure about it so I have it set aside in a jewelry box.
i think ill most likely try looking for silver coins once the penny is discontinued. seems like a lot of people are looking for silver so more pennies for me XD (trying to fill out a book of every penny minted from 1909 till now)