well found this about 2 weeks ago in my change a cleaned 1914 wheat penny the oldest change find of mine yet
you never know what lurks in pocket change, so far this year i have found two 1941 nickels one is a S and the other a P, this coin and a beat up 1946 Wheat penny so far not a bad haul but who knows what else could be lurking out there in pocket change
Your 1914 wheat looks to be vg8, $1.75 listed at NGC. The ‘14-D is the scarce one, but you prove older coins still can be found from pocket change. Nice find...Spark
Nice find. I love the "skipped heart beat" when I find something like that. I just need to be careful I don't have a heart attack. LOL
I remember searching through the contents of a cash register when I was a really young kid, finding a 1916 Merc, turning it over and seeing a mint mark...gulp, and then the letdown when it was an "s"
Just FYI, Brian Allen (@Strike It Rich) the Co-author of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, with Ken Potter, is a member here, but seldom posts.
Well just like the gold rushes, it wasn't the average miners who made most of the money, it was the merchants who sold the supplies...
My apologies if I offend the authors with my opinion. Knowledge can bring riches, but I believe the "golden age" of finding errors and varieties with big premiums in "pocket change" has passed.
True, to a certain extent. But, nowadays, you can still find varieties and errors in modern pocket change...extra thick lettering and numbers, clipped planchets, laminations...even distorted and distended doubling... And, don’t forget what happens when family inherits a collection and don’t know what they have...jmho...Spark