Went to a new bank here in Okinawa to pick up some bank boxes of pennies. Since all the bases here on island do the penny-rounding for cash purchases, there's not any need to have pennies in the cash drawers... so they have mostly wound up at the bank in their vault. It took me over 2 months to clear out the largest bank (at $600/week), and now I'm onto the second largest bank.
So this new bank only has about $450 in pennies in their vault, so I picked up about half of what they had. Lucky me... there were no initials, marks, or any kind of tags on these boxes, and they appeared to be completely unsearched.
Once home, I start slicing and dicing the rolls to feed the Ryedale. I noticed one of the rolls had a wheat as an ender, so I was excited to dig into that one.... and this is what I saw
They all turned out to be mostly 40s and 50s with a couple of 30s mixed in. One was even dirty like someone found it with a metal detector, so I'm thinking that this was someone's collection that they probably coin roll hunted from circulation. Ah well, it's mine now
A cursory inspection of the other boxes revealed this ender too... It got me a little excited at first, then realized it was just a Canadian
My last pickup resulted in my 3rd Indian head cent found here on island. It's amazing that I even found one, let alone 3. I guess you just never know. At the pace I'm going, I'll be completely out of huntable pennies by the end of the month. I'm hitting all the bases that have meaningful penny counts, so there really won't be any more copper left on island if I have anything to say about it. So far I've culled about ..... 450 lbs from circulation, so I'm getting my copper hoard on even being thousands of miles from home.
I was like, "wow, coin rolls with a flying eagle showing do exist". Then I realized it was just a rock dove. Still extremely cool, but on the 5 cent to 10 cent level instead of 20 dollar level 