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Old Tue Dec 15, 2009, 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap View Post
I used to stop off at the bank after school on Fridays and would check penny rolls. 1944s were so common that they were not set aside. Once in a great while a great find like a 1908 or prior one cent piece would be squirreled away in a roll. Surprised nobody has caught the context. And since we were near the border, King George Canadian pennies were also a nice find.

... "Check penny rolls?"

You would ask for, say, $5 worth of pennies, spill them out on one of the counters, give them the once over, re-roll them (paper tubes back then) and then go back and exchange 'em for bills?
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