Busy Weekend

This weekend I didn't get too much coin roll hunting (or coin dumping) done. There were too many other things to do. I finished sealing our driveway, installed our dryer, mowed the lawn, and went to a Red Sox game. The environment will suffer a bit now that we won't be using the clothes line. It felt good using it, but it was difficult to find enough sunny weekend days to dry everything.

In the off time I searched 4,360 nickels (2 boxes and some hand rolled). I found one War Time (1943S), nine Canadians, and one US penny. The turnout was a bit light. I did find one really cool nickel that has a double clipped planchet. It is my first such nickel find, so far I've only found two pennies with single clips. I went through these nickels slower as I was looking for certain dates for my trading buddy.

I also went through 12,500 pennies. In them were sixty-six Wheats, one hundred three Canadians, and one Netherlands Antilles 1¢. No new varieties turned up. :(



The Wheat break down over the past two posts was:

1910, 1913, 1919S, 1929, 1930, 1936(2), 1937(2), 1938, 1939(2), 1940(3), 1941(6), 1942, 1944(9), 1945(5), 1946(7), 1946D, 1946S, 1947(2), 1948(3), 1949S, 1950S, 1951(4), 1952(3), 1953(7), 1953D(5), 1954D, 1955, 1955D, 1956, 1956(10), 1957(3), 1957D(8), 1958, 1958D(9)

Tomorrow I am off to Redwood City, CA (near San Fransisco) for a programming conference. I plan to search pennies like crazy. Let's hope some good Wheats with mint marks turn up!

Found: 5 pennies (1 outside Staples, 1 at Home Depot, 1 at Shaw's, 2 on the street near Fenway), 1 foreign coin (a Canadian penny at Shaw's)