300,000+ Pennies Searched, 2,000+ Wheats Found!

This weekend was an extremely busy weekend, both coin roll hunting and otherwise. Despite all the searching I managed to get most of my driveway job done. My wife did a tremendous amount of cooking too, we'll be eating well this week!

After dumping off my waste coins, I went to several banks to pick up some hand rolled coins. At the first bank one teller gave me three half dollars. I saw her pick out about 4-5 silver ones and put them in her drawer. My heart sank. She missed one though, in the three was a 1968D. I went to two other banks and managed to get a big mess of coins, maybe too many coins, I really had to "work" hard to go through them all.

I searched 2,360 hand rolled quarters. In them I only found one US nickel and one US penny. No Canadians even, bummer.

I next went through 7,950 dimes. In them was three silver Rosies (1947D, 1952S, 1963D), ten Canadians, one Barbados 10¢, one Aruba 5¢ (worth 3 cents), one US penny, and one Swiss ½ franc (worth 46 cents). The 1952S was one I needed and so I'm now down to just eight varieties needed!





I also searched 5,520 nickels. In them was two War Times (1942P, 1945P), five Canadians, one Bermuda 5¢, one US dime, one UK 20 pence (worth 41 cents), and one Swiss 20 Rappen.

Lastly I blasted through 13,050 pennies! Not all at once, but it still was a lot. They produced eighty-three Wheats, ninety Canadians, two Bermuda 1¢, one Bahama 1¢, and one US dime. In them I found two I needed, 1917D and 1921.

The wheat break down for the past two posts is:

1910, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1917D, 1919D, 1920(3), 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937(2), 1939, 1940(4), 1941(7), 1941D(2), 1942(2), 1942S, 1944(6), 1944D, 1944S, 1945(9), 1946(14), 1947(2), 1947S, 1948(7), 1949(4), 1950, 1950S, 1951, 1951D(4), 1952(4), 1952D(3), 1953(3), 1953D(6), 1953S(2), 1954, 1955, 1955D, 1955(6), 1956D(8), 1957, 1957D(10), 1958, 1958D(5)

Found: 1 penny (outside Bank of America), 2 dimes (at Sovereign Bank)