It always thrilled me as a kid when I got an "S" minted coin no matter what the year. They were few and far between.
Yes! In the day I guess I never thought to keep them. Some are from my dad’s coins he just was emptying pockets I guess lol.
I've been picking Wheaties out of my change for the past 25 - 30 years now and setting them aside. When I'm at the register and I happen to see one in the courteous change bin I'll switch it with a newer penny. As of now I've got about $10 - $15 worth of Wheaties collected in total. I was going through a bunch of them last night and I've got quite a few S mint Wheaties. Specifically a 1918S and four 1919S pennies. Obviously because I'm living in San Francisco has something to do with the frequency of S minted coins that I'm coming across.
I probably shouldn't have even mentioned it, but I looked up the 1944-S and saw there were two known examples of the 1944-S steel cents along with a few steel D's and steel Philadelphia's. Metal Composition: Steel Coated Zinc Diameter: 19 mm Mass Weight: 2.7 gram then the description says there could possibly be more, not that one is likely to be found in the wild. This old dog is Learning all the time.
lol it’s ok. I sissy’s have a magnet close by. Copper but hey, like copper as well althoughhhhh lol one of those would be nice! Thanks for watching out!