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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2197408, member: 12789"]Curiously enough, I did post the other day about searching $400 in dimes and $120 in nickels. At the time I also had $100 in CWR cents that took me awhile to go through because of being busy with work etc. Not to mention, but they were also really really BORING because halfway through the bunch, ie about 95 rolls in I found only 5 wheat cents dated from 1929 on up through 1958. I was finding a smattering of dimes and a couple of S mint memorials.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was getting pretty disgusted about Thursday night, sort of at the point of just opening the rolls directly into the bag I take them back to the bank in, thinking if I don't find something more I am going to do just that, break open the rolls and empty them into the bag because they have seemingly already been searched or something. Then something shiny, rather harshly also caught my eye. An IHC! It looks like it was probably EF or so when it was lost, then corroded a bit and harshly cleaned by the finder then released back into the wild. It is my first IHC in about 3-4 months and it is dated 1900.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the rest of the 100 or so rolls I found only another 5 wheats and 8 dimes. Rolls can be fickle sometimes, but every once in awhile you find a surprise, not a pretty one but still easily identifiable as a 115 year old coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I bought a $25 box of BWR cents and only found 10 wheats, not to exciting save for one ie the really nice VF '16-D[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 2197408, member: 12789"]Curiously enough, I did post the other day about searching $400 in dimes and $120 in nickels. At the time I also had $100 in CWR cents that took me awhile to go through because of being busy with work etc. Not to mention, but they were also really really BORING because halfway through the bunch, ie about 95 rolls in I found only 5 wheat cents dated from 1929 on up through 1958. I was finding a smattering of dimes and a couple of S mint memorials. I was getting pretty disgusted about Thursday night, sort of at the point of just opening the rolls directly into the bag I take them back to the bank in, thinking if I don't find something more I am going to do just that, break open the rolls and empty them into the bag because they have seemingly already been searched or something. Then something shiny, rather harshly also caught my eye. An IHC! It looks like it was probably EF or so when it was lost, then corroded a bit and harshly cleaned by the finder then released back into the wild. It is my first IHC in about 3-4 months and it is dated 1900. With the rest of the 100 or so rolls I found only another 5 wheats and 8 dimes. Rolls can be fickle sometimes, but every once in awhile you find a surprise, not a pretty one but still easily identifiable as a 115 year old coin. Yesterday I bought a $25 box of BWR cents and only found 10 wheats, not to exciting save for one ie the really nice VF '16-D[/QUOTE]
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