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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/22/2008 : 14:08:00
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I found one...I found one. !!!!
It is 1900. I don't know if it is in that good of shape. It is real red and has a little bit of green on it.
I take it trying to wash it up is a bad idea right?
-SWUSC
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`Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.' Will Rogers
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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swusc
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 14:30:26
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| same box just gave me a 1909 wheat penny. Very worn! |
`Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects.' Will Rogers
"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan, 1966. |
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 Posted - 03/22/2008 : 14:49:27
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| Congratulations!!! I remember the feeling |
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WilliamC
Penny Collector Member
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 15:47:41
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Gee, some folks have all the luck!
I guess I'll have to sort another few hundred dollars of pennies tonight! |
Sorting In Northwest Mississippi |
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PennyProspector
Penny Pincher Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 16:46:25
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swusc Congratulations!
both good finds!! |
Happy Prospecting! |
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wheeler_dealer
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 16:52:41
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Congratulation good find. Finds like that have a way of keeping you motivated. Even motivates the rest of us for whom the Indian head still seems to elude.
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Loophole29
Penny Sorter Member
78 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 17:30:00
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| That's awesome! It never gets old. |
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misteroman
Administrator
USA
2565 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2008 : 23:59:52
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no lil indians in wny yet.
Derek |
Buying CU cents!!!! Paying 1.2 unlimited amounts wanted. Can pick up if near Ohio area. |
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Posted - 03/23/2008 : 21:52:12
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Originally posted by swusc
I take it trying to wash it up is a bad idea right?
congrats on your first indian! normally i would tell people not to clean their old coins. since this is your first indian and it is not a rare date i would try cleaning it just so you can show it as your first find.  |
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jpf231
Penny Collector Member
USA
340 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 11:26:04
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This weekend, within a 5 minute period, I found a blank zinc planchet and a 1909 probably in VG condition. If only the 1909 was a 1909S VDB!!
Happy Hunting - John |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 12:04:03
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| Wow, neato! Congratulations! I think those cents are more beautiful than the silver and gold eagles. |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
629 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 13:33:50
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Congrats!
Clean it, drill a hole in it and wear it around your neck!
You don't plan on selling it anyway, do you? |
Beer is my currency. |
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aboxaweek
Penny Collector Member
USA
326 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 13:52:30
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| Nice find, I'm still waiting for mane to appear. |
*HUCKABEE*
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Posted - 03/25/2008 : 23:39:25
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| cool! i found my first one in my first $20 i searched.. lol. and i found another i forgot about hidden in my hello kitty toy set a couple days ago.. i'm full of them. .. great job! |
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fiatboy
Administrator
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 00:49:24
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Congrats!  |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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fiatboy
Administrator
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 01:18:05
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i found another i forgot about hidden in my hello kitty toy set a couple days ago.
Not to hijack this thread, but I've known some VERY serious collectors of Hello Kitty coins! |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2008 : 21:38:05
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YEAH!!!! My very first indian head found in circulation!!!! I was breaking the rolls open to feed my monster and...pop, there it is staring at me. 1907 in G and to think I only paid $0.01 for it.
YESSSSSSS!!!! I'm part of the club now. Do I get coppers at a discount or wheats, or at least a mug or a T-shirt? |
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El Dee
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2008 : 22:06:08
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Congrats - now you are a member of the Brotherhood.
You get a 10 pound plastic trash bag full of used wrappers. :o) |
Trust the government? Ask an Indian. |
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fiatboy
Administrator
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 22:46:10
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Congrats - now you are a member of the Brotherhood.
You get a 10 pound plastic trash bag full of used wrappers. :o)
Shhh....don't reveal too many of our secrets. |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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wheeler_dealer
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2008 : 23:26:17
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Gotta say I'm jealous. Been sorting so long I lost track and still have found the elusive Indian head in my travels. Guess I'll keep trying, maybe someday I can join the club.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 23:41:05
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Originally posted by Epaphras
YEAH!!!! My very first indian head found in circulation!!!! I was breaking the rolls open to feed my monster and...pop, there it is staring at me. 1907 in G and to think I only paid $0.01 for it.
YESSSSSSS!!!! I'm part of the club now. Do I get coppers at a discount or wheats, or at least a mug or a T-shirt?
Congratulations! I knew you would find one eventually. You get a discount on coppers and a discount on wheats. I can combine shipping with your 10 pound bag of used penny wrappers.. I already have the shipping address.. 
I can't give up the T-shirt though, I only have one of those. It shows a bunch of grinning Indians in a circle looking down. The caption reads "Custer's Last View" 
Welcome to the Club! |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2008 : 06:32:27
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Indian head?? What's that?? Huh....
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams |
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WilliamC
Penny Collector Member
USA
471 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2008 : 10:30:29
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I'm still looking, but truth be told I'm only giving the zincs a cursory once over and I"m not even sorting through the coppers yet.
Now if I could only justify a second Ryedale and calibrate it with a zinc penny. Then the zinc from the first sort could go straight into it and the rare coins would just pop right out!
For me though the game is all about high-throughput. Hopefully there will be some nice old wheats and Indian Heads in the copper I'm hoarding, so I'll find them someday. As for the few that slip through with the zincs, well that's the price I pay for focusing on quantity over quality.
Happy hunting all! |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2008 : 17:20:04
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Originally posted by WilliamC
I'm still looking, but truth be told I'm only giving the zincs a cursory once over and I"m not even sorting through the coppers yet.
Now if I could only justify a second Ryedale and calibrate it with a zinc penny. Then the zinc from the first sort could go straight into it and the rare coins would just pop right out!
For me though the game is all about high-throughput. Hopefully there will be some nice old wheats and Indian Heads in the copper I'm hoarding, so I'll find them someday. As for the few that slip through with the zincs, well that's the price I pay for focusing on quantity over quality.
Happy hunting all!
All I can say to that is, "Yep." I pretty much do the same. I need another....I'm one of those "first-pass-is-a-zinc-pass" guys. I eyeball the zincs as they come out. My problem is the resorting of the coppers. I would just rather sort more zinc out for more capitol. I have a lot of "batches" that need resorted. Who knows what is in them....
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2008 : 17:26:43
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Congratulations on the find. I am jealous. After about a year of hand sorting, I still have not found one. But, if I ever do, I may have it framed and put up in my office somewhere -- even if it is worn nearly flat.
Of all the old coins that are known to still inhabit the "circulated realm," I think the Indian Head penny may be the most difficult to find. I have found Buffalo nickels, silver war nickels, and even Walking Liberty half dollars in boxes of coin, but the Feather Liberty eludes me still! |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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Epaphras
Penny Collector Member
USA
382 Posts |
Posted - 04/01/2008 : 14:15:56
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| Yessss!! Yet again I have found an indian cent 1897 in G. It was at the end of a roll. Now this is starting to get fun! |
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