Great penny box

[PADFH]

Picked up $100 in pennies today. First box was over 50% Cu and five rolls had 12 or more wheats! 70 wheats total in the box. Three boxes left from the same pickup, can't wait to sort them.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Picked up $100 in pennies today. First box was over 50% Cu and five rolls had 12 or more wheats! 70 wheats total in the box. Three boxes left from the same pickup, can't wait to sort them.

70 wheats...one box....is a DREAM anymore in my area. Are these CWR's?

Don't be shy...let's hear about boxes 2...3..and 4!

[everything]

That's awesome, something different and exciting. Same here on finding wheats, sure I found a 31D a few weeks ago, but you don't find 12 in a roll, if your lucky you can find two in a roll, I think the most I ever found in a roll was four.

[Night Hawk]

Congrats on the good score, the most wheats I've found in one roll is 3.

Right now I'm averaging about 1 wheat every 4 1/2 rolls.

[PADFH]

I've only started sorting about two months ago but this was a crazy average considering I had been getting about 25% cu and less than 10 wheats per box.

I started on a few rolls of box two and I'm averaging about 30% with no wheats yet. I'll keep you updated when I open more.

As a side note, I didn't realize how lucky I was when I first started. On only my second week I stopped by a few banks asking for CWRs. I got $11.50 in pennies from a single bank and amazingly 21 rolls were nearly 100% wheats. I didn't realize how rare this was. No super rare coins but two dozen in the teens, and maybe 25 from the twenties. Killer score! Maybe this is like gambling. Hit a big score early and your hooked for life. Then again the casino doesn't give me $25 for every $10 I give them!

So glad I found realcent, thanks folks.

[PADFH]

10 rolls into box 2. Probably 30% Cu and 20 wheats! One roll had 10 and another had 5. I'm excited about the other $70

[PADFH]

Box two done. ~40% Cu and 62 more wheats. Two rolls containing 10 or more. Onto box 3!

[penny pretty]

my best is also 4 wheats in a roll.my challenge is.. has anyone found more than one DIME in a roll? been getting a lot of dimes recently, but never more than one per roll.

[dannan14]

my best is also 4 wheats in a roll.my challenge is.. has anyone found more than one DIME in a roll? been getting a lot of dimes recently, but never more than one per roll.

I've had as many as 3 dimes in a cent roll.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

my best is also 4 wheats in a roll.my challenge is.. has anyone found more than one DIME in a roll? been getting a lot of dimes recently, but never more than one per roll.

I had a $25 Brinks box two weeks ago with 5 dimes in it. I think one of the rolls had more than one dime. This is the most dimes I've ever found in a box.

[PADFH]

I've only ever found one dime in a penny roll.

[agmoose]

I found two dimes in a roll once, they were stuck together. The most wheats in a rolls for me was 4, which has happened a couple of times from bank rolls.

Congrats on some great boxes!

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

It's a treasure hunt out there!

[PADFH]

Box 3 wasn't as good as the first two but not bad. 30% Cu and 7 wheats.

Box 4 was much better 40% Cu and 42 wheats, one roll had 13 alone!

Very interesting pickup, 181 wheats and approx. $40 in Cu keepers in $100. I still have 4 boxes from the same bank from the week before. How lucky can I get?

[jacer333]

Don't reveal where you live...or else me and some other sorters will be moving there soon!

[robroy]

Last week I picked up a box pennies that were CWR. When I weighed the box on my bathroom scale it came in at 16 pounds. Only had one roll of '83 or later. 43 rolls of '81 & prior with the remaining 7 rolls all '82 I have to weight to find the copper. By far this represents my best box. I once had a box that had 300 wheat pennies.

I was going to pass on the CWR but am glad that I didn't. Lately I've been finding sealed Brink boxes that individually weigh in at 14 pounds as sort of a new norm.

[PADFH]

Other $100 from previous week seems like standard 25%. One nice score though. I wonder how that happens. I'd expected if even a few hundred in heavy wheats and copper gets dumped it would be more spread out by the time it's sent to the fed and rewrapped. Guess not. Anyone know how that works?

[PADFH]

Started to search this week's pennies. Opened the box to see 48 rolls of BU. The two rolls I opened netted 3 Cu. Other three boxes look like all BU save one roll. Not even gonna open them. So this leads to a question. I've only ever dumped in a coin counter. Should I just take the rolls of pennies to the bank as is?

[MUTiger]

Started to search this week's pennies. Opened the box to see 48 rolls of BU. The two rolls I opened netted 3 Cu. Other three boxes look like all BU save one roll. Not even gonna open them. So this leads to a question. I've only ever dumped in a coin counter. Should I just take the rolls of pennies to the bank as is?

I have done this and traded them for "used" cents. The teller was ok with it because they liked to give out the new ones. Give it a try.

When I ask for CWR they usually drag out their tray and often times it also has plastic wrapped Brinks rolls that are BU. I say "I do not want the new ones." No problem.

mutiger

[RichardPenny43]

If you have a scale you can weigh them and get a good idea as to how many coppers are inside. Without opening the roll you'll never know what little treasure you could have missed. I'd at least open them and give them a quick scan.