In my Skan-o-Matic a Lincoln wheat cent loaded reverse side up with VDB very clearly visible. When my heart restarted I worked the slide to flip it obverse up.
No “S” mint mark.
*sigh*
I got the S-VDB at a park in Oakland. Horrid shape, but filled that slot in my “only found detecting” book of Wheat cents. That particular series will be a tough fill on the only by metal detecting front, the “22 plain” (an understruck Denver IIRC) will be particularly tough.
I completed 50 state quarters, Jefferson nickels and I think I have 1 left for Roosevelts between ‘46 and 64.
I have the press in paper books for the detecting finds, that way I can also record the date, location and machine I was using next to the coin.
My last Grandparent passed in September and when I returned from going to her funeral in Virginia, the first time I detected after that, the first coin I found was a nice wheat from her birth year, 1917! I was pretty stoked with that :-)