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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Excellent 1929 and Canadian finds!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow! Awesome canadian. I didn't even know what those years looked like! Anyone else find any of those?
Makes me want to buy some!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
I searched a box of Lincolns recently and noticed over ten perfect looking 1959 cents scattered in various rolls.
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Valued Member
United States
63 Posts |
As mentioned before, this box came in a metal carrier. The findings are very atypical for my area. 2 original bank rolls of 1968-S. The ends have a gold-ish toning to them.  76 wheats - 14 1955-s that have this deep red/orange tone to them. The others are nothing great. Nothing lower than 1944. The vast majority of the coins are from the 1970's. 10 rolls were mixed with uncirculated 1972 - 1979 D's. The copper percentage for the entire $25 box is 76.6% The highest I ever had prior to this box was 16%. The rolls had an oily smell to them. Kind of like they were in a repair shop for a long time. Some of the coins had a black color to them but when rubbed the deep red color showed. The pics really don't do them justice.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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A couple months ago I ordered 3 boxes of Lincoln cents from a forum member on the East coast. I never did get around to reporting the results... I got 29.6% copper coins (2220 out of 7500). I got 1.23% wheat cents (92 of 7500). Wheat cent dates and distribution were nothing remarkable - but did get a 1926D in VG  ! My biggest finds were a 1960 small date (first one in circulation I have seen in 40 years!), and my first WAM of any kind (1998)...   . The total for copper cents (from these New York boxes) was about 11% higher than I see typically in San Diego. Wheat cent total at 1.23% was about triple what I see in San Diego. Will need some more East coast pennies soon! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Latest search of 2 String boxes were good for copper and that's about it so far. Again, roughly 28%. Those two boxes scored me 18....yes just 18 total wheats. The only pre-1940 was a very poor 1936. I also got 17 canadian coppers, too. I did find two counterstamped Lincolns. Both of them were state stamps. One was Tenn and the other was Mass. I ran through all of the zincs looking for errors and varieties with no luck. These 2 boxes had lots of 99P's....nice ones...it's about time for my next 99 WAM! Once again I looked at 100 or so decent 88's and 88D's....not even close to the winning reverse. No WAMS! No double dies...or even a half-way decent Machine Doubling. So, tonight I'll work on the roughly 1400+/- coppers left to look for more goodies. Box #2 had about 100 1982's. Box #1 had the regular average of 60. I ran them on my scale to sort them out. I'm slowly slipping into the upper 70% copper range with the 82's. When I first got my scale and started sorting the copper/zinc 82's, I was averaging 90% copper...! Slowly...it has dropped to 79%. But, the other copper percentages hasn't changed at all. It's been roughly 28% for a good 4 or 5 years here. |
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New Member
Canada
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Bank Penny Box Find (As a preface, sorry, but this can't help but be a LONG post...!) I've been buying boxes of pennies on a fairly regular basis for almost 3 years now. During that time, I estimate I've searched 500,000 pennies - mostly Canadian. Two weeks ago I went to my bank to get 7 rolls of quarters (not for silver, just trying to complete a master Canadian set of nickel/steel quarters). While there, I decided at the last minute to get 2 boxes of pennies. On Friday, I finally had the time to search the boxes. The first box was typical for what I get in a CAN $25 box: about 25-30% copper, about 250 US cents (total of copper and zinc) and 3 King George VI and 2 or 3 wheaties. Plus a few choice UNC's and a large selection of 60's dates for my roll hoarding. These are very typical results for the bank boxes I get. Then, on to the second box. I opened the first roll and out popped a bunch of gray dried paint flecks, and about 10 King George and 15 wheaties! Ok... so I'm already ahead of the usual box results after only one roll! Then I noticed that the remaining 25 coins were all copper. I popped the second roll. Same results (including the paint flecks!). The pattern continued for all 50 rolls. Along the way, I started noticing that many of the wheats were older than the 1930's through 50's that I normally get. The first one to stand out was a 1926D. Then a couple of 1919's. Then a new record - for me - a 1911! Then a 1913 and a 1912 within seconds of each other. Then, I just about fell off the couch... (see picture #2. The coins are in roughly the order I remember finding them.) When the shock wore off (about 2 days later!), I figured out the final totals: (out of the 2500 pennies) as follows: 1) Copper - 2,494! (mostly US 1960's and nothing past 1978. The other six were late 2000's Canadian!) 