Look what the grandson found!
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Enlisted the grandkids to sit and help me sort wheat pennies. Great bonding experience to build those lasting memories(I hope!)
I printed out a list of key dates/things to watch for as they're sorting and gave it to them.
"Pepaw, is this one special?"
I tell you, I just allllllllllmost tossed it to the side simply because of the condition, but went ahead and investigated because.... I wanted his time to feel valuable and important to me. Glad I did. 
It's not in the greatest shape, but it was certainly semi-special. Valuable? No, not really. But was worth having one old man and a couple of pre-teen boys get excited about for sure. We went on for the rest of the day, talking about how awesome it was to find such a thing in an old pile of pennies.
Hopefully they remember this for a long time and smile when they recall how excited ole pepaw was over a silly old penny.
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Inherited a few thousand coins from grandparents. Mostly Indian and Lincoln wheats. Trying to learn the art of collecting!!
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Cool!
Cannot get better than that!!!
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The cent may not be worth a lot, but the memories will be priceless!!!
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Awesome story!
And that's how it's done. Plant the seed to carry on our hobby long after we're gone.
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he did good on that one, wtg
I like the patina on that one. Cool find.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
definitely valuable! bonding time
do you have an album they can push it into?
That's awesome all around.
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Awesome find!! I'd get it holdered for him and maybe have something special put on the label. He'll cherish it his whole life.
Very cool find these days.
Only thing better………if it had an. s
Pepaw might have had a heart attack if it had!
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Inherited a few thousand coins from grandparents. Mostly Indian and Lincoln wheats. Trying to learn the art of collecting!!
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He didn't just find a better coin, he found the collecting bug
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That's a great find and very cool that he pulled it to side to ask if it's a keeper!!!
That is great!! I'd have it holdered and give it to him. Hopefully he would treasure it and the memory of finding it with peapaw will stay with him the rest of his life.
Put it in a 2x2 and write the date he found it with Grandpa.
I did that with my daughter years ago when she "found" a minor repunched mint mark on a Lincoln cent.
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This. Doesn’t need a slab. Needs to be touchable so you can feel the history.
I can remember when I found my first (and only) 1909 VDB in a roll. Kennedy was President.
Looks a lot like one of the two 1909V.D.B.s I put into the mix to go back to the Federal Reserve bank in Minneapolis after I had searched a $25 box a few years ago. Good for them for finding a 1909 LC. I never did find a 1909 despite searching many, many bank rolls in the early '60s.
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There’s a lot to like about a find like that and the time spent getting there!
Awesome! Grampa you owe them a couple of chocolate milkshakes
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