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Anyone else finding wheat cents like there's no tomorrow?

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭
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Out of the (exactly) 200 cents I've found this year, 27 have been Wheats. This is a higher percentage than I was expecting.

Anyone else having similar results?

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    joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Someone on another MD board explained it that many people are cashing in their coins because of the economy so there are more oldies out there.

    Kevin
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    pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭
    Huh, now that's interesting!

    From what I can tell though, only one has been dropped recently (it was right on top). Maybe I'm just getting lucky? Or is this standard?
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    DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    I dug my first one of the year today out of over 300. It all depends on the sites you detect.
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    demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    in the mid 1980's, i used to dig between 30-100 wheat cents a month. recently they seem to be getting harder to find.
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    jessecarlkjessecarlk Posts: 646
    I have only dug 6 ever, out of probably 750 cents, or more? My most recent was last weekend, a 1946 D.
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    marymmarym Posts: 713 ✭
    Funny you should mention findsing more wheaties these days. I found another one today in the local CoinStar machine. This one was a 1954 which is very random as that's the year I was born. image I've found 3 so far this year and it's only May! -Mary
    Be Still and Know
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