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Coin Roll Hunting Pennies: What To Look For When Searching Penny Rolls
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Nov 11, 2024
Searching penny rolls is a fun hobby! I've been collecting coins for over 30 years, and it's STILL one of my favorite budget-friendly ways to find valuable pennies. (Almost doubled my money searching through this 1 roll of pennies alone!) I Bought: 1 roll of pennies for 50 cents I Found: AT LEAST 45 cents worth of pennies in this 1 roll In this video, I am showing you which old pennies, key date & semi-key date pennies, error pennies, and pennies with varieties you should be looking for in penny rolls. ➜LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO (in order, actual timestamps below): The very first coin I ever found that got me involved in the hobby was a 1941 Lincoln wheat cent: https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/first_coin-2/ Wheat pennies and their values: https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/wheat_pennies/ Best magnifier for inspecting coins: https://coins.thefuntimesguide.com/best-coin-collecting-magnifiers/ Why you should keep all pre-1983 pennies:
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hi I'm Josh with the fun times guide and
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I have my wife over here Janine and we
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are here to go through a roll of pennies
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now I have done various uh videos before
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on pennies and nickels dimes and
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quarters even half dollars and going
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through rolls um but never actually
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going through the roles on a video so
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thought why not do it right now right so
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my wife uh loves coins as well and uh
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we yeah so we shared interest in coins
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and that's why we're here together doing
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this so we end up going to our local
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bank and ended up buying one roll of
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pennies uh 50 come to a roll 50 cents to
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buy a roll and uh we thought one roll
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because first of all we don't have an
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18-hour video going through a box of
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pennies but also it's more realistic
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that you might go to a grocery store or
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a bank or whatever and pick up a roll or
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two so we thought this might be more
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relatable to those who are going through
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rolls of coins on a more casual basis so
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I think without further Ado we should go
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through this rooll and see if there's
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any uh good coins in here or not let's
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do it now what are we looking
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for
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um I I the copper pennies for sure the
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pre 82
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pennies and wheat cents oh wheat cents
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yes yes like the very first coin I ever
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found that got me involved in the hobby
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was 1941 Lincoln wheat scent that I got
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in my lounge change they really like
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this uh they really seal this roll
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pretty well well let's go ahead and bang
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on the
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table and we almost cracked it we have a
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little tear going on here is that
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seriously how you have to do it well
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depends on the kind of roll you know
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what I'm going to do not as fun going
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tear
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the all right we have a little handy
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dandy table here in front of us
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we're going to stump these coins out of
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the roll and oh I do see some copper in
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here already that's a good start you
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know it's important when you get a roll
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of coins if you're looking for R dates
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and such that hopefully you don't score
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a roll of all in circulated late date
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coins like from last year or from this
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year unless you're looking for new
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varieties and such that has a purpose
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too but if you're looking for old dates
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you want to look for a um privately
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assembled role or uh one that the banks
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put together
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so anything standing out to you so far I
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see a couple of goodies in here at least
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you have a magnifying glass a magnifying
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glass before I can't see you know what I
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didn't happen to bring a magnifying
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glass with me so since my vision might
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be a little bit sharper if you want you
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can go ahead and give those pieces
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you're unsure about to me so what I find
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so far we have a
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1974 Lincoln scent
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now circulated Lincoln sense really from
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59 on
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aren't worth much in terms of value um
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unless they're uncirculated but having
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said that we keep an eye out for the
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pre-1982 Lincoln sense now why
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pr82 1982 was the year the US Mint went
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from using a 95% copper uh composition
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to a basically a zinc core that's plated
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with copper and because copper prices
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have gone up in the last number of years
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any pr82 linol scent uh EX for the 43
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steel cents they're worth money because
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of their copper value alone and as of
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this recording in uh mid 20124 you're
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looking at about 3 cents more or less
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for any pr82 copper scent and I see
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you're pulling out some coins or what do
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you have over there honey uh I'm just
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pulling out the new coins we have a 1981
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linol scent the cusp of the copper uh so
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I know it's not an old coin because of
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the new ones Union Shield yeah the union
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Shield 1979 lincol sent of a copper find
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there and um I don't see any Wheat sense
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yet 1979 this 79 actually if you can
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tell here on the camera is it's
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circulated but it's actually pretty
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lightly worn has some luster to it so we
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have four this looks like it has
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chemical damage a third
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1979 look Lincoln sent chemical damage
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correct oh yeah zinc sents they're
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notorious for their uh corrosion
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issues Let's see we have a 1969 lincol
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sent over
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here so another copper error Lincoln
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sent more so we definitely found some
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copper that's a good that's a good start
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for one roll of pennies now we have a
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1982 Lincoln scent now that's the year
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like I was saying a minute ago that the
