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 Posted - 08/16/2006 : 11:45:59
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Hello everyone, this is my first post, but it's a doozy! I have been collecting pennies for about 15 years now by pulling them from circulation and putting them in a 5 gallon water jug. Recently I decided to start seperating pre '82's.
Today I decided for the first time to get $25 from the bank. All they had were loose rolls, so I got 50 and went home. Upon opening the first roll, I saw nothing shiny, and got kind of excited. The entire roll was 1960's pennies! The next roll was all 1970's! To make a long story short, of the 50 rolls, 37, yes 37! were ENTIRELY copper!
The breakdown is as follows:
1895 coppers
601 zincs
2 wheats
1 dime
1 Malaysian 1 Sen
75% copper! Needless to say, I will be buying more!
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 17:58:09
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Wow. Nice score there. I love it when I buy a box of nickels and it contains some old brown-paper rolls that have little pencil notes on them like the following roll I actually got one time:
"1 x47, 4 x48, 15 x49, 20 x50 = $2"
I didn't even need to open the roll, but I did anyway, just to make sure it ment what I thought it ment.
Yeah, you can always luck out at a bank.
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 18:03:59
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 18:06:31
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There were three types of wrappers. The 37 all copper rolls were the same wrapper, there were 2 that had older looking wrappers, and 11 newer ones that contained the remaining coppers and the 2 wheats.
As I also collect world coins, the 1 sen was a cool find too.
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ImperialFleet
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2006 : 20:22:33
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That is better than twice the previous highest reported copper find I can recall. Nice one!
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Hello, and what a day!!
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