Searches for this week. mainly pennies

[GMan00001]

I stopped by the local bank that lets me buy bags from their coin machine on Monday and asked for a bag of pennies. They said they had 10 of them (they have $25 bags). A local school did a penny drive. So I bought 4 on Monday to test the waters and came back and picked up the other 6 on Tuesday plus 1 more that they had just filled.

So this week I have been working through $275 in pennies.

So far I have gotten through $150 of it. When I bought them I combined them into 5 - $50 bags and 1 - $25 bag, so the results are per $50 bag (the last bag will be $25 when I get to it.)

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* Bag 1
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13 wheat pennies (1917, 1937, 1941-D, 1942(3), 1944-D, 1946(2), 1951-D, 1953, 1954, 1958-D)

30 Canadian (1959, 1960, 1963, 1964(2), 1966(2), 1967, 1974(2), 1976, 1979(2), 1980, 1981(2), 1985(3), 1986, 1988(2), 1990, 1994(2), 1995, 1997, 1998(2), 1999(2))

2 Foreign
Mexico, 20 Cents (1999)
Panama, 1 Centesimo (1996)

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* Bag 2
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25 wheat pennies (1934, 1935, 1936-D, 1944-D, 1946, 1949-D, 1950-D, 1952, 1953-D, 1954-D(2), 1955-D(2), 1956-D, 1957(2), 1957-D(4), 1958-D(5))

25 Canadian (1963, 1966, 1968, 1969(2), 1970(2), 1973, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983(2), 1986(2), 1987, 1992(2), 1999(3), 2002(2))

3 Foreign
Bermuda, 1 Cent (1981)
Spain, 10 Euro Cent (2002)
Switzerland, 10 Cents (1973)

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* Bag 3
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23 wheat pennies (1916, 1925, 1944-D, 1945, 1946-D, 1950-D, 1952-D(3), 1953-D, 1953-S, 1955-D(2), 1957-D(6), 1958-D(4))

27 Canadian (1958(2), 1962, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973(2), 1976(3), 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000(3), 2002, 2003-P, 2004)

5 Foreign
Germany, 2 Pfennig (1996)
Germany, 5 Pfennig (1995)
Italy, 2 Euro Cent (2002)
Panama, 1 Centesimo (1996)
Spain, 2 Euro Cent (2000)


As far as other stuff.

Picked up 2 more red seal $2 bills
1 - 1928 D series (pretty beat up)
1 - 1953

And out of $16.50 in loose half dollars all I found is a 2004-D.

One teller had 2 silver quarters in her tray (both 1964) but she wouldn't sell them to me, she was saving them for someone.

Also found 1 Canadian quarter (1980) and 1 Canadian nickel (1979) in the garbage can next to the coin machine when cashing in rejects.

I'll update on the other bags when finished.

 

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[HobBob]

Sweet! That's a great selection and range of wheaties. I would love to find a large quantity of pennies that I knew was not someone else's rejects... pennies from a fundraising drive is prime territory!
BTW, hang on to that 1979 Canadian nickel. It's made out of 100% pure nickel, and worth more than 20 cents!
Tough luck about the silver quarters. I had an off-duty teller that I know come up to me in line at the local CU and show me a handful of silver quarters that she had snatched up from an old lady that came in that day and turned them in for face value. Her grandfather had (quite wisely) advised her to hold on to them. I offered to buy them from her, but she wasn't interested...
Hope the rest of the penny hunt turns out even better.
HH,
Bob

 

[scotto]

Nice haul of wheaties.

 

[LJ]

You are a wheat magnet......nice job. Keep us posted on the balance.

 

[Immy]

Outstanding GMan! Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Can't wait for the rest of the results...

 

[Pennyworth]

You have some dream bag of pennies there. Well in all my dreams that is! LOL Congratulations on all the wheaties and foreign coins you have found so far. I'll keep my eyes open for the next batch of wheatie results. Good luck

 

[GMan00001]

Finished two more bags
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* Bag 4
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16 wheat pennies (1937, 1940-D, 1940-S, 1942, 1944, 1944-D, 1945(2), 1950-D, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953-D(2), 1955-D, 1956-D(2))

28 Canadian (1958, 1961, 1964, 1972, 1976(2), 1977, 1978(3), 1979, 1980(4), 1983(2), 1984, 1985, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006)

1 Foreign
Germany, 2 Euro Cent (2002-D)

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* Bag 5
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1 indian head (1883) <---ties my oldest coin found CRH'ing and is my oldest penny.

13 wheat pennies (1929, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945-D, 1946-D, 1952-D, 1954-D, 1955-D(2), 1956-D, 1958-D(2))

36 Canadian (1944, 1957, 1963, 1964(2), 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977(2), 1978(2), 1979(2), 1980, 1981(2), 1983(2), 1984(2), 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993(2), 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003-P)

1 Foreign
Germany, 5 Pfennig (1978-F)

Only the 1 - $25 bag left.

 

[Pennyworth]

Oh WOW you found an Indian Head penny! You also found a nice S mints again and more foreign coins! Congratulations!!!! Love the IH!

Waiting for the last bag now.

 

[GMan00001]

Finished the last $25 bag of pennies

8 wheat pennies (1944-S, 1945-D, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953-D(3), 1955-D)

15 Canadian (1962, 1972, 1977, 1978(2), 9181(2), 1983(2), 1985, 1989, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2003-P)



So the totals from the 27,500 cents:
1 Indian head cent
98 wheat cents
162 Canadian pennies
12 Foreign coins

And 111 Memorial S-mints (1968-1974)

Time to go find some more to search.....

 

[Pennyworth]

You had a good run with all of those bag of pennies! I agree go get some more. I'm doing that today as well. LOL