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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;masterswimmer, post: 24662419, member: 102022&quot;]<font size="4">I&#039;ve got one with a story too.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The year was about 1971. I was 12 y/o and was a CIT (Counselor In Training) in the summer day camp I attended as a camper since 1963. During the summer we had an intra-camp competition called Color Wars. There were two teams, red and blue.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">There were many activities during the week of Color War. Swimming races, baseball games, track and field, sing offs, scavenger hunts, and so on.</font></p><p><font size="4">One of the competitions held in the pool was a penny drop. What that entailed was dumping rolls of pennies into the pool, scattered all over the shallow and deep end. The participating campers were to dive in, collect as many pennies off the bottom and bring them to their teams counter. Being a CIT, I was one of the counters.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">As the kids were all doing their thing trying to collect as many pennies as possible I was tallying them up. Now I&#039;ve been &#039;collecting&#039; coins since I was about seven y/o (same age as my grandson is now, who I&#039;ve been introducing to the world of coins), so I was aware of the more rare cents in the collection and always on the lookout for them. Lo and behold I spotted an older looking wheatie. Keep in mind, back in 1971 it wasn&#039;t uncommon to find a good amount of wheatie&#039;s in circulation. Upon further inspection I spotted the infamous 1909, no S <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But I was totally aware of its cousin the VDB. My luck prevailed that day. I&#039;d found a 1909 VDB. I was giddy with joy. After the competition was over I asked the camp director if it was ok for me to keep my coveted find. He was happy seeing the joy on my face and enthusiastically said &#039;of course you can keep it&#039;.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">So without further ado, and boring y&#039;all any further, I present to you my 1909 VDB:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1572257[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]1572258[/ATTACH] </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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