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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 24686060, member: 10461&quot;]Interesting.&nbsp; I&#039;d say they&#039;re worth more as curiosities as they would be just being common Wheats with a minor issue. The graffiti is kind of a plus in a weird way.</p><p><br /></p><p>My speculation is that they were used to draw lots.&nbsp; Thrown in a hat with the people&#039;s names written on them, and pulled out to select the winner (or loser) of whatever they were drawing lots for.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting how they&#039;ve stayed together all these years.&nbsp; Whatever source your Wheat bucket came from must not have been picked over or dispersed much in over a long period.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1938-D &quot;Winn&quot; piece looks high grade, and the fact that they&#039;re all prewar dates (including some scarcer Depression-era dates) leads me to believe that whatever these folks were drawing lots for, they were doing it around the WW2 era, or not much later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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