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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    #183W

    2019W War in the Pacific

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 22, 2023 10:22AM

    Part 132

    Pennies
    After the first roll....

    After 18 Rolls...

    Thus far, 10 Wheaties!
    None to any significance, though.
    :)

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After 35 rolls...
    10 more wheaties of NO significance! 20 total. Then,
    Only found these 2 interesting ones?
    BU 2009d Log Cabin


    And a possible 1997p Doubled Ear?




    15 more rolls to go.
    Thanks 😊

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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 24, 2023 6:14AM

    Good luck with those pennies. I searched about 100,000 pennies from the bank last year and did not find a single error coin, or anything of note, really, in all those pennies. I did find one IHC but I figured it had been planted by a collector at the FRB that rolls the pennies and then boxes them. It was an 1896 in good, $1 coin, maybe. I gave it to my grandson. I found that about 1/4 of the 100,000 pennies I searched were coppers and considered that they were worthy of saving until they become legal to melt and then I would cash in for 2x face value or more for them.

    One day earlier this year I decided to inquire at the B&M shop I visit frequently about how much they would pay me for all the copper pennies I had found and saved. My copper pennies had about $250 face value. I was looking for maybe 1-1/2 cents apiece for them or $375 for the entire lot of them. 50% profit for my pennies was on the horizon. Or so I thought.

    The offer by the shop for the pennies I had so diligently saved was for face value or $250. I had grown weary of accumulating the pennies and dealing with their increasing weight heft so I accepted the shop's offer of face value for my pennies. I found some coins in flips in their 1-1/2x1-1/2 boxes to buy with the money they gave me for my copper pennies. I left the shop relieved of almost 200 pounds of copper pennies, found some nice coins for my collection, and was left with a few bucks in my pocket from the cash sale. I consider that I came out on the deal smelling like a rose.

    I don't search bank rolled $25 penny boxes anymore. I Would rather spend my time duffing my way around the golf course or at the lake fishing, catching nary a fish.

    The end.

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 24, 2023 6:52AM

    @mr1931S said:
    Good luck with those pennies. I searched about 100,000 pennies from the bank last year and did not find a single error coin, or anything of note, really, in all those pennies. I did find one IHC but I figured it had been planted by a collector at the FRB that rolls the pennies and then boxes them. It was an 1896 in good, $1 coin, maybe. I gave it to my grandson. I found that about 1/4 of the 100,000 pennies I searched were coppers and considered that they were worthy of saving until they become legal to melt and then I would cash in for 2x face value or more for them.

    One day earlier this year I decided to inquire at the B&M shop I visit frequently about how much they would pay me for all the copper pennies I had found and saved. My copper pennies had about $250 face value. I was looking for maybe 1-1/2 cents apiece for them or $375 for the entire lot of them. 50% profit for my pennies was on the horizon. Or so I thought.

    The offer by the shop for the pennies I had so diligently saved was for face value or $250. I had grown weary of accumulating the pennies and dealing with their increasing weight heft so I accepted the shop's offer of face value for my pennies. I found some coins in flips in their 1-1/2x1-1/2 boxes to buy with the money they gave me for my copper pennies. I left the shop relieved of almost 200 pounds of copper pennies, found some nice coins for my collection, and was left with a few bucks in my pocket from the cash sale. I consider that I came out on the deal smelling like a rose.

    I don't search bank rolled $25 penny boxes anymore. I Would rather spend my time duffing my way around the golf course or at the lake fishing, catching nary a fish.

    The end.

    Awesome story!
    You're not alone in saving the copper. Many collectors seem to do the same. I for one, don't. Lately, rumor has it. That copper will rise in value!

    Thanks 😊

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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @joeykoins said:

    Part 132

    Pennies
    After the first roll....

    After 18 Rolls...

    Thus far, 10 Wheaties!
    None to any significance, though.
    :)

    Good to see you having fun with the bank pennies. One thing I realized is how scarce some of those DD errors (as seen in the Redbook) must be. I thought for sure I would find at least one $25-30 coin out of 100,000 pennies. Nope. Didn't happen.

