I usually try to get any halves I can and once I did get a 40% silver but I bought 10 rolls of cents looking for dates I need for my folders. I'm trying to only do 1 roll per day so I don't get bit too hard and need to go to the bank everyday. 2nd roll in and I just pulled a wheat cent from 1949. Too bad it's a double for what I need but at least I got one. I also pulled a 1969D that I needed.
Back in the 70s you would find silver 1/2s in almost every other roll , and the occasional '64 , I pretty much gave up by the 90s , but you never know when you'll find silver , I guess it's gotten a little bit like prospecting without the backaches . rzage
If you are really adventurous and have tellers that like you, get $25 boxes of cents. The fewest wheats I have gotten was like 5 or so, but the most was nearly 40 of them. The earliest dates, two 1909's that I got late last year. Several from the teens, not so many from the 1920's, but a lot from the 1940's on up. The best so far is the 1909 VDB and a 1916-D which for cents is a semi key.
I'm doing the something as you. I get about 10 rolls every other week and so far I just found 20 wheat pennies to add to my collection I keep getting the bank wrapped rolls how about you?
I may ask about the boxes of cents next week but I don't think my bank has the coin counting machines unless they have them behind the counter. I'll end up rolling them all back up rather than Coinstar. Doesn't take all that much time if I don't go overboard and have multiple boxes worth all over my desk
