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Fun with Pennies!

jtrykajtryka Posts: 795 ✭
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I went to the bank today and got a bunch of pennies for the kids at church, they are having a penny offering next week to raise funds for missionaries. So I looked through the pennies first, and grabbed out all the wheaties, and it was kinda neat, I found 16 total and here are the dates: 1-1958-D, 1-1955, 1-1950-S, 1-1948-D, 2-1946-S, 1-1945-D, 3-1944-S, 1-1942-D, 1-1942, 1-1941-S, 1-1941, 1-1926 and 1-1921-S! The 21-S was in G to VG, nothing spectacular, but full rims and all the letters in tact. Over 80 years old, and a mintage of only 15 million, not bad for a penny!

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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Thats the most fun part of collecting.Going through stuff non-collectors always overlook.They dont know about varietys, RPMs , RPDs,and DDO/Rs.
    I dig going through bank rolls of ANY denomination.Always somethng in there to save.
    I,m a packrat at heart though.image
  • muenzenmuenzen Posts: 22
    Congrats You found more wheats in one sitting than I have found in 10 years of going through rolls.
    Know where I can pick up a genuine 1804 Bust Dollar in the $300 to $350 range?
  • chitownchitown Posts: 14
    My wife worked for a small bank with about 5 employees....it just so happened that the manager was a real close
    friend of hers. Every Friday night for about 2 months I was allowed to go & sit on the floor in the back & go through bagged coins....
    It was soooo cool. image

    JL
    Can anyone spare some change??
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I get a few wheats every now and then, but today is going to be my fun. A friend of mine at church is also a bank manager and he culled all the half dollars from their branches in the area and collected them for me to get this afternoon. Around $100 worth of halves. And they told him they are not 2002s. So hopefully I'll get some good ones and then reintroduce the city to the half!!!

    Neil
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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    saturday morning at the ana i handed out old coins to all the kids i could find...morgans, barbers
    btw's and wheaties...

    about 60 face value...no jewels...but to the kids who were EXTREMLY APPREACIATIVE, to see the
    look in their eyes...


    was worth giving it all away
    image

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  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    I got a 1937 in change in Fine condition the other day. I haven't gotten a wheatie back in change in quite awhile until then.

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  • mactmact Posts: 236
    Bill,

    GOOD SHOW!!!!!

    matt
    "the world is full of kings and queens, they blind your eyes and steal your dreams, it's Heaven and Hell"

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