Class316

A lot of times when I'm at friends' or relatives' place and they have a jar of pennies, I ask if I can look through the jar, and every time I look through a jar of pennies I find at *least* one wheat penny.

Once in a really big jar I found 12 wheats! And just recently in a small jar I found 3 wheat pennies, 1 old Canadian penny, and 1 English pence.

Never know what could be in a jar of pennies!

Also, sometimes pennies on the ground could be wheat pennies. So unlike most people instead of ignoring pennies I see on the ground, I pick them up! Sometimes they're wheat pennies!

Bluegill

A lady with whom I work just told me that she has about ten dollars of rolled and loose 1-cents in jars at home, and, even though I know I don’t have the time and my wife will think I’m nuts, I told her that I’d like to go through them all. I told her that I’m sick and twisted.

I’m in the process of moving my Lincoln cent collection (not complete) over to 2x2s from a Whitman album. I guess I could start refilling the Whitman album and then pass it along to some other young sucker. Er, I mean, beginning collector.

Class316

Just $10? That huge jar where I found 12 wheats was MUCH MUCH more than $10.

Bluegill

Her estimate, not mine. From the way she described it, I'd have to guess more than $10 too. But I haven't seen it.

Spider

my dad had $40 in pennies, and I found 8 wheat pennies in there

NOS

A year ago when my dads jar of pennies was getting full I went through it and found a bu 1956 cent. I could only ponder where it came from and what kind of l-o-s-e-r spent it as that is numismatic irresponsibility at its finest.

Spider

how do u know its unc?

ranchhand

I went to my local bank and bought 5 rolls of pennies, and ended up with about 10 wheats, which was pretty cool

I also like to buy rolls of kennedys, usually five at a time. I have never purchased five rolls without running nto at least ONE silver kennedy, the most i ever pulled form 5 rolls was 2 1964's and 5 40% silvers! it was like winning the lottery!

IvanV

probably he mean a still brilliant AU cent...an ALMOST BU!

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ranchhand

maybe he spent it because of the old saying...

If you love something, let it go...

GaryBurke

I literally have tens of thousands of pennies. Have been saving them since the 1970's. One of these days I'll get busy and start the process of looking through them. Meanwhile, it's fun to hope that the huge holdings of cents will include a 1909Svdb or a 1914D.

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Class316

wow!! Perhaps I should try getting these things from banks!!

By the way would all banks sell such rolls?

Bluegill

Don't you think that if the l-o-s-e-r who had spent it happened upon you going through a big o'l jar of pennies, he'd think you were a l-o-s-e-r?

(of course, you and I both know who the real loser is, but...I guess I'm having high school flashbacks..."Hey, look, he's going through thousands of pennies! What a loser!" Sigh.)

JBK

This is the second time this subject has come up on the forum today in two different threads, no less).

I see some misunderstanding here.

Uncirculated is a grade, not a status. A coin can be spent and used to buy things and still be Unc. If there is no wear, it is Unc. It does not matter if it came from the bank, the store, or the sewer.

BTW, a coin does not have to be bright and shiny to be Unc. grade.

KLJ

Or is it Mint State?

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