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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;islandhammer, post: 748466, member: 21835&quot;]I&#039;m so glad I found this site...very cool. I&#039;m glad to see that others are finding good stuff. I have a local gas station clerk who always comes through with at least a small handfull of wheat cents for me and just the other day I found a 42P nickel sitting atop the misc. lincoln cents in the &#039;give a penny, take a penny&#039; dish on the gas station counter. At a different gas station up the street I was getting some things and I saw a wheat cent in the same kind of dish on the counter. I picked it out and noticed another one...and then another, and another. I asked the girl if I could trade my regular memorial cents for them and she goes, &quot;Do you want the rest of them?&quot; She opened up her register and handed me about twenty more. Apparently someone had given her an entire roll of &#039;em the previous day. About two weeks ago at a nearby bank (Bremerton, WA) I was buying rolls of cents to search through when I noticed a Franklin half sitting on top of the teller&#039;s loose change deal. I got that for fifty cents and then found an 1888 Indian head in the rolls I searched that day. The &#039;88 was in great shape, too...maybe VF+. I&#039;m usually pulling anywhere from 8 to 20 wheat cents per 50 rolls searched. Just the other day when searching four rolls from a gas station I found a decent 43D Lincoln. I also have a nice Garrett detector and have had some luck with that also. However, the best cent I&#039;ve held the last couple of days I could only WISH I had found. I was visiting my girlfriend&#039;s family here in Sequim, WA and her uncle started telling me about his &#039;09S VDB he was auctioning on ebay. He said it was at 800 with two days left on the bidding and that it was graded at XF+ when he bout it for about a hundred bucks in the early sixties. So he&#039;s telling me about this and then asks if I want to see it. I didn&#039;t know he had brought it with him, as he had traveled 3 hours from his home to get to where we were all gathered at the grandma&#039;s house. He goes into another room and then comes back with a plastic baggie out of which he pulls a bare-naked cent and hands it to me like no big deal. This &#039;09 was absolutely gorgeous... I&#039;d say only slightly below AU. A very beautiful chocolate brown. He probably ended up getting easily 1500 for it as that is what I would have paid. Now I only wish I had found that one in a damn roll...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If anyone is interested I am willing to trade silver I find in rolls for a comparable value in wheat pennies...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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