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Today 11/12/09 14 rolls of halves & a box of pennies(Gold Penny) (Read 165 times)
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Posted Nov 12, 2009, 11:51:48 AM
Did 14 rolls of halves today 4 hand rolled 10 fed wrapped rolls,4 handrolled I got 66x2 40%,67 40%,68 40%. Out of the 10 fed rolls (1) 1964 90%.
Box of pennies
Wheaties
1917
1941
1942
1945
1950
1952Dx2
1954
1956D
1957
1957D
Also found 2009 Type1 & 2009 Type 2.1969 stamped with Abe smoking a pipe.And a gold colored 1978 penny(don't think it's real gold) most likly plated or cleaned somehow?


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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Nov 12, 2009, 12:14:38 PM
http://www.marketintelligence.gold.org/news/2009/11/05/story/13351/artists_gold_penny_found_after_two_years_in_circulation

Maybe it is gold!  Grin
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Nov 12, 2009, 01:06:42 PM
Weigh it.  If it's about 3.11 grams, then it's not gold.  Once in chemistry, we plated pennies with zinc and then put them over a flame and they turned that color.  Afterwards we released them back into circulation.
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