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

The most recent box I finished contained the above 1972 MD date and the earliest date was a 1910 in fair condition. I think the 1910 experienced a lamination issue. Here's a photo.

There was a nicer 1956-D as well. A total of 9 wheats in all which was kind of lite this time around.

Coinee, can you post a close-up image of where you think the lamination error is? That is a nice find.

WheatBackPenny: I'll get what I hope will be a better photo later tonight. In the above photo its the area North of the date to the rim and to the right of Lincoln.

I have to retract a post I made not too long ago wherein I stated that in the past 40 years or so I hadn't found so much as a Wheat cent. For the past 7 or 8 years I have put spare change in a 5 gallon plastic water bottle. It wasn't even half full, but I recently retired and was bored out of my skull and decided to sort and wrap them up. I had over 6,000 pennies, some 5,000 nickels and dimes, and about 2,000 quarters. Items of interest I found in the rolling process included a Buffalo nickel with no discernible date, and 19 wheat cents. The best Wheat cent was a 1943 in pretty good condition. The majority of the remainder were from the 50's. The most surprising find was an 1897 Indian cent whose condition was poor. Looked like it had been embedded in the roadbed and had what appeared to be scotch tape stuck on it from the year of it's minting. Near impossible to remove. I also had 50+ coins from Costa Rica, Mexico, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, France, Bahamas, Canada, Singapore, and Norway. There were quite a few from France and I chalked this up to the fact that the coins were of about the same size and weight of a quarter, but then I recalled that my wife had traveled to the first 6 countries and attribute their existence to her travels. There was also a screw, a nut (isn't fit the screw), two black beads, two paper clips, a bobby pin, and a lot of lint. No silver, and much to my disappointment, no Brasher Doubloons. By the way, unless you think I'm crazed, I wrapped 35 rolls of pennies before giving up and going to a Coin Star for the remainder. I did do a cursory search of them though looking for wheats and I'm sure I probably missed a few.

Joe11:



If a coin is beat up and looks interesting (such an earlier one I found that was a 2009 Lincoln FY) I will usually put it to the side. After searching through all the rolls I might take a pic of the worse beat up coin and post it.

I posted something about this in the dimes CRH post but thought it relevant here and over in the nickels CRH post.

I stopped at the bank yesterday for a box of dimes. When the clerk came out I saw lots of shiny ends. My guess is all 2017s which seems to be confirmed by my spot checking through the holes.

I know many are looking for that silver, 82s, 83s, or other oddity. But isn't a new box an opportunity to look through what has never been looked through before? I know when I'm going through re-wrapped coins I often think, "how many others looked at this and passed it up".

What are some other thoughts on new untouched boxes?

coinee,

I started CRH about 5 or 6 years ago. I get a box of pennies a week and over that length of time I probably come across 2 or 3 new boxes a year. I'm able to afford to shove them in a closet for another day. I mainly CHR for old coins, copper and obvious errors. I think it will be fun to go through the new boxes years from now when I get more experience with errors. At the end at the very least it's money that hard to spend so it stays there.

Finally finished that box with 9 Canadians showing. There were a total of 167 Canadians. 27 junk newer ones. I kept two rolls sealed. One KG ender and one with Canadians showing on both ends. On to the next box.