47 wheats in one cwr!

[Finder]

I brought home 50 customer wrapped rolls (CWR) from the bank last night.

Most rolls had been about normal 20-25%.

One roll looked old and had the ends taped, I was a bit disappointed that it also was about normal.

BUT, one other roll that looked the same with the ends taped was quite a surprise.

When I opened it the 1st thing I noticed was a stell penny on the end, then I noticed almost the whole roll was that caramel chocklate brown, a noticable absence of shinty zinc.
Then I noticed 4 or 5 wheats!

So I ran it them through my sorter...

Boom, boom, boom..one after the other hitting my copper container.
Only 2 hit the zinc bin, a 1993 zinc and one other one. Not sure how they got in there...

The final tally was 48 wheats all of them in the 40s including 3 steels, 2 of which were in very good shape.

Someone had turned in a roll of 40 wheats as regular pennies!

The $25 worth of pennies ended up producing 55 wheats in the 40s and 50s, only 2 or 3 in the 50s. Also a 1967 dime and a canadian.

hahahhahahaha!

This was my best roll and box by far, and double my best wheat tally per box.

At 1st I thought..meh...these cwr's arent any different from the bwr's (bank wrapped rolls) but now Im a believer.

PS: Ive been pulling out my red Bu's (or close to unc) and have a beatiful red jug growing.
In the future if they do not bring a premium I will be surprised. And if I want to search for errors I will start there. In any case the RED jug is just pretty to look at.

[pennypicker]

I average a whopping 5 wheats per $25 box and you found 47 in one roll! You sure know how to make a guy feel bad. Just kidding, great find and it gives us members something to hope for during our sorting.

[CU Baker]

You must be a red neck when your water sking is the same as nascar, another left turn, and another left turn.

[lahmejoon]

Great find. I had a similar experience with customer wrapped rolls. On one of my pick-ups, there were twelve rolls in the same older-looking wrappers. The contents were all pre-'82. One of the rolls had "old" written on it and proved to be a solid roll of wheats. There was nothing pre-'40 in it, but there was a steel cent. Nevertheless, it's exciting when you hit something like that.

[Finder]

thanks guys, it was exciting...

My last box had 1 wheat, a record low for me. Usually I get 5 or 10 per box.

For those who havent lucked out yet, keep going, its just a matter of time
before something really special shows up.

I would trade this 40 wheat roll for just one key date.

[harley1]

thats a nice little haul

[exbingoaddict]

Market Harmony is going to have to update the cents in circulation, if you keep putting rolls like that. Very nice pickup.

[Finder]

I'm a firm believer in customer wrapped rolls now.