You know you've probably looked through too many wheaties when . . .

Mercfan

This occurs:

Back in February of 2006, I won an auction for over a quarter of a million wheat cents. I had a ball looking through them, and in the process learned a great deal about Lincolns. Among my finds at that time were about sixty errors of various types (clips, planchet flaws, delaminations of all kinds and sizes, filled dies, etc.). One of these errors was a distinctive cud right smack in the middle of Lincoln's hairline on a 1952 cent. As the Philly mint was pounding out almost 187 million of these, one of their obverse dies had (or developed) a chip that left Abe with a prominent and distinctive lump on his noggin on some number of 1952 cents.

This afternoon I was looking through a small batch of wheaties that I acquired a couple weeks ago, and--low and behold--I found a second example of the very same cud. What are the odds!?

Now, if I could only be so fortunate in stumbling across 1914's with that pesky "D" mintmark . . .

zap1111

How's your eyesight?? That's a lot of close-quarters checking...
zap

johnny9434

i hope you find 2 of them 1914 D's

ricko

Wow... that is one pile of cents to go through... I have a lot to look at, but not that many. Cheers, RickO

BryceM

Looking at one per second, it would take more than eight full eight-hour days to check them all. Think you missed anything?

JamesMurray

Looking at one per second = missing all those errors , takes me weeks just to get through a brick of them..can't imagine 50

MacCrimmon

Does your family now call you, Squint?

tahoe98

...now get them ready to examine all over again. this time have your copy of cherrypickers' guide and strike it rich with pocket change next to your side.

tightbudget

The fact that you're now searching for a 1914-D means you've found a 1909-S VDB before?

SaorAlba

I found a '13-S in a lot of 5K that I bought from a board member the other day - and I only did a cursory look through one of the baggies. I wonder if there might be some '14-Ds lurking about in the midst of all the mayhem in my dining room?

pennyannie

My wife loves to go thru bags of wheats, she goes thru them to fast imo and sometimes i just rebag one or 2 to keep her occupied. The biggest issue of late is just finding so called "fresh bags" to buy. My wife has fpound everything except a 09 S vdb and a double die 55. She has put together a roll set of all except 7 of the tough ones. A year ago i stumbled across a dealer that had 150,000 pre 1980 unc Lincolns. They were all uncs and dated from 1940 till 1980. Bought for face and had a blast. She found rolls of large and small dates to 72 double dies.

She asked me about once a week if i have located her any bags to go thru. I see from time to time bags that we have sold on ebay being resold as unsearched bags by people that have bought searched bags from us.

The best bag we have ever come across was from a old time dealer that would take all the old lincoln sets that came thru the door and only pulled the vf+ coins and tossed all the others into a 5 gallon bucket. There were rolls of vdb's and all dates but the tough 7 and even then there were about a dozen of those dates each in ag and damaged.

stealer

<< <i>Looking at one per second, it would take more than eight full eight-hour days to check them all. Think you missed anything? >>




And I had that feeling when I looked through a small lot of ~100 earlier date wheaties

GrumpyEd

I always had good luck finding 1936 and 1941 DDOs in wheat bags.
So many people search for rare dates and mint errors but miss those varieties.

I can't resist searching once in a while!