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mint went from going from a
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copper based composition to a zinc based
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composition but about uh half more or
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less of those penes from that year are
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copper and the other half more or less
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are zinc so how do you tell a copper 82
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Cent from a zinc 82 Cent well we can
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tell by use of a couple different ways
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if we had a gram scale in front of us
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which I actually have one but it's in a
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different room I don't want to get up
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and all that uh some here in front of
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the camera uh we could be able to weigh
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the 82 Cent and see if it weighs about 3
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to 3.1 G if it weighs 3 to 3.1 G it's a
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copper scent if it weighs 2.5 g more or
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less it's a zinc
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scent uh another way you can tell though
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is if you drop a copper penny on a hard
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surface it'll have like a a slight ring
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to it whereas zinc scents have a
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clicking sound upon contact with the
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hard surface so I'm going to drop now I
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just to show you an example so here's a
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zinc scent right here okay when I drop
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it on this hard surface it'll make a
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kind of a clicking sound he that now
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here is a known copper scent it's 19
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1970 was it three yeah maybe you should
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do it over here because you can't see it
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well that's that's a good point see
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that's why I married her she's very
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smart this will make a ringing sound
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when it hits the heart surface hear that
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very distinctive let's see if this 82
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Cent makes a ringing sound or a clicking
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sound hear that that's copper that's a
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copper 82 Cent so that's definitely a
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keeper any more finds over here hun well
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I found this one got looks like it got
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ran over oh oh my gosh so I know that
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when you ask show everybody that that
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Penny I will so when you ask people on
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when people on the funtimes guide ask
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questions I know that sometimes they're
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excited because they have these marks
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and stuff this one's evident it's like
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yeah that look like it was dropped in
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acid acid or ran over a thousand times
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and then scraped oh my gosh yeah that's
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uh if you're lucky if that's worth face
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value there
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1970 copper sense so we're finding some
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really cool what about copper this one
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has like let me see that one this is
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really dingy n 2003 are you serious
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lincolon I mean it looks it looks
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unusual and some folks might think it
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might be an error because it's like all
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scratched up or whatever but it's just a
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heavily postm damaged I don't even see
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it there in the camera or not you can
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see the green but yeah you can tell it's
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corroded and it has some some pitting
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issues so it's definitely worth facing
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value and nothing more unfortunately is
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this 81 that is an 81 that's the very
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last full year of copper production your
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birth year that's my birth year happy
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birth thank you I just turned
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23 hello I'm not 81 Lincoln said so we
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have 1 2 3 four five six seven eight we
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have Nine co perents so far to
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50 this would be an 82 let's go ahead
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and drop it and see what it sounds like
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in this SE I hear a ring yeah that's
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copper I hear ring that's
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copper pretty cool this is
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1999 uh let me see or 1994 that is
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1999 woohoo senior year of high school
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I I was in seventh grade you were not
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seventh senior 99 no I was in seventh
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eighth grade yeah I robbed the Cradle
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married her not by much we met in our
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30s yes we did I can't read this let me
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see now I will say let me see we have a
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19 a 2007 close I didn't read them we
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have an 84 now the 84 Lincoln sense keep
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an eye on because there is a known
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double die with 84 Lincoln sense um
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looking for a doubled ear and the way
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you would tell a doubled ear 1984
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Lincoln sent is if you look at the lobe
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of Lincoln's ear you would see that
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there's like a doubling like a like a
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second lobe hanging down from I I can
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tell off the bat this is not a doubled
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ear but go to the fun times guy look up
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1984 Lincoln sense and I explain all
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about the 84 double dies and what to
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look for and what they're worth but this
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unfortunately is not an 84 double die so
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we can go and spend that at the store
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next time is
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this that is a 200 let me
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see 2007 that's our second 07 that right
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another Shield another Shield scent
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we're almost out of pennies already a
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1969
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Denver L at another just if you can see
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dirty damaged
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one dirty damaged dirty damaged I wish I
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could find a rainbow 95 rainbow toning
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yeah those are pretty but not not
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chemical 95 l said patin you looking for
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a doubling in the inscription of
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Liberty light and go trust if I know
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anything and I can tell if the bad don't
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see that yes you may okay he's been
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speaking a lot he knows a lot um I'm
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Irish skip to the
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Gap you already were gabbing I know okay
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so everything I know about coins I from
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him
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whoa but I've been with them for eight
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years so
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there's a little bit of time to learn
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look it's 1977 that's the year that both
