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Canada
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OK, I am sorry for hogging the Forums this afternoon. I have been doing some hunting while at work (don't tell anyone) shhhh!! Anyway, I just cracked open a penny roll (remember I'm from Canada) And low and behold I found another wheetie (I have found 4 today in about 70 rolls so far). I turned this guy over to see the date, noticing some smudge near the rim between the wheat stalks. AND IT's a 1909(no mm), I flip it back over and ah huh, its a VDB. That's right up here in the Great White North.   What do you think this would grade as? |
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Valued Member
United States
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Wow, nice find!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
1747 Posts |
NOTE: this coin was Saved from being melted by the Bank of Canada. I had just gotten these rolls this past weekend.
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Moderator
 United States
15432 Posts |
Outstanding find  ... I'm guessing VF range with limited experience with the series. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1512 Posts |
That is really cool! Do you collect Lincoln Cents? If not, this would be a great start!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1747 Posts |
I started this whole thing hoarding copper cents, both USA and Canadian, then I started researching and finding some errors, and some varieties (mostly Canadian) I have a good pile of wheats. if I was to start a collection, it would only be the Wheaties (I do own FE's as well as some IHC's) |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2368 Posts |
Incredible piece of history you just rescued here. Love it! |
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Pillar of the Community
Puerto Rico
778 Posts |
Nice find Maybe VF-30  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
898 Posts |
Awesome find, better rescue! I don't even have one of those!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
hANDS dOWN, nice find!
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Nice find! For sure the coin roll hunting community here is only searching/finding a small portion of what gets turned in, but we do what we can. Based on what I have found so far I have to assume that a 1909 s VDB has probably been melted down (at least one but maybe a few based on volume). There may just be one out there, in a jar, or a roll. Just waiting for an uninformed owner to bring it to the bank... I did some math and there were 25,745,247,389 wheat pennies minted (only about 10 billion less than total Canadian small cent mintage). Which means the 1909 S VDB represents only 0.00188% of Wheat cent mintage or 0.00010125% of total Lincoln Cent mintage (not counting 2014). So if the Alloy Recovery Program has melted down 4,000,000,000 pennies (Toronto Sun article July 15,2014) and lets say a conservative 10% of them were US pennies = 400,000,000 (I get a ton of US cents CRH'ing) Take that number and multiply it by 0.0000010125 = 405 1909 S VDB pennies melted down for copper bullion. I don't believe that many have been destroyed but maybe 1/100 that made their way to Canada were negligently discarded leaving us with 4. I'll go with that because it sounds somewhat plausible. Which leaves a completely hypothetical population of 2 1909 S VDB's somewhere out in the wilds of Canada. Unknown and ready to be discovered...or melted. Edited by o-train
09/08/2014 10:57 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
Canadians always get the best wheaties in their rolls! Great catch!
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Moderator
United States
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Nice find! |
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Moderator
United States
56855 Posts |
Very nice find indeed. Question: Why is Canada melting U.S.A. cents? Is that legal? John1  |
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Posted 09/08/2014 6:34 pm
