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Message:: [QUOTE="islandhammer, post: 749344, member: 21835"]Generally speaking I'll find anywhere from 8 to 20 wheat pennies for every $25 worth of penny rolls from one of my local banks. I do $25 at a time because that's how the bank packages the rolls in boxes. I have gotten home and found that the entire box was new rolls of 2009s. I have also found a beautiful (XF+) 1888 Indian. Don't stop searching those rolls. It is time consuming but can be worth it. Here is the real trick, though. You need to befriend bank tellers and gas station attendants. You'd be surprised at how many wheats and how much silver those people come across. If they'll sell them to you cheap than you can get a good deal or you could get them for free (like me) or at face value. I walked into a gas station recently (I always check the little give-a-penny, take-a-penny dishes on the counters)and noticed a wheat penny in the little dish. I grabbed it and replaced it with a memorial cent, and then I noticed another...and then another and another. I asked the attendant if I could trade for 'em and she said, "You can have those. Do you want the rest?" And then she reached into her register and gave me about twenty more. Someone had spent a roll of 'em. I also have family and friends who find them and give them to me. All I'm saying is that if you look for them hard enough you WILL find plenty.[/QUOTE]