Hobby Booster

Could you shed some advice? I hunt for Lincoln Cent varieties so I go to the bank and buy boxes of pennies. Do you have specific banks you go too? I have been doing this for 2 years and still haven't found a DDO or DDR. I only find minor varieties $1-$10. What could I be overlooking? I would appreciate any advice :-D! I use a Bausch & Lomb Hastings Triplet 10x Loupe. I live in western Massachusetts could it be the area?

I go to "my" bank and get 10 boxes at a time(pre-order) and turn in the non-keepers to a different bank. I have been through around 3.8 million cents in my hobby of roll searching.Location does matter sometimes but may I suggest you study up on the minting process so you know what to look for.I am sure you will find some errors and varieties in time.Have you checked out coppercoins.com?
John1

Haha, really? Where abouts? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post the town here, but I also reside in the hills of western mass... Chesterfield to be exact. (Lol, and I don't roll search cents so no need to worry there)

I can't really offer up any advise, as again I don't search cents at all, I mean I've always got my eye open for the occasional WAM or the allusive '92 CAM, but only roll search halfs and only occasionally... Silver miner, lol. What are you looking for/hoping to find that's over the $10 range? Just curious as I've no idea....

*edit* lol, I probably shouldn't say this.... But I get most of my cents at estate and yard sales around here.... (I only pull wheats) I've just been adding them to a "rainy day" bucket, I'd estimate there's 2-3000 so far from this past summer alone, and since we've had the kids, I havent had a chance to go through a single one yet... Uugh. I've also been having great luck with my pocket change lately, two stores in particular I'm guessing someone cashed in "gramps coins" etc as I've been getting MS wheaties and circulated Mercs every time I buy something.
On a side note, if you don't mind answering, how often do you get wheats back in change? I'm just curious as almost daily or every other day max, either my wife or I get at least one? Seemed odd to me as it's only been in the last 7 months or so? (And totally random, different stores)

Wow that is odd. I rarely get wheats back in change. In the last box I bought I found about 12 wheats out of 2500 coins. Great luck with the pocket change too. I find coin star machines are great coin sorters (if they people using they don't scoop up what the machine spits out). They don't take silver or wheat pennies or foreign coins! Some people just leave them in there maybe because they get sick of the machine spitting it out over and over?

I go through about one box per week,five rolls per day takes around one hour. I do not pull copper cents. Learning the minting process helps you learn what is and isn't a mint issue as a posed to PMD. You may be over looking DDO and DDR because you are not sure what they look like. The more coins you go through the more your eye will quickly pick up on the odd ones. Good luck on your CRHing.
John1