I went to my local bank to do a daily morning deposit from work yesterday and I got 4 rolls of pennies to look through for wheaties and whatever else would pop up.
I average about 1 penny for every 5 rolls and it is fun looking when I can't hunt.
Came back to the office and dumped a roll on my desk and got real mad at first because these things were wrecked and unreadable.
I thought some thoughtless Md"er had dug these and did not clean them before dumping them at this bank.
All 4 rolls were exactly the same except for one lone zincoln in the mix.
Upon closer inspection, I realized they weren't dirty, they were rusty!
I took a few out of the pile and looked very closely at the backs and sure enough, every one of these was a 1943 steel war penny.
199 of these, which blew my 1 wheatie per 5 rolls average all to heck.
I tumbled them for awhile and now I can read most of the dates so time to go through them and see what I have.
The teller had more rolls and I tried to get back to the bank all day to see if there were more and maybe some rolls of other denominations but too busy at work.
They are closed today so Monday morning I will be the first one in the door and I will continue this hunt.
Just thought you guys might want to see a couple of pics of some very interesting steel objects.
Pic 1 is from my penny book that I have been dragging around with me for decades.
Those three pennies were found in change back in the early sixties.
It was rare to find them back then, nowadays it is very hard to find wheaties in change, steel ones near impossible.
The other pics are before and after cleaning them up, a bit.
HH
I average about 1 penny for every 5 rolls and it is fun looking when I can't hunt.
Came back to the office and dumped a roll on my desk and got real mad at first because these things were wrecked and unreadable.
I thought some thoughtless Md"er had dug these and did not clean them before dumping them at this bank.
All 4 rolls were exactly the same except for one lone zincoln in the mix.
Upon closer inspection, I realized they weren't dirty, they were rusty!
I took a few out of the pile and looked very closely at the backs and sure enough, every one of these was a 1943 steel war penny.
199 of these, which blew my 1 wheatie per 5 rolls average all to heck.
I tumbled them for awhile and now I can read most of the dates so time to go through them and see what I have.
The teller had more rolls and I tried to get back to the bank all day to see if there were more and maybe some rolls of other denominations but too busy at work.
They are closed today so Monday morning I will be the first one in the door and I will continue this hunt.
Just thought you guys might want to see a couple of pics of some very interesting steel objects.
Pic 1 is from my penny book that I have been dragging around with me for decades.
Those three pennies were found in change back in the early sixties.
It was rare to find them back then, nowadays it is very hard to find wheaties in change, steel ones near impossible.
The other pics are before and after cleaning them up, a bit.
HH
