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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mickey01023, post: 1044275, member: 19343&quot;]When I was younger my father was an antique auctioneer and one part of&nbsp; the business was to go to homes of people who had passed away, appraise&nbsp; the items in the house that the family didn&#039;t want bring them to auction&nbsp; or just buy the estate if the family didn&#039;t want to be bothered with an&nbsp; auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would help out when I was small by emptying boxes......</p><p><br /></p><p>Jump a head a bit to present day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was in one of my regular coin stores and he had a graded 1909 vbs (i&nbsp; believe) penny and it might have had an obscure mint mark as well. When I&nbsp; was younger I vaguely remember a penny that encased in a plastic type&nbsp; container.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the holiday family came in and I asked one of them if they recall&nbsp; seeing something like that when we were younger. Long story short is&nbsp; YES. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rewind to playing in the boxes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The container the penny was in was 100% unopenable. </p><p><br /></p><p>It seemed like someone got a penny and melted plastic and encased the&nbsp; penny in it. The shape of it was square but the edges were not sharp.&nbsp; The thickness of the container on either size was about the thickness of&nbsp; maybe 3 penny&#039;s tall.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was professionally done, it&#039;s not like someone just melted the&nbsp; plastic and encased it because you could clearly see the penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried everything to open it, I hit it with hammers, rocks, and finally&nbsp; I got mad and just threw it at a tree in my backyard and said screw it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If I recall correctly this penny was definitely a 1909 and the way the&nbsp; container was made it magnified the penny and I&#039;m pretty sure it had&nbsp; SVDB.</p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Can someone tell me if they have seen or know of something like this&nbsp; being done with penny&#039;s that are rare? Pictures would be a great help&nbsp; and if you could show me a picture of a rare penny one one of these that&nbsp; will light a fire under me to go get a metal detector and look for it&nbsp; and I will share profits 50.50.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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