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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

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Hay thats good, But :D to bad it was not the 1943 copper penny.:sarcasm:

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Let me check. I left it in the truck.:wink:

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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.

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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.

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Yeah, sorry that was a typo. It was a regular plastic penny, but it didn't have "copy" on it.

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If I found one of the 40 that are in existence, Id sell it so quick it would make heads spin.

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Right when the PTB are thinking about KILLING THE PENNY!

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hell it makes my day when I find a zinc penny! I found a regular old nickel today and was pretty pleased.

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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....

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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.......