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Message:: [QUOTE="tbarreca, post: 749537, member: 21275"]I have had similar results.  From December, 2003 through January,  2005, realizing that "the year of the Lincoln cent" was coming soon and wanting to "get back to my roots" as a collector, I searched through just over $11,000 worth of penny rolls (that's just over 1.1 million pennies), almost all gotten from bank branches in $25 boxes.  My average number of wheats per per box was between 7 and 8. However, as someone observed above, getting to know the tellers in the various branches, and treating them nicely and respectfully really paid off.  Many of them got to the point where they were watching out for me, and holding rolls that customers brought in. I once got about 8 rolls of wheaties that were almost all pre-1940, and another time I got 4 rolls that were all 1951 through 1954 S mint coins that were all AU/BU.  Of course, living in the SF Bay Area helped a lot with finding S mint cents. In the course of that 13-month period, I took about $125 worth of wheat cents out of circulation, not including the $35 worth of 56-D, 57-D, and 58-D cents, which I also kept.  Two of those 56-Ds were actually RPMs.[/QUOTE]