Wheat Bonanza

[kestrelia]

Yesterday at the bank a teller friend of mine gave me $440 in coins she took in from an older gentleman. She thought I'd have good luck with them.

I went through the quarters first. There were 1,040 of them. In the batch I only found one Canadian. I went through 400 nickels and found only one Canadian as well. (The rolls also had two dimes and five pennies in them.) The dimes, 1,050, looked equally disappointing, but in the second to last row my luck changed. I found a nice 1937 Mercury dime. My oldest dime to date! (I also found a penny in the dime rolls.)

My luck continued with the 3,500 pennies ... big time. It was a wheat penny bonanza! I found 128 wheats, 28 Canadians, one nickel, six dimes, one Barbados 1 cent, and one German 2 Pfennig. In the bunch I found three varieties I didn't have (1927, 1931, 1948D) and a few upgrades. Here's the variety breakdown.

1917
1918
1927
1930 x 2
1931
1936
1940 x 4
1941 x 4
1942 x 5
1944 x 16
1944D
1945 x 12
1946 x 12
1946D
1947D
1948 x 3
1948D x 2
1949
1950
1950D
1950S
1951
1952 x 3
1952D
1953 x 3
1953D x 3
1954
1955 x 12
1956 x 2
1956D x 8
1957D x 8
1958 x 5
1958D x 4

I was hoping to match GMan's awesome silver nickel find, but I'll settle for a big load of wheats, finding three new varities in one night for a single album is good these days!

 

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[packerbacker]

That's a lot of wheats! Do you pull out the all-copper pennies also like some around here do?

 

[thurmownator]

Sounds like you had your "wheaties" yesterday.

Great finds, especially on the Merc.............and don't forget to do something nice for your teller/friend.

 

[kestrelia]

coppers - nah, haven't been pulling them all out. I think it'd be a lot work for a little gain. Plus we're moving soon and keeping the 10 or so boxes of coins I usually having waiting to dump is pain enough.

tellers - yup, I've brought donuts there before, but I think it is time to make some cookies with my wife to bring in. The same teller has also saved me 3 or 4 silver Rosies and 3 silver quarters.

 

[fiatboy]

That's quite a haul of wheaties. Keep it up.

 

[waseeker]

Nice job on the wheats