cyberdan
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- Dec 12, 2006
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Since I am still recovering from my little trip to the hospital my wife got me some more coin from my local BofA. $100 in nickels and $9 in pennies.
Gave me something to do for a few hours.
I found my oldest cent, 1911 in pretty good shape. I hand sorted these since $9 would go through me ryedale machine in 10 min I wanted to spend some time on it. Since I usually sort by machine I never realized how poor of quality modern cents are. Weak stamping, bad copper plating and lots of tarnish.
I give the modern mint a D- grade. Now that 1911 wheat was well struck and I can still see every line in the wheat stalks and it is almost 100 years old.
I also found a 1919
Buffalo nick. I can barely see 
9 but the space for the third number is way to narrow for it to be a 2 or 3.
I also found several foreign coins 1 from India and another from some middle eastern country, no writing at all in roman letters just Cyrillic type words and they all look alike to me. They are both the size of nickels.
Gave me something to do for a few hours.
I found my oldest cent, 1911 in pretty good shape. I hand sorted these since $9 would go through me ryedale machine in 10 min I wanted to spend some time on it. Since I usually sort by machine I never realized how poor of quality modern cents are. Weak stamping, bad copper plating and lots of tarnish.
I give the modern mint a D- grade. Now that 1911 wheat was well struck and I can still see every line in the wheat stalks and it is almost 100 years old.I also found a 1919
Buffalo nick. I can barely see 9 but the space for the third number is way to narrow for it to be a 2 or 3. I also found several foreign coins 1 from India and another from some middle eastern country, no writing at all in roman letters just Cyrillic type words and they all look alike to me. They are both the size of nickels.
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