I finally went through I guess close to 10,200 wheaties these last two days. I got them "unsearched" in a bucket from a dealer friend. He'd been saving them up for over a year as they came into the store and finally talked me into taking them off his hands. I was skeptical at first whether or not these were going to be truly unsearched wheats, but he has never lied to me before, and in buying bags of 400 to 800 unsearched cents from him I've found a couple of doozies to include a 31-S. So I thought why not. It took about 8 full hours to go through separate, catalog, and etc. And now what a haul!! I managed to find at least two of every date/mm except for the 1909 s vdb (I knew that), the 14-d (knew that too), the 31-s (kinda figured), and the 31-d (now that one surprised me). After all was said and done I ended up finding the following key dates/better condition coins: 2 1909 in XF 10 1909 VDB ranging from G to XF 1 1909-S in VG with environmental damage, but still an 09-S! 1 1910 in AU 3 1910-S 4 1911-D 1 1911-S in F 2 1912-D 2 1912-S 2 1913-S 1 1914-S 2 1915-S 1 1917 in AU 3 1922-D in F 7 1924-D 1 in VG,1 in F,4 in VF and 1 in XF 1 1924-S in XF 1 1926-D in XF 6 1933-D in VF or higher not to mention all the 32d coins all over the spectrum and the piles of 43's everywhere I turned and some odd colored cents that all looked like they had been sandblasted and dyed pink, luckily those were all 40's and 50's cents. So I guess unsearched hoards are still out there.
Now that will keep you out of trouble for a while. Sounds like got your moneys worth. BTW, the 31-D is the ninth rarest (mintage wise) Lincoln from that period - rarer than the 26-S. Not that that totally explains its absence, but it is a lot less common than most think.
no, I had good lighting, and a magnifying glass/lamp that I could position over my working pile, but my fingers ache a bit.
Good Haul man! I can't believe he didn't search them before.. actually, my dealer wouldn't either.lol
$600.00 for the lot of em, the searched ones are going to go to another dealer in town at a price of .0175 a coin instead of the usual .025 cents because they've been searched. All in all the deal will probably only net me a few hundred, and I'll put that money back into my collection because as purely a collector anything I make from any deals goes right back into coins.
