Nice Wheatie found in change

Not best condition, but they are still out there! (Best I could do with scanner. 1909 S VDB Wheatie.)

 

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Amazing! It gives hope to the rest of us searching through cents! Thanks for sharing it.

Is it damaged on the obverse? It looks corroded or dipped in acid or something because of the "pittyness"

 

It is definately a bit worn. I think it has been traveling in change for almost a hundred years so is showing its wear (PLus my scanner's glass is probably dusty) All of the wheat shafts/vert lines are visible, but it has basic worn in change look to it. If I look REAL close, I see a few tiny pits on it. I enlarged it to about 300% so it looks a bit worse than it appears by eye. Plus it blurs it out a bit (Or pixelates it...whatever the tech term is. I have to get a camera to get better pics)

No complants here!

 

Hey seeker007,

I'm not trying to be the party pooper here, please don't take it that way. If this is real it would be a great find!:thumb:

However this is a highly counterfeited coin. I would get it checked out. Also, my opinion only, it could be stolen. I would think the odds of finding 1909 in circulation would be outrageous.

With that said I found a 1909 VDB once in a change till at Pizza Hut that was in XF. Almost surely stolen.

So if it is genuine, and truly has been circulating for 97 years, then hats off to you. You are very lucky, and I'm jealous!

Michael

 

Stolen or not, nice find. I highly doubt that a AG 09 s vdb would have been counterfeit. If it was stolen why spend it?

 

From the sounds of it, being able to see separate wheat lines, the grade should be at least good to fine? Which would put the price around $700-$900 right? Seems like a good reason to counterfeit.

As far as being stolen, not all thieves want numismatic value. Some just want enough to buy candy.

Or a third possibility I just thought of is a collector, a very generous collector, could have put it in circulation. We just had a coin shop here in Colorado dump 10 1914 D Lincolns into circulation. He was celebrating 10 years in business.

Michael

 

I think the odds are better here of finding weird stuff ( I have found a few wheaties in change) because of all the older folks and tourists that come through here. Tourist area. I bet Branson, Missouri would be a great place to look! I will have this coin checked out though just to be sure.

seeker007

 

Seeker:
Great Find! (Where is here that you refer to?) Also, generally is has been known that stolen coins are not necessarily going to be sold for numismatic value, but often just spent.
Also, Christmas time is when many old coin jars are 'cashed in' and the money used for gift shopping. So, the opportunity for some old coins coming out in better at this time of year than any other.
Also: Why Branson. MO? As opposed to New York City? Lots of tourists there.

 

Do people really bring pennies with them on vacation to spend?? I have gone on alot of vacation and never bought change with me to spend.

 

Don't forget the collector who put one of these in circulation in March in NYC... also a 1909-S Indian Head Cent if I recall correctly, and a couple of other cents. Maybe you got that 09S VDB that was placed in circulation. I don't remember hearing or reading that anyone got it, although I certainly could have missed the story.

I remember the story was covered pretty extensively in the New York news media. I happened to be traveling on business at the time and the story was in "high rotation" on New York's news radio stations.

 

the chances of a good coin slipping through a city full of investement bankers and accountants is slim

 

Here - Las Vegas . I thought Branson would be a good place to look because the average age there is a bit older in general.

 

Ah, Las Vegas, they have periodic large coin shows. Who knows, it may have been a 'coin drop' done for publicity and no one picked it out until you came along.

 

Where ever it came from, it made my day!

 

Can you post a picture of the whole coin, front and back? Thanks!

 

The chances of a City full of Invesment bankers and accountants knowing a good coin is slimmer---

Speedy

 

That's an amazing find! :thumb: Statistically, I suppose I don't see why it couldn't happen.

 

There is still a chance that some old lady spent her deceased husbands collection. Which I am sure happens a lot more than we hear about.

 

Got to go with Speedy on his post investment bankers and accountants carry credit cards not change and not much cash either. Good find on the 1909-s vdb and if it is not real you have on one and I don't you lucky guy.:thumb:

 

OLd times on wall street evetiably become familiar with coins as it is part of the Wall Street Culture. That is changing today, not so much because of plastic as much as because the internet has spread Wall Street out and there is less of a culture every day. But there is a reason why The American Numismatic Society is on Williams Street aside fromt he cheap realestate!