Let's Have Some Year-End 2021 Fun With A Giveaway!
mr1931S
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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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20 wheaties - 1954
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7-1945
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.
17 / 1944
29 / 1919
25 / 1937
9 / 1942
31- 1919
1 - 1944
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21 Wheaties.....1931 oldest.....
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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25 - 1938
30 1920
33-1930.
5-1940
37-1928
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24 Wheats; 1925 oldest date... thanks for the shot!
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27 wheats 1936 oldest. Thanks!
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39 - 1942
22 wheaties - 1922
Mr_Spud
14 Wheaties; oldest 1946
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.
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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32 wheaties found
Thanks for the closeout game of 2021.
Jim
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I will guess 19 wheaties found with 1919 being the oldest dated wheatie.
Thanks for the contest.
21 - 1921.
Thanks!
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10 wheat back cents, 1945 the earliest.
13 and 1943 Steely
Oh what the heck ...
32 Wheaties with a 1910 in there somewhere
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23 wheats and 1939
17 wheats and - 1944
19 - 1939
25-1911
3- thanks for the chance.
Hoard the keys.
Opps 1940
Hoard the keys.
36-1941
34, 1947 oldest
5
1942
Thanks for the action!
16, 1939
Cool contest idea.
I'll say 62 - 1938.
38/ 1934
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42 1907
6-1952. Thanks
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41 1911
13-1940
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.
6 1945
26 - 1942
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Thanks for the chance.
12-1952
Happy New Year.
11 / 1936