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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 2861064, member: 89569&quot;]As I was sitting this afternoon going through some cent rolls, I went through about a dozen and hit at least one wheat in every roll.&nbsp; A few rolls had 2 wheats.&nbsp; I think that I&#039;ve mentioned before that I&#039;ve just returned back to the hobby after about 15 years out of it.&nbsp; And it seems to me that as I&#039;ve been searching cent rolls, that wheaties are a lot more common than they were when I was roll searching back in the 80&#039;s and 90&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m just thinking out loud here but I wondering if this may have something to do with it....&nbsp; Back in the &quot;old&quot; days, before the plethora of modern coin designs, I think people were more aware of the coins that passed through their hands.&nbsp; For those in the 80&#039;s, a large percent of the work force grew up in the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s and many of those were around for the change from wheat to memorial reverse.&nbsp; For those 20+ years, there was only one design on the backs of cents (or any of the denominations for that matter).&nbsp; Wheaties stood out as different and were eagerly collected as different even if they weren&#039;t valuable.&nbsp; So they were quickly filtered from circulation and therefore I remember searching through dozens of rolls of cents before I found a wheat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now fast forward to today.&nbsp; The change from wheat to memorial is an unknown event except for the oldest of us still around.&nbsp; But in the past 2 decades, we&#039;ve been subjected to not only a change from memorial to shield, but even multiple reverses in 2009.&nbsp; With the nickel, there has been a significant obverse change with multiple reverses.&nbsp; And of course with the quarter, there&#039;s been nearly a hundred different designs dumped into the pipeline.&nbsp; In fact, the only circulating coin that has avoided any design change has been the dime.&nbsp; Because of this, I think that possibly the current generations have become immune or even indifferent to their coins.&nbsp; So when a wheatie flows through their hands, they don&#039;t even give it a second thought.&nbsp; It&#039;s simply another of a plethora of designs out there!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I could be wrong.&nbsp; Again, I&#039;m just thinking out loud.&nbsp; But regardless of the reason, I&#039;m enjoying finding wheat cents rather plentiful today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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