Felt Oddly Guilty Roll Seaching Yesterday.

My five year old and I searched a box of cents from the bank yesterday. He has his own whitman albums, and after many boxes he rarely finds a cent that fills a hole anymore. We each open half the rolls and compare finds. The "rules" are that if one of us finds a cent the other needs (and their book already has it), they have to give it up- other he can keep anything he wants. Well, on the first roll he opens, he finds five wheats. We've opened dozens of boxes, so we expect maybe 6-12 wheats a box here in Tennessee. He's doing the happy dance when the second roll he opens has four more wheats, one of which fills a hole (21-s). I commented that I guess someone had turned in a jar of older cents. As we proceed along, every roll has a least one wheat, someone of this semi rare. When he found a 1910-S, probably in fine, my emotions change a bit. I started imagining that someone has either 1. emptied a collection they inherited into a Coinstar, or 2. someone stole a collection and poured it down a Coinstar. We eventually found 99 wheats in the box, with at least 15 of them worth more than a dollar in good condition per the '10 redbook- none of them the same date/mintmark. Its a shame something bad happened to a collection someone worked on in the past.

PS- I did check to see if the bank had anymore boxes (nope)- so I'm no saint! No '09S.