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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jmccarty, post: 2926342, member: 74979&quot;]Had an interesting chat with my 82 year old father a few days ago.&nbsp; In 1975, I was given a 20 gallon (big anyway) jug of pennies that one of his old buddies had been throwing pennies into for about 30 years up to then.&nbsp; He gave it to me and said, take whatever you like, and replace 1 for 1.</p><p>In 1986, I got out of the army, and on visiting my parents, looked for the collection I started from that.&nbsp; All I could find were the blue coin books I had filled up, I can&#039;t recall the spread on the years, but it was 3 of them, and they were full.&nbsp; Of course no special coins were in there, just pocket coins in various condition, most VG+.</p><p>Well, I put them back in the cigar box I had been storing them in, and back in where my mother had been storing that box.&nbsp; I kept thinking, I&#039;m sure there were a lot more than that!&nbsp; In the skype call the other night, my father said that in cleaning the garage out to look for old stuff to get rid of, he found an old tin biscuit tin.&nbsp; In it were what turned out to be $72 in penny rolls.</p><p>He then put the tin in the back of his truck with the plan to turn it in to the bank for dollars!&nbsp; Fortunately he told me about it before going to the bank.&nbsp; The penny rolls are still safe and sound and it jogged my memory.&nbsp; Those are all weatbacks I kept out of that old whisky jug (or whatever it originally was). </p><p>While probably nothing of much value in those penny rolls, I look forward to opening them again 40 years later or so.&nbsp; There is definitely some early 1900&#039;s pennies in there. One day I will open those rolls for the first time since I packed them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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