1949 Wheat Penny

Found this in a roll of pennies at work.

CTA Fare Token

This is an old Chicago Bus Fare token. I'm only going to scan one side because it's exactly the same on both. Totally love the little radioactive shape cut out in the middle. It's pretty funny I just pulled this out of the box because I was just in Chicago earlier this year and now they use those little magnetic strip cards. I was totally the person always putting the card in the machine wrong and holding up the entire line. Apparently tokens stopped being used in June 1999 so this was made some time before that. Siiiiigh.

1952 Wheat Penny

A 1952 D wheat penny, all the way from Denver, Colorado. I have no idea whats up with who delivers the coins to my store. Its a weird day when I can't find at least one wheat penny.

1945 Wheat Penny

This is a 1945 s Wheat Penny that I found today at work. It's not worth all that much but I think it's a year I don't already have a wheat penny for, so that's nice. It was minted in San Francisco, California during World War II. It's the only one out of the many Wheat Pennies I have that is from that mint, too.

1930 Buffalo Nickle

 This is the Buffalo Nickle I found today in a roll of coins at work. It's in pretty amazing condition considering it's been in circulation. It's the second one I have, and the first is in a lot worse condition. I'd been thinking of starting a blog about my coins for a while now and this set it off. I mean, I don't really collect American money over anything else. Most of my collection is foreign. It's just crazy looking through money people use and finding something like this- it makes me think of what hadn't happened when this was made. No World War II for instance. The Dust Bowl hasn't even started yet, though it's well on it's way. Pluto was confirmed as a planet that year. And it's right there in a roll of nickles. Crazy.