finally got the best end of a deal !

mozeppa

bought a bag of "truely un-searched wheat pennies".....thought i was screwed again.


then i found a extremely thin cent in there...(it would take 8 of these to equal the thickness of one regular cent!

followed by a pair of 1956-d/d and s cents....

and now for the biggie!

A 1922 PLAIN!!!!!!............Barely readable but never the less its the real deal!

gonna get it anacs certified...as the reverse wear makes it hard to tell if its strong or weak reverse!

vagal

congrats!!!!

BigGreek

Congrats!

A few years ago I paid $20 for a cigar box full of "unsearched" wheats.
My wife and I had a few nice evenings sorting through them, looking for
rare stuff. There was a beat up VDB in there but it was mostly junk. The
nicest things I got out of deal was this cigar box:

Millertime

Congrats on the find. I recently went through my father-in-laws collection of wheaties, quarters, dimes & nickels. There were about 6 quart size jars all together. All but a dozen or so of the wheaties were 1956-1958. And almost all of everything else was 1963 or 1964. I was all excited about going through it all and I didn't find anything worth looking at.

seanq

Did you check the 1964 cents for the doubled die reverse? There are two major ones for the date and dozens of lesser varieties as well. Same goes for the obverse, there are dozens of doubled dies known. In fact, due to the incredible volumes of the era, you can find nice doubled dies on every denomination in 1964. Heck, some of the Kennedy obverses and Jefferson reverses you can see with a 2x magnifier.


Sean Reynolds

Craton

Your "thin" cent is most certainly an "acid cent". Soaked in some kind of acid long enough to eat away layers of the coin while still leaving the design intact.