IS COIN SEARCHING A WORLDWIDE ACTIVITY?

How many years has it been since you searched rolls of coins you got from the bank or some other source?

As a high school junior in 1946 I remember taking my pay envelope from the local A&P where I stocked shelves to the bank and bought as many nickel rolls as I could. In those days half the rolls were Buffalo nickels, with an occasional Liberty Head. That was F - U - N !

I have read recent articles of people searching coin rolls for scarce or unusual coins. This in English speaking countries, Australia, India and England.

This week I read an article of a Canadian with a new twist. He wanted to search a million cents. He had only $5,000 so he settled for half a million. He obtained 10,000 rolls from "a local coin processor" and began going through them manually one roll at a time.

Some looked on him as weird, others called him "Crazy Penny Sorter." He knew of a machine -- a Ryedale -- to aid in sorting old pennies from new. This machine was invented by Michigan collector Andrew Redlon (reported here in E-Sylum, Vol 11, No 15, Article 17, April 13, 2008). This machine will separate out both Canadian and American copper cents from more recently issued zinc variety.

But Crazy Penny Guy -- whose name was not released -- won't use the machine. He does it all manually. What's different he has found a sponsor, and has established his own blog to report on what he finds. Most impressive to date? A 1955 double die cent! Now who's crazy?

He's not forming a collection. He's selling off interesting specimens he finds.

Read the article, but also click on his blog at the end: "Crazy" Penny Sorter Pledges To Hand-Sort 10,000 Rolls (empowerednews.net/%E2%80%9Ccrazy%E2%80%9D
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Wayne Homren, Editor

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