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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 09/18/2009 : 17:06:49
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Well, today, needing it more than ever after an unpleasant doctor's appointment, I went to the bank to swap out my 13 rolls of pennies that I had gone through this past week.
Another teller walked over to the teller that was helping me and said that they had a BUNCH of old pennies turned in by a little old lady whose husband had died and he had collected or saved coins or just pennies, not sure. I swapped out my thirteen rolls and went to car, thinking the entire time about all similar posts I had read about on here and all advice given about such possibilities. I told my husband and gave him a few dollars more to go and see if he could get the rest. He called me to come in to bank and I had to really scramble to find enough cash to buy as many as they would allow me. They said they had to keep some to have for their other customers as they were out of pennies, except for these. I think there were about 260 or more rolls. As I said, these were bought in three separate transactions by me, my husband, and then both of us so I am not totally certain how many there are. BUT, this nerd already has her notebook ready to keep track of the number of rolls and hopefully how many wheats, old Canadian and please, oh please, at least one IH penny that I might find.
I am sending up a prayer that in all these rolls I can finally find one IH penny. If not in these, then I doubt that I ever will. We had quickly looked through two rolls in the car as one split open from dry rot and opened another. Saw just a couple of wheats and that old pretty Canadian penny that has the bird on the back of it. So, everyone do the IH dance for me as I can't with my poor balance and just wish me luck.
Looking through these old coins will be a much needed distraction over the next few days/weeks and it appears that it was heaven sent. We shall see.
Enjoy.
Posted this picture here in original post and have posted more pictures later on in this topic.
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pennyman
Penny Pincher Member
USA
101 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2009 : 17:51:05
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wow. Sounds like its going to be good. Let us know how it goes and post some pictures too:)
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2009 : 17:52:31
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| Happy hunting for the next few days. |
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
 Posted - 09/18/2009 : 18:22:33
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Originally posted by PreservingThePast
...as one split open from dry rot...
That can be a good sign. So far 2 rolls and 2 wheats, sounding good so far.
And yes, post pics of the good stuff you find. 
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2009 : 08:35:41
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I took pictures of the rolls. Haven't been able to get to library yet to see if I can figure out how to post them. Hopefully later.
I counted the rolls when I took the pictures and there was 277 so I wasn't too far off in my earlier guess of about 260.
So far I have searched 52 of these rolls. Hopefully when it is all done I can give better information, but it has been by far the most interesting rolls I have ever gone through.
They are the cleanest I have ever handled. My fingers don't come away grungy like they do after handling other rolled coins. I won't say that they are really cleaner looking than others nor are they pristine in their condition yet there is something different about these coins.
In my head I am beginning to write a little story line for this guy who had collected these coins for so many years. I say "collected" as in I believe he was a gentleman that saved every penny he received in change and rolled them as soon as he had 50 to make a roll. Only the one roll of 1973D in a roll that had printed on it Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio was different in this way.
So far of the 52 rolls I have searched the newest penny has been a 1997--I've been able to get a few nice shiny pennies for the kids' birth year coin projects.
Also, as of this moment I have found 27 rolls that had nothing newer than 1976 pennies.
Here are some more stats for those of you that enjoy this sort of thing:
Nothing newer than 1970--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1971--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1972--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1973--seven rolls
Nothing newer than 1974--seven rolls
Nothing newer than 1975--five rolls
Nothing newer than 1976--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1986--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1993--two rolls
Nothing newer than 1994--six rolls
Nothing newer than 1995--three rolls
Nothing newer than 1996--nine rolls
Nothing newer than 1997--three rolls
Normally, I do not keep such detailed notes on the rolls I search, but this really has me intrigued! I truly believe that he would roll these pennies as soon as he reached 50 and then would put that roll into a small box. Many of these rolls have come unglued and I have had to reroll them in newer wrappers.
There have been 51 wheat cents so far with 1925 being the earliest and 1958 being the newest. I have also found 35 Canadian pennies so far in this search with the oldest being 1940 and the newest being 1972.
There have been twenty S mint marks so far from the 1960s and 1970s. Also, one of the wheats is an S mint mark.
As I have the opportunity to sort more, I'll bring you up-to-date if this is anything else interesting that I find.
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george454
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 10/06/2009 : 10:23:00
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| This is all penny sorters dream, cant wait to here more. Good luck on the IH hunt as i still have not found my first, but still have my fingers crossed for you. |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2009 : 10:34:20
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| Here hoping you will find your IH |
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Heavy Metal
Penny Sorter Member
USA
86 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2009 : 11:34:02
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| If you come across this again and they won't let you have the pennies because they are short,let me know. I can get you all the rolls you need. |
Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal! - Steven Wright
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2009 : 18:32:59
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Here's hoping I can post some photos. Everyone cross your fingers for me!!!