2) King George VI - 231 pennies! (Every year from 1937 to 1952. 9 or 10 are in AU55 - AU58 condition.) 3) King George V - One! 4) Wheats - 696!! Yikes! More than 1 in every 4 was a Wheat penny. 5) Zero IHC! I'll skip all the rest of the juicy details for now, and let a few photos tell the story. Then I'll post again with a written listing of the top finds. There are 2 or 3 that REALLY stand out! The most amazing part looking back is I can't believe what ALMOST made it back into circulation if I hadn't grabbed those two boxes (i wasn't originally going to bother with pennies that day.)        |
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New Member
Canada
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Here's a written summation of the box breakdown as discussed above: 1) Coppers - 2,496 2) Wheats - 696 3) George VI - 230 4) George V - 1 5) Oldest - 1909VDB 6) Most valuable (US) - 1914D 7) Most valuable (CAN) - 1949 'A' Points to Denticle in AU55 Lincoln List Highlights: 1909VDB, 1911, 1912, 1913 (x2), 1914, 1914D, 1916 (x2), 1917, 1918 (x5), 1918D, 1918S, 1919 (x4), 1920, 1920S, 1923, 1924 (x3), 1925 (x4), 1926 (x3), 1926D, 1927 (x5), 1927D, 1928, 1929 (x4), 1930 (x3), 1934 (x5), 1934D, 1935 (x7), 1936 (x11), 1936D, 1937 (x21), 1938, 1938D, 1939 (x8), 1939S, 1940 (x15), 1940D (x3). All the rest up to 1958 except missing the steelies and 52S and 55S. George VI Highlights: 1937, 1938, 1939 (x4), 1940 (x21), 1941 (x15), 1942 (x20), 1943 (x18), 1944 (x13), 1945 (x23), 1946 (x16), 1947 (x11), 1947ml (x14), 1948 (x4), 1949 (x13), 1950 (x29), 1951 (x12), 1952 (x15), many more from 1953 to 1962. To document the Lincoln find, I started on a couple of cheapie Whitman albums for the different dates in circulation. The 1914D has gone straight into my (main) Dansco album and will stay there. This coin will never (willingly!) be sold by me!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
543 Posts |
I am getting really inspired to get some more $25 Cent Bricks and look through again!
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New Member
Canada
30 Posts |
I Know! As the Brits say, I'm Gobsmacked! And have been for 4 days now...!
I actually think the fact that the 1914D made it to Canada is what kept it 'alive'. It appears someone hoarded for 50-60 years and then a relative went to the bank to cash in. Luckily for me (and the penny) at least someone who collects found it (I would have been heartbroken if it bounced around unknowing hands in 2011 and then ended up down a storm drain or something...).
I live only 45 miles from Detroit and it used to be common to just go back and forth over the border to live and work. So an American may have moved here with their wheat container. Or, pulled them out of circulation in Canada as they found them.
Interesting that someone pulled out all the 1943's tho! Must have sold them for a nickel each 50 years ago!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1431 Posts |
That is an AMAZING find, moneypenny! Probably the find of the century. Nothing else I can really say about that.
Anyways I was dumping dimes today and got a VG 1918 and a corroded 1954S out of the reject slot of the coin machine. That was pretty cool.
I think I might have to start searching pennies again. Oh boy.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19990 Posts |
You found a 1914D? REALLY?
That would be the most amazing find yet in this thread!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
508 Posts |
That is just, mind blowing moneypenney. One heck of a haul, nice nice. I have to ask, is your name inspired from James Bond ?  |
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New Member
Canada
30 Posts |
MY find of the century - for sure!
The only drag has been the sorting and photo taking time. And, I started writing notes the next day while I could still remember. I know I will be thankful later that I documented it all.
I tried explaining what I'd found, and the odds, to non-collectors (friends and family). It didn't hold much interest for them. At all...
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