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Let's Have Some Year-End 2021 Fun With A Giveaway!

mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I picked up two $25 boxes of pennies today from my bank.

The closest guesses to within plus or minus ten of the total wheaties that I find will be eligible to receive the giveaway
prize which is about $50 retail value of some duplicate wheaties that I would part with. One entry per person please. Just indicate the number for your guess in a post. Also include your guess for the oldest wheatie that I will find out of the 5000 coins. The last two 5000 coin penny groups I searched yielded an 1896 for the first group and a 1916 for the second group. Correctly guessing the date of the oldest wheatie will serve as the final determiner of who gets the Lincoln cent prize for this giveaway. I'll be searching the 100 rolls over the next few days. Guess carefully. No edited posts will be accepted as valid guesses.

Example guess: 42-1935. That's 42 wheaties found, oldest dated 1935. Easy contest. Any questions just ask.

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  • gumby1234gumby1234 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    20 wheaties - 1954

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  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 8,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    7-1945

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I consider finding the 1896 IHC an anomaly. Probably won't happen that I find another IHC in the boxes seen above. That 1896 jumped out at me when I opened the roll that contained it. I could scarcely believe finding it. It was probably put into circulation deliberately by a collector is what I think the deal is with the IHC find.

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  • Some_of_itSome_of_it Posts: 137 ✭✭✭

    17 / 1944

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    29 / 1919

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

    25 / 1937

  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 752 ✭✭✭✭✭

    9 / 1942

  • wrightywrighty Posts: 840 ✭✭✭✭

    31- 1919

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,088 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1 - 1944

    John
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  • CoinlearnerCoinlearner Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭✭

    21 Wheaties.....1931 oldest..... :)

  • Dug13Dug13 Posts: 275 ✭✭✭

    I did the $50.00 Challenge not too long ago. So I will go with my results for my guess…….
    22 Wheats / 1918 Oldest date.

    Thanks for the contest!

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  • NickelMikeNickelMike Posts: 195 ✭✭✭

    25 - 1938

  • bearcavebearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    30 1920

    Ken
  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    33-1930.

  • cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 5,905 ✭✭✭✭✭

    5-1940

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  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,911 ✭✭✭✭✭

    37-1928

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    24 Wheats; 1925 oldest date... thanks for the shot!

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  • KliaoKliao Posts: 5,609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    27 wheats 1936 oldest. Thanks!

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  • ShaunBC5ShaunBC5 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭✭✭

    39 - 1942

  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 5,858 ✭✭✭✭✭

    22 wheaties - 1922

    Mr_Spud

  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭✭✭

    14 Wheaties; oldest 1946

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mr_Spud, 1922, a 1922-D, was a date I found when I was a kid. 1922 with a total mintage of just 7.16M pieces happens to be the lowest mintage year of ALL Lincoln cents, 1909-present.

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    First of all, good luck! Love dem "holes on top" bank boxes.
    My guess, 22- 1940
    Thanks for the chance.

    Happ New Year! ;)

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,164 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1920 oldest wheatie
    32 wheaties found
    Thanks for the closeout game of 2021.
    Jim


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  • JMS1223JMS1223 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will guess 19 wheaties found with 1919 being the oldest dated wheatie.

    Thanks for the contest. :)

  • jshaulisjshaulis Posts: 860 ✭✭✭✭

    21 - 1921.

    Thanks!

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,342 ✭✭✭✭✭

    10 wheat back cents, 1945 the earliest.

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  • 59Horsehide59Horsehide Posts: 427 ✭✭✭

    13 and 1943 Steely

  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh what the heck ...

    32 Wheaties with a 1910 in there somewhere


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  • blaircountycoinblaircountycoin Posts: 236 ✭✭✭

    23 wheats and 1939

  • HiBuckyHiBucky Posts: 614 ✭✭✭

    17 wheats and - 1944

  • charlesf20charlesf20 Posts: 383 ✭✭✭

    19 - 1939

  • Larrob37Larrob37 Posts: 218 ✭✭✭

    25-1911

  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    3- thanks for the chance.



    Hoard the keys.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Opps 1940



    Hoard the keys.
  • radiomanradioman Posts: 768 ✭✭✭

    36-1941

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,674 ✭✭✭✭✭

    34, 1947 oldest

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,050 ✭✭✭✭✭

    5
    1942
    Thanks for the action!

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  • KyleKyle Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭✭✭

    16, 1939

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool contest idea.

    I'll say 62 - 1938.

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    38/ 1934

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  • SurfinxHISurfinxHI Posts: 2,507 ✭✭✭✭✭

    42 1907

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

    6-1952. Thanks

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  • USMarine6USMarine6 Posts: 1,947 ✭✭✭✭✭

    41 1911

  • zippcityzippcity Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭✭

    13-1940

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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,265 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 31, 2021 5:06AM

    The penny boxes seen in the OP come to my bank from the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. I asked at my bank "what do you do with the pennies after I turn the ones in I'm not keeping for folding money? I asked, "do you reroll them and put them in a box for resale here?" "No," I was told."They go back to the Federal Reserve bank, loose in a bag after we've counted them."

    How things have changed. When I was a kid looking for Lincolns for my Whitman folders, I would buy a few rolls of pennies at the bank, look through them pulling out what I wanted to keep and then reroll them. I needed to make sure that each penny roll for return to the bank contained 50 coins. I had to put my name and phone number on each roll so that the bank would know who to call if a roll happened to come up short. Next time i went to the bank for more pennies, I would sometimes get some of the rolls I had turned in before. I never complained about this. Sometimes I would get a silver dollar from the bank in exchange for two penny rolls, clearly identified as counted by me.

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    6 1945

  • RedSealsRedSeals Posts: 278 ✭✭✭✭✭

    26 - 1942

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  • smuglrsmuglr Posts: 421 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the chance.
    12-1952
    Happy New Year.

  • WDHWDH Posts: 163 ✭✭✭

    11 / 1936

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