No Big Deal but found my Fifth 1909 Cent for the Year

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

I ran to my pick-up bank today and walked out with 4 of their $50 penny bags. I'll grab the other 3 in the morning. Well, I started running them through the Ryedale and I spotted an older looking wheat while sifting through the pennies on a lookout for any and everything that might cause a jam. Some interesting items have been found recently!

Anyway, I grab the wheat and it's a 1918S. Cool.....teen wheat with a mintmark!! So, while the Ryedale keeps working without jamming, I keep looking for wheats and everything else! The bags are not that good so far for copper. I see freakin' tons of "Shields" looking back at me. I start to get down a bit. But soon I find another old wheat looking at me

1909....no VDB......no "S".....but still a plain 1909 and in decent shape! Cool!

Now just that one little wheat makes me feel better about this lower than average copper run. I'll be lucky to hit 20%!

[Sheba]

I've found an average of about 10 wheats per 25$ box of pennies (unable to get bags at the banks I use). But lately, for the past couple months, all wheats have been in the 41-58 range. Good finds on the 1909 and 1918 S! Congrats! .. specially if they are in good condition. That's great.

I'm guessing, being a lowly hand sorter , that I am still running around 28% - 30% copper...specially when I weigh in the 1982s. But I'm seeing more and more of those ugly shields too (just my artistic opinion on the new penny reverse design)

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

I finished with the 4 $50 bags and went and did the dump thing! These bags got me 23%. $46 face in copper. So far 57 wheats and 31 Canadian coppers/non-coppers!

I'm usually closer to 30% but I think I am starting to get someone else's dumps.

The 1909, 1917, 1918S, and 1920 are the earliest wheats so far.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

OH......got me another decent "cud" error and an AWESOME huge "lamination" error!

Pics later!

[Doctor Steuss]

*Jealous* -- I have yet to find a 1909 in the wild.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

*Jealous* -- I have yet to find a 1909 in the wild.

Yep....you're the sorting kind that will find the 09S or the 09S VDB! I'll get a dozen or so plain 09's for the year and you'll get the goody one!!!!

Keep searching.....then search some more!

[Doctor Steuss]

Yep....you're the sorting kind that will find the 09S or the 09S VDB! I'll get a dozen or so plain 09's for the year and you'll get the goody one!!!!

From your keyboard to the coin gods' computer screens.

Keep searching.....then search some more!

Onward, ever onward...

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Here's a nice find....helps to keep me looking!!!

[theshoenlebens]

Nice, picking up $50 tomorrow. Maybe your luck will rub off on me.

[penny pretty]

5 1909s this year? no big deal?? nice. sux being a handsorter

[scyther]

Wouldn't handsorters be more likely to find rare coins, since they actually look at them all rather than just running them through a machine?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

I do both....!

I double check for key copper errors and varieties!

[Thogey]

Here's a nice find....helps to keep me looking!!!

What the hell is this?

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

A BIG lamination on a cent....poor alloy on the planchant...tried to re-size the pic....but no!