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of our sets of parents got married yeah
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yes his were it was in July mine was May
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mine was May
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7th learning our whole life St I know I
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know our and our and that 1977 Lincoln
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scent looks like it was just struck
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yesterday it is beautiful I keep love
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that I know I'm like looking
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whole lot isn't it beautiful guys you
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see the luster on that Penny just the
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cartwheel effect is incredible on that
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well it's upside down well I'm sure they
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get the
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idea close enough there we go see it's
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very pretty very pretty and it's a
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copper coin this is my favorite coin
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this I agree and my favorite number is
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seven
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so looking through here there really are
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no other Keepers looking for any dates
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of significance that involve varieties
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1971 Denver Lincoln sent here is the
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copper right
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there uh I think we're near the end of
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the road with our roll the road any
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coppers over there there's a copper 77
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is that a copper so 1999 no that'd be
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about 17 years after the last copper
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circulating sensor made and all the rest
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is Inc yep so we found one a two a three
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a four a five six seven
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eight 9 10 11 12 13 14 copper sents out
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of 50 pennies in that roll really isn't
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too bad it's 995 19995 see the 95 you
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want to look for double die obverse um
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Diagnostics and this is actually a
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Denver and there were no
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signicant double dies from the Denver
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that year is that the 1999 that would be
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a 84 that's the one that we looked for
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that might have had the double deer but
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but unfortunately no um 99 99 999 but I
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will look for 99 is a wide am which
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means so on the reverse of Lan Pena
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1990s there are some variations in how
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close or far the base of the letters A
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and M in the word America are and in the
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case of 1998 99 and 2000 pennies reverse
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if you see like a really wide Gap at the
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base of the A and M in the word America
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they're Keepers because that's a type of
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die that was or designed rather struck
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by a die not intended for circulating
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lincol sense during those years now
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conversely in 1992 you can see me now I
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know the close am Penny would show
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almost no gap between the base of the A
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and M in the word America and those are
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all those are worth thousands of dollars
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but they're very very rare so uh I write
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about those also in the fun times guide
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you can look them up via 1992 linkoln
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Sense on Google type in fun times guide
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you get right to the article that
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explains all about the close a pennies
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and also the wide am pennies for 1998 99
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and 2000 as well as their values what do
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we have there honey I'm trying to figure
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out I think these are the last two the
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last two I just SI through all the ones
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1990 this is a good chance to talk about
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1990 no mintmark penny you many
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questions I've received over the years
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about 1990 pennies that have no mintmark
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people know that they're worth something
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because they've come across it online
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and they want to find out for 1990
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pennies that have no MTM Mark like this
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one which I hope you can
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see we need to get a zoom lens on this
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anyway there's no Mt mark under the 1990
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date on this 90 Penny and a lot of folks
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will ask me if they have the 1990 no s
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Penny now I can tell you that yes this
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1990 Penny and 1999 1990 no s penny of
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Great Value might look kind of the same
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because they don't have a letter in the
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date but this is a Philadelphia mint
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struck 1990 peny and that there are
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there are millions and millions upon
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Millions upon millions of 1990 pennies
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out there that don't have mmark under it
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they're very common they're worth Face
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Value the 1990 no s penny comes in proof
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sets and they look super shiny the
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design of Lincoln has like a frosted
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look to it and the lettering also looks
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frosted you can tell 1990 no s proof
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penny from a 1990 Philadelphia menr
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Penny if you look at the two um online
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actually in my article on 1990 pennies I
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talk all about the N Mark variety what
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to look for with they worth so um great
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example coins to talk about here tonight
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and and uh we made some good fles with
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copper ponies I this is 1995 and I just
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want to show
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you nice
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sh it's really hard to find older zinc
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Lincoln sense that look that good
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because corrosion is a big like I said a
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big problem with zc pennies um but I'll
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tell you what this was a good this was a
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good set of finds nothing super
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extraordinary we're not going to pay the
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mortgage off with the fin tonight but I
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think we did a good job 14 uh right 14 C
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per
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and uh bunch of spending money there for
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our next uh Penny roll run so again Josh
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of the fun times guide my wife Janine
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and we thank you for watching our video
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we hope you like it if you do please
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on the screen sometimes but pack my
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head's always off anyway
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no have a good day guys take care thank
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