I am off work today due to bad roads so I picked up a box of cents and a box of nickels to go through. I did the cents first. In the whole box, there was not even one copper cent. Looks like I found another searcher's dump bank. Future doesn't look good for the nickels.
The '98 and 2000 look good. I am not sure, but I don't think that a Wide AM 1989 is out of the ordinary? Edit: see Lincoln Cent Resource "Until 1992, both proof and business strike Lincoln cents were made using the same type of reverse die all with a Wide AM."
It saves you the trouble of hoarding some coins that are worth less than face value based on the price of Grade A copper. Chris
I wonder if you got one of my boxes of Cents. I out line a "N" on the top of the box, in sharpie to symbolize its Zinc (if you turn the N on its side). Another local guy has a red bingo dabber, and he hits every one of his rolls....what a waste of time...wait, were talking about sorting cents here...so I dont think there is such a thing as wasting time.
I can't go to my Chase bank anymore. Someone re-wrapped all the rolls. The only copper coin was a 1959, (which i yet to have found before, but replaced it with another 1959 later on.)
You mean 1999, right? If so, they are (or at least used to be) by far the least common of the three, and command the greatest premiums as well. If one is so inclined to variety search a box of Zincolns, it's certainly one of the more significant, valuable, and easier to identify varieties worth noting.
Alright, Chase has a re-roller. i bought four rolls, all non copepr pennies except for a 1959. didn't have a 1959 then, but i replaced it later on.
Two things: 1. Do you live near Portland, OR? 2. Were those Loomis wrapped cents? Both of them apply to me and I find no copper through Loomis.
I am on the opposite side of the country from Oregon, and they were customer wrapped. Had to have been someone's dump.
