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Message:: [QUOTE="toddestan, post: 278730, member: 6366"]That's true.  For example, they minted nearly 25 billion wheat cents, of which only about 500,000 were 1909S-VDB's.  That means if you had a truly random, unsearched pile of wheat cents, you would still only find a single 1909S-VDB for every 50,000 coins you search through.   That's about 1 in every 350 pounds of wheat cents.  So even if the seller is offering the real deal when it comes to unsearched coins, your chances of finding a key date in a pound or two of coins is pretty small, simply because they are so rare. I should also note that approximately one third of wheat cents minted were minted from 1950 to 1958.  That means if you have a lot of wheats where less than 1 in 3 is from the 1950's, you're actually doing pretty good.[/QUOTE]