"wheats" in change

I find a few wheats in my change jar. I wish I would find a 64 quarter.

 

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Now, there's hoping. But what would change and roll searching be without hope?

 

I remember as a kid (60's) getting rolls of dimes and quarters and picking out the silver. Getting rolls of pennies and picking out the wheats. I also remember my grandmother who worked at a department store giving me Morgans she would find every once in a while in change. I am glad I had that experiance.

When I started my hobby back up about three years ago, I used those as my base. Which was pretty good. Now though, I have since upgraded most of them with purchases. I might as well have just started from scratch. Na, would not be the same thing.

 

The machines reject steel, but not all coins that end up in the Brinks or other processors rolls come from actual machines, because smaller banks and credit unions break rolls directly into the plastic cash bags and then send them on to banks which could explain where some of the rejected stuff comes from. I have gotten plastic play cents, aluminium foreign coins and of course steel Canadian and USA cents in Brinks wrapped rolls.

 

As a "young guy" I cannot fathom spending a giant silver dollar at a department store for face. Boggles the mind.

 

What a co-inkydink. I bought a roll of cents from CVS and in it was a 1919 P and a 1955 D wheatie.

 

Super cool on the 1919 find.

 

Worked a 10 hour shift today and came home with 2 wheaties. A 1958 and 1956.

 

So on Friday I picked up $25 in CWR to look through this weekend and I went through about $18 worth on Friday and Saturday averaging about one wheat cent per three or four rolls. Not too bad. Then I hit a roll that had a wheat cent as an ender, I was already pretty happy with it. Then I dump the roll out and find a total of 48 wheat cents in that one roll. No that's not a typo, I really found 48 wheat cents and only 2 memorial cents in one roll. Continued going through the rest of the rolls and found another roll with 10 wheaties. Total for the 50 rolls was 72 wheat cents. That blows my previous record of 18 wheat cents per $25 searched out of the water. A few more interesting facts about my weekend search. Almost all the wheats were 40's or 50's, only one was a 1926. Also almost all the rolls contained nothing but cents from the 60's and 70's. Only found 2 of the new shield pennies.

 

Nice find, Arthur! Quite a haul.

 

+1 Sounds like a record. The most I had heard previously was 60.

 

Thanks guys! Now only if I had luck like that when I'm looking for silver.