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<p>[QUOTE="torontokuba, post: 2053155, member: 56793"]I was recently given a Canadian penny jar. We haven't used the penny since 2012. I decided to go through it, separate the older copper cents and take out the new mint ones to keep. I left the zinc, steel and ugly ones for rolling and deposit in the bank, since stores no longer accept them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thought you might want to see what the surprise content of a Canadian penny jar looks like. Aside from the handful of US Memorial cents and a few surprises, over 90% of the jar's content was Canadian cents. Here are the surprises or more interesting finds...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1. Three Wheat Cents</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377470[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>2. Toned Canadian Nickel</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377471[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377468[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>3. Miscellaneous World Coins</b> (Eurozone, UK, Australia, Russia)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377469[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>4. Fingerprint Memorial Cent</b> (with plating bubbles)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377466[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]377467[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="torontokuba, post: 2053155, member: 56793"]I was recently given a Canadian penny jar. We haven't used the penny since 2012. I decided to go through it, separate the older copper cents and take out the new mint ones to keep. I left the zinc, steel and ugly ones for rolling and deposit in the bank, since stores no longer accept them. Thought you might want to see what the surprise content of a Canadian penny jar looks like. Aside from the handful of US Memorial cents and a few surprises, over 90% of the jar's content was Canadian cents. Here are the surprises or more interesting finds... [B]1. Three Wheat Cents[/B] [ATTACH=full]377470[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]377472[/ATTACH] [B]2. Toned Canadian Nickel[/B] [ATTACH=full]377471[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]377468[/ATTACH] [B]3. Miscellaneous World Coins[/B] (Eurozone, UK, Australia, Russia) [ATTACH=full]377469[/ATTACH] [B]4. Fingerprint Memorial Cent[/B] (with plating bubbles) [ATTACH=full]377466[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]377467[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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