1945 Wheat Penny Error Had For 50 Years

Yes, to the Forum. I too, collected coins for many years. I collected them by date and mint. This place has opened up a whole new world to me, one of Varieties and Errors. If you hang around here, you'll be amazed at how much more enjoyable the hobby can be. your coin is PSD (Post Strike Damage). I also agree with Moxking, while everyone has known it, I believe I was the first one to call him that.

Wow! Good eye Mcshilling. Who would have ever noticed that?

Kind of reminds of a fuse box coin. Thanks, Doug.

I hadn't thought about that in years. We lost a lot of good houses that way.
500 lbs of wheatbacks, (some with wear) = 71,685 pennies = $716.85 = $1,234.48 today's intrinsic value. I don't see how you can go wrong - even after picking out 239 nice ones. You'd better get started right away though, it's going to take a year if you check 196 pennies everyday. lol

Okay Coop. A long time ago, before many of you were born, before brick cell phones, pc's and circuit breakers, houses that had indoor plumbing and electricity, also had fuse boxes. Fuse boxes would interrupt an overload in the electrical system of the house via the "screw in fuse". These little devices, when screwed in, provided an instant disallocation of power to any overloaded circuit. The SIF accomplished this by having the area of least resistance centered at it's core, ie... a tiny piece of metal would melt.
The SIF's were readily available - even at the corner grocery store. Coop would maintain a continuous stock of them, he'd pick some up every time he went to get film for his Brownie camera. I kept them on hand too, as I went with him so I could ask questions about the new Wheatbacks that had just come out. Sadly though, one of our neighbors ran out of SIF's because he had been burning a lot of them up lately. He didn't keep them on hand because he took no pictures and collected no coins. His kitchen circuit went out so he substituted a copper penny - not realizing the penny wouldn't melt like the SIF's. He went to the store, and well, you know the rest of the story.

He probably got back to the house about the time the firetruck got there.

The fuses were not that expensive compared with burning down the house. There were two different sizes. The older style was the ones that they used the cent on. The newer one kept this from happening.

How did the fire deptment prove that they used a cent in the box? It was still there when they did the fire investigation. (Burned a bit)

That's how Archie Bunker started the fire in his house. Edith was pi$$ed...