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While sorting through pennies for copper, some interesting things turn up.
What is the strangest thing you found in a roll (or bag) ?

I found (here in Canada) the following in penny rolls:
- 3 x Indian heads, countless wheat pennies
- American and Canadian dimes show up often
- British pennies and half-pennies
- Caribbean pennies
- Brass French coins (10 centimes) from the 1960s
- Aluminum 12 sided Cuban coins from the last 10 years

My strangest finds would be:
- 1910 Canadian dime (92.5% silver). It was completely black
- 1904 Indian coin (called a 1/12 Anna) about the size of an old half-dime

I have found 2 indian heads, US clad dimes, British pennies, Canadian cents and a Bahamas penny. The strangest coin would be a very shiny silver colored South African rand. The strangest thing would be a round rusty metal disc that looks about the size of a penny but thinner.

mutiger

a plastic penny, from a childrens "play cashier" set

Earlier this year I found a dog tag in a bag of cents. How it got through the sorter as a penny is beyond me.

I took the tag back to the bank, and they RETURNED it to the owner. Now that's service!

Cu Later wrote:a plastic penny, from a childrens "play cashier" set

Up to at least 20 of those.

2 recent NEW foreign coins for MY finds.

A 1986 25 PAISE from India.

And last night a coin that says "ore-"....something and has a big crown on one side...nothing else just a big crown. Looks like it's a coin from Norway.

Always neat to find something new.

silver canadian dime

some foreign coin that was way to big to fit in a roll, but obviously it was very important for the owner to get rid of it because it was forced to fit...

We have about the same list as you do but Franklin get to clean out the coin counters and a few banks and CU and found a.22 bullet. See-- http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8274

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:And last night a coin that says "ore-"....something and has a big crown on one side...nothing else just a big crown. Looks like it's a coin from Norway.

if it says norge its norway,if it says sverige its sweden

Washer,10 cent euro coin, US nickel, planchet are probably some of the strangest things I have found in rolls of pennies

just found a quarter and a long flattened (like at the fair) penny (the ryedale hated both of those).... they were in a bag from a sorter....how either made it into the penny bag is beyond me.

I found three dimes together right in the middle of a customer-wrapped roll.

Recent bag....327 nickels!

guitar pick

A nickel shaved down to the circumference of a penny. It fit right in with the rest of the roll, I had to do a double take.

Many many big round flat batteries.

Lots of smashed/flattened pennies.

A platstic injection molded toy monkey wrench, about 1/2 - 3/4 of an inch long, jammed under my rydale wheel.

Keys, guitar picks, assorted tokens (carwash, dinosaur, prayer), curly black hairs, portions of ripped up bills, many foreign coins, washers, papercilps, ripped up coin rolls, disintegrated rubber bands, every denomination of coin bent and destroyed mostly and numerious other things I cant think of right now come from my half dollar bags.

Oh....I forgot....dead bugs...in bags of course!

These days, silver in a bag of halves

I found one of these

http://www.abbottmagic.com/Magnetic-Sco ... TICSSE.htm

The half dollar is hollowed out and the british penny is not really a british penny, it's another half dollar with the obverse ground off and then a british penny obverse stamped onto it. So the back of the "penny" is actually the reverse of a kennedy half and then the "penny" fits inside the half dollar so it looks like there is on coin remaining and the "penny" disappeared.

I hadn't heard of one of these till I found it but it's definitely the coolest thing I've found.

I was sorting a bag once. I had just loaded up both hoppers on my ryedale when it jammed for the 5-6th time.

I disgustedly said to myself "who's the idiot that is jamming me up know. As I emptied the Ryedale, I pulled out a squashed penny from Disneyland: it was Dopey the Dwarf!!!

creshka46 wrote:I found one of these

http://www.abbottmagic.com/Magnetic-Sco ... TICSSE.htm

The half dollar is hollowed out and the british penny is not really a british penny, it's another half dollar with the obverse ground off and then a british penny obverse stamped onto it. So the back of the "penny" is actually the reverse of a kennedy half and then the "penny" fits inside the half dollar so it looks like there is on coin remaining and the "penny" disappeared.

I hadn't heard of one of these till I found it but it's definitely the coolest thing I've found.

It's called a Scotch and Soda coin trick. Lots of fun.

For me I got a nickel and a dime in the same bag. Other than that, a few washers and a plastic penny.

I found two 1972 Lebanon 10 piastres coins in some customer wrapped rolls. At 21mm they are about the same diameter as a nickel but they were wedged into the penny rolls.

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8177.html

Found a "magician's" quarter a few weeks ago in a fed wrapped roll. Somebody hollowed out the the reverse side of a quarter and placed a smaller diameter reverse side of another quarter in it. Basically a quarter with both side's being tails. Maybe a con-man's trick quarter -ie- tails I win OR tails I win ?