Hey everyone, I just got $10 worth of pennies the other day, just to sort through. (Any higher and everyone looks at me like its a hold up, stuffing roll after roll of pennies into a bag.) Anyway, it just seemed amazing to me how different the average quality can be. In 20 rolls, I found 3 canadians and 3 wheat pennies, and a 1960 that looked brand new. (It was so gleaming new I thought it was a 2000 until I saw the date. I've found pennies that look a thousand years old and they're only 1990. Weird how different they can be, huh?
VERY different.... I found a 1957 wheatie that looked brand spankin' new one time, and today I got a penny that was all banged up; I got so excited thinking it was a wheatie, and it turned out to be an '02-D.... Oy vey! ~AJ
Wow! That must have been fabulous, finding a new looking wheatie. The only other thing I kept in the whole wad was a 1980 just cause it looked weird. It has a reddish cast and it reflects rainbowish.
went throuth 20$ worth found wheat 1945 uncirc/AU. 1959, 1962, 64, 74s, 72s, 70s 4 caniadian including a 42,64,97 a dime that was squashed to look like a peny size and various other pennies, such as ms 67-68 range 04s and 05s
I found a newer penny a few weeks ago It's so scratched up that there are almost no distinguishable features to it other than a copper/zinc color, size, and a very VERY faint image of the memorial on the back (you can JUST BARELY see the outline of it)
I get 4 rolls of nickels and 4 rolls of pennies 3 times a week while I'am on the road. Got to do something in the hotels. The pennies are the worse for finding all kinds of foreign coins and sometimes they have some much green or white crud I don't want to touch them and sometimes you get new rolls. I get rid of all my pennies at a coinstar machine. Hate to pay but pennies are a pain to roll and bring back to a bank. The nickels I put in the snack machine at hotels and when it says I have a dollar in I hit coin return and it gives 4 quarters back. So then I get to search the quarters and spend what I don't want. I waiting for a cop to come up one day to see what I doing. It takes a while to dump all those nickels in
my finds from rolls I am always searching rolls. I'll go to the bank and pruchase a hundred dollars in pennies with out a blink. They know when I come, and they get ready. I found in the last batch...so far... About 12 wheats 1937, 1942, and I don't remember the rest. Nothing real shiny. about 4 rolls of stuff from pre 1970, 4 or 5 canadians, the oldest one being about a 1954, a few dimes, one roll of s mints, a wide AM-1999, one penny that I am unsure of yet. It is a 2000, bent a little, and has a reverse stamp of the obverse on top of the reverse. I have studied the bending with my 16X, and found no signs of someone doing this on purpose.?????? Anyone know of anything? I am still not even half way through, so I'll update you guys. Thanks for letting me share my story, too.
You don't have to count them out. Just make sure that they are in the roll the same way they came out. Use the creases they made while they were in the roll. Pay for your snacks with them, who cares what people think? Tell them you are a coin collector. You might be surprised at the friends you make, stories you hear, and trade agreements you come out with. The one or two people you encounter with an attitude is worth it. Some people look at you like you are wierd because you buy a drink with 2 rolls of pennies. I do it all the time. Trust me..
Hey PAY ATTENTION to how many coins are in the rolls. So far I havebeen and a few times have been gipped but usually I find EXTRA coins. I have made around 2 or 3 dollars just by paying attention, even though one time I lost 2 rolls of pennies by this process.
How long does it take to look through all those rolls of coins? Would any of you say that it's worth it to do that? I've never gone to the bank and asked for ten dollars worth of pennies-of course, then again, I don't know what to look for!
Waterbed....I would suggest that you buy a Red Book...that will help you know what to look for. Speedy
I always get a kick out of my local bank. They sell you the coins in rolls but won't take them back if they're in rolls!! Also, you have to pre-arrange to bring them so they can dump them into the counter, but only 1 day a week.
Speaking of pennies, my wife and I throw all of our change into a container so that I can look through it. This past week I found a 1910 lincoln head penny. There were also two that were so corroded that you could barely tell they were pennies. Under magnification both turned out to be 1943 steel pennies, just rotting away. I guess they aren't worth much, and we have no idea where they came from. But it's pretty cool to rescue them from circulation.
i also do the container thing as well. i guess my bank rules, they have a sorting machine right there. the last time we went, they took the coins right out of the rolls and into the machine. hurrah for cool banks!
Speedy-you say the red book is a must-have-so I bought it. But you also say not too use it as a price guide.
The Red Book is essential for those who collect US coins. It provides all the information you need about the coins in regard to when they were issued, mints, composition etc etc. It also provides values - but the values are not accurate - which is why Speedy said to not use them.
Yeah-it amazes me at the amount of info the Red Book gives. It disturbs me to read a lot of it at once though-it reminds me of school textbooks
