Coin Roll Hunting With Pennies

Do people that coin roll hunt with pennies normally find any wheat pennies? I am new to collecting and thought about getting a box of pennies. I just was curious if it would be worth my time?

Second Question, if you could get any Susan B Anthony's or Kennedy half dollars for face value would you get them?

Thanks for your input.
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Hi Connor...I just did two boxes of pennies ($25 each, $50 total, 5000 coins total). I found 12 wheat cents so it wasnt great and alot of work but I had fun looking for them.

As far as SBA and Kennedy coins, that's up to you. I dont personally collect them and if circulated there really isn't a premium on these.

Just got a box of pennies today. Opened 8 rolls so far and found 1 1946 Wheat penny. Haven't sorted through them that well yet. Many more rolls to go.

When I search cent boxes, I typically get from 10-20 wheaties per box. I have found 2 in AU condition, all the rest heavily circulated. I have heard of people finding Indian Head cents, I never have. I also sort out the 1982 and earlier copper cents. I have a large bag under my bed that weighs about 20lbs. I'm not real sure what I will do with them, I guess hang onto them until it is legal to melt them?

I did $100 in pennies about two months ago for the Cent Project and found:

23 wheats (oldest 1940 and 3 steels in there) 1:434 odds
1 Indian Head cent ( IHC) 1907 VG
6 proofs (86-88S, all corroded and all within same customer wrapped roll)
14 Canadian cents
6 dimes
1 other foreign cent (British half penny)

Based on my searching and others searching, you can probably expect one Wheat cent per 500 pennies on average. You also can expect to hardly ever find pre-1940 coins, but they do happen, like the IHC I found.

As mentioned by others, a lot of people are taking out the pre-82 cents and 82 copper (if they know how to tell the difference between copper and zinc 82). The copper cents are worth 2 cents a piece melt value roughly. On ebay, they are selling for about that price or slightly less. So you could effectively almost double your money if you want to spend the time going through all these coins to pull out the copper. There seem to be a lot of buyers of copper cents for 2 cents apiece. I don't personally understand why anyone would want to buy them, because I don't think they will ever get much higher than that. Perhaps the perception that ban on melting of copper coins makes people want to hoard.

Yes, all the time. I found about 110 this week alone. I did have to look through $450 in cents though. I do not look at every coin, that would burn me out real quick. I always try to get customer wrapped coins. I open 3-4 rolls on a towel and quickly spread them out. Wheats have a slightly different color to them than regular coppers so they are easier to spot. I do a quick harvest then move on to the next few rolls. I know I miss some but I don't have the time to examine 45000 coins. When I run them through my copper sorter I also spot more and grab them too. This week the oldest was two 1919s and last week a 1909.

I'm a roll searcher and it's free money. If you want to Kennedy half dollars you can fill your books. There's silver out there but it's drying up as many know about it. Try it and see. There's still wheat's out there but I wouldn't expect to fill a book that way.

Yes, all the time. I found about 110 this week alone. I did have to look through $450 in cents though. I do not look at every coin, that would burn me out real quick. I always try to get customer wrapped coins. I open 3-4 rolls on a towel and quickly spread them out. Wheats have a slightly different color to them than regular coppers so they are easier to spot. I do a quick harvest then move on to the next few rolls. I know I miss some but I don't have the time to examine 45000 coins. When I run them through my copper sorter I also spot more and grab them too. This week the oldest was two 1919s and last week a 1909.
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Hey Dan...I am curious about your copper sorter. Do you have some mechanical coin counter/sorter that can separate out the 1982 copper and earlier from the 1982 zinc pennies? I'd love to get my hands on one of those if such a thing exists!