My New Lucky Penny. 2025 D

My New Lucky Penny.

I started collecting pennies around age 8 by mostly digging old coins out of those early metal car ashtrays in grandpas car. Who knows how they would end up there but seamed like fair game to keep them. I would arrange them by year and mint and just tried to find one of each year. You could walk down the neighborhood streets and just find single pennies. If the penny was Face up or face down.. I'd take them anyway. If I already had a duplicate, then this penny would buy me a tootsie roll candy at my local corner store.

With in a year and a half time, I had acquired quite a small collection of not just pennies but nickels,dimes and quarters. I was only drawn to the copper colored cents that I purchased a Whitman cardboard Lincoln Cent album to store them. My oldest penny I had was a 1864 small motto 2 cent coin given to me by my friends grandma who lived down my street for helping her rake leaves one fall day. She was like 94 y/o and had this coin since childhood.
I don't remember why I stopped collecting coins. Maybe I just grew up and started to focus on pre-teen stuff. When I was in high school and got my first job. I wanted to revisit coin collecting again. I searched for my small collection that I had tucked away in my uncles drawer but didn't find them. I searched elsewhere and asked my grandparents had they seen them. No but I'm sure they will turn up if you keep looking. My search went on for a couple days with no luck. Then, my uncle admitted that he had used them to buy himself cigarettes and beer.

So now at age 50 I decided to start a new penny collection. I've been at it for 5-6 months now but this time I'm not digging for them in couches or dirty car ashtrays. I've been buying them by the $25 box from my local bank. It's called (CHR) coin roll hunting and I never knew of such a title. They come in small 50 cent rolls and I just enjoy searching threw them one roll at a time. The oldest one I've found is an 1906 Indian Head penny. Not worth much at all but it brings joy.

Last week was the release of the new 2025 Cents. I couldn't wait to find one locally so instead I purchased one for $4 on ebay.
Sadly this new penny was sent damaged and I complained about the condition it was in. The seller was understanding and sent me another one in pristine condition free of charge. I offered him the damaged penny back and that I would mail it to him but he insisted that I'd keep it. so I did.

In excitement to show off the new 2025 cents, I started to just carry this new but damaged penny in my pocket and have been showing it to ppl I know.
I was at an estate sale a couple days later and found an autographed NBA game ball. It was signed by a 2x NBA champion and now hall of famer. I was stoked that it was only $11 so I bought it. What a lucky day. Was it cause of this new damaged penny in my pocket?

The next day I went to a coin shop in search of a 1911 S Wheat penny that I'm having trouble finding CRH so decided to just buy one instead. He had one for $35. Still excited about the new 2025 cents I showed it off the the coin dealer. He was impressed that I already had one cause he assumed these coins wouldn't be released till March 4th. I offered him my coin as partial trade for the 1911 Wheat cent. He then offered me .25 cents for my 2025 penny. Had he offered me a couple bucks, I would have done it but .25 cents just seamed too low that I decided to keep it.

Maybe this new penny isn't ready to leave me. I now know that damaged or not, it belongs in my small penny collection. After all, those first pennies I collected as a child, they were mostly in similar condition. Chris

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