I live in Western Canada and recently picked up what I think is a pretty sweet score of 500 wheat cents. They cost $40 Canadian plus taxes, which in total is a bit over $40 US.
Highlights:
1909vdb x 3, 1909 x 4, 1910, 11,
11S (in VF, wow!), 12, 13 x 4, 13D, 14 x 3, 15 x 2, 21S,
23S, 24S x 2, 25S x 10,
26S x 2,
31D x 2, 32D x 2, 33,
33D x 2,
36 double die (sweet!), Canadian x 2, 120 pre-1930
Lowlights: the bag was over ten coins short and contained several grimy coins
I am pretty sure I kicked butt on this lot. It seemed not only unsearched, but old and unsearched. In general, you can get some nice US stuff here since Canadian collectors are usually indifferent and unknowledgeable toward
US coins.
Anyway, what do you all think?
Part two of the story: I went back for another 1000, but it only yielded about as good as the 500 above, for nearly twice the price. This next 1000 had a low grade 22D, a couple more 31D, some 09 and 09vdb, a 15D, a couple 21S, a few common teens, etc.
What do you think of this second lot? Is it below the threshold of being worth it?
Now, what next? My situation is that I now have a decent hoard of wheats (about 5000) from which I've made some nearly complete trader Whitman albums and date rolls. There are plenty of 40s/50s, but the vast majority of those have mintmarks. And I think I have more teens/20s/30s than most 5000 count lots would have.
Can I please solicit opinions on how to divide and sell my extra wheats? For instance, are fifty 1925S wheats worth more sold as a roll or mixed into a huge bag? I have too much morality to claim my wheats are unsearched, but even being searched they are possibly better than a random bag from
ebay. Again, this is due to getting them from Western Canada, where there are mintmarks and not a ton of interest.
Thanks in advance!