Incredible Haul of 24 Pennies Rolls!

Hello everyone.
I have something very exciting to share!
I few weeks ago I created a thread about a Machine Shop near my job that closed due to the owner's passing away. There is a gentleman who's emptying out the contents of the shop every day.

Here is that thread
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/scandinavian-padlock-aka-polhem-lock.384551/

Today I went into the shop to see if I could find any goodies.. I saw the most amazing thing.

24 Rolls of Pennies.. Older style wrappers


I asked about them and he said he found them in an old box and he was planning to take them to the bank. I quickly said that I would gladly take them from him.. so I asked how much?
It was face value he wanted.. $12.00

I took a $20.00 bill, handed it to him, told him to keep it and I left with all 24 rolls!

I am extremely busy at work so at this moment so I can't really look at the contents of the rolls.
But I opened one of them and this is what I found

All Wheat Cents! 2 of them Steel Cents and 1 old Canadian Cent



This is going to turn out to be a very exciting coin roll search.. It already is!

 

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Amazing. You don't even need a detector. Put your fingers in your ears and walk around going "beep, beep, beep", and you get right to the prize.
Great find, amigo. Have a lot of fun searching those beauties.

 

Lucky you! I trust you'll share the spoils
Can't wait to see.

 

The Abbott rolls could be as old as 73'
Nice score!

 

Wow Nice Find !! You didn't need a Metal detector for that one either.

 

Looking forward to seeing the remainder of these rolls. Awesome haul, Paddy!

 

Nice find. Looking forward to the results.

 

Fantastic Paddy but I’m afraid you’ll be lost as they weren’t in the ground. Lol

Seriously, a great find and I’d plan on stopping by again and seeing what can you find. Please share your results of rolling searching (a new term for you) with us.

 

I had half an hour to sort through my first roll.
I made 5 piles of different decades.
Teens, 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's.. 1917 was the oldest.


I don't have a loop at work but my reading glasses helped

 

Great start

 

The heck with work, open dem rolls.

 

Oh man, that's awesome!

 

Ed, go sprinkle those on the ground and re-discover them with your metal detector so you can say you found them while metal detecting, and make your group jealous. LOL

 

If this is work where do I get hired?

 

Perhaps a contents.

 

Good Luck! Find some goodies!

 

At home now..

I opened up every roll and carfully separated the Cents by Wheats, Memorials, Damaged and Foreign.

There are several hundred Memorial Cents. Many 1960's and 1970's which I have to check for varieties and errors.


Wheat Cents - 2 Steel Wheats


This small pile are the only 1980's


I also got a Skeleton Key, a Clock Key and some cool portrait of Lincoln set on a wooden block.

 

4 foreign coins


Interesting Damaged Cents (newbie errors )


RED Wheat!

I'm tired.. I need sleep!
To be continued another day ​

 

Understandable great start so far.

 

Mods, this should be a banable offense. Teasing us and leaving us in suspense! Off with his head!