Well, I've decided it's time to look through some of those pennies I've been hoarding all these years. I look through about 500 yesterday and today and found 4 '98 wide AMs. My guess is about 20,000 of em all memorials saved by me over the past 25 years. I hate spending those little buggers.

I know to look for:
98-00 wide AM
92D close AM
95 double die obv
83 double die rev
72 double die obv
70S small date

Anything else I should be looking for?

Here's a look if I can get this right:

Look at all the copper!

WOW!

Holy mother of GOD! That is a lot of freakin' pennies.

There are so many things to look for. Off centers, doubling, planchett errors, I guess you need to check each one. Hey! Have fun while you're at it.

A good optometrist.




Good luck!

60 small date
69s double die obv (worth like $100k good luck)
84 double ear
94 faint extra pillar between the last two pillars on the right side
and 1877.. i guess there's an indian on the front

I'm putting together a run of US cents and a couple I've found are
1999 with the last tail of the second nine faded (at first glance it looked like 1990)
1953 S I've got 1 with a much lower S.
All the examples are in UNC.

Are these known varieties?

Looks like a major project
I wouldn't even do that with wheaties ... I had 110,000 of 'em in bags of 5,000 each and I took 'em all to the local coin shop and sold 'em to the dealer. I think (if I can ever find the darned things in my garage) I may have another eight bags or so ... but there's no way I'm looking through those puppies

Wow jesus. That's something that I have never done before. I have gone through 1,000+ coins before, but nothing like that

Nor have I seen that much coins in a pile either

Seriously... That is a lot of cents...

I know Art mentioned The Off centers already but I will again. Off centers. Even if you dont collect errors, A little set of 4 or 5 nice Off centers goes for $30-$40 on Ebay. Off centers w/ date > Off centers w/o date.

-Bobby

Been there and done that! I had a bunch of pennies left over from a 5 gallon jar that sat in our family store for years. People would drop their extra pennies in there. I spent two winter going through there and found only a few good coins

My advice:
1. Get a 3-5x lens (I think my eyes got worse looking at all those pennies)
2. Do this in the winter night - summer is for being outside!!
3. When you are done with a few pounds - take them to the bank; don't do it all at once! They get a little upset when you walk in with $200 in copper.
4. Get the "Cherry Pickers Guide"


However, good luck looking!!

You before looking:
You after a few days:
You after a few weeks: - notice the larger eye from squinting so much
You after a month of looking:
You after you find that great error coin!:

You have enough copper there to made a transatlantic telegraph wire...

Well, a nice red "P" and send that to me

Banivechi: Hahaha!!!

LOL,

I do believe you have been there. I'm at step 2 now. Don't know if I'll make it to step 5. Maybe if I find something early in the hunt it will motivate me.

If you send them all to me I will help you search through them

That's a lifetime project

Good luck, hope you find some good stuff.