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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 641116, member: 15445&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I&#039;m doing some roll searching &amp; here are a bunch of photos depicting what I am finding.&nbsp; If you have any similar finds, please post photos.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I bought a cigar box full of EF to MS wheat cents for 3 cents each.&nbsp; The owner had just thrown good looking wheats into this box and he put normal brown wheats elsewhere.&nbsp; Unfortunately, he had already sold all his boxes of brown wheats before I caught up to him.&nbsp; I’ve now sorted my box by date &amp; mm.&nbsp; They are mostly AU coins distributed between 1950 - 1958.&nbsp; I can only dream about what might have been in the other boxes of brown wheat cents.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">There are virtually no S mint coins.&nbsp; After sorting by date I find that there are between 50 &amp; 200 of the P &amp; D for all the years.&nbsp; I’m pretty sure that these are wheat cents from the guy’s cash register that he started putting aside in the 60s or 70s on the east coast.&nbsp; The guy is having his 86th birthday this month.&nbsp; After inspecting a couple of the years under the microscope, I got overwhelmed by all the die chips, RPMs and DDOs in the 1957-D cents.&nbsp; 37 of the 150 1957-D dated coins have DDO, RPM, and die chips.&nbsp; That is 25%.&nbsp; I’d say that more than half of the 37 include BIE and chips on the 1957 date area.&nbsp; Maybe you guys with more roll searching experience can tell me if this is in any way normal for 1957-D.&nbsp; I’ll just repeat the statistics; I’m finding that 1 out of 4 1957D coins has something interesting on it.&nbsp; The other dates have some neat RPMs and chips but nothing like the % found in these 1957-D (so far).</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Here are some photos depicting a dozen of the 37 keepers.&nbsp; All 37 are pretty much like these and a bunch have a filled B in Liberty.&nbsp; Please let me know if 1957-D is known for these kind of finds.</font></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Very best regards,</p><p>collect89[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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