Skunk Bag

This weekend was another busy weekend. My wife was still a little sick so we stayed in town, but we both got some good stuff done. I spent my time painting the trim in our upstairs bathroom and reading about home insulation. The painting is now done, but I still have a lot of touch up work to do and somehow I have to remember how to put back up all of the hardware I took down to make the painting easier.

On Friday I searched 15,550 pennies (4 boxes and some hand rolled). In them I found one hundred twenty-six Wheats, one hundred twenty-two Canadians, three US dimes, and one Bermuda 1¢.

The Wheat breakdown was:

1916, 1919(2), 1920, 1926(2), 1930, 1934, 1936(2), 1937, 1938, 1939(2), 1940, 1941(6), 1942(3), 1942D, 1944(17), 1945(11), 1946(9), 1946S, 1947(2), 1947D, 1948(2), 1949, 1949D, 1950S(2), 1951(2), 1951D, 1952(3), 1952D(3), 1953(6), 1953D, 1953S(2), 1954(2), 1954D(2), 1954S, 1955, 1956(3), 1956D(7), 1957D(7), 1958(3), 1958D(8), 19?3

And then on Saturday morning I looked through 1,160 nickels (hand rolled). They produced one War Time (1943P) and five Canadians.

After dumping my coins on Saturday I looked for halves at a couple of banks. I found 2,018. They all came from one bank. I got some loose halves and a bag. I was all excited when they told me they had a bag I could buy ... dreams of silver, but when I got home I was disappointed to see that it was someone else's waste coins. It was a total skunk. I also found one Eisenhower dollar.

In the past few days I have acquired some coins through trades. Thanks Thom and Chris T! With some help I was able to get two Canadian pennies (1937 and 1938) and one Canadian nickel (1959) I needed.

Found: 4 pennies (2 at Sovereign Bank, 1 in Marlboro center, 1 at Papa Gino's), 1 quarter (at Home Depot)