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I received a very large Wheat cent dump back in the 90's thanks to some inside help. I was dating a bank teller at the time.  She also helped me find a lot of silver. A lot. But those were here and there, accumulated over time; nothing that constituted a dump. |
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When I used to coin roll hunt with cent boxes, there were times where the number of wheat cents in the box far exceeded the average. It has been over 10 years, but I want to say the average number of wheats was around 13-15. I remember a couple of boxes having 75-100 or more wheats in them. Does that count?
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Does that count? That counts as 'sort of'. I found small Wheat penny dumps two times. Once, I found a whole roll of wheat cents. Another time, I got 20 rolls of pennies from the bank. There was at least 1 Wheat cent in every roll and there were as many as 5 or 6 in some of the other rolls; a total of 55 wheat pennies. Half of the wheat pennies were from the 1920's, and a fourth were from the 1910's and 1930's. I filled in a lot of holes from that. About 15 or so years ago, my brother picked up 20 rolls from the bank, and 19 of the rolls were filled with wheat pennies. That's what I really call a dump. |
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So jbuck--on the matter of dumps and dating a teller--did either of you get dumped?
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She ended up moving back to where she was from. However, we are still friends on Facebook, does that count?  |
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Looking at a wheat dump right now.
Picked up a bag from a counter and I can count 28 wheats just on a surface scan. Looking forward to opening this up.
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Once bought a gallon pickle jar filled with Buffalo
Nickels as part of a collection back in the mid 1980s.
I bought a massive US collection formed by
the 80 year old gentleman's father and continued
by him. The family had retired to Canada in the late
1970s.
Most Incredible buy as a dealer ever.
There were over 40 1913 S Type 2 coins
Fine to EF just to name one highlight .
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I once recovered 58 solid rolls of wheats at one haul from my credit Union. Also, 2 solid rolls of steel wheats at once. Like Jbuck, I also dated a teller but I went a step further and married her. She's been in banking for years.you would not believe the collectible coins that never makes it to customers!
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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me and my son got a 25.00 box of pennies once that 792 wheats in it
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me and my son got a 25.00 box of pennies once that 792 wheats in it That's an AMAZING find, grime5! Were there any better dates in there? By the way, as far as the question goes, I'm very happy to be amongst the four people so far in that last group.  CRH Nickeloholic. 1,600,000 nickels searched in eight years! Have found FOUR complete Jefferson sets!
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06/22/2022 2:48 pm
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One time, a long time ago, I got a Wheat cent dump with over 100 wheat cents in a box; I usually only find 10-15 per box, so it was definitely something special. |
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The phrasing of the OP question reminds me of that one time I was walking along a street and saw a whole pile of (by then long demonetized) Soviet coinage just lying there dumped out on the ground. The weather wasn't very conductive for picking them all up (and IIRC I was also in a hurry), so I just took a few coins and decided to go there later.
By the time I remembered to go there later, the pile was no longer there. Sometimes I wonder who, if anyone, ended up with it.
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