Here is a photo my wife found and shared. It speaks volumes silently. I believe color is the primary sort, probably has both bronze and zinc, but IHCs could fit in here too. No, I don’t know where the picture comes from and I didn’t ask, but it is titled: “The Life Cycle of a Penny”
Not mine, that’s for durn sure. I have done my share of cleaning out drink holders and car cubbie holes.
In 2013 I recovered over 1,000 coins of all denominations from my brothers’ car and truck. He always threw his coin change into the drivers door well. I painstakingly removed them all avoiding any further contact with each other as much as possible. The keepers were carefully removed of fingerprint oils. The keeper range was from about 2002-2013, lots of brand new State Quarters and many MS cents.
I have this old Dinkelacker mini-keg...fairly decorative and provided a nice storage of loose cents for many years. The small hole at the top, where the tap is mounted, had a lip making removal of the cents difficult...which proved to be beneficial. Once in, they were staying in. So finally, after more than a decade of accepting loose cents, it came time to roll them up for the bank. Luckily for me, I learned about variety hunting so I began to go through them all. Many of the cents were AU/BU coins. My first variety, a 2000 WAM was MS grade. And a 1994-1DR-001 was AU. Something could be said of those flippant coin hoarders...mostly good stuff I'm hoping!! (since I'm clearly one)
That’s a little like the color set of early large cents Dr. Sheldon built probably in the 1940s. It was still intact when the Dan Holmes collection was sold about a decade ago. I had an interest, but the bid went well beyond my limit almost immediately. Sheldon called the colors “autumn leaves.”
