First Attempt At Roll Searching

I have been doing a box or two every week for the last few weeks, but nothing of consequence. The usual 17-21 wheaties per box and usually 10 or more Canadians.
I just finished a box tonight. 15 wheaties and 10 Canadians, but check out the first find in todays found wheaties:

1909VDB
1919x2
1940x2
1944
1945
1946x2
1949
1951D
1951S
1952D
1955
1957D

The 1909VDB came out of the fourth or fifth roll. My oldest wheat yet found to date, and kind of happy to have found it.

Those stats are pretty boss. I get CWR and only get an average of 2.25 wheats per 10 rolls of pennies. Not counting a time when a teller knowingly let me withdraw someones collection that they traded in for face. 8 rolls of wheats, the bulk of my collection actually XD

So yeah, getting 20ish wheats in a box of 25 rolls... I would love to know why it is so different in different places.

Another example of how different things are, I'm happy when a roll has 15 coppers, some people get 20 or 25 per roll.

And yeah, SAVE THAT COPPER
Check out this thread I started:
https://goccf.com/t/130295

sjh... can you post a pic of the 1966 coin magnifyer? I was just thinking of such a device this morning... didn't know such a thing existed.

GREAT finds sjh! Love the pics, and you have a great setup to keep your pennies accurately!

If there was a modern version I would get it, but I'm kind of in love with this old thing. It is such a simple and effective tool. It seems so appropriate when searching for old coins.

Here are a few pics of the box it came in. I covered the address of the recipient with that ugly green post-it:

The old shipping box:


The old box close-up with date of shipment (1966):


.32 cents to ship it!

Thank you for sharing, sjh241.

I like using the scan-o-matic. It is old tech but it works. The device allows me to search through coins at a greater speed. I don't have to lay out a roll, search by eye or with a 5x plastic flip, turn them over etc... You just pop the 50 cents in the tube and scan them quickly (both sides) and put aside the coins you want to keep or take a better look at.
This device allows me to easily look for WAM's and errors. I spent a lot of time searching a box before I had the device. I can get it done now in a few hours.
The greatest attribute of the scan-o-matic is speed. The only awkward point is when you identify a coin you want to keep. Since the scanned coins just drop out of the device at the bottom, you have to pick-up and move the device to the side and release the coin away from the drop pile. Takes a few seconds. Perhaps another is the magnifier. It's good enough to spot wheats, WAM's and obvious errors but not strong enough to get a good look at the more difficult to spot errors, hence why I keep the x10 loop handy.