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Message:: [QUOTE="Clutchy, post: 1774773, member: 45040"]Here is my experience, in the short time I've been collecting cents. Being from NYC,  in general, Philadelphia cents are in better shape than Denver and San Fran cents, which makes sense. I've probably found approx. 500 wheats since January, mostly 50s and 40s and about a roll of the rest of the years til 1910. 1910-1919 are usually in the G range, the 20s = VG, 30s = F. Since I find 10x more 40/50s, it ranges from F to VF, as they get closer to 1958. I've bought a few lots from collector's and generally that it the general condition of the lots, except for one. I purchased a lot from a gentlemen that told me that he started collecting wheats and silver from the 60s to the 80s. Then he traveled the world until his partner pass away around 2005, I think. And from what I've experienced finding coins in circulation, I beleive his story. His lot had the same percentages of years as the other lots, except the coins are in much, much better shape. The teens were a grade higher and everything else was more like 2 grades higher and alot of them had more even tone to them as well.[/QUOTE]