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Pillar of the Community
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nice finds for Canada. I live in the US and haven't found a Wheat cent in ... I can't remember. |
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DVCollector, email received and replied to. And the newer dates circulate in abundance unless a rarity so not hard to scoop any of those for you too so make sure you add those to your list and I'll see what I've got, or what to watch for.  Robbudo, that's amazing you don't find more Wheaties at all, but then its hard to find a lot of the 1940's Canadians and I've yet to find any from the 1930's at all!! I guess a whole lot of people hang onto the Wheaties now so not many escape getting into someones collectings. I may get luckier now since just starting to actively buy and search a few rolls from the bank every month now and I'm sure to find something as I buy the change people bring into the bank, not new or from the mint rolls ones. I'm after the older stuff and thats where I'd find any, face value too so what a deal |
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Make that 10 Wheaties so far. Just received 3 in the mail today from other forum member/s whose names I won't mention in here without clearing that with them first ... but thank you to them for nurturing this newbie along :) So here are my 10 ... new ones added today in bold1920 1943 STEELIE! hurrah the FIRST I've ever seen in real life 1944 1946 D 1951 1955 D 1955 D in WAY MUCH better condition than any I have! 1957 1958 1958 D in WAY MUCH better condition than any I have! There is something exciting and great fun about beginning a collection starting from zero ... getting your first coin, then the next and .... then next ... and experiencing it growing.
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10/26/2010 4:43 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Dottir: I was up grading a few cent yesterday and found out one of the ones I was removing had a lamination peel on it. Thought you might like to take a look.  Didn't notice it till I check to see which one was better and this one was retired. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Nice one, Coop  The photos you post are great. Sure beats scanner images that look so unatural and so hard to show a sense of the real color of coins. Cameras are better for sure. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Coop does great with the metallic effects on these pictures.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Yes. Sure does :) My first response when I saw the lamination was to think about my own big foldover one I posted recently and what immediately pooped into my head as a comeback to the lamination was: "Mines bigger than YOURS nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah |
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Dottir, you asked about the color of your 1946 cent. To me, it looks like the coin has been cleaned at some point in its life. That sort of soft pink that creeps in is a telltale sign of copper cleaner. It does not look recent but I think that is the explanation for its unique color compared to the other coins. While the color varies slightly from brass to bronze as the composition changes, that does not account for the color of the 1946 example. From WWII until the change to copper plated zinc in 1982, the exact composition of the cent has not been a matter of public record and even the amount of copper has, in some years, deviated from the 95% standard. The 2009 proof and uncirculated strike cents do use the same 95-3-2 composition as was used in 1909-1942.
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Thanks for all your feedback about my 1946. I really have been wondering about the coloring of it. And its definately shades of pale strange pink. Coins can sure turn incredible colors depending on environmental things, can't they? Some seem like beautiful, or even ugly LOL very creative impressionistic paintings. Painterly. I do find them all fascinating. I'm strange, I know My 1959 is my ochre Lincoln desktop at the moment   |
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 United States
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Environmental conditions have made this coin what it is.
I'd have to call environmental damage (to it's surfaces).
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It's definately corroding. Too bad its in such bad shape considering how hard Wheaties are to come by up here in circulation, but thats what you get a lot of in circulating coins. Wear and tear. In and of themselves, they're great in any condition. I guess it depends what a person collects them for.
I can see that a lot of people probably try to collect every year and keep replacing coin slots with better shape coins as they come along, improving the quality as they go?
I wonder if a lot of people collect coins to build sets to sell "as sets" (I'm guessing many do) I think I'd like to have my own keeper sets to pass down to my kid/s, while also collecting to trade or sell. This interest seems to just naturally lead me that way.
I'm not thinking to deeply about where I might go or end up, am just running with things
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Okay, a little Wheaties update here. October 23rd? I started this thread with 7 Wheaties to my name. Since then I found a few more (VERY few) in rolls or pennies I bought from the neighbors, and I received the rest in the mail over the last couple of months. Here is what I have as far as Wheaties go. Looking VERY good  WHEATS: 1910 x4 1911 x2 1914 x2 1916 1916 D 1917 1917 D 1918 x2 1919 x2 1919 S x3 1920 x2 1921 1923 x3 1924 1925 1926 x2 1926 D 1927 1928 x2 1929 x2 1929 D 1030 x2 1930 D 1934 1935 x3 1935 D 1935 S 1936 x3 1937 x2 1938 1939 x2 1939 S 1940 x7 1941 x5 1942 x4 1943 x2 Steelie 1943 D Steelie 1944 x4 1944 D 1944 S 1945 x8 1946 x2 1946 D 1949 x3 1951 1951 D 1951 S 1952 1955 1955 D x3 1956 1957 x3 1957 D x2 1958 D x2 1959 1959 D It feels great to finally have them logged again, including all the additions past 7! and up to date as far as dates and Mints I have so far. I DO love finding coins in rolls or change though, but for the wheats, they are hard to come by that way, so I very much thank anyone who sent me some of their old extras. I've come a long way baby from 7 Wheaties so far ... ya dig?  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Wow...that's great! Now that I've moved in, I wonder what I have to fill the gaps?
I don't have any extra 1909 or 1914-D cents, sadly.
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United States
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keep searching....you will find them
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thanks Bluemule31! I do love the hunt through rolls and change, love the rush when I spot something unusual or hard to come by, like a kid gets on a treasure hunt. Thats probably why I enjoy the whole search thing ... makes me feel like a kid again. No way will I give up roll searching, it's too much fun!! Can hardly wait until I get a JACKPOT BINGO!  DVC, sounds great!! I'm almost to the point where I know what I've got re the Canadians too, as soon as I finish logging my US coins. Then I can go through the different years to pull coins for the people I'm pulling some for. I though I had lots of both 85 varieties but so far have only seen blunt ones on hand! I think I may have taken a roll of 85's back to the bank by accident last week when I returned $14 of pennies to them when I needed the money. Sigh.  but not to worry, as I'm sure I'll soon have lots of 85's again and hopefully some pointy ones so I can shoot at least one your way. Can't promise perfect coins from old circulating stuff, but will try pick the best of what I've got for folks I send to. There's always an over abundance of 80's and 70's pennies in rolls. |
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