[video=youtube_share;_fpnYT5hp4o]http://youtu.be/_fpnYT5hp4o[/video] The Finds 1923 Wheat Cent 1934 Wheat Cent 1935 Wheat Cent 1941 Wheat Cent 5x 1944 Wheat Cent 2x 1945 Wheat Cent 1946 Wheat Cent 4x 1952 Wheat Cent 1953 Wheat Cent 2x 1956 Wheat Cent 1958 Wheat Cent
I am glad USA and Canadian coins circulate so freely across borders. Makes for good collecting. I enjoy finding GV and GVI's myself.
I say all the Wheaties are in Canada, LOL. I bought $10 of pennies and found 2 Wheats and 3 of the 2009 pennies. The rest were nothing special. I have a friend from Canada and he said he can buy $20 in pennies and find 10-15 wheaties. I also bought $20 in nickles and didn't find anything special. I did keep all the Westward Journey nickles for trades, though. Found about 8 Ocean in View, 7 Keel Boat and 4 Louisiana Purchase. I didn't find any of the Bison ones. One question, being new to roll searching: How often do you roll searchers find any of the silver war nickels in a roll? Also what about the Indian Head or Liberty Head nickels?
I found 7 liberty nickels up until January, then I found the earliest being an 1890. I haven't found any since then. I find Buffalos about 1 in every 5-6 boxes. Silver war nickels - those are my primary quarry and I can usually average about 1.5 per box but a couple of months ago I found 14 of the little darlings in only $10 worth of nickels. IHCs - I have found 7 of them since 2007. The earliest is an 1889 I found back in March. Two weeks later I found a 1907. You can go extended periods of time and find nothing but fairly run of the mill later date wheats, or 1940s on up Jeffersons then have momentary periods of excitement when the finds seem to be dropping from the Heavens. The most wheats I have found in a box was 146, 73 of them were 1943 steel cents and quite a few of those were BU - it is apparent that collections occasionally get dumped into coin counting machines either through careless heirs or theft.
