I'm shaking I'm so shocked...i just got a 1909 VDB in a roll from my grocery store!!!

On a related note, I found a Columbian quarter mixed in with some foreign coins.

 

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Now that's a cool find.

 

The Isabella Quarter is a great find - and a valuable find. Congrats!

 

I tend to agree... the OP states the roll was approximately 30 years old and contained mostly 1960's and 1970's coins. So you would think the '09 was placed there on purpose.

 

Wow! That's impressive. Nice going.
Lance.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with your skepticism and I totally avoid those rolls on ebay that always claim "Indian head at the end" or "mercury dime in roll". As a matter of fact, I have only purchased one roll of pennies from ebay and it isn't even here yet. I live in a small, rural farming (dairy cows and plenty of Amish) town of maybe 1500 people spread over many, many miles. There have been several elderly members of the community who have recently passed, and the families are currently cleaning out the homes. Everybody really does know everyone in town. As I had previously stated, there was a mix of 60's and 70's in that roll, with the only AU coins being 1980 (2 of them). I also have mentioned on other threads that in our tiny grocery store that I used to work in, I obtained silver certificates that somebody used to purchase groceries. People around here literally don't take the time to understand that there are many coins out there worth more than face value (except our jeopardy champion who had a huge run that got him into the Tournament of Champions last year ) but they are taking notice now and want to learn!

 

Fantastic find!!! :b8nce:

 

Thank you for posting those before and afters because I have hesitated with other coins (72 lincolns especially) but want to give it a try. There were a few times I used the olive oil trick on some introduces and had amazing results, but those were on "mystery" coins that I had nothing to lose on. I'm picking some up Friday when I go to the "city" lol because the nearest coin shops are all within a 40 mile radius of me. I will keep you posted on my results. Thanks again!

 

Thank you, and I get a kick out of hearing (as well as hope!) about similar stories. My husband is starting to learn the terms and what to look for, especially if he wants to see me ha ha, but he gives me all of his change and buys me rolls (like this one!) whenever he remembers. My mom gets rolls and thinks it is "neat"but has no patience for it, and neither does my studious eighteen-year-old daughter. At least my four-year old loves it too and hands me coins whenever he find them so mommy can hoard those too lol. He doesn't know it yet, but this penny is probably going to be saved for him. Who knows what the value will be on it next year, let alone fourteen years from now when they are even harder to find! Good luck to you texmech, and can't wait to hear what your next "big one" is!

 

My question is, are you searching varieties and errors our just the major key dates? Lincolns are fantastic for finding so many things-DDs, RPMs, OMMs, die clashes, WAM, CAM, extra columns, extra fingers (2009-i have one under roll searchers...), and the beat goes on! I just added a 40x 25 mm and a 60x mini microscope to my loupes (also have a 10x21mm and a 30x21mm) because of my vision and the details are so much easier to see, especially when ruling out strike doubling. Maybe its just time to expand what you care searching for. Have fun and good luck!

 

Did you read the OP? This was NOT an ebay roll, it was just a regular roll of cents obtained from a "store". It is an AMAZING find in a plain, old, unseeded roll.

 

The one thing I do know for sure is that this coin was only minutes away from going into the cash register and handed out in change...very possibly ending up damaged or lost. It was a rescue mission lol!

 

Thanks BadThad for catching that, the conspiracy theories were starting! Our grocery store only has four registers (and ten aisles including the deli!) and there was only one cashier at the registers at the time. She told my husband to ask the manager to get some out of the safe because she didn't have any rolls in her register. That means (drum roll please) this roll would have been in her register shortly and who knows where it would have gone. Why would anyone purposely plant this penny and send it to an uncertain-most likely tragic-fate?!

 

+1! :d

 

I was WELL aware that the OPer did not purchase the roll from ebay! I'm also thinking that the roll didn't just "materialize" at that store. It came from somewhere, wouldn't you agree?
The chances of an 09-VDB with luster just sitting around at a bank waiting to be rolled up with modern 60s to 80s cents is pretty slim don't you think? Do you think it accidentally got there? I realize how it got there doesn't make much of a difference. It is what it is now. I'm saying somebody probably bought or made one of those rolls for ebay and it got back to the bank somehow.

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Most likely somebody put the roll together and it got out by accident. Most cents from 1909 don't have luster remaining. Most from the 60s don't have luster remaining. I got a 2010 the other day that looked like it was 50 years old. I'm just saying that it's highly likely that the cent was previously in a collector's possesion, very recently. I've heard of people dumping coins like that back into circulation just to try to promote the hobby by letting somebody find them. That's another likely reason of how it got there. A guy in NY put a 09-S VDB into circulation and publicized it after he did to promote the hobby. It got everybody searching. The last I heard, it was never found.

 

The OPs excitement reminds me of our old friend BNB analytics and his frenzied excitement of making a few bucks on 90% silver. Go figure!

 

Congrats.... That is a sweet looking coin. The point is the OP found it and he is happy he did.

That BNB guy was a little weird.

 

Maybe you aren't a cherrypicker, but coins like this don't turn up very often in change. I would like to hope that you aren't comparing me to someone who apparently got into a "frenzy" but yes, I was excited. I don't buy coins for my collection, and I am building a BU collection from roll searching so YES this was and IS major for me. My grocery store is in a very small town and people simply don't think twice about dumping change a loved one had set aside in a dresser drawer or can once they clean out the house of an elderly family member. No tricks, no conspiracy, no plot to shake up the coin world. Really people?