New member with an IHP question - I need your help :)

Hi,
New member from mid-Georgia.
As a boy, 35+ years ago, I could find wheat pennies regularly. Once I got the car-keys, my interest in coin collecting waned. Now that my son has the car-keys, I started wondering what sort of finds might be found today - so I went to the local credit union and picked up 10 rolls of pennies (and some reading glasses). I was amazed that out of the 10 rolls, I found more than 100 wheat pennies and 12 indians (I had never found an indian before). I went back and got the remaining rolls of pennies, about 50 of them. I ended up with about 5 rolls of wheats and almost a whole roll of indians (most culls, but a few in almost uncirculated state).....I know this is rare, and yes, I did go through all their nickels, dimes, quarters and halves with no luck. I suspect that someone took in their Grandfather's hoard of pennies and used the automatic roller.
Okay, to make a long story even longer, I found a 1909-s among these - by far the better find, the rest were 1890s-1909 - nothing older. But I've wondered about this one - why in a bunch of culls would there be 5 almost uncirculated including this jewel. I know fakes have been made for many years, and I wondered if this one was legit or not. What do you think? Legit or Fake? I've still got the others too.

 

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Huh?

Ya gotta be kidding!

 

What bank did you go to????!!!! I am in Gainesville at the moment and it would be worth a trip to whereever you are in GA to get some of those rolls.

I am green with envy. I started collecting in 1964 and I have NEVER found an IHC in change.

I would suggest you take the key coins to a respected dealer and ask him to authenticate them.

 

Not kidding

I picked these up a a teacher's credit union in Columbus, Ga. They have several branches, I got these at a quiet branch located outside a subdivision neighborhood. This was a couple of years back. The branch has since closed. This was a great haul - I've been through tons, and tons of halves since then and have struck out - not even a 40%er. My father got an Indian head penny in change from a Home-Depot last year in Alabama.

 

I guess I started back in 1972 or 73 looking through pennies to fill an old Whitman thumb-buster album. Did pretty good back then. Last year while cleaning out the change holder in my daughter's car, I found a ExFine 1911-D penny. Aside from that an the Indian's the best I can remember finding was a no-date Buffalo nickle - I saw it in the cash register at a grocery store and asked the girl if I could swap nickels for it - she said "sure". Dissapointed there was no date

 

WOW! You found a 1909-S Indian in a bank roll! AMAZING!