I know I can not be the only one finding all these shiny pennies ....Almost every roll of pennies that I have a look through has at least a few shiny cents...I have noticed that most of the older paper rolls that were hand filled seem to be having a lot more shiny ones than the machine ( bank?) rolled cents...Got a couple of pictures I just took of a roll of cents I just went through....Almost The Whole Roll was shiny!!Anyone have an idea where all these shiny coins are coming from??
Nothing unusual about this. Some old collector was probably putting them in plastic tubes for years and years and when the heirs finally took possession of them, they just put them in rolls and took them to the bank. I still have rolls that came from the purchase of collections back in the 70's. Chris
Sooner or later, the 1974 and 1977 rolls that my uncle gave me when I was a kid are going to end up in circulation. Should have sold them for face at the local coin club before I moved (no active coin clubs near where I live now).
I can't say for sure if any are mine but I do have to dump quite a few cents, from the 60's on up that are nice and shiny but don't meet my criteria for selling them. They go into hand wrapped rolls and back to the bank.
I have several half gallon and one gallon jugs filled with cents that were put there by me as I acquired them in change in normal commerce. There was a 40 fluid ounce Cranberry juice one too, but that one broke. What do you suppose will be coming into circulation when those are "turned in"? I think maybe they are coming back into commerce because "normal people" aren't hoarding pre-1982 cents anymore.
Well you guys are probably right.......I just think it's really odd that there are so many of them out there....Not that I am complaining! Not at all....
Well, 5 of the 7 ARE Zincolns, and in the big picture, will still be small piles of debris soon enough.
The first one I posted, the 1984, looks like something wrong with the LI in LIBERTY. Gotta go find it now...
