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I was just checking a roll of pennies from one of my normal Brinks boxes from my usual pick up bank. The results:

1984: 3
1983: 5
1982: 8
1979-81: 33
1967: 1

50 pennies, none later than 1984! It is by far the best percentage roll I have ever found. (Still waiting for the all wheat sweetness to fall upon me.)

Twilight Zone. It's as if the roll had fallen behind a shelf almost 30 years ago and had only recently been rediscovered and stuck in a box.

That is a weird roll. But a 68+% cu success rate is my kind of weird...

Yeah, throw me in that briar patch any day...

I didn't check those eight 1982's in that roll, but normally my copper rate is about 85% for 1982 so I know I got more than 68%. Normally, I get around 12%...yucky.

Great cu%!! Hope you find more rolls like that.

Shortly after I joined RC, at Christmas-time, I posted that I had picked up about $150 face that were all like that. Bank said the Grandkids had brought in their granddad's stash after he died. He had rolled them as a function of time, over 30+ years, stored them in the garage, and they turned them in. Each roll had a max date, no coins after that date, starting in the early 70s. It was a bit weird. Like a time machine, as you said. Most of them were all cu. Only as the rolls got up into the early 80s did they shift to partial cu. In the 80s and early 90s (where they stopped), you could almost track the drop in cu percent as a function of year.

I got something like that earlier this week, 10 rolls out of this one box had nothing older than 1979. Most of the 1979 and 1978 pennies looked more or less BU and I saved 2-3 rolls of those. I have seen the same thing before with dates into the 1980s. It's like someone rolled up the coins back then and returned them 25-30 years later.

These are the times where you can take some assurance knowing there are still a tremendous amount of pennies to search before they all end up being the zinc varieties. With halves, quarters, dimes and nickels, eh, not so much the silver finds, comparatively. The cool thing is I bet there are tons of rolled cents still sitting in drawers in grandparents' homes that the relatives will take right down to the banks without checking for dates,etc.