I need to come clean, A give away (TOTAL 1589 Indians, Winner is MrPaseo and Smittys

fishteeth · July 29, 2008 11:48AM

Well the total in the pile ended up as 1589.
MrPasseo guessed 1587 and Smittys 1577.

Thanks for all the guesses

I like to pass my self off as a bust half addict and lover of draped and capped bust coinage.

For the most part this is true. I do have a dirty little secret that I have been too Embarrased to tell my fellow bust half collectors:

I LOVE CIRCULATED INDIAN HEAD PENNIES. Ever since I was a kid in the 80's getting into this hobby I have always been drawn to them.
There is, in my opinion, nothing better looking than a perfect G-VG chocholate brown Indian Penny.
Well In the past few years I have accumulated a fair number of perfect G-F coins (Some not so perfect too). How many, I have no idea.

My fiance was just going through my closest, cleaning out to make room for the eventual melding of our stuff.
My stuff keeps losing out to her stuff. Well she came across this box of Indian head pennies, she knows I collect coins and she even
somewhat encourages it (keeps me out of her hair). The box of pennies was too much for her, now I have to box them up and do something with them.

First thing will involve counting them.

HERE IS THE GIVE AWAY PART.

Closest person to the correct number in this pile will recieve a 1909 VDB in somewhere around MS62 mostly red, picture at bottom of post.
The second place person will recieve a roll of damaged indian head cents that they should spend in increments to hopefully create some new circualted indiand head cent lovers

You need to realize this pile is almost 3 inches deep in places