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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mit26chell, post: 1134012, member: 27402&quot;]Hey guys,</p><p>I bought two boxes of pennies from Wells Fargo the other day. I got in my car, and realized they were both sealed boxes of all brand new rolls of the 2010 shield penny. I was pretty mad because this seems to happen to me a lot, and I&#039;m not good about checking before I take the box. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m trying to find oldies and rare pennies, so boxes of sealed uncirculated, shiny 2010 pennies do me no good. My bank alllllways has new boxes (it&#039;s happened to me with boxes of 2009 and 2010 dimes, 2010 nickels, AND pennies now!), so now I have to specify to the teller about whatever particular coin type I&#039;m buying, &#039;can you please make sure they look old and nasty?!&#039; </p><p><br /></p><p>So anyway, drove to another bank to be polite - the woman who carried them out of the vault clearly had a bad back, so I wasn&#039;t about to go back in and say, &#039;Um, these are new. Please swap em&#039; out!&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Drove to another bank, went in, asked for two boxes to swap out the brand new ones I had, they asked me if 100 rolls from an elderly couple that had just dropped them off would be okay (I think they asked since I was swapping out a sealed bank box, and they didn&#039;t have any sealed bank boxes on hand, just customer rolled and brought in). I got a half-grin, and said &#039;perfect!&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>So I get them home, open a roll, and the entire roll are uncirculated, lustrous, shiny pennies from the early 1970&#039;s. So yeah, I know not much value - but I was excited because I like collecting copper cents, and I loooove when pennies are shiny, bright orange or deep red, and uncirculated, which is what these were. Best of all - none of them have been cleaned or polished or anything. All original luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I proceed through the rest of the day opening the remaining rolls, and every single penny was a copper cent! I found 15-20 wheats (no great dates, but some I didn&#039;t have), hundreds of gorgeous, uncirculated, lustrous pennies from 1959, the 1960&#039;s, 1970&#039;s, and 1980 and 1981. I was so excited because I knew my $50 investment had a metal value of over $130! </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to bad, eh? Now, all of the pennies weren&#039;t uncirculated with perfect luster, but hundreds of them were. I&#039;ve bagged up the beauts, and kept the others in a box. So excited - I&#039;m sure two boxes of pure copper will never happen again, unless I come in behind an elderly couple!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some pictures:</p><p>(I&#039;ve tossed in (in the big box) a few pennies since then, so you might see some later 1980&#039;s if you can make out dates - those weren&#039;t from the rolls)</p><p>[ATTACH]115869.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]115870.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]115871.vB[/ATTACH]<img src="http://www.cointalk.com/images/misc/pencil.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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