well as some of you may know, before I disappeared I had recently bought (against some of your wishes) 500 "unsearched" wheat cents. (10 rolls) well, they seem to have been truly unsearched, for I found 3 memorial cents (1959-1961) and 1 I.D.H. (1904) and three 1909 wheat cents were also in the mix (one might be a V.D.B. it is really dirty where it should be and under close inspection it looks like it.) it was a great haul. like most of you said "almost all of them will be 40s-50s" about 1/2 were the 40s-50s era while 1/2 was 1909-1939. I think I got my 17 dollars worth. (it might have been lower than that, I forget) I also found 1 semi key date (forget what it was) I have not yet checked for rpms yet. that's my next project. -coingeek12
Just because you found an IHC and a cew 1909s does not automatically mean they were unsearched. But if you say you found a semi-key, that is pretty good. Let us know what it is.
2 1909s, rim dings and corroded. 3 Steelies, corroded. Couple MS 1950s saves the day, and a well-worn 1915-D was a pleasant surprise.
ill have to pull out thee ol' cent box (12 rolls of wheat cents) then look through the proper date roll (I separated them into separate date rolls exp: 1909-1919=1 roll 1940-1949 P+D=another and so on) then ill find it pics are hopefully coming soon!
I sold a lot of 5000 on ebay that I bought from an estate sale. I didn't want to look through them all and didn't. I made a good profit and the buyer left great feedback. It's very possible to get unsearched coins while most are not.
Yes - it is possible to get unsearched wheat cents, but most will be searched. I have a lot of 5000 I searched - pulled what I could from it. I got enough from 1909 to 1939 to seed several lots to sell. But eventually I will just turn them in to the local coin shop. I am just glad you got a good spread of dates and 17.50 is just fine.
