Wheats Galore

[Zig]

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.

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[NDFarmer]

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

[RedRockGirl]

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?

[uthminsta]

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

[RichardPenny43]

Swheat score!
Welcome to RC.

[blackrabbit]

Wow, drooly!

[shinnosuke]

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

[Numis Pam]

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

[jacer333]

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

[Zig]

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.

[outofsort]

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

[LooseChange]

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!!

[henrysmedford]

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.

[CardsNCoins]

Nice wheat score.

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

[NHsorter]

Thanks for sharing the story. Keeps us motivated.

[spacemanX]

awesome to see some good luck.

[uthminsta]

...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!

[rsk1963]

Jesus mary & joe

Nice friggen haul.

[HPMBTT]

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.

[NHsorter]

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

[sparechange]

Great finds and welcome to the board!

[Zig]

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.

[uthminsta]

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.