A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood posted by Bammer

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...if you're making a raw set of wheaties. (No, not the cereal!)

 

Hi all,

 

First I must explain that my weekend is Sunday and Monday. So usually, I use Sundays to relax, and to relax I either read or work on my coins. (Except in the summer, when our local minor league baseball team is playing at home, then ball games are a part of my Sundays too.) Mondays are used for the normal errands of life, you all know what these are; wash the clothes, do your banking business, mail packages to NGC, etc. etc.

 

Well, today I had to do all those things. While I was up at our local bank today, I stumbled into a wheat penny heaven. I must first admit that I've banked at this local bank in our small town (750 or so population) all my life; as has my brother, parents and grandparents. So anyway, after I had all my business finished there, the branch manager and I were chatting. And again, I must admit that I've know him a long time, wellllll, to be honest, I went to school with his dad and uncle (one of the joys of small town living). I don't want anyone thinking that I'm a wizard or anything. :-) We got talking about gold and silver prices (yes he knows I collect coins). Then we got talking about wheat pennies, I told him how I would find some at work and that I'm trying to put together a raw set out of circulation. So anyway, he says to me "come back to my other office". So I followed him back, and out of his desk drawer he pulls 5 bank rolled rolls of all wheat pennies, plus probably close to another 5 rows of wheaties, all loose. So then he says to me "take them home, look through them and see if you find any for your set. We'll settle up later." Now how good of a deal is that??? Plus, it's really flattering to know that someone trusts me enough to say, here take these with you and look through them. Humbling too I suppose, I guess I have done something right after all.

 

So, next week I have dental surgery on Monday and have taken a week's vacation. So hopefully when I start feeling better, I have a nice quiet, enjoyable task to keep myself occupied. If any of you have had to have dental surgery, you know the doctors like it if you don't exert for a few days afterward. This will be a nice way to relax. I'm looking forward to see how many slots I can fill in my Whitman folders.

 

I'll update in another journal entry to let you know how I do. I know I'll get at least one steel penny, I"m homing to find all three.

 

Thanks for reading. Since I'm writing about wheatings in this entry, my picture of the entry will be the obverse of one of my graded wheaties.

 

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