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For tracking those harder to find US steel pennies. Not for tracking those oh so plentiful Canadian steel pennies.

JadeDragon wrote:For tracking those harder to find US steel pennies. Not for tracking those plentiful Canadian steel pennies.

I will trade my US 1943 Steel cents one for one for the

plentiful Canadian steel pennies

if they are these years--
1999P http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1999-P-CANADA-CENT-PENNY-TEST-TOKEN-L-K-SCARCE-/120646561097?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c17186d49
2006 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Scarce-Canadian-1-cent-2006-Magnetic-no-Mint-Mark-copper-plated-steel-/230675787327?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item35b5592e3f
2010
2011 http://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-Canadian-Penny-RARE-MAGNETIC-VARIETY-/120758814278?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1dc94646

Finding a 2010 ,2011 steel Candida cent in the wild is like finding a US 1909-S VDB

Nice, I just found my first and second while running 4 bags through the Ryedales.

Yesterday I found one steel US cent coin in Coinstar reject slot.

I found my first steelie sometime between September 1st and 13th!

Penny Arcade magnet last night - 3 P mints and one S mint

I have almost a full roll now of steelies that have come off of the penny arcade magnet so far this year. None remarkable, most are quite worn and dirty.

I've hand sorted 275 boxes that I've kept track.

I haven't found ANY US 1943 STEELIES AT ALL!

Last week's wheat hoard from the bank bag had "3" steel cents. 1943x2 and a 1943S. All three a bit rusty.

2 this AM...

Today's String Box gave me a 43 steel "ender"!

nice AU S-mint from a bag

I found 1 a few weeks ago at my dump bank. It was stuck to the coin counters magnet.

My wife found one the other day. Co-worker of hers asked why this wheat cent looked "different". A slightly worn and blackish-silver 1943 D. Wife later gave her a nickel for it.

1st steel cent we have ever found in the wild!

2nd "1st find" in a week for the household! Other one was a Buffalo in a $100 bag of nickels! Great week!

I've found about a dozen this year (1 last week), but most were so bad I threw them back.

Had my claws into a nice one the other day at the Arcade magnet. But it was at a branch I hardly ever go to; the manager came over and asked suspiciously if I needed help I said I was sure I'd deposited a Canadian quarter, but the tally slip didn't show any quarters. That was just enough of a quick lie to keep me from getting booted from the bank - but when "we" finished scraping the magnet all's I got out of it was a lousy quarter. She walked away with a handful, and there were at least 4 loonies in addition to a nice steelie.

Can't scam 'em all the time!

Found my first steel penny last night in a batch of CWRs. It's in bad shape and the date is unreadable but it sticks to the magnet quite well. BTW, this is the third coin this week that my magnet liked. There was a 25c coin from the Domincan Republic that I found in the CoinStar machine on Sunday. Then today some Canadian quarters arrived in the mail that I got on eBay that were supposed to be silver - one was a 1968 made of .999 nickel.

4 steel cents came out of the copper reject side last night. Sorted 5 bags from a CU.

I found my first two just a few days apart about a month ago

TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Found my first steel penny last night in a batch of CWRs. It's in bad shape and the date is unreadable but it sticks to the magnet quite well. BTW, this is the third coin this week that my magnet liked. There was a 25c coin from the Domincan Republic that I found in the CoinStar machine on Sunday. Then today some Canadian quarters arrived in the mail that I got on eBay that were supposed to be silver - one was a 1968 made of .999 nickel.

Looks like in 1968 some had silver. From http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/learn/25-cents-5300010#25_1

1967 to 1968
Composition: 50% silver, 50% copper
Weight (g): 5.05
Diameter (mm): 23.88
Thickness (mm): n/a

1968 to 1977
Composition: 99.9% nickel
Weight (g): 5.05
Diameter (mm): 23.88
Thickness (mm): 1.6

dumping some cents yesterday...and the CU counter rejected a steel.

I hit a string of boxes averaging 8-10 percent wheats mostly 1940 and later.

1943 X 4

Another 1943

I would have to check my records, but think i have had about 10 out of 8,000$ searched this year. this last batch had a 43s.

I just got a 1943-P from a CWR this evening.

Found 2 last night in coinstar reject bin when dumping last night.

cwgii wrote:I would have to check my records, but think i have had about 10 out of 8,000$ searched this year. this last batch had a 43s.

not a bad guess. lol

1-4= 43d
1-22= 43p
2-23= 43s, 43d
2-26= 43p
7-16= 43d, 43p
7-26= 43d
7-31= 43p
8-16= 43d
10-20= 43s
11-12= 43s