Has anyone found a steel wheat?

[silverlining]

Has anyone found a steely amazingly on its own, or in a sealed cache of any sort?

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

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Has anyone found a steely amazingly on its own, or in a sealed cache of any sort?

There's some problems with this question.

a) the minute anyone one of uses any disc, you will immediately pass it up, like a nail or any other type small iron target.

b) even assuming you were going in all-metal (like in some type of "wide-open" relic mindset, or on the beach with a pulse, etc...), odds are, even if you dug one, you wouldn't recognize it. You'd pitch it out as a steel slug. Because there'd be nothing recognizable left on it. It would appear to be an iron rusting slug. Unless, of course, found underneath a dry building or something, away from soil or moisture.

I found one one, only because it was fused to another '40s wheatie. At there was enough of the iron/steel penny left .... imprint fused on the copper coin against which it laid, that I was able to tell what had happened. But any attempt to separate them, and make out much more than the faint semblence of lincolns face, was fleeting. Just a blotch of rust by the time I began to pick any more at it.

 

[flinthunter]

I found several in the mid 1970"s with my old Whites Coinmaster TR machine (no discrimination). Both were badly rusted but you could just see the outline of Lincolns face. That was 35+ years ago so if they were still in the ground now I would expect them to be just a rusty unidentifiable disc.

 

[cudamark]

I found a few too, about 25 years ago when I got my first pin pointer. Found them with other coins in an old spill. They were rusty but not too bad. We don't get as much rain here! Haven't found one in over 20 years now. Might be because it's hard to find a wheatie coin spill these days or they've finally rusted away.

 

[RobRieman]

I never will. I don't dig small iron targets, but if I did I would only need about a 10' x 10' piece a land to keep me busy for a few hours. Lol

 

[boodan90]

I found 12 of them in an old sucrets box at a house i bought. Still have them... know what they are worth?

 

[Jason in Enid]

I'm pretty sure I dug one last year. The strange thing was that it came in as broken penny signal. When I dug it all I found in the hole was a rusty disc. Absolutely nothing else in or near the hole. The size was right for a cent, it had the remains of an edge on it like a cent, but zero detail.

 

[cudamark]

I never will. I don't dig small iron targets, but if I did I would only need about a 10' x 10' piece a land to keep me busy for a few hours. Lol

I wouldn't have found them with my detector either.....found them with the pin pointer among the other copper coins near by. They made so many of them that they don't have any particular value to them. Even uncirculated, they are only worth a few dollars.

 

[dirtydig]

found this one because it was with another in a spill in a floor so it was protected well the other one i have is from a piggy bank.

 

[Bottlecapbill]

I've found a lot of wheats, even here in Canada. No steel though....I'm hoping to get one in my collection but I'm not holding onto much hope.

 

[xr7ator]

I have found three of them. The first two were back in the 80's and they were found in pocket spills. The first one that I found was at Loretto Heights Collage...there was like 10 or 12 wheats and the rusty disc. That one has fallen into peices...I keep it in a bottle cap now once that I noticed it had broken into mostly two larger pieces just laying in a finds drawer.
The last one I found was in 2011 at a dried up lake bed stuck down in the clay mud. It is a perfect size and the rim looks identical to a cent. This one is in good enough shape that I think I'll rock tumble it and see if any details show.
Pics would help this a bunch...I need to get the camara out.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Has anyone found a steely amazingly on its own, or in a sealed cache of any sort?

Yes, depending on the location and how much trash it contains for instance a local farm, KD, has absolutely zero trash in the fields, therefore I am running hot pretty much all the time.

I have found a steely and a 1909 VDB 1 ft apart from each other...go figure.

 

[BDinutah]

Found this one around an old house years ago, one of my first Minelab Soverign finds.

 

[smokeythecat]

I found one in the Coinstar. Does that count?

 

[RobRieman]

I found one in the Coinstar. Does that count?

Absolutely! The question was has anyone found one. No metal detector was mentioned.

 

[flinthunter]

Absolutely! The question was has anyone found one. No metal detector was mentioned.

If that's the case then yes, I've found quite a few. I started collecting coins in the late 50's and they were fairly common at that time. I saved everyone I can across just because they were different.

 

[MuckyBottles]

any 1955 DDO's?

 

[jeff of pa]

Yes I have found 2 over the years.

Both were found with regular Copper Cents, Or they would not have been found.

Both looked like rusted penny size Slugs.

if not for the fact of it being with a copper penny from the same era ,
I would not have been sure.

sorry I do not remember where I found the second one,
so finding it in my collections would be very hard


Found at a Junior High School 10-25-2000

 

[MuckyBottles]

Yes I have found 2 over the years.

Both were found with regular Copper Cents, Or they would not have been found.

Both looked like rusted penny size Slugs.

if not for the fact of it being with a copper penny from the same era ,
I would not have been sure.

sorry I do not remember where I found the second one,
so finding it in my collections would be very hard

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Found at a Junior High School 10-25-2000

lol They look like semi-burnt oatmeal raisin cookies..

 

[jeff of pa]

lol here is my last Steel Cent Find from 8-12-2012