A neat find in cent box searches yesterday

SaorAlba

Yesterday I searched two cent boxes - a total of $50 in cents, 5.000 of them all total. I could have been disappointed about the lower than usual number of wheat cents, I usually average about 10 a box, this time I averaged only six per box. One had only eight wheats and the other only five, but in the latter box I made a find I would have though impossible for a coin machine counted and sorted coin.

USA Wheats
1930
1939
1941 and a bit of a late date woody
1942-D
1943 - I have gotten four other steel cents from the reject slots in coin machines in the past few months - but I thought it was impossible to find that they actually went through a coin sorter machine and got wrapped because they are steel and magnetic!
1945 X 2
1950-D
1952-D
1953
1955-D X 2
1958

San Francisco Mints
1969 X 3
1970
1971 x 5
1973
1974

A 1980 cent with the Masonic symbol stamped on it, someone must have spent their "lucky penny"

Canada

George VI

1946

YH Elizabeth II
1955
1959
1962 x 4
1963
1964 x 6

1967 Centennial


Then I returned the rejects, the post 1982 coins, to another bank with a coin sorter. When I got there, I looked in the slot and voila, there was 41 cents in mostly Canadian change waiting for me to bring to a loving home.

BUFFNIXX

If you are going to do this keep your eye out for the 1969-s doubled die obverse cent!! Someone out in the midwest found one years ago that was in vf or xf I believe. And they got over 10 grand for it. You just never know. buffnixx

ricko

Patience and persistance.... If I had time I would apply them to my gallon or two of wheaties.... have had them for years and years.. never know what might be there... Cheers, RickO