I Just Can't Stop

I find quite a lot in each box I'm searching (more than a roll usually), but non of them are gems, so I don't keep them. I'll keep any gems I find but they are few and far between.

I found a few of them, but I have only kept the nicest ones, which are pretty rare. They seem to be rather low quality in general.

I came across one the other day in circulation that looked like it had already been given the street corner treatment, if you know what I mean. Some indescribable goo on it. Who are the people that do this to coins?

I mean the spots that seem to develop on a lot of zincolns, Whether from corrosion, oxidation or the mfg process I do not know. When roll searching I find a great many seemingly Au or Bu only to be spoiled by spots.

There were about 30 in the last box of cents I searched - I sent them all back.

I've found one from a roll I got from the bank last month. Since then I haven't received any in change or found any in rolls.

There is a very good reason to keep EVERY circulation 2009, 2010 cent we find: 1943. That one lone example sold for over a million. Statistically, there is a one in a million chance that we will find a copper from the two clad years, but we know there were copper struck for cents in 2009, and 2010 was a "cusp child" of 2009, so there exists the possibility of a copper in "dem dar" clads, as Walter Brennen would put it. I love statistics, as it allows you to prove or disprove anything. For example: The fact that a glass of water is half full proves that a half empty glass of water exists. Consequently, there is a very LOW probability that a copper general circulation cent will be found. A statistician would then go on to assert "It necessarily follows that if a chance of a gen. cir. copper cent being minted in 2009 exists, there can be asserted a nearly 100% probability that one will eventually be found". Kinda like when Jim Carrey responds to the question of how much of a chance he had with his romantic interest Mary, and she said "Nearly Zero." He replied, excitedly: "Sooooooo I have a chance?!!"

I keep scads of them too. Penny poor.