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GreenSpirit | 08-16-2007 08:20 PM
Made my day Coming home today I stopped at the convenience store and I got a wheat penny in my change. I checked it 'cause it actually felt heavy and had a deep copper color. I guess I'm just easily impressed. A penny from the 1940s! :D

Silver Gorilla | 08-16-2007 10:37 PM
Re: Made my day Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenSpirit (Post 698942) Coming home today I stopped at the convenience store and I got a wheat penny in my change. I checked it 'cause it actually felt heavy and had a deep copper color. I guess I'm just easily impressed. A penny from the 1940s! :D
Hay thats good, But :D to bad it was not the 1943 copper penny.:sarcasm:

GreenSpirit | 08-16-2007 10:58 PM
Re: Made my day Let me check. I left it in the truck.:wink:

Mike C | 08-17-2007 01:42 AM
Re: Made my day I did the same thing today when I went to the bank for some Jefferson dollars. I checked the coin counter machine as it spits out the coins it does not recognise(wheat pennies along with foreign coins). There was a wheat penny in the tray, so I grabbed it up. It's my first wheat, a 1940something tht has seen better days. Oh well, you have to start somewhere. I also found a Jefferson penny replica out of plastic. At first I thought it was real, until I snapped it in two! Ha! Mike C.

Ryedale | 08-17-2007 01:55 AM
Re: Made my day Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike C (Post 699285) I did the same thing today when I went to the bank for some Jefferson dollars. I checked the coin counter machine as it spits out the coins it does not recognise(wheat pennies along with foreign coins). There was a wheat penny in the tray, so I grabbed it up. It's my first wheat, a 1940something tht has seen better days. Oh well, you have to start somewhere. I also found a Jefferson penny replica out of plastic. At first I thought it was real, until I snapped it in two! Ha! Mike C.
A Jefferson penny? I have found the plastic Lincoln memorial cents, but never a Jefferson. The plastic pennies come through the bank sorters, but when I'm sorting they jam my machine as they are to light to feed through. They are sometimes marked with the word "copy" on them.

Mike C | 08-17-2007 10:23 AM
Re: Made my day Yeah, sorry that was a typo. It was a regular plastic penny, but it didn't have "copy" on it.

Big_Rob | 08-17-2007 11:58 AM
Re: Made my day Quote:
Originally Posted by Silver Gorilla (Post 699106) Hay thats good, But :D to bad it was not the 1943 copper penny.:sarcasm:
If I found one of the 40 that are in existence, Id sell it so quick it would make heads spin.

HistoryStudent | 08-17-2007 12:51 PM
Re: Made my day Right when the PTB are thinking about KILLING THE PENNY!

Anty Ep | 08-17-2007 11:13 PM
Re: Made my day hell it makes my day when I find a zinc penny! I found a regular old nickel today and was pretty pleased.

Bullionaire | 08-18-2007 12:03 PM
Re: Made my day During the early 1960's I remember getting a decent 1908 Barber half in change!! Silver dollars were readily available at the banks for a buck a pop....always 1921's or Peace type though. Oh, when money was money....

Highbanker | 08-18-2007 07:29 PM
Re: Made my day Every time I go to my bank to buy FRNs for physical, I ask for 10 or 12 rolls of halves. Evey single time, I hit something......found, for example, 2 90% and 4 40% ....plus a 1988 S proof in the last lot last week of 10 rolls...there's stilla lot out there getting turned in. Urban prospecting.......

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