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Message:: [QUOTE="mralexanderb, post: 601362, member: 7851"]A Coin Fable-Or-What to do with your extra coins. My friend bought an incomplete wheat cent folder on ebay and about 6 lbs of "unsearched" wheatbacks. He was just trying to fill some holes in an old Whitman album that he had since he was a kid. Every time he filled a hole he got that same childhood thrill of coin collecting. So, he went through all the pennies, keeping the ones he needed and separating the others into decades. What he got left was about 6.3 lbs of wheaties he didn't need. So he figured out how many of each decade would be necessary to make a pound of wheats. He got 64 for 1950-58; 60 for 1940-49; 16 for 1930-39; 6 for 1920-29; 3 for 1909-19. Plus he added 7 random S mint marked cents per pound. That equals about 156 wheat cents/pound. He divided them into 1 lb packages, threw in an extra '43 or an IHC or another S MM or all 3,and sold them on Craigslist for $10/pound.  Anyone looking to fill in an album, or starting out would be thrilled to get this assortment. Granted, there were no 1909 S VDBs or '14 Ds, but he didn't get any either.  The Moral of this story is...whatever you get out of it. Give back what you don't need. Don't be greedy. Help another YN fill an album. :hail: Bruce[/QUOTE]