Well, at this writing, I'm about 3/4 of the way through the two boxes of pennies. Some excellent appearing guesses have been made. Close for guesses of number of wheats and oldest wheat cent I will find will be midnight tonight, 01/01/2022. Tomorrow, Sunday 01/02, the winner of the year-end-2021 giveaway will be announced.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
@mr1874 said:
Well, at this writing, I'm about 3/4 of the way through the two boxes of pennies. Some excellent appearing guesses have been made. Close for guesses of number of wheats and oldest wheat cent I will find will be midnight tonight, 01/01/2022. Tomorrow, Sunday 01/02, the winner of the year-end-2021 giveaway will be announced.
Good luck with your hunt! I miss the thrill of CRH for W quarters 😥
Ninety-nine down. One more roll to check. I use the small digital scale seen in the image below to quickly check weight on individual 1982 and 1983 dated cents. Some 1982 cents are zinc and some are bronze. ALL 1983 cents should be zinc. A 1983 cent weighing 3.1 grams might be bronze composition. 1983 bronze cent can bring BIG bucks.That's why I check them.
I found two King George VI Canadian cents in the 99 rolls searched so far. That's a first. Out of almost 15,000 pennies checked, all Canadian cents I've found in the penny boxes before the two Canadian cents shown below, one a 1940, the other a 1942, are much later dates that bear the likeness of Queen Elizabeth. These go to the bank with the zincs. Running right at 25% bronze pennies in the bank boxes of rolls I've been checking.
I will start a new "results" thread tomorrow for this giveaway.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Year end 2021 giveaway participants, standby for results thread a little later after I check the record I made while the guesses were being made against what is now indicated in this thread. Thank you all for participating. You're all winners in my book but I can only give out the one prize. Identified closest guesser of number of wheaties and oldest date wheatie I found out of the two $25 boxes of pennies please PM me within 72 hours (3 days) from when I start the results thread with your addy so I know where to send the items I have selected for giveaway. I hope you are pleased with what I send you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
All guesses made after my post on 01/01/22 @ 10:45 PM with the image of weighing scale, the last roll to check, and the two Canadian pennies from the '40's that I found were deemed ineligible guesses.
"Close for guesses of number of wheats and oldest wheat cent I will find will be midnight tonight, 01/01/2022"
Maybe I should have been a little clearer with "close time for the giveaway will be 12:01 AM 01/02/2022." Feedback from Onastone, who guessed 12 wheat cents correctly but AFTER the close time for consideration of winner of the giveaway, duly noted. Again thanks to all who participated in the year end 2021 giveaway!
I will encourage coinhunter4 to post here in this thread about if he's happy or not with the $50 retail value in wheat cents that I mailed out to him yesterday. He guessed 15 wheats found, 1919 oldest. His guess was #48.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
I'm thinking my chances of winning the Powerball lottery are better than finding a bronze '83 penny. Over 14 BILLION 1983 pennies were made by the Philadelphia and Denver mints combined. A 1983 bronze will fetch five figure thousands of dollars for the lucky finder.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
I have to say, I am blown away by the packages contents-thank you so much!
Admittedly this was the hardest package I have ever had to open-great packaging job!
It was like you read my mind! I really like varieties-especially awesome RPMs.
So, to the contents.
Inside was the AU '58-D wheat cent, an 1956-D RPM-001 cent (I had been looking for one of these- it is currently my favorite RPM!), a 1924-D wheat cent (a filler for my folder-though I am going to keep it in the 2x2 for now), and an ANACS MS-65 RPM-9 1958-D wheat cent (my first ever ANACS slab)-I really like the bit of toning.
Thank so much to the host, @mr1874, for an awesome giveaway!
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16 Wheaties, 1941 Cheers, RickO
15-1919
Thanks for the contest!
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I'm guessing zero found.
17/1927
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
27 / 1915
16 / 1932
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23 / 1926
8 / 1939
60 Wheaties and oldest date found 1917.
Thank you for the contest!
