Might have found proof pennies from 1959 to 2018. Need some help!

Yesterday, my wife and I got a box of pennies from our local Wells Fargo. As we began to go through the rolls, both of us noticed that the pennies coming out of them had different colors and tones than any other boxes we had gone through before. We are kind of new to this coin deal but we have had our share of coin rolls to notice this. After i did some research we came to the idea that these beautiful, high grade pennies were possibly proof sets. Like I said, we are fairly new to this and this is just a guess. When i get home from work ill post pictures of the coins to see what kind of feedback i get.

 

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Post a few pictures and let the good men and women here figure it out for you.

 

If they look really glossy and "sharp", then they are most likely proof coins. If they have the usual cartwheel luster that spins around when you tilt the coin, then they are not proofs. Also, proof should look a bit like a blurry mirror. Write some design or a sign on a piece of paper and put it up next to the coin and see if you can see the design almost clearly by looking at the coin. If so, it is most likely a proof. But we can't really help you much until we have pictures, so send us some as son as you can. Hopefully they're all proofs!

 

Yes! If you don't post photos @Salvador Rocha we will forever hold you responsible.

Chris

 

Heres some of them

 

Looking forward to seeing them.

 

They look like normal business strike coins to me.

Proof coins, especially the newer ones, would have major variations in appearance from other circulating coins. Yours just don't have this appearance.

Some of them are still in really nice condition though

 

Sorry, but all are regular circulated business strikes. No Proofs

 

Heres the reverse.... Sorry for the bad pics

 

Ok.... But wait for the 70's 80's 90's and 2000's

 

heres some more.... I dont think all of these are proofs but the tone they have and the rim make me wonder..

 

They all look like business strikes to me.

 

There is no proofs here.

 

Proofs: 1959 to 2018

Note: 1959 to 1964 are all Philly products- therefore no mintmarks

1969 to date: all San Francisco proofs, with an S mintmark.

except for, possibly, the Wheaties, all the rest are spenders

 

also, Buy a Red Book, and then read it.
And read it again

 

Proofs, even circulated proofs, will seriously have a background like a mirror.

 

1968 to date isn't it?