Cool Lincoln Roll Finds (From Bank Rolls) - Post Yours!

Found a 1920 and 1935 this morning. Finished my box of pennies...got 13 wheats and 11 Canadian total.

Found a 1913 LWC in a roll at work yesterday. Mostly notable because it's in pretty good condition--Lincoln's ear and most of his hair is still visible, facial features are clear, and on the back most of the wheat-buds are still separate from each other (only the top half of the left stalk is truly worn away).

Just picked up $5 in rolls, so that makes the equivalent of 1 box of pennies that I've searched through throughout my roll hunting career.

Anyways, I got like 5 1959 D's from these last $5 which is pretty awesome. Especially since both my parents were born in 1959.

I also got a 2002 Canadian cent that's in pretty good shape. I've been getting a few Canadians lately, which is also nice.

Started doing cents again cause somebody took all my playing money last week. Found this little puppy. Its my birth year aswell.

1918 wheat yesterday at work. Very nice condition.


Also a 2000 that looks like it's in uncirculated condition! (I wouldn't say BU, but I didn't see any dings, all the details are still there, and the coin is shiny enough to reflect another coin in.)

I'm sure this has been asked an answered before, but after finding bits and pieces of what I'm after I will ask on here! :)

How do you sort through your bank rolls? I know about "the list" and also the purists who say NO LIST and to set aside anything that looks "different." I also know about keeping the BU coins and copper.

My burning question is... Do YOU study EVERY coin with a magnifier as you open them? Sort by date, than study them up close? Do you throw back the badly worn/green/cruddy ones without looking?

What I do is pull out all of the cruddy ones first, check for WAMs and CAMs - if copper I throw in my copper cruddy bucket. Then I take out all the "older" looking brown coins and check each one with a 7X magnifier, set aside anything that looks interesting sorted by date in ice-cube trays with the years written on them. Then I grab all the shiny coins and give them a 7X look over - anything BU gets sorted into the trays.

Then I go back through them with my Bausch and Lomb hastings 14X to really get in there - if I see anything that looks different at this point I put into a seperate container without date designation. Once the trays get too full I put in rolls by year mixed MM.

Am I doing WAAAAAY too much sorting? I'm scared that I will miss something if I go too quickly, but seem to get bogged down with all these steps.

So to surmise I have container for throwback zincolns, keeper crud copper, dated BU/Interesting, and More interesting. Also the rolls. I also feel like I'm keeping too many. I know I know... keep what you can afford, but I feel like my system is burying me....LOL!

Any help from you folks would be greatly appreciated.

Box 5 of 10 ( sorry for the delay on progress...work has me busy)
Copper 21.8% (lowest of the five so far)
Wheats 10 (oldest 1936)
Canadian 8 (oldest 1959)
Best...nothing really worth mentioning

Lonz:
I sort this way;wheats coppers,tough dates,other zinc.Tough dates are those with CAM and WAM, the 1988's,majoe doubled dies and those with double dies that are hard to see. I tackle the tough dates first.I take the other dates with me to work and check them all. I sort the coppers in two sorting trays,when a date gets full I check them with loop and roll them.I am way behind on the coppers.