by GGerrands » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:30 pm
@ scrapper2010: The roll with the IH & the steelie were machine-wrapped. @Chaboo: I use lemon juice or Coca Cola as a mild acid on some unreadable dates (usually memorial cents). It really does get rid of some gunk, but probably lowers numismatic value.
I had 6 boxes from this past week. One box was CWR, and had around 50% copper in it, but surprisingly few wheats. Another of the machine-wrapped boxes had over 50 wheats, but a low copper percentage (around 15%). The IH & steel I found in a 3rd box, also of machine-wrapped coins. Copper was good on it, but maybe about 10 other wheats in the box.
I like to think with machine-wrapped boxes like that one with the 50+ wheats, that there is a large pool of coins put in to be wrapped and maybe someone turned in a lump of 50 cents of solid wheats that got dispersed into the pool.
I had an incident when I was 14 at a McDonalds in a super Walmart...got 3 wheats in change. Went back and got the rest of pennies in drawer. I still have all those coins...it was around 10 or 12 wheats , many pre 1939, and 1 1907 IH cent in good condition.