Buying Wheat Cents Bags?

You can find them at most coin shops and online at places like ebay. Prices will be all over the map. Expect to pay 3 to 6 cents each per coin at a shop and 5 to 10 cents each per coin on ebay. You will most likely find mixed bags skewed heavily to the 40's and 50's with scattered coins in the teens, twenties and thirties.

There is no shortage of these things so take your time.

Good luck in your search!

Uncertainty is the main reason they are only in that price range. If varieties were guaranteed, the price would be much higher.

There is no guarantee what you will find, but your best bet IMHO is the coin shops. These are usually held for long periods of time by previous owners knowing they have some value but without the time to search them. The coin shops do a cursory search for major varieties but they do miss stuff and nice ones can still be found.

As an example, in 2018 I picked up five $50 mostly memorial Lincoln Cent bags destined for the local bank and the shop sold them to me for face. One bag held 928 wheats (2/3's were details grade), another the counter brokage with extra LIBERTY on the obv, another with 1964 DDR, a 1971 DDO, etc.

When you are done searching you still have coins worth 3-6 cents each.
Best of luck.

You were fortunate indeed. The value of wheat cents at a coin store is very much less than in most people's minds!

In my opinion there is no such thing as an unsearched bag of wheats . Most of them have been searched through many times over . And most if not all will only contain 1940 to 1958 pds ,usually average circulated coins . I agree the best place to connect with anything worth while would be a coin shop . They don't have the time to go searching through 5,000 Wheaties .

By nature of being isolated, would they not have been screened?

It's been 60 years since they stopped making wheat cents. It's safe to say everything has been searched, and researched, and searched again, moving around the country from collector to collector.

"Unseached" is a term used frequently in the sales of these things but it's a falacy. At best you c an only hope the person selling to you hasn't searched them but highly likely where ever they got them from searched them, and before that.

You could try this but yeah stay on the low end of pricing like the 3 cents each side vs. The more expensive ones, like a roll for $1.50 or a $50 bag for $150. Something like that. The selection doesn't get better the more you pay.. it's unsearched. Lol.

There are ebay sellers that seed better date coins in their lots to push up auction prices. It's more expensive but there's a shot at getting something nicer also.

Finally, you might want to spend the time researching BU rolls. They will likely also be searched but you might come across. Pick a date with good varieties to look for if you do that sort of thing but again don't overpay. It's rare "unsearched" is actually unsearched and had just been sitting in a dark corner for the last 60+ years.

At coin shows I see those all the time. And they have been looked through so many times it is amazing they are not all worn off.