Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

[Possumguts]

Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

OK, perhaps this doesn't classify as a "cache" because it was not hidden, but most likely lost. I've been hitting an old farm for the past year and have found 2 early coppers, 5 or 6 silvers and some nice relics. The home was built in 1878 and the 88 year old owner has lived there his whole life.

I was checking near the barn today and got a strong signal in the penny range, but when I pinpointed I could tell it was much larger. I decided to dig it because I've found some interesting relics here and cut a 6 inch or so plug. When I pulled the plug I could see 6-8 green penny size coins, all on edge, and I remember thinking, "please let them be Indians". No such luck! But they were all Wheaties!!! I recovered most of them without any further digging, and I got my camera for the Pics. I haven't got them cleaned up yet, but there are 49 of them, and as far as I can tell they are from 1916 to 1957. Earliest dates are a 1916-d, 1919, 1926-d, with the rest being in the 30's, 40's and 50's. (Actually 3 of them are Canadian cents, common in this area, dated in the 40's).

Best I can figure is that someone in the 1950's lost a full roll of cents and the paper wrapper deteriorated in the ground. Enjoy the pics.......


UPDATED PICTURE: AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PICS. Here they are in a case, I lightly used a soft toothbrush and dish detergent, as I wanted to retain the patina.

Note what I think are 3 steel wheaties in the center (corroded) from 1943.

 

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[72cheyenne]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Sheesh, it takes me three months worth of hunting to accumulate that many wheaties. Nice going!

 

[Tank69]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

wow I havent even found one yet an you get a whole tribe in one hidin spot

 

[sscindercoop]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Nice find!!!!

 

[tymcmurray]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Great dig!!!
Have you checked for any key or semi key dates?

 

[spartacus53]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

That was a great hit. I love the pictures of the house and old barn, there may be a roll of silver there too. HH

 

[mlayers]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Now that is the way to dig up the oldies. Nice find........Matt

 

[artzstuff1]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Now thats what I am talkin about!!!!! awsome find,, great pictures also,,, hope ya got a couple of 14-Ds in there!!!!


arthur

 

[Possumguts]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

I've checked the dates (1916-1958) with the earliest being the 16-d, 19, 26-d. There were 3 extremely corroded cents in the roll, and I couldn't quite figure out what caused them to corrode so badly. They are literally unrecognizable as Lincoln cents. It took a while, but as many of us old timers remember that in the 50's & 60's each roll of penny's contained 2 or 3 of the steel war cents dated 1943. I believe that is what these are.

 

[briankb70]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

WOW!!!!
nice spot and great pictures!!!!!

 

[baggerman]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

I've checked the dates (1916-1958) with the earliest being the 16-d, 19, 26-d. There were 3 extremely corroded cents in the roll, and I couldn't quite figure out what caused them to corrode so badly. They are literally unrecognizable as Lincoln cents. It took a while, but as many of us old timers remember that in the 50's & 60's each roll of penny's contained 2 or 3 of the steel war cents dated 1943. I believe that is what these are.

Where I live the ground is so acidic (I think) that most wheats I find are nearly corroded to the point that it is hard to rell what they are.

 

[gmanlight]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Great finds

 

[Rasputin]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm

Great find-- I think I remember someone else recently finding a whole roll of dimes in the same manner.

 

[Possumguts]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

Updated picture

 

[allen]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

id classify that as a cache !!

 

[Goes4ever]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

Great find-- I think I remember someone else recently finding a whole roll of dimes in the same manner.

that was me.......but they were all fairly modern dimes....lol

sweet find, I bet that was a rush to find!

 

[treasurefiend]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

Awesome find for sure!!!! Heck I have only found 50 wheaties all year and you go and find 49 in 1 hole....
Yea those 3 rust ones have to be ole 1943 steel cents, AWESOME!!!!!!

 

[Hunter]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

Nice find!

 

[Johnny Ringo Silver]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC"

Nice job! I bet you were excited. When I turned up a plug full of a bunch of greenies, I thought to myself, "these better not be memorials"lol. Well done on the find. Do you own any good steel cents?
shoot me a personal message if not and i'll send you a nice shiny one to put in that display so people can see what it was before the rusting. 8)

 

[kilmer]

Re: Wheat cent Cache!! Roll of wheaties found dug on an old Farm "UPDATED PIC

Good job! That is a great find. I had a friend years ago who hunted a church yard with a bunch of guys and they all knew where "the piece of pipe" was in the yard. One day he decided to dig it up so it wouldn't bother them and he could look under and around it for other signals. He found a roll of quarters that had been dropped and spread out in a long straight line. His went back to the fifties and most were silver. There were a whole bunch of guys wishing they were the
one who decided to dig the pipe.

HH, Don