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Finds in a BU 55S penny roll

cheezhedcheezhed Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
I've had this roll for 25 years that I had gotten from my uncle.

It's been sealed since I got it and who knows how long before me.

I finally opened it yesterday and was amazed:

There were 7 coins with the date/mm die break, 3 toners, 7 with a seriously eroded and/or worn, polished reverse die with die cracks, 10 with just the eroded reverse with no cracks.

In all this roll only had about 15 "normal" strikes.

Some pics:

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Many happy BST transactions

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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355
    Cool, that's my favorite thing of all to do in coin collecting. And you generally can tell if it's an original roll, pretty rare these days, by whether or not you've got multiple of the same die pairs, in the same condition. Sounds like you do. Any rpm's?
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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