Find The Wheat

MentalUnrest · Mar 21, 2013

Looking through dimes, I spot an oddity in this roll. Can you spot it?

I have found many of these shaved pennies in dime rolls. This makes my 2nd Wheatie I have found in this condition. I'm just glad it was not a key date.

mountainman 2 · Mar 21, 2013

22nd one down

OnARoll · Mar 21, 2013

pretty sweet you got a free penny in your dime roll, even sweeter that its a wheatie!

sagittarius98 · Mar 21, 2013

Most of these cents were shaved down for people who wanted to pass them as dimes in vending machines. There is a good chance it was done when wheat cents were in general circulation.

MentalUnrest · Mar 21, 2013

sagittarius98 said:
Most of these cents were shaved down for people who wanted to pass them as dimes in vending machines. There is a good chance it was done when wheat cents were in general circulation.

Interesting theory. I have come across at over 100 of these in the past years and could never think of why people would shave down pennies.