Still Makes Me Giddy

Even at my age I still get teenager giddy when I empty my pockets in the evening and spot a wheat cent. You would think a fellow would outgrow that sooner or later…. I hope I never do.

 

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I’m the same, Randy! I still tell the story of when I started working in the packaging industry. The break room had a bottled pop machine that would take two quarters and give a nickel back. One day I put my quarters in, selected my pop, and watched a buffalo nickel slide down into the change tray. I about peed myself.

 

That’s the first time I heard that story. How perfect!

 

@Randy Abercrombie, I can’t tell you what you want to hear because I feel the same excitement that you do. It helps to keep me young.

 

Whenever I get a wheatie, I get excited...then I put it right back into circulation so that someone else will also have the same experience.

 

I get the same feeling. Even with silver coins or a proof that made it into circulation. Fun stuff.

 

I get that way finding an Indian Head while detecting.

 

How many people receive it and don't know it's a wheat?

 

Randy, I got giddy seeing YOU get giddy over a wheatie. Me? I need a cigarette after seeing a wheatie, silver any coin, small head currency, etc.

And I not only don't smoke, I've never so much as taken a drag off a cigarette.

So yeah, my heart races just like yours, brother.

 

I think it's a large percentage now. I can't remember the last time I got a wheat in change. It's been many years. My last giddy experience was this war nickel, a bit over a year ago. I noticed it was old, flipped it over, saw the S and went "wow."

 

Ha! I haven't had anything lit between my lips for close to twenty years now. I am waiting for that day my doctor says I only have a week left. I'll head straight to the cigar store to buy up every cigar they got and I will sit out back and smoke myself into oblivion.

 

I do exactly the very same thing. But I also raid the coin dish for wheaties too if I see any in there. I will exchange my coins for them though.

 

You'll end up looking like Cosmo Kramer in short-order.



I say the same thing but only if I win the lottery jackpot.

 

Right there with you.

 

Whenever I get one in change and spot it I can't wait to get home so I can read the date. My eyes aren't terrible but can't read the date on cents without my cheaters or magnifying glass.

 

That is exactly why I stopped collecting small cents.

 

Just found last night on the sidewalk outside the hardware store with a mint, gray Jim Dunlop .88 guitar pick. Found wheat side up. Looks like it only had one or two sidewalk scuffs on the face.

 

I started collecting Wheaties back in the mid to late 90's. Noticed them in my daily change and then started seeing them sitting in change cups at gas stations and convenience stores. I've got a few pounds of them now. Most frequent are the 50's, then 40's, 30's a few dozen 20's and a dozen or so in the teens. The only two errors out of all of that I'm aware of and have looked for are of course the infamous double die 55' and the copper 43'. Got a mess of the poor-man's double die 55's. LOL. Oh yeah and a number of those "BIE" pennies and the weak "4" (1943) steel/zinc pennies. That's about it.

 

What's a "poor man's double die" 1955? I found 5 1955's looking through my wife's penny stash and looked at them under the scope. Sadly I saw nothing of the sort. But not sure what you mean?