steel pennies

[Marcel]

How common are these in penny rolls? Should I just bite the bullet and buy some from a coin shop? I've never seen one in circulation in my entire life.

 

[cazisme]

I got one in change from taco bell so they are out there!

 

[Marcel]

Yo quiero steelies! Lol

 

[BuffaloBoy]

They are uncommon. I've been through $1000+ in machine wrapped cents and have found 4 or 5 Indian cents, but never a steel cent. I've found only one steel cent in a customer wrapped roll. Do what makes you happy, I wouldn't personally buy one

 

[hokiemojo]

i agree and disagree with BuffaloBoy. I completely agree that they are nearly impossible to find in machine wrapped rolls. I've been through similar numbers of coins and never found one, but I have found a couple in customer wrapped rolls. I don't usually like customer wrapped rolls because I find that wheats are rare (maybe people save those?). I'm sure others have found the opposite to be true.

The difference in opinion has to do with buying one. They are CHEAP. Go ahead and pick on up if you are interested? A worn coin won't cost more than 25 cents (might be WAY less). That's an easy choice if it will make you happy and give you something to show to people that haven't seen something like it before. He did say do what makes you happy though (so we agree on that point too)!

 

[GlenDronach]

I have found 4 or 5 steel pennies in MWR's and I've been through thousands of $ worth of pennies at this point.

The 2 big reasons are 1 they are a novelty and stand out, and 2 they are magnetic and the machine catches them.

I've found more steel cents in 2 weeks worth of reject finds than I've found in years of roll searching.

 

[WheatWaffle]

Had great luck with steels. Found 3 out of 55 boxes and 5 out of CWR.

 

[Hunter612]

I have went through almost $1000 worth of cents this year, and I have only found one.

 

[Marcel]

Yeah. It just seems that they would stand out, so people might be keeping them. I'm going to keep looking before I cave in!

 

[ugotit22]

Hard to get in machine rolls easier in cwr.
I find most of mine off the coin machine magnet. I've gotten around five rolls since I started huntinf

 

[fistfulladirt]

My best was two solid rolls of steelies, 100 total.

 

[Dozer D]

You will with 99.9% certainty to NEVER find a steel penny in circulation via MWR due to the magnet pulling them out of the batch as they are being counted or rolled. With luck only in CWR.

 

[GlenDronach]

You will with 99.9% certainty to NEVER find a steel penny in circulation via MWR due to the magnet pulling them out of the batch as they are being counted or rolled. With luck only in CWR.

I found two in the same MWR box, never again, but I did find two in a sealed Loomis box. You're right, the .1% chance is really if the equipment isn't sensitive enough to pick up on it.

 

[MIhunter]

As stated above

I have found steel pennies in two places
1) reject tube/tray from coin counter
2) CWR
All together I have found about 18

They are not expensive if you want to buy them, but I would keep looking if I were you.

 

[stefen]

If you want one, your best bet is to buy it from a coin dealer...

Don't waste your time with Ebay or other cyberspace sources...

There may be someone on TN who will give you a freeby...I would but don't have any...

 

[fish on!]

Just go to a bank that has a coin counter with an accessible magnet. I don't search pennies, but I always scrape the magnets at coins counters. My best steel cent find was 8 of them on one magnet. I have a couple rolls of them from the magnets. Or just buy them. As others have said, they are relatively inexpensive.

 

[Zukovsky]

For Christmas last year my dad got me a few boxes of pennies. They were all machine wrapped rolls, I remember because it was the first time I got the non clear-plastic rolls. In the third or fourth to last roll I opened I found a Steele. At first I thought it was a dug zincoln because of how bad it looked haha. It is whiteish blue, and the only way I could identify it as a steel penny is because I saw the tips of the wheat ears on the back and it stuck to a magnet. And that is the story of my first, and only Steelie I've found from circulation.

 

[jrf30]

I have 137-1943 steels, 17-1943D and 17-1943S. Total of 171 steelies. (I do a LOT of pennies though. A lot.) Got 100 in two rolls from a bank a few years back. Of the other 71, I bet 30 of them have been on MAGNETS in the coin dump machine. I get lots of Canadian money there, and some steelies. Got 2 steelies in one day on one machine. Side by side. Always check the magnets if you dump in a coin counting machine. Run your finger underneath (Gently, as staples are there too, as are nails, and if you poke yourself that could be a tetanus shot in the making.) and see what is there.

Oh, and I have one 1943 COPPER penny too. Although my best bet is it began life as a 1948 and someone filed it down to a 1943. It just doesn't look right. :-)

 

[462]

Found one today while detecting! Only way I know it's a steel cent is that it was in the same hole with 4 copper cents.

 

[LuckyCRH]

Did you get your steel cent yet? If not, I can send you one or two.