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Message:: [QUOTE="Midas, post: 50342, member: 2761"]During the late 60's, coin collecting was on a roll.  People realized that pre-1965 halfs, quarters, and dimes were worth more than those "sandwhich" coins.  Also, I could remember looking through rolls and rolls of Lincoln cents as a young lad in hopes of finding a 1909S-VDB which had a RED BOOK value of $400 in BU condition!  It could have been $4 million dollars as those numbers were way over my head. I never found a key date, but I did fill in many slots of my Whitman cent folder.  I can remember as a kid when I found a "S" mint as these were the "rare" cents to me. Anyways, the odds today of finding a 1955 DDO or a 1943 Bronze cent is almost zero as lots upon lots were cherry picked for the "good" dates over the last 40 years.  Like many of you over 21, I searched my grandmother's pickle jar of Lincolns on her kitchen table with hopes of a treasure find.  I think the best coin I found was some teen "S" mints in F condition.  Could it happen?  Sure it could, but these unsearched lots you hear of were searched many times over.  Good luck in your search.[/QUOTE]