Box 14 – Coin Roll Hunting $25 in Pennies

I’m Dave Gates and this article series documents my experience coin roll hunting pennies. I initially started coin roll hunting in November of 2017.

After a long break, I’ve decided to get back into the swing of things. It’s a lazy summer day, Sunday July 18, 2021 and I’m searching through pennies. Box 14 was a decent box. Continue reading for the results of this hunt.

Goals for coin roll hunting

Please read my inaugural coin roll article for my goals and thought process. Below is the short version.

1. To have some fun, stay productive and keep busy.
2. Treasure Hunting. Sort of fills that Indiana Jones wanna-be character. Finding treasure is always fun.
3. To build up a copper bullion portfolio. There’s always room for more bullion in my portfolio.

So here is what I found from my fourteenth box of coin roll hunting $25 in pennies.

• $5.98. of copper.
• (16) random wheat pennies.
• (9) Canadian pennies.
• (6) 1959-D.
• (1) 1959.
• (3) nice coins for albums.
• $19.02 of other newer zinc coins which I will return to the bank.

I’m lucky the bank I use has a coin counting machine when returning the zinc pennies, so this won’t cost me. Some banks charge a 10% fee on the amount counted. I believe vending machines like Coin Star are similar.

In fact one reason for starting this project was to keep my cost as minimal as possible. If I had to pay for returning the rejects I don’t think I’d be as agreeable to this project.

CONCLUSION

I’m back on track with this next box of coins. Note to self, and future me, this is a box of pennies I acquired from another local bank (CLBK&Trust) If you have been following along, you’ll know the bank I usually go to, gave me an almost completely new box of coins.

Getting a recent box of coins from a different bank and finding a decent amount of copper was a relief. I was worried for a moment, that my coin roll hunting endeavor was over, but if another bank has circulated pennies, we should be able to continue with this project.

The box I did receive was sealed. I’m not able to see the ends or if the rolls have new or old coins. I really wish I could get pennies in the old style boxes with holes in them. It was much easier to pick out boxes of circulated coins.

I plan to head back to this bank again to hopefully secure more copper. What are you finding in your area? Are all your boxes filled with newer coinage?

Thanks,

Dave