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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 583115, member: 17753&quot;]I found this tonight, in a stash of wheat pennies that I had been mindlessly filling for years (more details after the pix):</p><p><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/sholom/albums/345/6243.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/sholom/albums/345/6244.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, here&#039;s the story:</p><p><br /></p><p>I collected as a kid, and kinda lost interest by the time I was in college (but kept my coin albums).&nbsp; I was strictly-by-the-book collect-from-pocket change collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even after losing interest, I always saved my wheaties, throwing them into a small (like 4&quot; x 6&quot; by 2&quot;) cardboard box.&nbsp; About a month ago, I found that box, and decided to roll them up for safekeeping.&nbsp; I lazily separated them into decades, tossing them into dixie cups -- one for 1909-1919, one for the 1920&#039;s, and so forth.&nbsp; The other night I went through the first cup, putting them into 2x2&#039;s (none of them were worth a whole lot).&nbsp; Tonight (like, just 30 minutes ago), I looked into the 1920&#039;s cup and saw there were only two pennies it it.&nbsp; I put the first one, a 1920-P into a 2x2.&nbsp; I took the second one, the 1924-D, and was mindlessly about to put it into a 2x2 when all of a sudden I thought: &quot;hey! 1924-D!&nbsp; I just saw a thread on that!&quot;&nbsp; I checked my cent album, and there was an empty space for 1924-D.&nbsp; And then, finally, I realized what I had -- the most valuable cent in my collection (hey -- remember I said it was all done via pocket change!&nbsp; well, that, and what my parents gave me 40 years ago, which they collected from pocket change).</p><p><br /></p><p>So -- all I know is that sometime between 1978 and 1999 I found this penny in change, probably only looked at the back of it, and threw it into a box.&nbsp; (And that box survived intact through five moves!)</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s my story and I&#039;m stickin&#039; with it!&nbsp; (It&#039;s by far the most valuable coin I&#039;ve ever found in pocket change.&nbsp; I ain&#039;t never found anything like that before)</p><p><br /></p><p>So -- the back looks like &quot;F-12&quot; or so to me (full lines), but I&#039;m terrible at grading the front.&nbsp; What do y&#039;all think it grades?</p><p><br /></p><p>(The white specks are dirt on the scanner.&nbsp; The color of the cent is a bit darker than the pic).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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