Find The Wheat

MentalUnrest

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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.
 

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

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.
 

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.
 

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