Cool Lincoln Roll Finds (From Bank Rolls) - Post Yours!

I just returned my throwback pennies to a TD penny arcade. I had over $85 in pennies which made them change the bags. It was my first time cashing in that much. Is that too much for 1 trip? On the bright side when they opened the machine there was 27 cents that didn't make it all the way down the reject tube so I got that and 2 chuckie cheese tokens.

did my weekly box and came up with 2 canadian, and 14 wheats. The oldest was a 1916d which popped out of the 2nd roll! It is not a hole filler, but it is an upgrade to my existing 1916d. I was pretty pumped to find that one.

The funny thing is that I have no idea how I got the first 1916d. Since I collected as a kid and took a 20+ year break, I forgot how I got everything except for the 5 rolls of 1943 wheats I bought from my neighbor.

I know I used to roll hunt back in the day which accounts for most of my wheats. I am just going to assume that everything in my 2 childhood whitman wheat books were hunted. That is probably not 100% true, as I did go around to antique type places with my mom and I know I bought some coins. But since I can't prove anything, I will just assume I hunted them.

I got out my loupe last night and went through some cents I had set aside and found this one.

I found a really beat up 1873 IHC.

Nice find!

I think they are worth keeping. The Government might let us melt cents soon.

I wouldn't count on that any time soon. Unless the price of copper drops massively, or unless the government switches to other metals (and add 25+ years to that equation to "ensure" that the only circulating coins are the newer worthless pennies), I don't see it happening. The government doesn't want people to be able to go to a bank, buy $100's worth of cents, melt them, and sell it for $3 a pound.

However, there's not really anything stopping people from melting cents...the zinc has a lower boiling temp than the copper has a melting temp...so, you'd end up with basically pure copper (and a metallurgical analysis of the resulting metal should not be anywhere within range of anyone making a positive identification of cent-origin)...but what do I know?

^ Does anyone know if that's accurate?

I was getting half of every box that was copper, and it was just too much space like you say. A coin is worth saving if YOU want to save it. There is really no one that can tell you what to save or not to save.