Picture of the Federal Reserve Roll
Photo of most of the pennies.
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fasteddy
Penny Collector Member
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2009 : 18:40:49
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| nice score and great looking pics....I haven't scored any CWR's in 3 weeks or so. Wish I could find some. Good luck on the search....nothing older than 1916 for me. |
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natsb88
Administrator
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2009 : 21:27:19
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I think I see some Beanie Babies playing with pennies. My mother collected those for a long time...
Here are the bigger versions:
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The Copper Cave
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2009 : 21:48:58
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Uh, what's the brown one doing to the box? Just lookin' over I bet....
Deal
p.s. I see a foot. |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
2565 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2009 : 23:27:09
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| Can't believe ya didn't have them sorted through in one night! I remember when I got my first 5000 bag of wheats I sat there until the whole thing was sorted.Boy did my neck and eyes hurt lol |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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smartinson
Penny Collector Member
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2009 : 23:42:27
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| WOW! Isn't fun to get a really, really good surprise. I recently lucked upon 115 rolls of solid coppers and I know how you feel. Congrats to you and hope you find some really good ones in your rolls. Have fun! |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2009 : 17:15:59
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
Uh, what's the brown one doing to the box? Just lookin' over I bet....
Deal
p.s. I see a foot.
Yes, those are two Beanie Babies we still have from my son's small collection from his younger days. I had to plop down on the floor to be able to lay out the rolls and to take the photos so I just put them there to oversee the picture taking since I don't let our real Kitty Babies near the coins.
And, yes, that is a foot belonging to me and a cane over my foot so I could get back up off the floor when I had finished taking photos and had put all the rolls back in their boxes, bag, etc.
I wish I could sort faster, but with my eyes I just can't do it. Plus I have been busy doing some crocheting lately as I had a commitment to crochet/ship some dishcloths.
Today was the last day of my husband's vacation for now and after taking me to a store to buy me a new mouse, we went to a photo and hobby store to see if they would have anything that would allow me to see the coins easier, but they didn't. They had a small, pocket-type microscope but I couldn't even see the coin with it. Tried a couple of other magnifying devices and nothing worked any better than what I am using already.
It really has been interesting going through the rolls that I have so far. I have been able to find quite a few of the birth year coins for the two projects that I am doing so that has been nice. And, I love finding the older coins like the wheats and the older Canadians. There have actually been some coins older than me. 
No IH yet, but that's OK as I am enjoying looking through the rolls.
I've taken quite a few rolls back already to the bank to turn back into cash as I used money I need for something else down the road. I know you all find that shocking, but I just am not able to hold on to them right now. So, I am doing a "catch and release", minus the wheats and the older Canadians, and the birth year coins. So the copper pennies are, or will be, back out there for you all to find. I am making note of how many copper, etc. for my stats and will post those again when I am finally finished searching through all of the rolls.
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fasteddy
Penny Collector Member
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2009 : 17:29:18
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I am with you on hard to see....I use a mag glass and as bright of light I can get. Daylight is the best for me but most of my sorting is at night....150w bulb then. Instead of the bank go to the post office and mail the coppers to one of us.
PM me for what you can sell and I will send you a USPS money order for your troubles. |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 08:30:28
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Update on one of the rolls I searched Friday night from this large (to me) lot of pennies.
One roll contained 16 decent wheat cents and one very damaged wheat. The damaged one looks to me like two wheat cents glued with their reverses together--I can't separate them. One side showed 1952 D and the other side showed 1952 S.  That really saddens me as I come across so few S wheat cents down here in Florida.
They ranged in date for these 16 wheats from a 1930 to a 1958D. I was excited over this find.
I still have more rolls in this lot to search. Can't move on to any other rolled pennies until I finish these because of my very detailed notes I am keeping on these particular rolls.
Enjoy, everyone.  |
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Kurr
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 10:09:22
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| try some alcohol to get them apart, sometimes vinegar will also work. |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 10:17:14
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Originally posted by Kurr
Skip the IH, I'm doin a 1909 s VDB dance for ya!!
Thanks!!! Better have someone around me that could do CPR if that were to happen.
Hospital ER: Do you have any idea what could have prompted these chest pains? Anything stressful in your life lately?
Me: Nothing stressful, just the opposite. Found a really good penny!
Hospital ER: A penny, huh??? She's strange!
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2009 : 10:19:00
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Originally posted by fb101
try some alcohol to get them apart, sometimes vinegar will also work.
Alcohol: As in medicinal like rubbing alcohol? Or, were you referring to the stronger stuff?
