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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Moen1305, post: 51570, member: 2544&quot;]Thanks for posting your search results.&nbsp; I did a second set of 5,000 (not 50,000) pennies the other day and got a similar result as I did in the first search.&nbsp; I did however find something I hadn&#039;t expected.&nbsp; A 1989 S proof coin.&nbsp; That was the first time I had ever found a debased proof in circulation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I just go to various banks around town so as not to end up searching the same pennies over again.&nbsp; I ask them for for a couple of hundred dollars in pennies, nickels, quarters, or halves, and they are only too happy to let me know if they&#039;ve recieved anything from the Fed recently.&nbsp; One of my banks sells proof sets, uncircs., and statehood quarters, etc right behind the counter.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve started searching quarters, and halves recently without much luck.&nbsp; I may just go back to buying entire collections and taking what I need from them and selling the rest to recoup some cash.&nbsp; I have avoided selling the unnecessary stuff because I hate selling coins for any reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was lucky in one respect.&nbsp; My father-in-law cherry picked for years and left me with cases of rolled wheaties.&nbsp; He wrote on the rolls just what was in each and how many.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think that these coins carry any special value currently, but when I hand them down to my sons, I&#039;m betting they will have increased quite a bit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Searching bank rolls to me is like doing jigsaw puzzles except you get small treasures instead of one large picture with a lot of lines on it.&nbsp; I do a lot of both during this mid-life retirement stage.&nbsp; The best part is that it keeps my son&#039;s interested in coins and collecting.&nbsp; Don&#039;t even get me started with what I think about getting kids interested in the hobby.&nbsp; It ain&#039;t all rosey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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