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$25 penny box obtained on 31Aug2018 and finished sorting today.

287 95% copper pennies
plus
1945S
1946D
1948
1949
and 7 of 1950's
plus
1979 dime
1988 Canadian penny

Contradiction wrote:$25 penny box obtained on 31Aug2018 and finished sorting today.

287 95% copper pennies
plus
1945S
1946D
1948
1949
and 7 of 1950's
plus
1979 dime
1988 Canadian penny

FYI- I wouldn't save the 1979 dime- even dimes from 1965-1969 are easy to find and there is no real collector value for them. Now 1964 and before are silver- so that is something different altogether.

Not sure if this belongs here for 2 reasons: 1. Found it on the street by a parking meter where I often find change and 2. It's not officially a coin. I found a plastic penny, 1 cent. Says "SCHOOL MONEY" above Abe's head.

Didn't there used to be a tracking forum for only plastic coins? I seem to recall one. Didn't see it under the Tracking Threads.

Thanks!

Seeing several of you guys pulling out the old boxes/rolls of late got me motivated. So I did some searching and came up with some as well. Several boxes and a few bags of unsorted coin. Some day I'll search the copper pile for goodies, but I don't have near that much time, hehe.

While I do have a Ryedale, I wanted to hand sort these. I can't tell you the last time I did this. I did cheat and use the Scan Coin 303 to total everything up.

$50 bag. Looked dark, felt heavy, and I could see a fair number of wheats showing, so I knew it should be good. No coin newer than 2012.

Zn - 3583
Cu - 1019
Wheats- 393 '19, '27, '29, '34, '35, '37, 145-'40's, 242-'50's
'82 Cu - 111
'82 Zn - 26
Canada - 4 Three Cu one Zn
28% Copper including wheats.

If you add up coin totals you'll get $49.99, so I was shorted one coin. With bags it always was a +/- game, but the goodies usually out weigh any short count. I remember the 40+ dime count bags....

I'll try and sort some more bags/boxes as time allows, but I'm afraid it will be hard to top this bag with what I have left unsorted.

Deal

p.s. Makes me miss the hunt....

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$25.00 CWRs

Wheats:
6 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.68%):
409 - Memorial 1959-1981
33 - Memorial 1982

2 - U.S. clad dimes
1 - Zambia 1 ngwee (1983)

Knocked out another old one. $20 Brinks rolls. Nothing newer than '06 in there.

Zn - 1470
Cu - 522
Wheats - 6 '18 oldest
'82 Cu - 46
'82 Zn - 12
Canada - 2 one Cu
26% Copper including wheats

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Still working through that older supply...

$25.00 CWRs

Wheats:
8 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (17.12%):
403 - Memorial 1959-1981
25 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)

$25 - Brink's Box (New box from 2018)
446 Copper non-wheats (17.8%)
- 356 Nice coppers
- 48 Ugly Abes
- 42 1982's (ACE checked)
14 Wheats - 1926 and 13 others
3 Canadian copper - '51,'57,'79

First box from the bank this year. Appears that my percentages have dropped from 2015. I should know how much after a few more boxes.

$25 - New Bank Box purchased yesterday
251 Copper non-wheats (of which 36 are green & moldy)
11 Canadian, 1974 to 1994 (will try to return to the bank)
5 wheats from 1940s & 1950s

Keep the Canadian. Might as well....

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NotABigDeal wrote:Keep the Canadian. Might as well....

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Is it copper? If not why keep it?

'96 and before are.

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NotABigDeal wrote:'96 and before are.

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Thanks! I rescued them from the pile going back to the bank.

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$25.00 CWRs

Wheats:
2 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (25.28%):
594 - Memorial 1959-1981
38 - Memorial 1982

That's what we're here for. Always something to learn.

Deal

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$9.50 BWRs

Wheats:
3 - 1940s/1950s
1 - steel (1943-S) I don't see these very often in bank wrapped rolls

Copper non-wheat (17.16%):
152 - Memorial 1959-1981
11 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$9.50 BWRs

Wheats:
3 - 1940s/1950s
1 - steel (1943-S) I don't see these very often in bank wrapped rolls

Copper non-wheat (17.16%):
152 - Memorial 1959-1981
11 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1981)

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$14.50 CWRs

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (34.83%):
495 - Memorial 1959-1981
10 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1964)
1 - Token "PGA Tour - Partners Club - Charter Member"

$25 box, fresh bank box, two notes, I wanted to verify wheats were up, 28 wheats, no canadians. Must be a hoard that came in from somewhere, even the 1982's looked better than usual.
LMC copper 629
1982 zinc 15
1982 copper 69
1959 7
1960 8
2009 8
Canadian Copper 0
Canadian zinc or steel 0
Wheat 28 (1925, 1936, 1937, two 1941S)
.2964

Another box from 2012

$25.00 Box

Wheats:
5 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.04%):
356 - Memorial 1959-1981
20 - Memorial 1982

1 - Canada (1959)

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

1 - steel (1943-S) I don't see these very often in bank wrapped rolls

I haven't seen a steel cent in the wild in at least several decades.

Recyclersteve wrote:

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

1 - steel (1943-S) I don't see these very often in bank wrapped rolls

I haven't seen a steel cent in the wild in at least several decades.

I see them once in a while in customer wrapper rolls but almost never in the bank wrapped rolls.

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
1 - older (1938)
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (21.72%):
514 - Memorial 1959-1981
29 - Memorial 1982

1 - Italy 2 euro cent (2007)
2 - US clad dimes

Continuing to sort through those coins I was accumulating in 2011/2012

$25 CWRs

Wheats:
7 - 1940s/1950s

Copper non-wheat (15.88%):
375 - Memorial 1959-1981
22 - Memorial 1982

2 - Canada (1976, 1982)
1 - Netherlands 10 euro cent (2001)
1 - US clad dime