Yesterday I searched two cent boxes - a total of $50 in cents, 5.000 of them all total. I could have been disappointed about the lower than usual number of wheat cents, I usually average about 10 a box, this time I averaged only six per box. One had only eight wheats and the other only five, but in the latter box I made a find I would have though impossible for a coin machine counted and sorted coin. USA Wheats 1930 1939 1941 and a bit of a late date woody 1942-D 1943 - I have gotten four other steel cents from the reject slots in coin machines in the past few months - but I thought it was impossible to find that they actually went through a coin sorter machine and got wrapped because they are steel and magnetic! 1945 X 2 1950-D 1952-D 1953 1955-D X 2 1958 San Francisco Mints 1969 X 3 1970 1971 x 5 1973 1974 A 1980 cent with the Masonic symbol stamped on it, someone must have spent their "lucky penny" Canada George VI 1946 YH Elizabeth II 1955 1959 1962 x 4 1963 1964 x 6 1967 Centennial Then I returned the rejects, the post 1982 coins, to another bank with a coin sorter. When I got there, I looked in the slot and voila, there was 41 cents in mostly Canadian change waiting for me to bring to a loving home.
