I did a box of pennies for a change this week. It was only my second ever, the first having been several years ago. I was surprised that I found 8 wheat pennies, none valuable.
In my opinion, not really. But take my opinion with a grain of salt as I have only opened about 3 or so boxes and found about 4 or 5 wheats average. I've heard some people get none, and then there are some like this guy:
my last box had six. The box I'm on now, only one. a lousy box, all new very few older dates. Maybe will change banks next box. I dont know if that will matter.
I was averaging 15-20 wheats per box back in 2016. I went through maybe 3 boxes a month. I lost track of my findings, however I did land a 1905 IHC, maybe a dozen or so wheats from the teens and twenties.
I spent some time searching for varieties as well. Depending on what you look for it can take some time to go through a box of cents. I've found quite a few clashes, some RPM's, DDO's and DDR's, one Cud from 1983.... I've given up being concerned about your average die cracks and even found clashes on mid 80s are somewhat common.
I really enjoy the hunt. Finding a 100 year old coin in common change is pretty darn cool.
I'm trying to fill albums from circulated coins. Nickles may be next, but that might be harder for me as my wife doesn't appreciate me having money tied up in rolls of coins. She just doesn't get it
As with dimes, I strongly recommend getting rolls from as many different banks as possible instead of boxes... batches of $5-$10 at each depending... and then going back to the banks where the best rolls came from. I've found many good little hoards of wheats and even some Indians that way.
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hi, I have gotten 2 bricks a week for the past 1 1/2 yrs, and last yr my avg was 22-27 wheat cents per brick, this past new yr its down to 13-17, per box, my last 2 boxs only about 9-13 wheats,per box.
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