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Long time lurker. First time poster. Finally found something worthy of posting.

Picked up $100.00 of bagged cents from the bank last Saturday and found my little mother-load of wheats. I check the bags by hand at the bank to verify its not a zinc dump by someone and I pulled out a handful of wheats. I was stoked.
Most of the wheats were in the first bag but a small amount were in the second.
I did a sort with my Ryedale first then sorted the zincs by hand to make sure no wheats were missed. Then hand sorted the copper pile.

Breakdown as follows.
All Total - $24.71
1911 - $.05
1917 - $.19
1919 - $.33
1920 - $.06
1925 - $.19
1926 - $.01
1927 - $.29
1928 - $.22
1929 - $.28
1930 - $.16
1934 - $1.71
1935 - $.88
1936 - $.77
1937 - $.43
1938 - $1.11
1939 - $1.88
1940s - $11.67
1950s - $4.48

Other Odd Finds:
59D AU - 26
64 AU - 47
64D AU - 67

Thanks for having me.

Nice find. Somebody dumped the jar of wheats Grandpa had on his dresser.

Wow! What luck! Congrats on such a fun score.
You have some years that are more rare. Any good mint marks to go with them?

Nice! Did any of the pre-34 stuff have mint marks?

Swheat score!
Welcome to RC.

Wow, drooly!

Zig, share some of that luck with the rest of us. Welcome to realcent.

OMG oodness!!
What an awesome find.... and .... Welcome to posting on RC. Hope to hear from you more often!!

Wow, what a haul! Congrats, and best wishes on many more to come

uthminsta wrote:Nice! Did any of the pre-34 stuff have mint marks?

Not a single mintmark on pre-34. I was hoping for at least 1 really good rare one, but I will take what I got.
Thanks everyone.

What a score! Now be sure to save some for the rest of us.

Awesome find!!

Hope some of that good fortune can be spread around to the folks here. Nice Jars are getting dumped every day, what a snag!!

You should post that on the January 2013 Pre-1940 Lincoln Tracking Thread http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20369 and you will be in the lead for the year.

Nice wheat score.

Gee, I wonder who dumped those? <cue Thogey>

Thanks for sharing the story. Keeps us motivated.

awesome to see some good luck.

henrysmedford wrote:...you will be in the lead for the year.

In the lead... that's an understatement! I've only found 33 pre-40's after sorting $736 (almost 15 bags worth) so far this year!

Jesus mary & joe

Nice friggen haul.

NICE! That's a great little stash you got there. I've had a few myself over the years. In 2011, I hit a couple of big amounts like that in CA (including one that had 600 wheats) and between the coin club, other sales and a small stash for Hoard, I turned a nice tidy profit and filled some holes in the Wheat book.

Keep stacking.

I just sat here daydreaming for a minute about how much fun this must have been to sort through.

Great finds and welcome to the board!

NHsorter wrote:I just sat here daydreaming for a minute about how much fun this must have been to sort through.

I normally grab the bags and sort later in the week. When I saw what I had I went straight home and started sorting. Then realized that I never asked if the person dumped anything else. Went back to the bank to verify I had got everything.
Which I had so went home and back to sorting.

856 pre-40's. Consider that the average is one of those per bag - or less - and you just got the equivalent of sorting about $45,000.