Coin Roll Hunting Wheat Pennies And Old Lincoln Cents In $12 Customer Returned Rolls

 

So today I decided to attempt another customer return coin roll hunting adventure. I went through twelve dollars worth of bank rolls here and I found seven wheat pennies and eight older Lincoln Memorial cents from 1968 to the early 1978. I like to keep these older Lincoln pennies because the value is starting to go up and soon we will be getting good prices for coins that are in good to very fine condition. Most people are overlooking these coins but as wheat penny finds become even more rare you will have to find a way to make your coin roll hunting experience worth you investment of time and I think this is the way to do that. So let's jump in to the goodies I found.

First up we have the four 1940s wheat pennies that I found. The dates are 1941, 1942-D, 1944 and 1946-S. The 1946-S wheat penny looks really interesting to me. The Liberty letters are all off center and the I in 'in god we trust' is pushed down. I'm researching this to see if its a strike error but I have a feeling it's just a dye error and won't be worth anything. Here are the images.

And here is a closer look at the obverse side of the 1946S wheat penny I found. You can see that the lettering is all over the place in this one but I can't find any other example online. I believe it is just a grease error. I am still not very good at taking macro images but here it is.

So now we come to the three 1950s wheat pennies that I found. Nothing really special here. The dates are 1951-D, 1953-D and 1955-D. Nothing really stands out to me but as I've said before my eyes are pretty much dead.

That's pretty much it accept for the older Lincoln Memorial pennies. I'm not going to post them all here but I will show you the oldest one I found. It's a 1968D that I think would qualify as a very fine condition or at least a good condition coin.

That's all for today. I find that breaking my hunts up into smaller sizes helps me to manage these posts better. It means less finds per search but it takes the stress away from taking all the images for so many coins. I hope you don't mind. I do have a hundred dollar penny search that I'm working on for this blog. I'm only halfway done with that one and it's already becoming a pain. Keep on the lookout for it though, I know many of you will enjoy it.

A 1952S Wheat Penny And Very Fine Condition Older Lincoln Cents I Found Coin Roll Hunting

 

I decided to tackle the huge backlog of bank rolls I collected after I cut my finger during the holidays. I couldn't do any coin roll hunting during this time but I've still kept doing pickups at the banks. Now I have several hundred dollars worth of pennies, nickels and dimes to go through.

Today I went through ten dollars worth of pennies. These are all customer returned bankrolls, the problem with these is that you can go through a lot of them and find absolutely nothing. Sometimes you are checking pennies that have already been searched by another collector, at other times you just get unlucky. However, once in awhile you get a good batch and find some really great coins. In these bankrolls I found four wheat pennies they are two 1955D copper pennies, one 1952S penny and a 1942 no mint mark.

I also got lucky and found two older Lincoln Memorial pennies that were in very fine condition or at least very lightly circulated to add to my collection. They are a 1959D and a 1976D. Not old enough to be worth anything yet but I'll hold onto them for awhile and see what they're worth when I retire in twenty years or so.

Huge Wheat Penny Explosion I Found Coin Roll Hunting A 25 Dollar Box Plus Mint Memorials

 

I just got finished coin roll hunting a $25 box of pennies I picked up from the bank. This box was about half machine rolled pennies and half customer returned pennies. Customer returned pennies are kind of a mixed bag. Sometimes you find some really cool things and at other times you are just going through coins that have been searched by another collector. I was just about halfway through this box, mostly opening up the customer returned rolls and I had only found two wheat pennies. I was getting very discouraged, thinking this would be one of those boxes that was a complete waste of my time with little to no value on the return investment of my time.

Then it happened, as I approach the halfway point I began to see two to five wheat pennies dropping in each single bankroll. By the time I was done I had a huge number of 1940s and 1950s old American wheat back pennies. I even had a few that were older than that. I ended up with 22 wheat pennies from the 1940s and 23 wheat pennies from the 1950s. Also there was one penny with so much surface erosion that I could not reasonably make out the date. Here are the images.

These fifty odd wheat penny finds all by themselves would be more than enough from one box. But I found much more. I also found a few older wheat pennies. The dates on these were a 1936-S mint mark and these 1935 and 1937 wheat pennies with no mint marks. The 1936-S is a great find with average condition coins like this one being worth about 55 cents according to the price charts I could find online. Here are the images of these three pennies.

Now this would be enough for any collector. But I found something else amazing in this bank box. I found a ton of 1963 and 1964 mint state Lincoln Memorial pennies. I looked into the history of these mint dates and I found that there are a lot of errors, especially double stamp errors on the dates. Unfortunately these are very hard to see and I don't have a coin microscope or a jewelers lens to thoroughly investigate these other pennies. I will have to wait until I get the funds to buy one, or find someone that can help me identify these.

My mind wants to tell me that these are special coins, especially when you look at the three on the mint date of the 1963 pennies. That's supposed to be where one of the well-known errors is at. Of course with a cheap camera phone there's no way to tell. These images are just coming out weird looking because these pennies are in such good condition they reflect more light. There are 18 of the 1963 mint Lincoln Memorials. Here is the image of the 1963s.

Then we have 37 mint condition or near mint condition 1964-D and 1964 no mint mark pennies. I really think these Memorial pennies look really weird. They almost have that pushed in or indented look. This makes me think that they might be double stamped, there has to be some reason somebody had so many copies of the same coin in a collection. I guess at some point I'll have to get the proper tools to learn the true value of these coins.