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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Checked with a magnet today. It pulled up a few coins from Germany, Bahamas, Netherlands, Canada, and some kind of 2 cent Euro thingy, but the nickel didn't move. Seems like there is no steel in the nickel as tgtshuter implied. The other coins scattered around didn't move either. I think Canada has a thing for coins and magnets. Nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies jumped right on. | |||
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Security Sage |
I have found a couple of wheaties, war nickels (some silver content) and a mercury dime in the last six months or so. Slim pickings. RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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I pay attention to my change as a habit. I see wheats now and then. What I see often enough (but not as often as I'd like) are pre-'82 pennies; they are copper and I keep them separate. I see very little silver (pre-'65), but never fail to notice when I do. | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
Ha, I keep the pre '82 pennies separate too. In fact, some '83 pennies are also copper, but you need a scale or balance to figure out which ones. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
Yep. I have a Canadian stash, a wheat stash and a pre 82 stash. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
Me too! ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr. |
Found a '51 wheatie today. Guess I've got a good bit of them now. | |||
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I have a old cloth change sack that I have been putting pennies in for the last 20 years or maybe more without looking at them first. That bag is getting damn heavy. It would be a major undertaking to sift through that entire bag now. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
My oldest wheats are 1913, 1934 and 1935. I have a bunch of 40's and 50's wheats. Have a couple of seriously worn Buffalo nickels. One the date is completely gone, the other is 1929 as best I can read it. My favorite coin is the 1945 Mecury dime I found while digging in the flower bed in front of the house. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Acid will make the date readable. | |||
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I found a 38 wheat in my change years ago that looks almost new and still come across some every once in awhile The oldest I've gotten in my change is a 1910 wheat back. Worth about a buck but its pretty worn so probably more around a penny. Weirdest coin I've ever gotten in my change was a dime with just 199 on it that worth about a dime. | |||
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| That rug really tied the room together.  |
I have hundreds of dollars worth of change in my house, just sitting there for years and years. So lately, to get rid of it, I found that the Walmart self checkout lanes will accept change. The machines have their own coin sorter and coin counter. Just throw in a few handfuls of change, and it counts it for you. So I grab a pocketful of change every time I go to Walmart, to get rid of all this change. The other day the machine spit out a coin into the "reject" bin. So I put it back in the machine, and it again, spit it out. I looked at the coin and found that it was a 1944 wheat penny in copper. Got all excited, until I found out that the 1944 pennies are worth not much, and were made in copper. The 1943 pennies were made in steel I guess. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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King Nothing |
That's cool they have a machine to pay with change. That's a Smart idea, and much better than taking it to those coin machines that take 10%. I take my change to my bank and they have a coin machine that deposits the total into your account without taking a percentage. ...Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way... | |||
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| The Constable |
Found a steel penny a few weeks ago in change! I was simply amazed. A nice one too, very obviously a grey NOT copper color. Wonder what the story was on that? | |||
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Nosce te ipsum |
No, but if you're using the ashtray for pennies instead of butts, you're probably healthier. Give me unlimited wealth or good health until I'm 99, I'll skip the cash eight days a week. | |||
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