Neverman doesn't know the half of it.

I have always loved some of the topics that Neverman has picked for his journal entries but when he talked about spending 2 dollars to get 4 rolls of pennies to search through I laughed my rear end off... but in a good way.

Last year, just about everytime I was on vacation I would spend time (sometimes entire weeks) going to the bank, getting one of those $25 boxes of pennies (50 rolls) and spend the next 4/5 hours searching through pennies. I would then roll them up (after having removed the wheats and the coppers) and take them back to the bank the next day, and get another box. I searched through over 40,000 pennies this way last year. I hate to break it to Never but I never found anything older than 1919 (but I found 2 of those, 1919-P and 1919-S). I did see many things though. Rolls with 49 pennies in them; Rolls with 53 pennies in them. Rolls with 1 or 2 dimes in them. Once, I found an old paper wrapper with "47" written on it. It only had 47 pennies in it. 47 Wheat pennies, the whole roll was wheats, and this was from a bank in 2007. I have canadian pennies for more than half of the years dating from 1950 to 2007 (I forget the precise list). All from bank rolls in Texas.

It's kinda a thankless job. Pennies are dirty. Your fingertips turn black. Copper kinda stinks. Your eyes and back will hurt. Your family will hate you. They'll tell you how you should do something "more productive." But who listens to them anyway....

I've been through $100 boxes in nickels too. I've never gotten around to the boxes of dimes and quarters though.... And you can do all kinds of fun things with the coins... which your family will also hate you for, but they really love you for your "eccentricity."

(Ruler included for size comparison)