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Key date Lincoln cent dug today, 1914D!

dmckee17

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Long story short: Went detecting this morning for a quick hunt (had to carry daughter to orthodontist at 10:30am). I had been to this same unhunted vacant lot before about mid December and found 2 silver roosevelts, and probably a dozen or so wheats. I figured it was hunted out, wrong. I merely moved to what I thought would be an unproductive area within the lot on a whim. I found 6 wheats, 20 non wheats with 3 clad dimes this morning before running out of time, I checked them at home: 1956D, 1953, 1951D, 1944, 1940, and a 1914D. My 2007 blue book lists the 1914D as $90.00 in its condition. I haven't really "cleaned" it, only enough to read it. check it out, no bull.
 
Wow, that's a fantastic find.
Key to boot.
 
Picture taken with my modest Fuji 3.3 megapixel, through a magnifying glass with a flashlight. When I first identified it, I was scraping away years of corrosion around the date area very lightly with a knife and saw 1914, I kept scraping and felt the bump of the mintmark (thats why there's a little dot of fresh copper on the bottom of the mintmark :cry:) but its still there and visible. I went back to same lot today, found 24 wheats between 1936 and 1957 (incl. 1937S). No silver, but only 4 memorial cents! A true penny heaven, I hit it most of the day till it started sleeting.
 
Good find. My first thought was, "Consider this! Those of you that refuse to retrieve pennies." LOL
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