Change find earlier today...

Weiss

Got the heart beating a little fast. Saw the reverse first and just figured it for a '40s or '50s...

fcloud

Someone must have scraped off the D

DCW

Gotta love finding a coin 96 years old in change! I think the chances of pulling old coins out of circulation increases durig hard economic times like these.

JRocco

Nice find Weiss

melvin289

Gee that coin is almost as old as I am. Good eye to spot it.

Ron

WaterSport

Way Cool!

WS

TwoSides2aCoin

NCLT

Weiss

<< <i>Someone must have scraped off the D >>



MUST have. You can guess how many angles and magnifications I tried for that little tiny "d"

ricko

Nice find.... always a pleasant surprise. I still get wheaties in change here, about one a week. Cheers, RickO

RebelRon

Wheaties are getting few and far between now days. For some reason,when I get one in change,I can actually feel (with out looking) a Wheatie in my hand. It's like a sixth sense!

Weiss

You know what's sad? I actually think "SCORE!" when I get pre-82 cents back in change.

TwoSides2aCoin

<< <i>You know what's sad? I actually think "SCORE!" when I get pre-82 cents back in change. >>





I don't mean to laugh.

SanctionII

Nice pick up.

Interesting that your initial thought, from seeing the reverse of the coin, is that the coin was a wheat cent from the 1940's or 1950's.

Whenever I find a wheat cent in change and look at the reverse first, if I see wear like that shown in the pictured coin I immediately suspect a date prior to the 1940's. Rarely have I found any wheat cent from the 1940's or 1950's that exhibits such a high degree of wear. The earlier, pre 1940 Lincolns are much more likely to show this type of wear since a cent actually had some significant purchasing power prior to to WWII. Thus they actually circulated in the stream of daily commerce instead of being released by the mint and shortly thereafter being tossed in a jar or lost in a couch. Pre WWII cents actually spent decades in service and as a result have suffered a much higher degree of wear than cents made in from the 1940's forward.

Maybe your experience is different from mine, but when I see a wheat cent reverse that has such a high degree of wear I always get excited about flipping it over and probably seeing a date from the 1930's on back to 1909.

Way to go on your circulation find

IrishMikey

As I was passing one of the CoinStar machines at our local Safeway last week, I watched someone
emptying a freezer bag of cents into the chute, and many of the coins appeared to be Wheat cents.
Too late to say anything to them, unfortunately, and I'm not sure how I would have phrased it if I saw
the coins before they dumped them. Wonder how many mini-hoards like this are being cashed in lately?

johnny9434

nice pick up. wish it was a d mintmark but ya cant have everything in life either.

zap1111

Those mushy wheat stalks made me think 1920s - I got a 1920 in change a few years back. Getting a 1914 is very cool, in a nerdy, coin collecting kind of way. Well done. And lucky.
zap

Swampboy

Coupla pocket change finds.