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Pillar of the Community
United States
2600 Posts |
Always get two boxes of Lincoln cents at a time and am just finishing the second box. The first box produced 38 Wheats, nothing old or important. The second one has 11 rolls left to study and if it stays on ratio will produce about 43 Wheats. These are VERY STRONG quantities for me. My avg is about 12 a box. What has come to my attention is that there are no 2008s in either box. I guess it would be a fair conjecture to say that these boxes had been generated in early 2008 or earlier. My questions are: 1. Is it possible that this coin roller does not rotate his inventory and that these boxes have been setting for over a yr? If so, I would surely like to get in the storage room and work in the back wall. 2. I suspect not, but do you think that there is any correlation between the ages of these boxes and the large number of Lincolns in them?  also makes me wonder if they have tubs of cents that just set and they never get to them, either, because they just keep reprocessing what comes back in this week. Guess I am dreaming, but sure is a fun thought. Jim |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Can't really answer that for you Jim. But this I do know is that I had about enough coins to fill a box sitting around in hat boxes that only had dates up 1998. Maybe this is what happens to those boxes that produce the earlier coins.
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New Member
United States
43 Posts |
Jim, a question.
Are you encountering any oddities, like a Canadian cent, errors, counterstamps, or anything?
I'm only asking because I've never done a box search before, but I'm thinking about getting into it.
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Moderator
 United States
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Jim, I go through about two boxes a month and hardly find any 2008's. D R Dave, I suggest you become a Roll Hound, I'm a Lincoln Cent Roll Hound and it's a lot of fun finding "goodies" in a box of cents  John1 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think that anything is possible, and different banks do different things. I think it is mostly luck of the draw, and thats why we roll hunt, there could be anything in there. I've only gone through one bag of cents that I got at the bank and I found about a 100 or so 2008's( from both mints, which suprised me)-so these have to be new bags.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It is a lot less fun finding not so goodies, like washers though. FWIW, I second the statement that you can find almost anything in rolls. I hunt halves and have found 3 British Pennies from the 20s and 30s, A Zimbabwe dollar, a US dime and a US penny, among many other things.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2600 Posts |
Dave, I look at a lot of cents every week, about $50 worth, and have adopted coppercoins approach to sorting and studing. It takes longer but you look at everything. I use a Omano 3344 stereo microscope and find most everything worth keeping. These include: -foreign coins, many and many nations -Indianhead, 2 -Wheats, avg about 12 a box, oldest a 1909-VDB in G-4 -blank planchets -broadstrucks -strike throughs ( Struck Through Grease) missing letters and devises -RPMS -doubled dies, including the 1972P-1DO-001, the biggy. You can see it on my post "1972P-1DO-001 found in a roll" So, yes, it is fun and worth it, at least for me. The important thing is to be sure that you keep it fun. This is sort of like playing the slots but you always break even or win. How cool is that. Jim |
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Valued Member
United States
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YOU GUYS ARE NUTS!! Those are insane wheat #'s and Jim, your finds are truly amazing.
As far as your question goes, I've had one box like your's before, except everything was in the 80's and 90's nothing else, and not one with a hint of copper color, just straight brown. So when I first saw the rolls I was like "oh yea, jack pot" but nope.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2541 Posts |
The Fed hasn't been releasing coins much (as many of us know with the lack of the 2009 Lincolns). It may have been sitting around for a year, or it may just be that the fed still has bags of 2008 stuff sitting there waiting to go into circulation.
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't see what the deal is with the 2008 P boxes of cents/pennies. I look through boxes all the time. At least half the boxes that I get are solid date 2008 P. I wish they would disappear so that I could get some good mixed boxes or 2009's.
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Valued Member
United States
56 Posts |
I wouldn't mind getting those 2008 P boxes... those are worth a decent premium over face value. Last time I checked, the '08 boxes sell for around 3x face on ebay, or you can wholesale them directly to a dealer for $1.00 a roll! |
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Valued Member
United States
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i get alot of nice looking stuff when roll searching
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1450 Posts |
I have been cent roll searching for 1 1/2 years now and I can say that what I am finding has changed a lot. Even 6 months ago I would get whole rolls of wheats, steelies,counterstamps,and copper galore. Now, I am lucky to see a wheat every 10 or so rolls and tons of 2000-2008. Some rolls I open and you are lucky to find more than 2-3 pre-82's and usually they are in dreadful condition. I started nickel searching because the cent searching was a waste of time and effort. The first 2 weeks of searching nickels I got all kinds of good stuff, War Nickels, buffalos,30's and 40's in about every roll. Now even that has pretty much dried up, all 1995-2008. If I wasn't so darn addicted to roll searching I would quit but addictions are so hard to kick and this one keeps me out of trouble and doesn't cost near as much as my other addictions. |
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