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Found a steely sitting in my reject pile today. It was the first I have found in my couple years of sorting. I know it's not worth much but they must be tough to find in the wild. How often do you more tenured sorters find 1943's?

P.S. Also found a blank planchet today too!

I've got a small lot...around 22 coins. From the last two months. But, I shoukd say that most of them came off the Arcade magnet. I don't find them in rolls all that often.

Now that I've taken them out for a peek I see that one is a 1982. Without the copper jacket it looks just like a steel cent.

Nice find....not worth much but with all of the magnets out there in the various counting machines....still a nice find.

I bet I've found around 2 or 3 dozen. Most have come from Brinks plastic rolls.

Have not found a '43d lately, but an AU or possibly UNC 1943 was harvested from a bank bag today. It is from the haul I made Monday of over $600 face from about a dozen banks. Surprised and delighted me. found a '20s and a '21s last night just picking out of the reject tray as the Ryedale chugs along on a "Zinc Accept" run.

I have a Ryedale and have a strong magnet laying across the top of the rails just above the chute between the hopper and comparitor. The steel coins just jump up to the magnet and let the rest go through. It picks up all steel including canadian, fiji, chinese, panama, usa washers, euro's etc. Works great. Just like having a magnet on a coin counter.

Steelies are tough to find in the wild....I lucked out on a bag off the machine that someone had dumped a decent wheat hoard in.I think we pulled over 12 steelies out of the one bag!

I've only found one steely in the wild after around $4000 hand sorted, but now I have a ryedale

Cent1225 wrote:I have a Ryedale and have a strong magnet laying across the top of the rails just above the chute between the hopper and comparitor. The steel coins just jump up to the magnet and let the rest go through. It picks up all steel including canadian, fiji, chinese, panama, usa washers, euro's etc. Works great. Just like having a magnet on a coin counter.

I like your idea, do you have a pic of your setup? What happens when you have a jam? I would think having something attached to the ramp would make jams worse.

In 2.5 years I have found @25.

Huh, alright sounds like I just haven't had luck stumbling upon any until now here in my neck of the woods. I'm not disappointed though considering some of my other finds

I found 4 or so in my one year copper sorting around here. The magnets steal them from bags/boxes. Was you blank planchet copper or zinc? I'd love to see a pic.
I found a zinc and a post '82 Canadian copper black planchet. The latter you can tell because of the weight and ring of it.

Chief wrote:I found 4 or so in my one year copper sorting around here. The magnets steal them from bags/boxes. Was you blank planchet copper or zinc? I'd love to see a pic.
I found a zinc and a post '82 Canadian copper black planchet. The latter you can tell because of the weight and ring of it.

i found a blank planchet a month or two ago and until you asked this question i don't think i ever considered whether it was copper or zinc. Just weighed it, it's a zinc

I have found two blank planchets in the last year. The first one I found looked BU and was surely zinc, it looked like it leaked out just before I found it. This last planchet had some wear on it. Which is funny to think that this blank piece of zinc has been circulating as a real penny for some time.

jacer333 wrote:I have found two blank planchets in the last year. The first one I found looked BU and was surely zinc, it looked like it leaked out just before I found it. This last planchet had some wear on it. Which is funny to think that this blank piece of zinc has been circulating as a real penny for some time.

Yeah,mine is dull and dirty so it also was probably accepted and spent as 1 cent many times.

RichardPenny43 wrote:I've only found one steely in the wild after around $4000 hand sorted, but now I have a ryedale

Make that two...found one in the reject tray tonight!

Found my first ever steelie tonight.

I've found about 5 the first 2 years of sorting, and then the past 4 years---nothing.