SuperBowl party finds!

[Stormtrooper154]

Well, I didn't get to swing the detector even once this weekend because I was helping my parents move. After we did some packing today, I joined my girlfriend over at her parents superbowl party. I was watching the game and her father called me out into the garage to help get the BBQ out to cook some burgers. I walked outside and noticed a huge 5 gallon jar about 1/2 full with pennies. I asked him about it and he said that this was the penny jar that they have been putting their pocket change into for the last 15 years.

Well, we all know what I did next....Got permission to hunt and went to town. I don't care for football much anyway, I just like the commercials

After a few hours and about 15,000 pennies +/-, these are my finds.....(Almost missed the newer looking 1958-D because it looked to new)

Oldest is 1912, and there is also a canadian 1947. The Disneyland coin/thing is made from a 1944.

 

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[Daisy]

Sweet! That's a whole lotta change to go through!
Why don't they roll it?

 

[Stormtrooper154]

I didn't ask. I know my bank wont take rolled coins unless they are bank rolled. But when I lived in WA, the bank wanted me to roll them and gave me all the needed supplies....go figure

 

[Daisy]

That's strange. My bank gladly accepts rolled coins. They even give me flattened (empty) rolls by the bundle even though they rarely make it back.
(The local gas station clerks are always bugging me for change so they don't have to drive into town to get some.) hehe
Does the bank charge you to roll your coins? Is that their gimmick or are they afraid you'll cheat them of a penny?
D.

 

[fossis]

GOOD EYEBALLING, fOSSIS.......................

 

[Night Stalker]

Most banks now days will not accept rolled coinage, they dump it into a hopper, it automatically sorts, then rolls it up and they give you folding money.

 

[Libralabsoldier]

Most banks now days will not accept rolled coinage, they dump it into a hopper, it automatically sorts, then rolls it up and they give you folding money.

That is what my bank does. My mother in law is a CRHr too, except she buys boxes of quarters. she asked me to take 1100 bucks worth of loose quarters to the bank for her. BOY was that heavy.

I have found that coinstar machines spit out silver because they do not weigh right. I have found a few silver dimes and nickels sitting in the coinstar hopper.

 

[Eddy1H]

I prefer hunting through a jar of coins any day instead of watching football, good choice of options Storm, same one I would have made, congrats on the finds
Eddy

 

[Kas]

I prefer hunting through a jar of coins any day instead of watching football, good choice of options Storm, same one I would have made, congrats on the finds
Eddy

I agree.

Football can be background noise.

At current temps -6 here in Ohio, I'd give anything for a jar full of coins to search.

Guess I'll go clean up some finds from last digging season. May be a gem in that dirt.

 

[ModernMiner]

Geez, must be nice to find coins like that AND stay warm. Thanks for the post.
-MM-

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice finds, was probably fun looking through all of them! HH, Mike

 

[Stormtrooper154]

Nice finds, was probably fun looking through all of them! HH, Mike

Yes, It was fun sorting through them. I was really suprised to find that 1912...it was in my last handful from the jar.

 

[Stormtrooper154]

I took my change in rolled once and the bank made me break them open to put through the hopper they have.  She told me that some of the branches have them and others dont.  If the branch doesn't have a hopper, then they take rolled coins.

 

[halfdime]

Way to go! That 1912 looks like a keeper.

 

[krumb]

Wow, that is dedication. If my math is right, your finds constitute .001% of all the change you went through.

 

[Stormtrooper154]

Thats sounds about right LOL All I know is i was sitting at the kitchen table with the jar and some big bowls (to put the pennies in until I was done with the jar) for 5 hours.

Her mother also gave me her dimes to go through...That went a lot faster, but came out empty handed. She has a huge jug of nickels sitting in the garage that I will do next time I go over.

As for the quarters, they went back to the bank 2 weeks ago $1530 worth of them.

 

[Kas]

As for the quarters, they went back to the bank 2 weeks ago $1530 worth of them.

That's a bunch, hope none were silver.

I found a 1912 peeny one time stuck in the jamb of an old house window. That baby came out with a shine on it. I still have it. I'll post it later. It looks better than a current circulating coin.

All my banks still take rolls. We's hill folk here in central Ohia.

 

[Pulltab Parson]

Man those are sweet finds!!

Every since I have bitten by the bug, I look at every coin that passes my fingers. I have found a number of wheaties but nothing else so far!. I would love to have a big jar of coins to go through, I would be on the edge of my seat the whole time!!