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<p>[QUOTE="kvasir, post: 78290, member: 4139"]My dad has been putting shiny pennies (red to red/brown) canadian and ameircan alike in a glass jar for the past several years because they'd look pretty in a jar. One day I went through the pennies to look for rare dates and examples of the type series for my collection and had fantastic finds. Found a couple of red cent that were from 1960s even! </p><p><br /></p><p>I suggest separate your pennies by year and mint mark in stack. Spend a couple dollars for those paper rolls just to store your pennies temporary until you get time to examine them. Go through the rolls year by year and mint by mint. Look for errors (off-centre, mistrucks) and as well as keeping the best samples (red cent with little to no marks) and rare dates. I'd suggest keeping any other red cent in a roll instead of keeping them in a jar. </p><p><br /></p><p>The rest, you can just spend them or deposit them at your bank.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kvasir, post: 78290, member: 4139"]My dad has been putting shiny pennies (red to red/brown) canadian and ameircan alike in a glass jar for the past several years because they'd look pretty in a jar. One day I went through the pennies to look for rare dates and examples of the type series for my collection and had fantastic finds. Found a couple of red cent that were from 1960s even! I suggest separate your pennies by year and mint mark in stack. Spend a couple dollars for those paper rolls just to store your pennies temporary until you get time to examine them. Go through the rolls year by year and mint by mint. Look for errors (off-centre, mistrucks) and as well as keeping the best samples (red cent with little to no marks) and rare dates. I'd suggest keeping any other red cent in a roll instead of keeping them in a jar. The rest, you can just spend them or deposit them at your bank.[/QUOTE]
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