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

Haven't searched pennies in about a month but here latest finds have me itching to buy some rolls at work tomorrow. Maybe I'll get lucky and find something cool.

Nice score on the dimes.




I have to disagree, I know of nothing at the mint that could cause something like that.

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One of my banks forgot to order my halves last week so I picked up a box of cents and box of nickels. I found a '36-S, '44-S, '53, '55, & '57-D Wheats. I also found a '67, '68, '76, 80', & '88 Canadian. I guess the '67 was a special one since it looked different than the typical Canadian cent. It had a bird or something on it. It was the first one I've found like that so I thought it was pretty neat. This box only had 11.84% copper.

Some cool finds out of my first time coin roll hunting Canadian pennies. Two wheat cents and just over a roll of copper memorial cents. Plus 3 rolls of Zincolns out of the 50 rolls searched. Here are the most surprising finds, photos from oldest date to newest:

A 1912. Too bad it has 2 holes on the back of Lincoln's head and green and pink stuff is growing all over it. I think the one on the wheats is PVC gunk, it's the same colour as something I just removed using acetone from a different coin. But in the front it's the "Liberty statue colour" green. Aargh! My first coin that's over a century old too...


This is the 1946. My second ever Wheat cent. No verdigris in sight, good. First one was from a friend of mine, I saw this 1939 cent that doesn't have the picture of the building on it, but I didn't know it was valuable back then. I asked him if I could swap with him and what penny he wants. He said I could just take it and he says that he's not going to have ant use for it anyway. I paid him back anyway, because I know I'll feel guilty of I don't.


Here's a 1964D penny. I have never seen a Lincoln Cent this red and shiny before. The scan really doesn't do justice. Too bad there are very noticeable scratches on the forehead and beard.


Not as red as the 1964, but still pretty. Odd that sometimes the older coins are nicer looking.


Group photo. The 1946 is has the regular brown colour of tarnished copper.


And I also found this black dime. I have no idea how it got like this. It gives me a profit of $0.09 anyway

Hi Rackster. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I'd have never noticed it myself. I looked at it through my cheap dollar store magnifying glass (which doesn't seem to magnify it over 1.1x as opposed to the advertised 5x) and took several photos of it from several angles. There seems to be a little something on the inner right side of the D from the photos, but I can't tell beyond that. I can't actually see it with my eyes. My eyes are far too astigmatic, and I can't observe little details because my glasses has myopia correction too. Either way it's blurry what I see.
I'll try borrowing a microscope from the lab tomorrow. I'll get a photo if I can if I see anything interesting on that mintmark.

I'm going to try acetone to remove the green from the 1902 tomorrow if I get the chance. I really hope it's not verdigris. My hopes aren't high though, and acetone will never work for verdigris
And yes the coin doesn't look too worn. I've seen Zincolns in worse shape, I think I have one where the Lincoln seems to have sunk flat into the coin. Now which roll did I toss that in...
One thing I thought about the holes behind Lincoln's head is, did someone try to assassinate this poor little coin?

Question, is it just me or does Lincoln's nose seem to get bigger as the years pass? Like, his nose was small before the 1970s and the ones on Zincolns have huge noses.

Hello everyone! I have been lurking on this forum for a while now and finally decided to join. I read most of the pages on this forum and thats what got me into coin roll hunting. Just recently I found a 1999 WAM! It was my first 1999 WAM I now have all three 1998,1999, and 2000.