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jacer333
Penny Pincher Member
USA
119 Posts |
 Posted - 01/10/2010 : 18:49:43
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I always enjoy the moment of suspense when you crack a box open and see if anything interesting is shining back at you from the end of the rolls. I knew I was in for a ride when I counted 26 rolls showing a wheat penny on the ends. Once the mess was sorted out, I ended up with 562 wheaties from the box! Problem was, these weren't your average circulated wheats. Each wheat had a very shiny pink or gold appearance, and not a terribly attractive one at that. I am trying to figure out what was done to these coins to give them this appearance. If I had one guess, I would say somebody spray painted them or put finger nail polish on them and stashed them away. The majority also had some kind of corrosion and felt lighter than the average coin. Now, someone else must have found them and returned them to the bank, where they ended up in my box. I snapped a picture of the hoard to the best of my abilites.
Anyone have an idea of what happened to these wheats? I assume they are still worth 3 cents a piece though.
Oh, almost forgot....hiding in the last roll of the box was a real beauty: 1906 Indian 
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Shattered
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
523 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 18:59:10
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Wow, that is crazy! You found yourself a little goldmine there.
Maybe someone tried to clean their wheats with something that changed their color. |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 19:14:27
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| were they in the plain brown wrappers? I just got a bunch of cleaned odd-colored wheats in my last box....not as many as you but way more then normal. I don't keep track of how many wheats I find or my copper percentages. |
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Junk Woody
Penny Collector Member
Canada
262 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 19:19:24
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At least they're wheats(and an Indian head)
Keep us posted of any good dates. |
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jacer333
Penny Pincher Member
USA
119 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 19:27:04
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Nah, these were all in the normal machine wrapped rolls I have always gotten from this bank. I have had a standing order there for about a year now, and each previous box had been nywhere from 5-10 wheats. All of the wheats in this box were common dates, post 1940.
Perhaps these were cleaned...it seems that whatever it was, it was done many years ago and these sat in someone's collection for several decades. |
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Dumpster Diver
Penny Collector Member
USA
474 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 21:41:45
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I've seen coins cleaned with jeweler's rouge...gives them a red/pink shiny appearance.
Great find nonetheless! |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2010 : 21:59:32
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| nice score never the less |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 10:29:24
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| Could it have been some sort of chemical reaction from the original paper wrappers they were stored in PRIOR to when they were dumped and ended up in the current wrappers you found them in? |
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 11:21:23
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| Nice wheat score! That box must've been at least 50% CU! That puts my measly 76 wheatie, 43.2% Cu box I sorted last night to shame |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 11:39:40
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| Congrats on the nice find of all the wheats! Sorry I didn't mention it in post above but my brain is still tired from going to the coin show four straight days. Too much for me. |
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Farmall
Penny Pincher Member
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - 01/11/2010 : 19:39:51
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| can't complain about that. |
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marine70
Penny Pincher Member
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 08:33:59
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| Nice find I thought that finding 80 in a box was doing good. I will keep looking for one of your goldmine boxes. You never know whats out there,especially with the economy the way it is. |
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 01/12/2010 : 09:23:27
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| I forget how many wheats I got in my one box but they were exactly like you were describing. I thought they were chemically cleaned or something. I'm pretty sure it was like 1550 or somewhere around there. I remember it was at least 50%. It was also from a penny drie as well |
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Zyll
Penny Pincher Member
USA
214 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 10:11:03
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| I remember a science project in the seventies that showed kids how to clean their pennies by soaking them in vinegar, and I think they turned that color. |
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uthminsta
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 01/12/2010 : 10:40:07
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| So I guess these would qualify as UGLY ABE WHEATS. What a shame. Do you have lacquer thinner? Or something like that... something that would take off the varnish/polish? |
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jacer333
Penny Pincher Member
USA
119 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2010 : 17:03:58
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| Well it is nice to hear others have encountered similar wheats. Cleaning them in this manner must have been popular many years ago. Yes unfortunately, they are ugly abe wheaties, but I can't complain...I'll take the ugliest wheat over the shiniest zinc any day of the week! |
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kirkland
New Member
USA
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Posted - 01/15/2010 : 17:05:34
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| Good find! No matter what has happened to them, they are still wheat pennies! |
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