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Have the late dates in non-mag, and I will have to check the mag bag for the ones that might be in there. I save up all the magnetic ones that I cannot otherwise spend or get rid of and sell them to family that travels to Canada.

I do save Lincolns and Canada YH that are still bright BU - even found some BU wheaties occasionally. I am taking a bit of a break from CRH this week. Too much other stuff going on.

Original - and Phanagoria - the F A lettres are indicative of the city that issued this coin. Phanagoria coins are a bit scarcer than Olbia, Cheronesos etc but not as scarce as Tyras.

Finished slowly sifting through the $65 in CWR cents 2 pre 1941 - 1916 and 1936 12 40s and 50s 3 68-72 S 1 Canada GVI 1945 17 Canada YH 2 dirty dimes In a lousy mood today. Stupid news from all the chest beating politicians trying to make a war where the world really doesn't need one and worried about our family and friends there.

It doesn't circulate now, inflation rendered it worthless. The Venezuelan Bolivar is worth much less than when it was introduced in 2007.

Banks, especially commercial banks - are a total PITA usually. I have a couple of branches of one large chain where I am "in" with the vault tellers, and they order stuff for me like I am a business paying for it - yeah I am sort of - boxes of candy, gift cards etc. Credit unions are a whole other story - the ones by me otherwise have to ship all their incoming deposit coins off by Brinks etc - and break up the rolls in the process of bagging them - I convinced the vault tellers that that was way too much work and expense of having to ship them off - which they are just too happy to oblige me and call me whenever they have large amounts of coins come in. Boxes of candy are your friend. A bit of charm works too. Working on the cents and have found a few Canuck late dates for you.

5 March $190 CWR 10c - zip, zilch, nada $66 in CWR 5c 7 40s dated coins 2 Canada 65-81 $65 CWR 1c Not thinking I am going to bother searching them - the other rolls above were rather lousy. Not to mention the depositor that rolled the coins taped the ends - heavily which is a complete PITA. So I may slit the rolls and bag them.

It doesn't help that the 1,and 2 euro cent coins are similar enough in size that it adds to confusion when they are not the coins you usually use. The crazy thing is how similar in size and composition the 2 euro cent and the old German 2 pf coins are in size. I have to wonder how many of the 2pf coins are in circulation still - I have gotten them in change. The end of coin change in the military in SE Asia means a whole new range of Pog collectables - something I actively collect.

The problem is that anyone can come along later and drop coins. Even in California some theories about Drake - ie the plate that was found in Drake's Bay in 1930 and said to have been dated 1579 is largely believed to be a forgery now. Another possibility is that river gravel from the Thames was dredged up as ballast for an ocean going ship later on, say in the 19th century and then dumped when the vessel landed in BC - in this way some Roman coins have been found in Bermuda, and other British possessions.

Quick and easy - my iPod, otherwise I have some Fuji type camera I probably could play with to take pictures of coins - I still haven't figgered out out to use these newfangled digital cameras besides my phone and iPod.

I have many thousands of Jeffersons - but like I said in another thread - I dumped all the 1950s P and D into a coin machine last fall. Kept the S mints though.

I would think you would find snowbird's coins down there in FL.

I can help you here - the earlies I will have to dig for, but the late dates are all in a great big bag that I eventually sell off to my mother in law to take back to her homeland.

I know I have plenty of the non-magnetic late dates - the 2011 and 2012 are rather hard to find in steel though, for some curious reason. I know I must have some of the late 1920s and early 30s from circulation finds too - the problem is I put them all in rolls - I usually don't find enough GV stuff that I roll it on it's own and they end up with GVI rolls and I find tonnes more GVI stuff so I have probably at least 20-25 rolls of them from roll searches. I have boxes of 50s rolls of the YH stuff. I get lots of Canadian, probably 5-10% of the change I sift through is Canadian.

You know that '25 is not going to be cheap - the '25 was my best Canadian roll find a few years ago.

90 c Canadian, four ten centers one of which was a dark 1968 which I was hoping was not magnetic but it was, and two quarters including a 2008 Bobsled quarter.

I had to search quite a few rolls to find even that many. I never even found one until 2010 even though I started copper mining back in 2007. I estimate in the past 6-7 years I have sorted through a couple of million cents.

When there is practically nothing, even the smallest bit of candy that you can buy for your lowest denomination coins it is time to eliminate them. Canada started making the 5 c coin out of rolled stainless steel. They eliminated the cent in 2012. For now the cents are still circulating but starting to disappear.

They really just need to eliminate the cent and nickel and stick to minting the dimes and quarters. The dime has the purchasing power of a cent in the 1960s. When the half cent was eliminated in 1856 it had the equivalent purchasing power of approximately a quarter in today's money. We just have gotten too complacent about having nearly worthless coins.

