Going Through My Father's Wheat Rolls Looking For Minor Errors

My father died in 1999 and I inherited his collection. He was a pastor who, along with my mother, raised eight kids, so he didn't have a lot of money for buying coins.

Back in the 1960s he bought rolls of circulated Wheat Cents and also pulled Wheaties from circulation. I inherited rolls and rolls of these, many in old paper holders held together by stiff tape after a half century. I gave a small plastic tub of them to my young great-nephew last year. He and his father have recently taken up the hobby. The rest have been sitting in my house.

I am now retired and it's a cold January in Wisconsin, so I've spent time these past two weeks going through many of the remaining rolls looking for anything interesting, including minor mint errors.

I probably went through a couple thousand coins and did find about twenty minor errors. Here are the best.

A 1958 with a blob of extra metal under Lincoln's chin.




A 1955 "Poor Man's Double Die" - I know it's not a real error but I did find one.




A 1940-S with a nice reverse Cud. I think it may be CU-1 cent - 1940-S - 11R.




A 1946 with a large reverse lamination.




A red and brown 1957-D with partially filled 9 in the date and B in LIBERTY.




And finally a 1958-D with nice reverse lamination or planchet defect.