Indian Heads In Circulation?

Is the goal here from the OP to increase the number of IHC finds in circulation?

Well then, 'NOW' is the time to take advantage of the great summer months when people are 'outside' of their guarded and enclosed domiciliary domain having yard sales.

What better time and circumstance does one have to virtually always meet the decision maker/home owner in person and to look at them eyeball to eyeball unencumbered by getting hung up on the phone when cold calling during cold or rainy days etc...?

To qualify oneself just pull out a personal business yard dedicated to the art of collecting or buying/selling coins?

SAFETY TIP:

Remember to always incorporate an address to heighten plausibility. Consider using a PO Box on the card and 'NEVER' a physical address since unscrupulous individuals can and will stalk these types of brick and mortar addresses thinking that coins are stored there...

Just like in phone sales (or in this case it's coin buying) one should have already practiced multiple times their own customized 'elevator speech' lasting no more than 15 - 25 seconds while smiling in front of a mirror. One must never exceed this extremely short period of time since this critical step is the key to opening up that pathway en route to uncovering that diamond in the rough.

The polished smile and adhered-to restricted time period chocked full of reasons of how the seller is going to become richer are the carefully chosen ingredients essential to morph this stranger into being a best friend .

Very often yard sellers are having a dismal day with their ROI(return on investment) of their time vs income from their yard sale and pulling out their coins very often, can be a tremendous method for them to gain that ever so elusive target mission: cash.

Believe me folks, I have found several rare coins using this method like Bust halves, IHCs and even a 1794 Liberty Cap Large cent with just a hint of rim damage.

Finally, at the first sniff of pull back after the elevator speech, only when needed to add even more credibility simply pull out the 2016 Blue book and show the intended seller any extreme example of what he/she possibly could receive as payment w/o any governmental surcharges; this is a private property sale...

The coin buyer saves tax, auction buyer fees and the hassle of confronting some other auction bidder running up the bid by going after the same coin etc...

Just like anything worthwhile,

'ya gotta go for it, if you're gonna get it' and you'll be when ya find that big one.

I apologize for the poor grammar on the last attestation but it serves to drive home the point of increasing the likelihood of finding IHCs already sorted out in collections instead of from time-consuming random circulation expeditions on penny bank rolls.

best of luck,
mdpmedia

They're out there, but hard to find. Earliest I've found is an 1886. I think I've found all of two while hunting.

I USED to find lots of them in change. However, that was about 50 years ago.

It has been a long time since I seen one in my change.

As a kid in the 60's I remember getting them once in a
while. My Uncle collected them, when I got them I would
give them to him. He had many mason jars filled with them.

My lone "in the wild" IHC is a 1903-dated example received in change at an Exxon gas station in Grapevine, TX in 2003. Haven't seen one "in the wild" before or since, but have found 2 V nickels in change during that time (1900 & 1906.) Heck, I can't even find wheat cents anymore in change, or old Jeffs.

The coin shop in Plano, TX I used to visit when I was in college (Lone Star?) had a cash register, of course, (back when credit card machines went "ka-thunk clunk" and debit cards were nonexistent) -- the owner had it stocked with dateless Buffalo nickels, dateless SLQ's, Kennedy clad halves, Ike/SBA dollars, and common date Wheat cents, and unless you specified your change above $1 back in bills, you were getting coins. I thought this was a nice way to get some older coins back into circulation, even if only briefly.