    Wheat pennies, sure. I would find about 4 (mostly 'D' mintmarked pieces from the '40s & '50s) in every 20 rolls (1000 coins) I searched in 2022. Well under 1% of pennies currently circulating are wheaties was my finding. The oldest wheat I found was a beat up well-worn 1916, no mintmark. I found a couple 1958-D pennies that had gobs of mint luster. I thought it interesting that among the wheats found not a single 'S' mintmarked piece was found. Total of eight rolls of wheats found in 100,000 pennies searched and not a single 'S'! Are you kidding me, bank box penny roll fairy?!

    Of course, a search of a mere 100,000 pennies is just a tiny, tiny fraction of all pennies ever made. Maybe I would have eventually found something worthy of my efforts, something like a 1972 or 1995 DDO had I kept the search going.

    The good news is that I learned things from my penny roll searching but, more importantly, my eyes thank me every day for giving up on searching for treasure in penny boxes from the bank.

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 24, 2023 7:54AM

    @mr1931S said:

    @joeykoins said:

    Part 132

    Pennies
    After the first roll....

    After 18 Rolls...

    Thus far, 10 Wheaties!
    None to any significance, though.
    :)

    Good to see you having fun with the bank pennies. One thing I realized is how scarce some of those DD errors (as seen in the Redbook) must be. I thought for sure I would find at least one $25-30 coin out of 100,000 pennies. Nope. Didn't happen.

    Wheat pennies, sure. I would find about 4 (mostly 'D' mintmarked pieces from the '40s & '50s) in every 20 rolls (1000 coins) I searched in 2022. Well under 1% of pennies currently circulating are wheaties was my finding. The oldest wheat I found was a beat up well-worn 1916, no mintmark. I found a couple 1958-D pennies that had gobs of mint luster. I thought it interesting that among the wheats found not a single 'S' mintmarked piece was found. Total of eight rolls of wheats found in 100,000 pennies searched and not a single 'S'! Are you kidding me, bank box penny roll fairy?!

    Of course, a search of a mere 100,000 pennies is just a tiny, tiny fraction of all pennies ever made. Maybe I would have eventually found something worthy of my efforts, something like a 1972 or 1995 DDO had I kept the search going.

    The good news is that I learned things from my penny roll searching but, more importantly, my eyes thank me every day for giving up on searching for treasure in penny boxes from the bank.

    Yes, you're right about the "S" mint wheat.
    Very rarely found. However, I did come across a 1910s. Very worn to where the s, was hardly seen. The very first post, The box was amazing! 186 wheats found. In which, the 1910s came from. Plus, 2 1909 vdb's.
    Thanks
    😊

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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My best penny finds were in days long gone by. I found a 1914-S in a roll from the bank in the early '60's. Also, a 1922-D. In the 1980's, I found a 1909-S wheat in the you-pick-for-10 cents-apiece jar at a coin shop in Denver. The '09-S (a nice VF) for a dime to me would be my best penny find ever.

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mr1931S said:
    My best penny finds were in days long gone by. I found a 1914-S in a roll from the bank in the early '60's. Also, a 1922-D. In the 1980's, I found a 1909-S wheat in the you-pick-for-10 cents-apiece jar at a coin shop in Denver. The '09-S (a nice VF) for a dime to me would be my best penny find ever.

    Wow! Now those are great finds, dude.
    Congratulations.

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  • Batman23Batman23 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @joeykoins said:

    #183W

    2019W War in the Pacific

    Still out there but working hard and looking a bit beat up.

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's Another...

    #184W

    2020W Weir Farm V75



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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 25, 2023 10:44PM

    #Part 132

    Completed
    End up with 35 Wheaties!

    Oldest- 1918p

    Nothing of significance

    One possible 1997p
    Doubled Ear
    Not a bad box. Better than most.
    Enjoyable 😉
    Thanks

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 133

    Let's GO...

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 134

    Pennies still active!

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2023 7:25AM

    Part 134

    Completed!


    Back to my Cents.
    :)

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  • VTchaserVTchaser Posts: 304 ✭✭✭

    My bank will take orders for boxes of every denomination EXCEPT halves :(

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 135


    Quarters baby!
    Let's GO...

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,289 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That was a productive box, Joey!

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 15, 2023 9:31AM

    Part 136

    Quarters, once again!

    Staying Persistent!
    :D
    Let's GO...
    :)

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 15, 2023 7:23PM

    After 30 rolls...

    #187W

    2020W Weir Farm V75


    &

    #188W

    2020W Rockefeller V75


    In very good condition too!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2023 7:36AM

    Part 136

    Completed!
    Thanks
    😉

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 137

    Quarters, Quarters, Quarters!