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49 total, 1917 oldest.
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34, 1918. Thanks.
19 - 1919
10-4,
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45 Wheaties. / earliest 1925
32- 1926
3/1947
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Zero
Well, at this writing, I'm about 3/4 of the way through the two boxes of pennies. Some excellent appearing guesses have been made. Close for guesses of number of wheats and oldest wheat cent I will find will be midnight tonight, 01/01/2022. Tomorrow, Sunday 01/02, the winner of the year-end-2021 giveaway will be announced.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
Good luck with your hunt! I miss the thrill of CRH for W quarters 😥
Ninety-nine down. One more roll to check. I use the small digital scale seen in the image below to quickly check weight on individual 1982 and 1983 dated cents. Some 1982 cents are zinc and some are bronze. ALL 1983 cents should be zinc. A 1983 cent weighing 3.1 grams might be bronze composition. 1983 bronze cent can bring BIG bucks.That's why I check them.
I found two King George VI Canadian cents in the 99 rolls searched so far. That's a first. Out of almost 15,000 pennies checked, all Canadian cents I've found in the penny boxes before the two Canadian cents shown below, one a 1940, the other a 1942, are much later dates that bear the likeness of Queen Elizabeth. These go to the bank with the zincs. Running right at 25% bronze pennies in the bank boxes of rolls I've been checking.
I will start a new "results" thread tomorrow for this giveaway.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
64/1913
28-1928 Thanks!
10-1939
12/1948
Year end 2021 giveaway participants, standby for results thread a little later after I check the record I made while the guesses were being made against what is now indicated in this thread. Thank you all for participating. You're all winners in my book but I can only give out the one prize. Identified closest guesser of number of wheaties and oldest date wheatie I found out of the two $25 boxes of pennies please PM me within 72 hours (3 days) from when I start the results thread with your addy so I know where to send the items I have selected for giveaway. I hope you are pleased with what I send you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
15/1937
16-1939
BHNC #248 … 130 and counting.
All guesses made after my post on 01/01/22 @ 10:45 PM with the image of weighing scale, the last roll to check, and the two Canadian pennies from the '40's that I found were deemed ineligible guesses.
"Close for guesses of number of wheats and oldest wheat cent I will find will be midnight tonight, 01/01/2022"
Maybe I should have been a little clearer with "close time for the giveaway will be 12:01 AM 01/02/2022." Feedback from Onastone, who guessed 12 wheat cents correctly but AFTER the close time for consideration of winner of the giveaway, duly noted. Again thanks to all who participated in the year end 2021 giveaway!
I will encourage coinhunter4 to post here in this thread about if he's happy or not with the $50 retail value in wheat cents that I mailed out to him yesterday. He guessed 15 wheats found, 1919 oldest. His guess was #48.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
27/1956
That was fun though!! Too bad you didn't find any bronze "83's.
I'm thinking my chances of winning the Powerball lottery are better than finding a bronze '83 penny. Over 14 BILLION 1983 pennies were made by the Philadelphia and Denver mints combined. A 1983 bronze will fetch five figure thousands of dollars for the lucky finder.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein
47-1916
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Package arrived a little early
I have to say, I am blown away by the packages contents-thank you so much!
Admittedly this was the hardest package I have ever had to open-great packaging job!
It was like you read my mind! I really like varieties-especially awesome RPMs.
So, to the contents.
Inside was the AU '58-D wheat cent, an 1956-D RPM-001 cent (I had been looking for one of these- it is currently my favorite RPM!), a 1924-D wheat cent (a filler for my folder-though I am going to keep it in the 2x2 for now), and an ANACS MS-65 RPM-9 1958-D wheat cent (my first ever ANACS slab)-I really like the bit of toning.
Thank so much to the host, @mr1874, for an awesome giveaway!
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51, yup 51, that's the number. Thanks for the chance. Peace Roy
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