Something About A Pretty Red Wheat Cent

Used to be that for me coin collecting was filling books. I never show my wheat cent books because they were mostly filled with school lunch money in the late 60's-early 70's. I was blessed to have a little coin shop between school and my home. His jar was marked three wheats for a nickel as I recall and if I had water instead of milk for lunch, I had me a nickel to spend... I have kept those books humble because they remind me of the coin infatuated kid that lies under sixty-odd years of a wrinkled and grey exterior. So those humble books stay hidden in the safe.

Several weeks back our most generous @lordmarcovan posted a list of giveaway coins and one of the lots was a batch of pretty red wheats. I posted that I would like to win them and update my ancient wheat book, possibly motivating me to update the rest of the book.... Well, what do you suppose showed up in my mailbox a week later? That has to be the most generous man this side of the Mason-Dixon line.... So, I spent a little time updating the book this afternoon.

Before....




And after...





Sure does make a difference! And thank you @lordmarcovan for the upgrade.

 

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Those look awesome! I personally like some variation in my albums, some of the very good to go with some of the hard workers, so yours look perfect in my eyes.

 

Love that 1950!

 

In my folder the Wheat Cents look more like your before photo. Here are a few of the ones I’ve purchased separately but will not place in my folder.

 

I picked this one up years ago for under $5.00 from my LCS.