    Let's GO...

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 28, 2023 10:21PM

    Part 137

    Completed!
    Only Find

    2019p DDO Memorial





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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    # Part 138


    Silver baby!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Only after 7 rolls!

    2- Babies!

    Both, 1943p's!




    B)

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 138

    Last find.


    I tossed back.
    Completed!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2023 7:04PM

    Part 139

    QUARTERS!
    :D Great Start

    In the FIRST ROLL!


    SILVER BABY!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After the 7th Roll...

    Beautiful Die Cud





    ...😜

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After 20 Rolls...

    Strike Through








    Then...

    #202W

    2020W Tallgrass Prairie


    30 more rolls.
    HOT!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 139
    Completed!
    2 Last Finds
    Color


    Then...

    #203W 2019 Lowell



    Great Bank Box!
    Thanks 😊

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 140

    QUARTERS AGAIN!

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NADA so far, after 20 rolls.
    :/

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 140

    Results...

    Oh well.
    Thanks 😊

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 141


    QUARTERS BABY!

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  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Go get em buddy.

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Jzyskowski1 said:
    Go get em buddy.

    You're too kind, dude!
    Thanks
    <3

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 28, 2023 11:48PM

    Well guys, after just 26 rolls.
    No Silver, No W, No Variety and No Key Coin either, But...
    Here is a true find!

    FINALLY

    Warning: Many Pictures!

    2002p Louisiana Error Coin

    First, the Obverse!















    Now, the REAL Winning Shots, The Reverse!





















    When at first glance at the obverse, it did appear to be a "vice job". But, when I Flipped it over to it's Reverse!
    BAM!
    What do you guys think it is?
    Double Struck? The obverse looks as it was almost "Clipped". With that circular line?
    An Amazing find. I can't believe it!
    My best find since my, "Burning Airplane".
    Thanks 😊

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  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    😳👍🏼🤠

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 29, 2023 5:48AM

    @joeykoins said:

    Double Struck?

    I'm not an expert. My first thought was yes, double struck outside the mint with a sledgehammer.

    Don't make me re-post this on the "The OFFICIAL COIN ROLL HUNTING FINDS THREAD" 😉

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭✭✭

    interesting finds for face - how many hours a week do you spend looking?

  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a vise job Joey
    Can you explain how Americ on the rev is backwards?

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 29, 2023 9:49AM

    @gumby1234 said:
    Looks like a vise job Joey
    Can you explain how Americ on the rev is backwards?

    Can't explain?
    Just like I can't explain the "YT" in the Pelican. Why not beyond the Pelican's body?
    Or, the letters below, "Dollar" on the obverse rim?
    :*
    :)
    I'm thinking, maybe the coin got stuck on the hammer die, than struck another coin?
    I don't know, not a real expert in this category.
    Thanks
    Warning: Long Video,
    from a conversation with an expert!
    https://youtu.be/Tzf29WvlZ78

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  • FlyingAlFlyingAl Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @joeykoins said:

    @gumby1234 said:
    Looks like a vise job Joey
    Can you explain how Americ on the rev is backwards?

    Can't explain?
    Just like I can't explain the "YT" in the Pelican. Why not beyond the Pelican's body?
    Or, the letters below, "Dollar" on the obverse rim?
    :*
    :)
    I'm thinking, maybe the coin got stuck on the hammer die, than struck another coin?
    I don't know, not a real expert in this category.
    Thanks

    They are the obverse inverted impression of a (likely) America the Beautiful quarter. The YT comes from LIBERTY, the other word is QUARTER.

    I concur with the vice job assessment.

    Coin Photographer.

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Alright, thanks guys
    :)

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Box Completed!
    :)

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part 142


    How 'bout some S-I-L-V-E-R?

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  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I’m making errors with my leather strap and anvil y hammer the reversing of the lettering is one result. Sorry buddy. Although not my work. I’ll check with the cats but they will probably side eye me. They blamed the dog but he’s not having it.
    Thanks 🙏


    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 15,855 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 30, 2023 5:46PM

    @joeykoins said:

    Part 142


    How 'bout some S-I-L-V-E-R?

    In the 1st Roll!
    "W" BABY!

    #204W



    49 Rolls, to go...
    :)

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  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice W. Alas I’ve never found one in the wild

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

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