kleinerschmitter
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I am so excited everyone, I hardly ever curse and as soon as I confirmed the find, I've had a mouth like a sailor. I'll give you guys the whole scoop. Three weeks ago, my mother who works as the secretary in my dad's Veterinary office told me she found a wheat penny for me in change from a customer. I went home last weekend for some hog hunting on our central Texas ranch, bagged 2 boars by the way 
but she doesn't remember where she put the dang wheat penny for me. This week she finds another one (1941-D) and she ends up putting it in the exact same spot in her junk drawer as the other one, takes both of them out and puts them somewhere she'll remember. I went to Dime Box, Texas this morning to run a little 2 mile race with my mom, and netted $25 from winning the race. Since Dime Box is 5 minutes from my hometown of Lexington, I go back home to unfortunately watch the Aggies get beat by Arkansas 
Here's the great part. My mom brings out some gold jewelry she wants me to send into ARA and sell once gold goes back up in price and I notice there's a couple of wheat in there and she told me it's the wheats she's been collecting for me, I take a look at the first one 1941-D, no big deal there and when I move onto the next one, I can tell it has some corrosion and pitting on it, but at first glance I think I can see "1909" on the front, definitely can't see a mintmark underneath it though because of the corrosion. Turn the penny over and can spot Victor David Brenner's initials on the back, excites me a bit bc now I know for sure it's a 1909 but not really much because I don't think there's any way it would be the rare S-VDB. I ask my dad if he's got any magnifying glasses and goes and gets the one he used for splinters, I take the penny outside into the sunshine and really can't see anything on it so I put it back in with the gold jewelry and my dad and I go back outside and finish some spot welding on a pipe fence we're making around the yard. As we finish and are putting tools up in the garage, I spot an old 600x microscope of his sitting on his desk and get the bright idea to go get the penny. Bam, run to the house, get the penny and run back. I set the microscope to 150x magnification and look into the lens, and right under the date is that beautiful 'S' mintmark, and I am going crazy, I mean literally picking my dad up and cursing at the top of my lungs at him. He has no idea about the value of coins, I picked up collecting from my grandpa on my mom's side, so I get him to look into the microscope and ask him what he sees under the date, he says an 'S' and then I turn it over and show him the bottom of the coin and ask what he see now, he says 'VDB'. Then I tell him that his wife just found the rarest wheat penny ever, and she found it in the wild. This is the find of a lifetime, it's not in the greatest shape but it is not for sale and won't be for a very long time!!!
Mk, now onto the pictures. They were all taken through the microscope with a Kodak 8 megapixel camera. You'll notice an outer ring of black on every picture, that is because the lens of the camera is bigger than the lens of the microscope. The pictures are in no particular order, I have 20 of them. Some aren't zoomed in much, some are zoomed in a lot. This just goes to show that these puppy's are still out there and if I my mom can do it, so can you, never give up! The real kicker is that most people write a check to the Veterinary office, she doesn't even go through that much change, I go through thousands more pennies than she does, you just have to be in the right place at the right time. I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend and Happy Hunting to all!
-Kleinerschmitter
but she doesn't remember where she put the dang wheat penny for me. This week she finds another one (1941-D) and she ends up putting it in the exact same spot in her junk drawer as the other one, takes both of them out and puts them somewhere she'll remember. I went to Dime Box, Texas this morning to run a little 2 mile race with my mom, and netted $25 from winning the race. Since Dime Box is 5 minutes from my hometown of Lexington, I go back home to unfortunately watch the Aggies get beat by Arkansas Here's the great part. My mom brings out some gold jewelry she wants me to send into ARA and sell once gold goes back up in price and I notice there's a couple of wheat in there and she told me it's the wheats she's been collecting for me, I take a look at the first one 1941-D, no big deal there and when I move onto the next one, I can tell it has some corrosion and pitting on it, but at first glance I think I can see "1909" on the front, definitely can't see a mintmark underneath it though because of the corrosion. Turn the penny over and can spot Victor David Brenner's initials on the back, excites me a bit bc now I know for sure it's a 1909 but not really much because I don't think there's any way it would be the rare S-VDB. I ask my dad if he's got any magnifying glasses and goes and gets the one he used for splinters, I take the penny outside into the sunshine and really can't see anything on it so I put it back in with the gold jewelry and my dad and I go back outside and finish some spot welding on a pipe fence we're making around the yard. As we finish and are putting tools up in the garage, I spot an old 600x microscope of his sitting on his desk and get the bright idea to go get the penny. Bam, run to the house, get the penny and run back. I set the microscope to 150x magnification and look into the lens, and right under the date is that beautiful 'S' mintmark, and I am going crazy, I mean literally picking my dad up and cursing at the top of my lungs at him. He has no idea about the value of coins, I picked up collecting from my grandpa on my mom's side, so I get him to look into the microscope and ask him what he sees under the date, he says an 'S' and then I turn it over and show him the bottom of the coin and ask what he see now, he says 'VDB'. Then I tell him that his wife just found the rarest wheat penny ever, and she found it in the wild. This is the find of a lifetime, it's not in the greatest shape but it is not for sale and won't be for a very long time!!!
Mk, now onto the pictures. They were all taken through the microscope with a Kodak 8 megapixel camera. You'll notice an outer ring of black on every picture, that is because the lens of the camera is bigger than the lens of the microscope. The pictures are in no particular order, I have 20 of them. Some aren't zoomed in much, some are zoomed in a lot. This just goes to show that these puppy's are still out there and if I my mom can do it, so can you, never give up! The real kicker is that most people write a check to the Veterinary office, she doesn't even go through that much change, I go through thousands more pennies than she does, you just have to be in the right place at the right time. I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend and Happy Hunting to all!
-Kleinerschmitter
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