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To: Gasshog

Did you get all the steel Penny’s and there’s a special marking on the 1919 that’s supposed be VERY valuable too but that’s all I know about collecting coins


5,696 posted on 12/31/2025 2:46:04 PM PST by thingumbob (INTUITION - is your brain trying to tell you what your mind hasn’t pieced together yet)
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To: thingumbob

There were a few steel pennies but not sure about a 1919. Those steel and zinc cents did not fare well really hard to find minty “war pennies”

BTW - I do have some near uncirculated looking ones but they were mounted into frames.


5,709 posted on 12/31/2025 4:57:36 PM PST by Gasshog (the amazing disappearing tag)
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To: thingumbob
***Did you get all the steel Penny’s***

1943 - not really very valuable; copper 1943 is 'gold'! 1943 is my birth year!

***special marking on the 1919 that’s supposed be VERY valuable***

'svdb' (?) - engraver's initials under Lincoln's shoulder next to rim. Very rare and you need a good glass to see it.

5,736 posted on 12/31/2025 8:38:04 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: thingumbob

I still go through all coins before I dump them into a coin jar, which I will take once a year to Coinstar and get an Amazon gift card. (Coinstar charges a fee if you ask for cash back, but you’ll get full price for a gift card.) Last year I found a fairly trashed 1943 war penny, a silver Mercury dime (couldn’t believe that one), several Canadian coins (worthless. Coinstar won’t even take those.) and a 1961 silver Roosevelt dime. I always go through my pennies and save anything that is 1982 or prior, since they were the last real coppers.


5,753 posted on 01/01/2026 10:40:56 AM PST by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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