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<p>[QUOTE="CoinCollector76, post: 4057973, member: 110230"]I'm going to tell a little more. When I was in fifth grade my school started a coin drive which you put coins in the jar, the class that has the jar filled first gets a pizza party. Which sounds great, people in my class every morning would dump in pretty much any coin they had. One day me and a coin collector friend asked our teacher if we could inspect the jar to see if we could find anything unusual at lunch. Our teacher accepted and we opened up the jar and poured it on the table. We inspected each coin and we would keep checking the jar at lunch for the next few days. We were able to pull out wheat cents, an IHC, and a bunch of foreigns. I think the wheaties and the IHC originated from a collection. One of the students may have broke open their grandparents/parents coin collection and threw it into the coin drive jar for the pizza party. We weren't able to pull out any silver and traded everything we took for face value (with the exception of the foreign coins). In the end my class didn't win and I bet that person that threw those wheaties in would have wished to get them back. The jars of coins were collected and may been cashed in at a Coinstar by a PTA member at my former school. I may have missed may unusual coins. Who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Please ignore file because I added it by accident.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CoinCollector76, post: 4057973, member: 110230"]I'm going to tell a little more. When I was in fifth grade my school started a coin drive which you put coins in the jar, the class that has the jar filled first gets a pizza party. Which sounds great, people in my class every morning would dump in pretty much any coin they had. One day me and a coin collector friend asked our teacher if we could inspect the jar to see if we could find anything unusual at lunch. Our teacher accepted and we opened up the jar and poured it on the table. We inspected each coin and we would keep checking the jar at lunch for the next few days. We were able to pull out wheat cents, an IHC, and a bunch of foreigns. I think the wheaties and the IHC originated from a collection. One of the students may have broke open their grandparents/parents coin collection and threw it into the coin drive jar for the pizza party. We weren't able to pull out any silver and traded everything we took for face value (with the exception of the foreign coins). In the end my class didn't win and I bet that person that threw those wheaties in would have wished to get them back. The jars of coins were collected and may been cashed in at a Coinstar by a PTA member at my former school. I may have missed may unusual coins. Who knows? (Please ignore file because I added it by accident.)[/QUOTE]
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