What i found in my basement...

[Beatles Guy]

Originally Posted by Eric72

I am not sure if you're aware that some 1909 pennies can be worth quite a bit of money. If it is a Lincoln cent with an S mint mark, bearing the initials V.D.B., it's a key date with a (relatively speaking) low mintage.

Any chance you can provide front/back images?

Well, here is the problem. My wife gave it to the contractor doing the work. Still a sore subject around here, especially since I dabble in coins.

[HercDriver]

My house has a big crawl space in the basement. As I was moving stuff in and storing crap in there, I found a bowl (the smoking pot kind). I just laughed, and decided to cut the poor kid a break and not send it to his dad! I also have a piece to an old baseball game of some sort. My brother found it in his adobe wall when he redid his house. It's a baseball player, about twice as big as those electric football guys we used to have. I've never figured out what it goes to...

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Beatles Guy

Well, here is the problem. My wife gave it to the contractor doing the work. Still a sore subject around here, especially since I dabble in coins.

Sorry to hear. If the contractor knowingly poached a 1909 S V.D.B. from someone who didn't know what they were holding, I hope they experienced karmic justice somewhere down the road.

Heck, even if the coin was NOT the Lincoln Small Cent Holy Grail, shame on the contractor for asking for (and taking) something they had no right to.

Please PM me if you want to discuss coins. I also, "dabble."