old cents found in change today!

coppercoins · December 4, 2003 9:40AM

I have a few rolls of cents that came from a NY bank in 1998, shotgun wrapped...in one of the rolls today I ran across a 1946P cent that's still about 75% red! In another roll, a 1934 cent in F.

No big value indicator here, just a couple of neat finds for a modern roll.

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2003 9:45AM

It's always fun to make a circulation find. I don't get many Wheats any more. More early Jeffs than anything else, when I do find something of interest. Even some War nickels now and then.

kranky · December 4, 2003 9:50AM

Circulation finds are always cool because there aren't very many out there.

Did you see the story in this week's CW where a guy snagged a 1922 no-D Lincoln out of a penny tray at a store? Sold it to Virg Marshall for $500+.

JRocco · December 4, 2003 9:57AM

I got a 1916D Merc in G4 out of my pharmacy cash register drawer about 12 years ago--I damn near had a stroke--- But I can still count on at least 1 old Jeff every couple of days and a wheatie or 2 a week. I love cash register finds.

Ogden · December 4, 2003 9:58AM

A 1922 no D Lincoln, no way! Sounds a little fishy to me.

Ogden

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2003 11:05AM

<< <i>I got a 1916D Merc in G4 out of my pharmacy cash register drawer about 12 years ago--I damn near had a stroke >>

Yeah, I believe I would have, too. Rare enough to find a Merc at all, but what do you suppose the odds of finding a 16-D in circulation are?

Wow. Sounds like a stolen coin that got circulated by a kid or a reaallly stupid thief.

GaCoinGuy · December 4, 2003 11:06AM

I got a 38D Buff in maybe VF, but very dark the other day from Mickey D's. Was a pleasant find, even if it was just a buff, you don't see many of them in circ anymore.

JRocco · December 4, 2003 11:27AM

Lordmarcovan, after I saw that Merc I sent my delivery man out to the bank and asked him to get every dime roll they had. I opened up every one he brought back and hit a mother load of about 30 Mercs. I guess someone somewhere dug into an old jar and never realized what they were rolling up. I, being the local pharmacist, called the bank manager and told him that I found an old coin in a dime roll and if anyone approached him and told him that they might have given away some valuable dimes to just call me but I never got a call. I scoured sooo many change rolls for the next couple of weeks but never got any other older coinage(much to my surprise). All circulated Mercs but I still have every one of them on a board.

nwcs · December 4, 2003 11:31AM

Yeah, I got a couple of early 60s high end AUs with 90% red luster. Although I'm going to throw the fish back into the sea... Always neat to find!

coppercoins · December 4, 2003 11:49AM

Well, my biggest haul ever was a typical bank trip for $10 face in cent rolls to look through back in the Fall of 1995. 9 of the rolls had an account number on them and were all wrapped with the same old pinkish cent wrappers that used to be so common before the more current striped type. After going through the first of the nine rolls, I immediately pulled the rest to look through, because within that one roll were 42 wheats and a couple of 1959-1962 memorials.

Well, to make the long story shorter, I ended up with six indians (1887, 1894, 1897 X2, 1902, 1907) an 1863 CWT, and 8 rolls of wheats out of the deal...the best of the wheats was a 1911S in F, 1929D in EF, and a couple of decent RPMs and doubled dies.

Quite a haul for face!

GaCoinGuy · December 4, 2003 1:05PM

I put it down to being senile and it's late, but what does CWT stand for? I can't seem to place it.

coppercoins · December 4, 2003 1:06PM

Civil War Token. Sorry.

1960NYGiants · December 4, 2003 1:09PM

CWT = Civil War Token

Gene

atarian · December 4, 2003 1:13PM

i love old bank trips. last time i got 6 rolls of wheats with in 1 a 1886 indian head in g to vg grade var 2. i later found out even whyile at blockbuster that the rolls were to be going back to the vault to be checked over. hehe i got lucky .

i guess a 1886 CENT IS DOING JUST FINE.

originalisbest · December 4, 2003 1:18PM

My best circ find ever was a Wheatie - unfortunately, it wasn't MY find, so to speak. I was looking through a classmate's Mom's Wheatie pile for her, as she knew I was a collector. She just kept them all in a bucket - and every single one was '40s or '50s, no 55DD, and 30s VERY intermittent. But towards the end was a problem-free, 14-D in an even G.

That one, I stapled into a 2X2 for her, and told her to keep separate from the rest, and approx what I thought it was worth - I think I said $80 or so.

oreville · December 4, 2003 4:39PM

my wife had a 1964-D dime in her drawer of loose change. My reward for rolling up all the coins! Looking at this dime once again. You can feel its heft.

I am saving two $25 face value boxes of cents for coppercoins that I picked up at a Maine bank in 1998. I promised him those coins 5 years ago and I intend to keep that promise! The boxes came out of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and are shotgun bank wrapped. They are the circulated kind. Waiting is only making these boxes more and more interesting from a historical perspective even though it is still recent history.

canadiancoinguy · December 4, 2003 4:55PM

Got a AG '26S wheat last week. I've been seeing a number of 40's jeffs (no war nickels) lately.

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2003 4:59PM

I've hit three mini-hoards in bank rolls, over the years. The first was three rolls of solid Wheat pennies- even the wrappers were ancient- they had the old postal codes on 'em, before ZIP codes! (Something like "Such-and-such National Bank, Cleveland 32, Ohio", or whatever.) I knew those were gonna be interesting.

The second was about six rolls of nickels that were all early Jeff's, and mostly war nickels, from my corner convenience store. They were all black and gunky, like they had come out of the bilge of somebody's boat, but hey, silver's silver!

The third nice lick I got from circulation was at my credit union- three rolls of Kennedies that were all 40% silver, except for two coins (one was clad and the other a 90% '64 Kennedy.)

As for single finds, I have gotten a few interesting ones, but not like some folks:

-1909 Lincoln, AG-ish

-1912, ditto

-recently, a 1983 Lincoln that appears to be struck on an unplated zinc planchet (without the outer copper core)- still have that one

-two blank planchets in a new roll of (2000-P) cents

- three Buffalo nickels in roll that also had some early Jeffersons in it (one weak 1920 and two dateless)

-a pretty nice Fine 1937-D Buffalo from the Coke machine where I worked (that made my week- I bought several more Cokes!)

-almost a complete set of Jeffersons, over the years

-a gemmy BU MS65 1940 Jeff, nearly a full-stepper, too, from a roll that was otherwise all UNC 1992-P coins (things that make you go "hmmm..."!)

-several clipped planchet Jeffersons, including one with a triple clip

-a 1992-S clad dime, impaired proof (found under the passenger seat of my wife's car when I was lookin' for something else that fell under there)

-an impaired proof clad quarter

-and, most recently, an EF 1948 10-cent piece from the Netherlands, which is really strange, considering that these are way smaller than our own 10-cent pieces. They're more like half-dime size. So how did it get into circulation?

Cam40 · December 4, 2003 7:28PM

Thats one of the most exciting areas in the hobby to me. Cherrypicking bank rolls and pocket change.
What could be better than getting a collector coin at face value huh?

I just love my BN 1894 IHC in AU/EF for just 1c.

old cents found in change today!

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