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I went into my local bank yesterday and asked if they had any CWR instead of an unopened box. The girl asked how much I wanted, and I told her about 20 bucks worth if she had it. The guy that was in the vault brought out a string box that had been opened, and taped back up. I said I would take it. When I got home and opened it, it was full of pennies that had the name of a little small town bank about 70 miles from here, stamped on the wrappers. The newest pennies in the box were just a few 80's, no 81's or 82's...2,500 coppers! I found it odd that there wasn't a single wheat in all those, but hell i'm not complaining..lol

Probably a guy that tried it out for a while and then decided it wasn't worth it. I almost did such a thing about 8 months ago after I had been into it for about a month. I was getting tired of all the pennies laying around and wasn't sure if there was even a market for them. Lucky for me I put them on craigslist instead and made a 25% profit.

Nice pickup!!!

I think you may found some original rolls from early 1980. If you find there are lots of bright and shiny COPPERs from 1978 and 1979, and some others like that from earlier years, that would kind of date your rolls to that time period. These might have been laying around the other bank for years. It was very common in those days to pull out all the wheaties from rolls and return the rest to the bank. Another sign of the times in those days was for people to write their phone number or social on the rolls returned to the bank. If your rolls have some of these, that will confirm you find as a blast from the past.

In 1980, I saved a bunch of penny rolls that I got directly from my bank. No wheaties in them, but plenty of bright and shiny coins from the '70s. That's what the old rolls look like.

Congrats!!

I got some like that once, but a little different. I got a bunch of rolls that were sorted in year order. They were BU or anything just appeared that somebody saved a roll of every penny 65, 65D, etc.

That's a pretty nice score, did they have any more?

Excellent man! Inspiration for the rest of us. I just sorted $200 in pennies and my return this time was 19.8% copper, which is high for GA.

thaler wrote:I went into my local bank yesterday and asked if they had any CWR instead of an unopened box. The girl asked how much I wanted, and I told her about 20 bucks worth if she had it. The guy that was in the vault brought out a string box that had been opened, and taped back up. I said I would take it. When I got home and opened it, it was full of pennies that had the name of a little small town bank about 70 miles from here, stamped on the wrappers. The newest pennies in the box were just a few 80's, no 81's or 82's...2,500 coppers! I found it odd that there wasn't a single wheat in all those, but hell i'm not complaining..lol

Congrats. Great find.

A long long time ago I was saving coppers from loose change and took all $80 to the bank when I was broke.

This weekend I just hit my first $500 in coppers hand sorted. They are NOT going to the bank.

congratulations man. Nice find.

CrazyTom wrote:
This weekend I just hit my first $500 in coppers hand sorted. They are NOT going to the bank.

Good for you man! What an awesome feat to hit $500 in hand sorted Cu cents!

adagirl wrote:

CrazyTom wrote:
This weekend I just hit my first $500 in coppers hand sorted. They are NOT going to the bank.

Good for you man! What an awesome feat to hit $500 in hand sorted Cu cents!

Going for $1000!

WOW! way to go Tom!

thaler wrote:I went into my local bank yesterday and asked if they had any CWR instead of an unopened box. The girl asked how much I wanted, and I told her about 20 bucks worth if she had it. The guy that was in the vault brought out a string box that had been opened, and taped back up. I said I would take it. When I got home and opened it, it was full of pennies that had the name of a little small town bank about 70 miles from here, stamped on the wrappers. The newest pennies in the box were just a few 80's, no 81's or 82's...2,500 coppers! I found it odd that there wasn't a single wheat in all those, but hell i'm not complaining..lol

We must be getting lucky in GA, because I just found my first $25 box of all cooper! The bank tellers made sure to tell my wife (who picked up the pennies for me) to "tell your husband that he is weird" for collecting pennies. According to my wife, they seemed quite bothered by the fact that they had to go to the vault and get penny boxes. I am tempted to go to the bank and say 'hi I'm the weird guy that collects pennies, now I need $500 more please'

lol...there ya' go!

I got a lot of $15.00 CWR from one of my banks yesterday, newest was 1984, well mixed from circulation. I got 94% copper not including the 82's. The big finds are out there

Awesome man! Congrats on the find. Persistence is key and your optimism that the biggest finds are still out there just reenergized me. I just got done sorting $200 with the Ryedale which is the easy part. But unwrapping is a pain and then sorting looking for wheats is time consuming. And if you look for error coins, boy is that time consuming. Tired...but onward I go with the Cu hunt.