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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Berg, post: 4583699, member: 113214&quot;][ATTACH=full]1135166[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135167[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135168[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135169[/ATTACH] Thanks to everyone who has responded to my post. Yes, I made a mistake and called this a large cent; which I know it is not. After the first comment, I edited the tags and body of the post; however I have not found a way to edit the title. For that I am sorry. Someone also suggested that I buy a Red Book before I buy the coin. That was a bit too abrasive of a comment. I own no less than 5 or 6 Red books. My favorite one is the hard cover signed 2006 edition 2914 of 3000 printed. I have a couple that are very old and I’m sure worth more today than many of my wheat coins! I’ve always collected wheat coins since I was young (born in 1971). They were mostly found in pocket change as a child; so I kept hundreds of them. They are all circulated. It wasn’t until my late 20’s that I even bought coins, and even then I wouldn’t pay much for them. I just bought what I liked to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>This past weekend I was cleaning up a drawer and found a bag of wheat pennies I saved that I had not searched and organized yet. So I asked my 10 yr old daughter to sort them and look them up in the Red Book with me.&nbsp; We had a blast!</p><p><br /></p><p>In that bag she noticed this “error” coin. I had completely forgotten about it. I knew I had found it yrs ago, but never took the time to research it. So we started looking and found no known errors like this for 1951. Then we checked ebay for them and googled for common articles on this coin. That’s when we found this site. So I became a member, just to make the post. It made me wait to post... and a couple days later, here we are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to work as a Laboratory &amp; Quality Assurance Manager at a chemical Plant, so I’m familiar with grams and milligrams an decimal rounding. I no longer have access to those nice scales, but I took your advice to get the weight of this unusual coin.</p><p>I purchased a Taylor Brand scale that reads in 0.5 gm increments and allowed me to tare the tray to 0.0 gm before I started.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I took pics of every weight to help solve this mystery. I weighed the “1951 D error” and it was 3.0 gm (I’ve added two pics of the scale at 3.0 gm with the coin showing its obverse and reverse). I also show a 1982 at 2.5 gm, and a regular wheat penny at 3.0 gm.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1135166[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135167[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135168[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1135169[/ATTACH]</p><p>Although the weight alone is not the only indicator; the fact that this coin’s weight is right is exciting for my daughter and I.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your further comments are appreciated.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>NOTE: please be civil with each other, my 10 yr old daughter is reading these posts too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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