Back in 1960 when I would daily search rolls of coins in my Dad's store, there were always a few rolls of BU
Lincoln Cent rolls in the drawer which had been gotten from the bank.
In my case they were invariably 1960-D cents.
I just ignored them because I didn't collect errors, and the only Memorial coin I would have pulled would have been the 60-P small date.
One month, in one of my coin magazines, a dealer advertised 1960-D "Cracked Skull" cents for three bucks a pop. His ad had a close-up image of Lincoln's portrait which showed a die crack all the way across Lincoln's head from front to back about midway between the ear and the top of the head.
"Hmmm!", I thought, "maybe I oughta check summa those BU rolls!".
So, time permitting, I would open a roll or two of the 60-Ds and just quick scan portions of the roll from front to back.
This went on for about a week with no results, and I was about to consider it a lost cause.
One day shorty after, there were six rolls of cents in the drawer and four of them were BU 60-D rolls.
"Well," I thought, "I ain't gonna fill any album holes today!".
So I decided to scan through the 60-Ds.
First roll had none.
Second roll had ELEVEN just like the one in the picture!
JACKPOT!!
Third and fourth rolls had TWENTY in each roll!
"WHOA!" "I'm rich! I'm rich!"
I lovingly manipulated the coins into 2x2 envelopes without touching them, planning what I was gonna do with all the money I would make.
As it turned out...the coins were showing up all over town!
Nobody wanted them!
My dreams of wealth went up in flames!!
Steve
Posted 08/06/2007 4:56 pm
