Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anythin

[Desert Rat]

Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anything like this before'

By Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

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[leigh kitchen]

Without suggesting that this particular item may not be genuine I have to say I've seen one or two holed or dented coins and cigarette cases turn up as "genuine" damaged by bullet items for sale on eBay.

[Phil2M]

I don't believe it for a second.

[Jackhr]

Here are two examples that came to me with medals and alot of personal items from 2 different chaps .

1 - Bullet's fell at the feet of a soldier at Gallipoli while at the beach ??

2 - coin with bullet dated 1914 came with mans effects and medals from the Desert campaign in the middle east ?? Was wounded in the hip / legs area

Both came with stories from the families regarding these items??

Cheers Rob

[tonyb]

Originally Posted by Jackhr

Here are two examples that came to me with medals and alot of personal items from 2 different chaps .

1 - Bullet's fell at the feet of a soldier at Gallipoli while at the beach ??

2 - coin with bullet dated 1914 came with mans effects and medals from the Desert campaign in the middle east ?? Was wounded in the hip / legs area

Both came with stories from the families regarding these items??

Cheers Rob

I would suggest, that a 1914 penny would show little 'circulation wear', being max 3 years old.
Tony.

[Jackhr]

Well as I said these are the 2 stories passed down the family line So I cant say yes or no , the bullet yes I believe but the coin ?? But I cant split them from the other items just on my personal feelings .
Rob

[leigh kitchen]

I have a few photos and documents to a WWI Bedfordshire Regiment man.
There was a pair of old army braces with them, the metal fitting at the base of the rear strap was bent, dented (you know what's coming).
I located the man's daughter, who'd sold them to the shop I bought them from.
She told me that her father had been working in the trenches, filling sandbags when he felt a blow to the small of his back and was temporarily paralyzed.
He'd been struck by a bullet, presumably a spent one, that had been stopped by the metal fitting on his braces.
Also with the photos etc were a German bayonet and shoulder strap to the Bavarian 97th Infantry Regiment, the strap having a jagged cut and brown staining across the base.
The story told there was that on the Somme he'd had a one on one bayonet fight in No Man's Land with a German who he'd killed and took the souvenirs having received a long bayonet wound along the inside of his left forearm.
I hadn't given any thought to the staining on the shoulder strap until someone looked it and said " Eeyugh, blood".
The MM he'd won on the Somme during "The Battle of The Scarpe", Transloy Ridges and his other medals had been given to his great grandson but no one in the family wanted the bits and pieces I'd bought.
As the saying goes though "Buy the item, not the story".

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Jackhr

Here are two examples that came to me with medals and alot of personal items from 2 different chaps .

1 - Bullet's fell at the feet of a soldier at Gallipoli while at the beach ??

2 - coin with bullet dated 1914 came with mans effects and medals from the Desert campaign in the middle east ?? Was wounded in the hip / legs area

Both came with stories from the families regarding these items??

Cheers Rob

The undistorted bullet stuck through a penny is defying the laws of physics I'm afraid.

[Jelly Terror]

Here is a wonderfully plausible account of a bullet/near-death experience.

JT