Overload

Last night I had a bit too many coins to go through. I have a personal rule that says I must go through what I've got and dump it before I get more. Fortunately my wife was patient and let me go through some nickels while she finished dinner and while we watched TV. That's love for you! I'll have to slow down some and return the patience.

I first finished searching 10,000 pennies. In them I found fifty-two Wheats, sixty-six Canadians, one Bahama 1¢, and one Bermuda 1¢. No new varieties though ... bummer.

After that I slammed through 2,200 hand rolled nickels. In that mix I got one Buffalo (1919), one War Time (1943P), and thirteen Canadians. The Buffalo is just about dateless, but if you hold it at the right angle you can read 1919 on it. It is tied for my second oldest nickel.

The penny breakdown over the last few days is as follows (I kept trying to will D's and S's on some of these, but it didn't work):

1923
1929
1930
1935
1936
1937 x 2
1940 x 2
1941 x 5
1942
1944 x 5
1944D
1945
1946 x 3
1946D
1947
1949
1950
1951 x 2
1951D
1952
1953 x 2
1953D x 3
1955 x 3
1956
1956D x 4
1957 x 4
1957D x 2
1958
1958D

And one dateless penny that's so corroded you can't read the date. It's at home stuck in a potato. I'm doing an experiment with to see if the potato trick will let me read the date tonight.