Since I started metal detecting last year, I've been saving any penny I find that is 1982 or older. Just because they are made out of copper and the ones newer than 1982 are made out of zinc. While playing golf last Thursday at Iroquois GC, one of the guys I was playing with, Bruce, had marked my ball for me with a penny. When I picked it up to give back to him I remarked "That's a good penny, a 1963!" So, he gave it to me and told me he had a big can full of pennies at home that if I wanted to go through them he'd bring them the next time we played. Well, I couldn't turn down that deal. So, today he had them with him. I told him I replace any of the ones I wanted to keep and would roll them for him. Just now started to look through them and there are a lot of pre-1982. I'm hoping to find a few 'wheat' pennies. I'll have a follow up blog on what I find and how much money this is. I can tell you it weighs about 33-34 pounds!
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This project sure must be interesting...keeping him occupied down at his desk.
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