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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 24571864, member: 106826&quot;]When I was young, back in the late 70s, my brother and I would get $50 in cents every Saturday morning when my folks would go out for a weekly breakfast at the local diner.&nbsp; We&#039;d run to the bank and get the coins to search for LWCs.&nbsp; Since we were both paperboys at the time, we both got into the hobby because of the change we were collecting from our customers.&nbsp; My folks would take about 90 minutes to have a leisurely breakfast, so that was the time we had to get into the bank, search the coins, and then return them for cash.&nbsp; We were pretty fast at flipping cents to the reverse.&nbsp; We didn&#039;t care for the &#039;new ones&#039; either.&nbsp; Flash forward 35 years, I re-engaged with the hobby, and CRH.&nbsp; What struck me was the varying amounts of LWCs available from box-to-box.&nbsp; Pitiful findings really.&nbsp; Not like it was way back then.&nbsp; Even the odd IHC was a likely event in a $50 bag.&nbsp; Not at all the case today.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I started to look up stuff on line, and what I found was that there were so many modern varieties to look for out there that I could improve the odds of catching something interesting if I broadened my searches.&nbsp; And a variety hunter was born.&nbsp; I had an old Dinkleacre barrel, maybe 2 gallons of beer fit in it, but was ideal for tossing cents into.&nbsp; While I took the break from the hobby, I didn&#039;t totally abandon my interest in coin collecting, so I had accumulated about 15 years of cents in that can.&nbsp; All &#039;new&#039; modern cents...LMCs.&nbsp; As I went through that can, I found a number of DDOs/DDRs, RPMs and other variety coins (WAMs, Transitional cents).&nbsp; Most were nearly uncirculated.&nbsp; And when looking up values, it was clear: the most valuable coins a CRH enthusiast is likely to find are amongst the &#039;new ones&#039;.&nbsp; So, hopefully I&#039;ve given you something to consider for your own CRH events.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I still love finding LWCs/IHCs during a CRH event.&nbsp; Exciting to find coins over 100 years old![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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