Cool way to house wheats

[coindood]

49 days have come and gone since last we left our wheatie challenge...so it's update time!

A trio of wheats were among a 16-coin CS haul today. Dates? 1934, 1941, 1941-S.

While it's zilch in the hole-filler department, cool to find nevertheless.

Btw, I found an extra 27-S & 28-S elsewhere in my collection, so I added them to the book and removed them from the main unfound list. It brings the number of empty holes down to 32. Everyone's picks are still intact.

[coindood]

1956-D received in change today. Not a hole-filler but always great to be handed a collectible.

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Check out this beauty! 80 years old and she looks better than some 5-year-old zincolns.

Coinstar comes thru!

Yep, after 204 days I finally fill another hole, and it's the 9th most common wheatie by mintage figures. No winner this round, so all current choices will remain intact unless I hear different. As always, open call for more guesses from anyone who wants to participate. Let's hope it's not the last one we find this year.

[coindood]

A mere 29 days after the 1939-S received its place of honor in my Whitman folder, another joins the ranks.

Coinstar gives up another hole filler today and at 99 million, the 1947-S was a top five contender that went unchosen. So the ranks tighten amongst the guessers. Hopefully one of you emerges victorious in the near future.

[coindood]

We have a winnah!!

Bragging rights goes to sparechange for his choice of a 1950-S, which crossed my palm at work today. It was once again 29 days between discoveries, a trend that hopefully will continue.

All choices have now been deleted, so it's open season to pick another horse. Get in there before the good ones are gone!

[sparechange]

congrats!! Keep up the search. My next pick 1954.

[TXSTARFIRE]

I'll stick with 40-D.

[hirbonzig]

I predict you’ll find a ‘31-S. Might as well think big. I’m rooting for ya! Maybe you’ll find one of those coin drops and find even something better than a ‘31-S!

[coindood]

Friend sold me over $250 in change that her family accumulated over a couple of years. It was a great couple of days sorting.

Scored six wheaties: 1944-D, 1945, 1945-D, 1953-S, 1954-S, 1955-D

But none were hole fillers sadly.

The hunt continues!

[coindood]

Co-worker heard I like coins and gave me her late Dad's partially filled Whitman penny folder.

It had 24 wheats: 41, 41-S, 43, 44, 44-S, 45-S, 46, 47-S, 49-S, 50, 50-D, 51-D, 52, 52-D, 52-S, 53, 53-D, 55-D, 56, 56-D, 57, 57-D, 58, 58-D.

You'd think there'd be at least one hole-filler, right? Afraid not. Still glad to get them.

[coindood]

Coinstar gave up a 1918 wheatie today.

Great that it's a new oldest CS find for the year, not great that it predates the Whitman folder I'm filling.

Still thrilled with the find.

[coindood]

Once or twice a year I find a wheatie actually on the ground and it blows my mind.

Happy to rescue a 1957-D that was in my path to work yesterday.

Not needed for the book but it's a welcome addition to the wheat rolls.

[coindood]

First Coinstar wheaties of the year/decade made their appearances today - 1941-P & D - oh so close to filling a hole in the book.

[coindood]

Yeah!! It took 117 days but here's the first hole-filler of the new decade. This 1937-D goes nicely on page one of my reformatted Whitman, but it came in an orphan! No winner this time unforch. How can the 1942-P be unfound all this time, while something with 1/13th the mintage turns up? Amazing.

All choices will remain intact unless I hear otherwise.

[coindood]

Two more found since the last update, but nothing new for the book.

1909 VDB two weeks ago and 1937 today.

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1952-D on the floor in a grocery store today. Nothing new for the book, but what a disrespectful place for a wheatie!

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1941 today from the Coinstar. Soooo close to a winner. Any day now...

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1929 from Coinstar today, not a winnah. I blame the lack of finds on covid.

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1944-S in the parking lot today. Not a match.

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1940 from the Coinstar today. If only it had a D!

[coindood]

1941 from Coinstar today. Arrgh! We're just missing a winner with these latest finds.

[Morsecode]

Took this from a Take-a-Penny tray this morning. I was looking for a shiny 'heads' up zinc to scratch a lottery ticket (superstition) but right off I thought it was too pretty to be a zinc. Always a jolt to find an AU wheatie.

Minor win on the lottery ticket...

[TXSTARFIRE]

Nice looking cent!

[coindood]

One of these days I'll fill the 1942 hole. Is that day today? Nope, but another hole was filled a mere 281 days since the last discovery, whew!

Yeah baby! This beaten up 1935-D was a Coinstar prize waiting for me today. It was number 8 on the list, yet another winnerless find.

All picks will stay the same unless I hear otherwise. Haven't made a choice? Give it a shot! Why let sparechange have all the glory?

[sparechange]

I'll take it where I can find it!!!