Thanks for the tips. |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 11/26/2009 : 17:17:55
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276 Rolls Sorted from one large lot:
Seven Rolls were shorted
Four Rolls were over
Other Found: 1 - 1987 Dime, 1 - 1990 Dime, 1 - 1968 Dime, 1 - 1982 Foreign Coin (SVERIGE ORE), and 1 - 2000 “Wide AM” Penny
Wheats: 207 plus one damaged wheat [which consists of two wheat pennies glued (???) together--1952 D/1952 S]; Oldest - 1929, Newest 1958 -- one S wheat other than the one damaged penny
The best roll for wheats was twenty-six in one roll which was one of the "nothing newer than 1970 rolls".
Canadian: 134 total with oldest being a 1940 and the newest being a 1985
S Mint Marks: 47 ranging from 1968 - 1974
1985 Birth Year Pennies: Best was 15 in one roll
1987 Birth Year Pennies: Best was 17 in two rolls
Breakdown by rolls:
Nothing newer than 1970 - 7 rolls
Nothing newer than 1971 - 5 rolls
Nothing newer than 1972 - 11 rolls
Nothing newer than 1973 - 17 rolls
Nothing newer than 1974 - 18 rolls
Nothing newer than 1975 - 7 rolls
Nothing newer than 1976 - 5 rolls
Nothing newer than 1977 - 7 rolls
Nothing newer than 1978 - 6 rolls
Nothing newer than 1979 - 0 rolls
Nothing newer than 1980 - 8 rolls
Nothing newer than 1981 - 9 rolls
Nothing newer than 1982 - 14 rolls
Nothing newer than 1983 - 10 rolls
Nothing newer than 1984 - 4 rolls
Nothing newer than 1985 - 5 rolls
Nothing newer than 1986 - 9 rolls
Nothing newer than 1987 - 6 rolls
Nothing newer than 1988 - 11 rolls
Nothing newer than 1989 - 9 rolls
Nothing newer than 1990 - 11 rolls
Nothing newer than 1991 - 6 rolls
Nothing newer than 1992 - 12 rolls
Nothing newer than 1993 - 11 rolls
Nothing newer than 1994 - 7 rolls
Nothing newer than 1995 - 12 rolls
Nothing newer than 1996 - 10 rolls
Nothing newer than 1997 - 16 rolls
Nothing newer than 1998 - 11 rolls
Nothing newer than 1999 - 8 rolls
Nothing newer than 2000 - 4 rolls
One roll in the 1973 count was an all 1973 D Federal Reserve Roll from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Ohio.
Sadly I did NOT find any IH pennies. 
Surprisingly there wasn't a 1943 steel penny either. 
Searching this large lot of pennies turned in by one person was the most interesting, intriguing search I have done so far. So much so that I kept much more detailed notes than I normally do. Hopefully, I didn't make any typos and the above roll count should equal 276 rolls. I had originally counted 277 rolls, but when I went through them I discovered that one roll was one of my marked rolls and I must have gotten that one back when I swapped out for the 13 rolls I got originally before looking them over and going back inside to get the rest of the rolls that they would allow me to get.
Hopefully I can get somewhere soon that I can have access to high speed to post a few pictures of the pile of wheats, Canadians, and S Mint marks that I took.
I had kept the wheats, Canadians, and S mint mark pennies from this search in a two cup plastic container. It was filled up to just above the one cup line--heavy too!!!
Enjoy your searches, everyone.
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 11/29/2009 : 09:33:04
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I wasn't able to get anywhere yet that had high speed internet so I could post the pictures I took of the wheats, Canadians, etc.
Don't give up on me. Maybe the end of this week I can get somewhere with high speed so I can post some photos.
Enjoy your searches, everyone. |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 11:25:08
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I added a picture in my first post today that shows the container that all of the good stuff from my search fit into and the little cats are guarding it for me.
Here is a picture of the coins laid out for a better idea.
Sorry it has taken me so long to finally get somewhere to try to post these photos. But remember the old adage: The slow tortoise did beat the hasty hare. I'm definitely the old, slow tortoise!
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 11:38:28
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PTP i know you don't sort with a ryedale, but if it's any help with figuring when you'll find your first IH penny. I have found at least 1 any week i sort over $1000 dollars worth. Keep in mind these are not CWR's they are boxes of brinks or NF Strings.
I guess it also depends on where you are in the country, but i would like to say with some certainty, an IH can be found if you sort 100,000 pennies.
Nice number of Doves!
~JobIII
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Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 11:43:46
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I don't have the container in front of me but I think it was over a measured cup full of wheats, older Canadian's, and other good stuff that I found.
Sorry, again, that it has taken me so long to get somewhere with the time that I could upload these photos to a hosting site and then get them downloaded here, or whichever way they are loaded for posting. You know how I have with computer stuff and computer terminology. Pretty Pitiful!
Hope you can enjoy these and thanks for being so patient.
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