Not in the coin star machine, too many people check those. But I noticed a cent on the floor in our local Target store this evening. It looked a bit dark so my hopes were there, and then I picked it up - a 1951-D. Gosh I love finding old money on the ground.

28 February The credit union cited above, well they pooped out on me and only sold me a small amount of change. $100 CWR in dimes - zilch $20 CWR in nickels: 1 dateless Buffer 1 1939 3 40s $10 CWR in cents 3 40s 50s wheats 1 1970-S 2 Canada YH 1 Canada centennial Rather disappointed and let down, I went to one of my standby banks where the vault teller has boxes of bank wrapped rolls awaiting me every Friday $100 Box of BWR nickels 3 40s 1 1954-S 1 Canada GVI 1938 - in the first roll I opened so I thought it was going to be a good box 1 Canada 65-81 pure nickel - all in all the only find that was exciting was the '38 GVI. $25 Box of BWR Cents 5 40s and 50s wheats. Which ordinarily would have been a disappointing box 4 68-74 S mints 5 Canada YH 1 Canada centennial. Oh and about a third of the way into the box I broke open a roll and spread the coins out and something was piquing my interest: Unfortunately lousy ipawd pictures: It is the third I have found in a month. It is unusual, I first found an IHC in a roll in April 2010 after years of searching. I found two in November of last year, and then three in February of this year. The box of cents would have been another disappointment except for Little Miss Longacre making an appearance.

Called a CU this morning, vault teller not in until 12 noon. Good grief, flipping banker's hours. Call the casino next and see if they have anything. How do you like that last one, came as a surprise when I was up there with my wife - went to the cashier window to see if they had any unusual money - and she said they could sell me all the coins that people turn in - in bags! Now I have businesses, banks, credit unions, schools and a casino as suppliers.

I don't bother to save the 1950s dates unless they are 50-51D and the S mints. I dumped all the other ones in the coin machine back in December - had about $300 worth of 1950s dates. The only date I haven't found is the 50-D, several '39-D and S though.

27 February $25 BWR cents 11 40s and 50s wheats 6 68-74 S mints 3 Canada YH 2 Canada centennial $50 BWR nickels 12 1940s dated coins $60 BWR dimes - zilch $40 CWR halves 1 1968-D - not a bad find considering I only went through 4 rolls and usually don't find anything. Kind of a nice surprise.

Here are mine for the past week: 20 February: $40 CWR-customer wrapped 5 cents: 1 1939 3 1940s dated coins 3 Canada 65-81 pure nickel 2 dimes 1 1986-S Proof $10 CWR Cents 1 Wheat 2 68-74 S 1 Canada GVI 2 Canada YH 1 Dime 21 February $20 CWR 5 cents 1 1940s 1 Canada 65-81 $9 CWR 1 cent 3 41-58 wheats 1 Canada GVI 6 Canada YH 22 February $300 CWR 10 cents 1 1964-D Silver 1 Malta 2 cents 1995 1 UK 5p 1990 $50 CWR 5 cents 1 1945-P Silver 4 1940s $50 CWR 1 cent 1 1936 1 1943 steel, actually pretty nice for a steel cent 1 1946-S 16 other wheat cents 8 68-74 S 13 Canada YH 1 Canada centennial 1967 1 dime 1 UK 1p 2010 1 Germany 2pf 1995-A 22 February OTC over the counter purchase at a financial institution 3 40% silver halves 1965, 1967 and 1968 24 February $200 CWR 10 cents 1 1926 Mercury - only the second I have ever found in roll hunting. 1 Barbados 10 cents 1980 $40 CWR 5 cents 1 1923 Buffalo - looks like it went through a blender though 1 1945-P Silver 1 1941-S 3 40s dated coins 2 Canada 65-81 $50 BWR - bank wrapped rolls - cents 2 1936 1940 17 40s and 50s dated wheats 1 blank unstruck cent! 2 Canada GVI 10 Canada YH 24 February $75 CWR 1 cent 4 1929, 1935, 1936, 1940 20 40s and 50s dated cents 6 68-74 S 4 dimes 10 Canada YH 2 Canada centennial 1 Austria 2 cents 2002 25 February $150 CWR 10 cents 1 Philippines 10 centavos 1944-D silver - a neat little coin:) $40 CWR 5 cents 1 1939 7 1940s coins 1 Canada YH, 1961 26 February $100 bag of cents from a financial institution: 4 1912-D !, 1925, 1936, 1940 29 40s and 50s wheats 12 1968-74 S 1 Canada GVI 1942 16 Canada YH 2 Canada centennial.