Last Friday, I was delivering newspapers and picking up the money from places where our publication is for sale. Because of this, I get all sorts of coins.
In this case, I thought I had a Canadian penny, so I put it in my shirt pocket. My wife separates them when she counts the pennies because US banks do not accept them.
I collect them, other foreign coins, Sacagaweas, and wheat pennies.
Once home, I found it to be a Lincoln head penny I’d never seen before. A 2009 copperhead embossment with Lincoln’s childhood cabin on the reverse.
As I said, I’d never seen one, despite collecting pennies and searching each for wheat sheaves. I do this because not long ago, I found a 1919-S.
I even told my wife that I had never seen one before. She told me that she hadn’t either, even though she had 30 years of counting pennies as a sandwich shop manager.
Then yesterday, we received an ad for a complete set of four 2009 Lincoln head pennies, the only year issued. Thirteen years and suddenly twice in a week.
All I can think is that reality bubbles must have collided about 11:30 a.m., November 4th, changing mine.
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