1909 find

[GGerrands]

Found a 1909 wheat, no S and no VDB but still in VF-20 condition. Quite pleased; it's going in the whitman folder. Might be worth about $5 retail.

Been building up a backlog of boxes of unsorted pennies to justify getting a Ryedale. I sorted one box that had over 40% copper! So nice to find one with that kind of percentage. Otherwise been getting about 15% steadily. I keep track of my boxes on notecards, and I've sorted over 100.

Currently I'm picking up $200 every 2 weeks, in boxes. I'd like to up that to $200 a week, from 2 different banks, by New Years. Started this hobby about a year ago and still enjoying it very much.

[bigjohn56]

Great find on the 1909. How many wheats have you been finding per box?

I just started three weeks ago and sort $100 per week. Bought a used Ryedale here on RC. Running 29% copper so far.

Also picked up a used Brandt coin sorter/counter. Great machine.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Cool find!

I love any grade 1909's!

Don't forget that we have a tracking thread for 09's!

[Sheba]

Congratulations on the 1909 find. That is exciting to find that date in the condition you found yours. Keep up the great work!!!!

[GGerrands]

Re:BigJohn56 "How many wheats do you find per box?" A: I don't keep an exact count of wheats or copper 82's I find per box, but I would estimate 10-15. Like 1 wheat every 5 rolls. My best box had almost 50 wheats in it, and some have none or just one or two.

I'm going to mosey on over to the tracking thread. One of these days I'm going to get my scanner out of storage and put up some photos of these things!

[GGerrands]

Been hitting a rich vein of wheats in my latest box. Around 1 per roll instead of 1 every 5 rolls.
Found a 5 cent Australian coin, same diameter as penny. Is there a tracking thread for non U.S./canadian cents somewhere? I did a quick search but none jumped out at me.

In tangential news, I got the opportunity to be a mystery shopper at my credit union. It's only $10 per evaluation, but my withdrawal took the form of $61.50 in CWR's, and I know I'll get +$10 value added in addition to the value add from the copper in those rolls. =)

Update: Finding an abundance of foreign coins in these CWR's. I've found a couple of 2 cent Euro coins before, but found the slightly bigger and thicker 10 cent piece. Also found a 1975 Guatemalan centavo; it's a beautiful coin. Finding coins like that and wheats are what makes hand sorting exciting to me.

Not my actual coin, but same date (mine is too worn to read all of the reverse motto):


Edit Monday, 10.15.12: Found an older 1957 Republica Dominicana centavo in machine-wrapped rolls! Since numi value was low, did a quick soak in some salad basalmic vinegar to better read date. Image is not of my coin, but same type and year.


Edit Friday, 11.23.12: Found a Swedish 50 ore coin in a roll of machine wrapped pennies. Similar to this, year 2004.

[avidbrandy]

Nice job. I've still yet to find my first.

[scyther]

Nice job. I've still yet to find my first.

Me too! As my signature indicates, I've (hand) searched over 120,000 pennies in the last six months or so, but I have still not found a 1909. Or a 1910. Or a lot of other early wheat years! I know it's extremely unlikely that I'll ever find a 1909 S VDB, or even a normal VDB, or probably even a normal S, but is a plain 1909 too much to ask? I never imagined that the most common variety from that year would be this had to find. And the sad thing is, the last 2 bags I searched didn't have any coins from before 1940. Not one solitary 1909-1939 out of 10,000 coins! Plenty of 1956 though

Of course for me, collecting is just a byproduct of copper hunting, but if I were trying to collect for it's own sake, I would have given up long ago. Trying to fill out a wheat penny collection, even excluding key dates, "from the wild", takes forever!

[scyther]

Nice find by the way.

[GGerrands]

Found a 1909 VDB to go with my 1909 sans VDB. It was also sans "S" though!

Re: scyther \/\/\/ ah, the joy is in the pursuit! (:

[scyther]

Found a 1909 VDB to go with my 1909 sans VDB. It was also sans "S" though!

Better than plain, which itself is pretty good. Maybe soon you'll find one with an S, and then, after that...

[jacks2start]

i'll take the 1909 if you wanting to sell it

[twoten01]

Nice find, I hand sort at least $150 a week(I usually pull a ton of copper per year), so far this year I have found 1 1909, and 1 1909 VDB, I also just got another 1909 VDB back from Wendy's in change on Friday, still has its orginal luster. I have great luck with wheats I average around 25 per box now( down from almost 50 earlier in the year),for some reason I find quite a few 1919, usually 2-3 per week, the box I am doing now, I just had a 1910, and a 1919 in the same roll.

They come in bunches, so just keep sorting, and you never know you may find a 1909-s VDB

[scyther]

Nice find, I hand sort at least $150 a week(I usually pull a ton of copper per year), so far this year I have found 1 1909, and 1 1909 VDB, I also just got another 1909 VDB back from Wendy's in change on Friday, still has its orginal luster. I have great luck with wheats I average around 25 per box now( down from almost 50 earlier in the year),for some reason I find quite a few 1919, usually 2-3 per week, the box I am doing now, I just had a 1910, and a 1919 in the same roll.

They come in bunches, so just keep sorting, and you never know you may find a 1909-s VDB

Wow. What part of the country are you in?

I average about 25 per bag, and anything pre-30 is quite rare. I do find that 1919 is the most common though; I think I have 5 or 6 so far.