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<p>[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 583115, member: 17753"]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'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). 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" x 6" by 2") cardboard box. About a month ago, I found that box, and decided to roll them up for safekeeping. I lazily separated them into decades, tossing them into dixie cups -- one for 1909-1919, one for the 1920's, and so forth. The other night I went through the first cup, putting them into 2x2's (none of them were worth a whole lot). Tonight (like, just 30 minutes ago), I looked into the 1920's cup and saw there were only two pennies it it. I put the first one, a 1920-P into a 2x2. 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: "hey! 1924-D! I just saw a thread on that!" I checked my cent album, and there was an empty space for 1924-D. 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! 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. (And that box survived intact through five moves!)</p><p><br /></p><p>And that's my story and I'm stickin' with it! (It's by far the most valuable coin I've ever found in pocket change. I ain't never found anything like that before)</p><p><br /></p><p>So -- the back looks like "F-12" or so to me (full lines), but I'm terrible at grading the front. What do y'all think it grades?</p><p><br /></p><p>(The white specks are dirt on the scanner. The color of the cent is a bit darker than the pic).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sholom, post: 583115, member: 17753"]I found this tonight, in a stash of wheat pennies that I had been mindlessly filling for years (more details after the pix): [IMG]http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/sholom/albums/345/6243.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/sholom/albums/345/6244.jpg[/IMG] So, here's the story: I collected as a kid, and kinda lost interest by the time I was in college (but kept my coin albums). I was strictly-by-the-book collect-from-pocket change collector. But even after losing interest, I always saved my wheaties, throwing them into a small (like 4" x 6" by 2") cardboard box. About a month ago, I found that box, and decided to roll them up for safekeeping. I lazily separated them into decades, tossing them into dixie cups -- one for 1909-1919, one for the 1920's, and so forth. The other night I went through the first cup, putting them into 2x2's (none of them were worth a whole lot). Tonight (like, just 30 minutes ago), I looked into the 1920's cup and saw there were only two pennies it it. I put the first one, a 1920-P into a 2x2. 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: "hey! 1924-D! I just saw a thread on that!" I checked my cent album, and there was an empty space for 1924-D. 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! well, that, and what my parents gave me 40 years ago, which they collected from pocket change). 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. (And that box survived intact through five moves!) And that's my story and I'm stickin' with it! (It's by far the most valuable coin I've ever found in pocket change. I ain't never found anything like that before) So -- the back looks like "F-12" or so to me (full lines), but I'm terrible at grading the front. What do y'all think it grades? (The white specks are dirt on the scanner. The color of the cent is a bit darker than the pic).[/QUOTE]
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