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A find in change yesterday...

DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
As we all do, I looked through my change when I returned home yesterday and found a wheat cent.

When I turned it over, at first I thought I saw 1922... no D. I wasn't in good light and I'm sure there's an argument for getting reading glasses. But when I saw it my heart skipped a beat. I got in better light and saw it was actually a 1944. image Bummer!!

I was half right though... it was a no D. image

Dan

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  • You just found it 22 years too late.

    A wheat is a wheat! image
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    DAM good find...true a wheat is a wheat but your likely to find a 44 P because there were 1.4 billion (that's a lot for that era) minted in Phillly.
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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Veryimageimageimage

    Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014

  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,945 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So now I suppose this proud survivor, doing commerce through the waning days of WW2, a young red whippersnapper.... Created from the very shell cases that blew the pants off the Nazis......this proud coin worked hard for a half a century. Enduring and outlasting all of its friends...an old worn out old man....his last gasps at commerce, now reduced in buying power to 1/20th of what he ONCE could do....like an old relic valued more for his copper than his importance~~~~~~and now you have taken him and chucked him into a cAn. So sad so sad
  • Sweet find.
  • bob48bob48 Posts: 460 ✭✭✭
    Amazing find, just two days ago I found his sister a 1944-S
    Bob

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  • DAMDAM Posts: 2,410 ✭✭
    So now I suppose this proud survivor, doing commerce through the waning days of WW2, a young red whippersnapper.... Created from the very shell cases that blew the pants off the Nazis......this proud coin worked hard for a half a century. Enduring and outlasting all of its friends...an old worn out old man....his last gasps at commerce, now reduced in buying power to 1/20th of what he ONCE could do....like an old relic valued more for his copper than his importance~~~~~~and now you have taken him and chucked him into a cAn. So sad so sad


    Actually he resides in a place of prominence on my counter top. Waiting to be placed back into circulation, to be found again. This time, hopefully, by a young person who's interest in collecting will be sparked, because of him.

    Dan
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wheat cent finds are cool, I find an average of two a month in change. So far, no rarities, but I look at them all - and save them. Cheers, RickO
  • bob48bob48 Posts: 460 ✭✭✭
    You guys are right, When I did some shows I handed out wheat backs to all the kids that came to the show and stopped at my table. I should put a few of these a month into circulation again. I just don't want the cashier to pocket them.
    Thanks for the Idea. I have had a can of them for years doing nothing in my closet.
    Bob
    Bob

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  • AMRCAMRC Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That very thing happens alot when searching lots even with glasses on! Amazing how for just a brief moment we see what we want to see.
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