Good Morning, everyone! How fun to get a 1945 cent in change at the local CVS this morning, still with a little mint luster! What's this coin's story?
I come across pennies like this one in my pocket change occasionally. What I don't understand is how can it be lustrous & shinny but also with so much wear and tear from circulation at the same time. Sometimes I wonder if these such circulated coins have then been cleaned or plated.
With the current economic situation many people are cashing in piggy banks and other accumulations. I see a lot of very nice coins when I do get rolls from the bank.
Always a possibility. For something like this, though, I would also accept "found between the cushions of the old couch" and the like.
I always look for the more exciting possibilities, such as for example: was on the floor board of a 67 VW Samba Microbus Deluxe that traveled to Woodstock and hasn't left the barn until recently. Or: was lodged in the seabag of a naval officer who was on the first nuclear submarine to be submerged for more then 90 days consecutively and just recently emptied out the bag to find this penny at the very bottom. Or: On the set of the Andy Griffith show, this penny was change Andy got when he bought four apples for 9 cents with a dime. The apples were used in the episode where the passing stranger of the town eventually attempted to peel the entire apple with the skin all in just one piece. The penny was in a drawer at his house all these years and only recently was found and put back into circulation. For sure, whatever the case may be, if coins could talk, what stories they'd be able to share.
Or the Twenty Cent piece that I got in change from an old vendor pushing a vegetable cart down the alley. He gave it to me in lieu of a quarter. That made the change to my mother short 5 cents. As I guessed, I was told to put it in my collection.
