Found a Wheat Penny in change today

Got lunch at Wendy's and got a Wheat Cent back in change. I know its only a wheat penny but it's still cool to get one.

 

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I love it when that happens. I get just as excited as I do when I receive an expensive coin that I purchased.

 

Just imagine what that little guy must have been doing these past 63 years and whose hands he may have been in.

 

Haha I got a euro in my change at wendys a few weeks ago.

 

Never gotten a Euro in change except for when I was in Europe this past summer but I have gotten a Mexican peso, Switzerland 10 rappen, and a Somali coin in change during my collecting career. Of course Canada as well.

 

Yes, it is nice to get something like that back in change.

 

I always love finding a wheat cent. The design of the coin is elegant.

I am not sure, because I am not an expert, but does this coin look like an off center strike?

 

I always get excited but can't read the date until I get home and put on my cheater glasses. They are always common dates but they keep me hoping.

 

I'm very glad that this can still happen. It's been about 20 years for me.

 

I still find wheats in my change a few times per year. I’m always torn as to whether to keep them, or whether to return them to circulation so someone else can share in the fun of discovering it in their change or searching through a roll

 

Cool! They are still around.

 

I still receive them in circulation on a regular basis. I do save every one of them.

 

If you can find them Roll searching you can find them in change.

 

I can't say for sure when I last got a wheat cent in change, but my wife got a 1957 Canadian cent in change yesterday. What is so unusual about this is that Canadian coins are so unusual in southern Louisiana that they are a really rare find. I found a Canadian quarter in a Coin Star machine last year, but, to date this latest cent is only the second one found here in the past 40 years.

 

One thing that is better than finding a wheatie in change is finding junk silver in change.

 

Getting Canadian coins in change here in northern Wisconsin isn't unusual. I'm stockpiling all of it in case I have to flee north in the middle of the night.

 

I, as well, really like the wheat-back cent design & not a big fan of the Gasparro
Lincoln memorial reverse. It has always struck me as being too busy, when compared to the elegance of the understated earlier design.
Finding silver in change:
Can't remember having that experience, but when I took up metal detecting many years ago, no one told me that when you dug up a silver coin from soil it comes to light as shiny as the day it was lost. (99% of the times, anyway)
I still remember the thrill of pulling my 1st silver 'find', a 1944-D 'Mercury' dime XF from the local park's gumbo soil... small value but what a Great Thrill..
& so it goes.
Best Wishes to all, these holiday,
J.T.

 

Yup, but only coin collectors search their pocket change for them.

 

Amen to that! Been at least 10 years since I last found a silver coin in change and that was an FDR dime.

 

I always scan the free customer change dishes that are found at many convenience store counters. When I come across one thats loaded to the gills with copper and I need time to rummage through it, I'll tell the clerk that I also want a pack of "Imperial Royale" cigarettes. Now of course, no such brand exists, but it does buy me the time that I need to do my hunting. I once found a dandy rb 15-D wheat that I should get graded one day. Anyway, at the risk of being ridiculed by the "but copper pennies are only an alloy" dude, I must reveal that I do extract all of the copper. Lastly, if I take 8 pennies, I always toss a dime back in, along with any zincons that I may have.