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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CoinCollector76, post: 4037750, member: 110230&quot;]It&#039;s likely that the hobby is slowly dying. Back in Late April, National Coins Week took place starting the Great American Coin Hunt where many collectors spent rare coins. Non-Collector might not notice wheat pennies because the obverse of a wheat penny is very similar to a modern day penny so therefore, the wheatie is left unseen. Another reason why non-collectors might not notice these (Rare coins) is most likely they don&#039;t check there coin changes at all. Which may explain why I found 3 Indian Heads, a 1912-S, and a 1922-(Weak) D pennies. These finds all came from different penny boxes when roll hunting from June 2019-January 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s mostly likely that these semi-key dates and Indian Head pennies may originated from collections or perhaps collectors may have spent them to attract more collectors in to the hobby that was likely past down/given out as changes to non-collectors and didn&#039;t know what it&#039;s worth and cashed it in to a bank or at a coin counting machine such as Coinstar. And gets sent to be packed into bank rolls then they are distributed to banks. The rolls mostly end up going to merchants to give out as changes and/or hopefully can go to collectors like us.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember back in 5th grade our teacher let me and my friend look inside a coin drive jar at lunch we were able to pull out the following:</p><p>-1903 Indian Head Cent:my first Indian Head and was the oldest coin I had.</p><p>-4 Wheat pennies from the 1920s-1930s.</p><p>-1940-D Jefferson Nickel</p><p>-Tons of foreign coins.</p><p>I let my friend keep all the wheat pennies and all the foreign coins. I kept the 1903 IHC and the 1940-D Nickel.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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