After hours upon hours of searching wheaties, guess what I found?..........

razorface1027

NUTTIN'...ZILCH!

nwcs

Welcome to the real world of wheat cent searching. I've been there for a while. Enjoy your stay.

Conder101

That large lots of wheaties being sold as unsearched quite possibly are, because the dealer has better things to do than spend "hours and hours" searching them and finding zilch. Sure, MAYBE he lets an SVDB slip through for every 200 bags that he sells, but he doesn't want to spend the time to search a million cents to find it. Especially since it may not be there. I'm not sure if I would do it if you GUARANTEED me that I would find one. I'd probably do better selling them off unsearced and guaranteeing that there was at least one key date in the group. Just like you see them being sold on eBay.

lathmach

What were you looking for? Rare or better dates?
How about varieties? Getting mad because you buy some wheats and find they're all 40's and 50's, without checking for the rare varieties isn't smart.
I guy I know bought 3 bags of wheats and searched thru them. All common junk. Except for the last one, the 15 thousandth one he checked. It was a 1944 D/S....the better of the 2 varieties with the S showing above the D. It was in a high circulated grade as well.

Ray

coppercoins

And I am relatively sure that lot still contains valuable coins...which is why with or without key dates, someone who knows their Lincolns really well will almost always win on a circulated bag buy. Went through 3,000 coins over two weeks, found seven that were easily worth $20 or more, and hundreds of others that would sell quickly at $1-$10. It just takes knowing what to search for, what to do with it, and where to sell it.

oreville

Bought four bags of $50 face wheats 1c from Robert Charles in 1998 for $130 delivered and only opened one of them.

Found a 1/2 roll of 1914-S cents in them. The others have yet to be opened!!!!!!!!!!!

JRocco

I don't think I have ever searched thru a large quantity of wheaties and not found several varieties. It takes a while to know what to look for. Get a copy of C.D.'s (coppercoins.com) book- 'Looking Through Lincoln Cents' and then look thru those Lincoln's.

BAJJERFAN

I once had two unsearched wheat cents.

Cool new expression: "Your two unsearched cents worth".

Betta285

At my job i usually find on average 6 wheaties per weekend, ranging from 1917-1958..PDS..I enjoy it and it's always fun showing my coworkers......Eventually, i hope to be able to partially complete a date set from circulation.

razorface1027

My pop had collected them for years. His goal was to find that 55 DDO. I've only checked the 36-Ps 7 56-Ds.

dorkkarl

did you find any wheat cents?

K S

ms70

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I had a feeling you were going to say this before I opened the thread.