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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
wow!! Perhaps I should try getting these things from banks!! By the way would all banks sell such rolls?
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.)
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.
If you have an account at the bank it is usually not a problem, but i try not to come in every day Also they can get a little mad if you buy 5 rolls of kennedys one day, then bring back 48 kennedys the next... What i do is buy a bunch at a time, maybe: 4 rolls of pennies 4 rolls of nickels 2 rolls of dimes 5 rolls of kennedys I go through the rolls looking for coins i do not have, or silver, then when i am done i put all of the ones i do not want into a bucket. I then take a handfull of kennedys with me in the morning and put them into circulation! Its a one man crusade to get people to use them, but i think it is futile I also put a bunch of the coins into my sons piggy bank, when they bank gets full i bring it into the bank to deposit for him... Complicated? not really, its actually kind of fun to pay for things with a handfull of kennedys, people think you are nuts! Its also the CHEAPEST way to enjoy the hobby on a regular basis, If i bought bags of wheats or unsearched silver i would go broke. This way i can get my "fix" for cheap... Plus its a cool treasure hunt, its AMAZING what turns up in some of these rolls!
I can just tell it is unc and in bu grade. I was calling the fool who spent my cent a loser in the context of numismatic irresponsibility. If you guys want I will get it from my album and post a scan of it.
