I just got through with a box of BWR pennies. I found an incredible 74 (seventy four) wheats. This blows my mind. There were more rolls with wheats than there were without them. Some of the rolls had 3 wheats in them. Can anybody beat this?
Actually, I can beat it. This one time I was going to the bank, and i got 7 hand-wrapped coin rolls for cents, and when I opened the first one I was like awesome I found two wheats on the first roll! Great start! Then I opened the next four and they're entirely wheat cents, I even found a 1909 cent that day, so.
You award the win too soon...... While coin roll hunting I found a 1982 small date zinc with doubling on the reverse. It turned out to be the discovery coin for the 1982-ddr-001 and got an article in all the major numismatic periodicals. Still only three known to exist after seven years. I eventually sold it for $4000. The mark to beat is a 400,000% profit.
Here's a list of the wheats I found in that roll: 1919-P 1920-P 1920-D 1925-P 1926-P 1930-D 1934-P 1934-D 1935-P 1935-D 1936-P 1937-P 1940-D 1941-P 1942-P 1942-P 1942-D 1944-P 1944-D 1945-P 1945-P 1946-P 1946-D 1946-D 1946-D 1946-D 1946-D 1947-D 1948-D 1950-P 1950-D 1950-D 1950-D 1950-D 1951-P 1951-D 1951-D 1951-D 1951-S 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1952-D 1953-D 1953-D 1954-D 1954-D 1954-D 1955-D 1955-D 1955-D 1956-D 1956-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1957-D 1956-D 1958-D 1958-D 1958-D
Records for Buffalos: 13 in a box last year. 8 in a box a week before from the same bank - so likely from the same coin dump. Record for silver war nickels: 7 in a box a couple of years ago. One time I found 4 in a roll, rest were all 40s dates in a CWR roll. Record for wheats in one roll, the 146 wheat box produced sometimes 15 in a roll, there were steel cents on the roll ends and everything. Last week I found a 1907 Liberty, AG-3 but my first Lib find in months. Records for dimes: One solid roll of 1940s and 1950s Roosies in a CWR last year. A couple of months ago I found 15 silver Canadian and American dimes in a CWR roll, the rest of the coins were up to 1968 suggesting it was rolled back then.
My 3 best huntin' finds have been a 1905 Indian head penny, a 1909 VDB wheat, and a 1943 silver war nickel.
