Look what I just received in the mail...

Anytime you want, I'll gladly roll up some wheats and put an Indian Cent on the end. I won't even search them ahead of time.

For $200, I'll sell you a full bag of wheats and throw 50 Indians into the bag.

That's an expensive $13.

You might as well play the lottery. Bigger payoff (and frankly better odds too!)

$8 retail of coins you wouldn't have bought anyway for just $13 isn't much of a bargain. Better value to be had at the bank. At least at your favorite coin dealer you make sure you get the coins you want before you buy them.

Mr_Spud: That's one awesome form of entertainment you found there!! I never got started collecting Barbers, but have often fantasized about being able to put a decent set together in a Whitman folder from a junk box, etc.

@joeykoins said:

@daltex said:
That's an expensive $13.

For an hour of "Entertainment". You can't go wrong. My feelings anyway?
Here, check this out. So far I went through only 9 coins. I have the two Indians (In which I still have to check out) almost a full roll of wheats. And the two low dated Wheaties. I figure, so far I'm at $8. $1 for the roll of Wheats, $5, for both 1926/1914. $2, At least for the Indians. $8 for spending $13. I Still have 41 coins to look at.

Dude, I don't want to go any further with this. It's your money,
You can spend it any way you want.

But for newbies who might read this , those two circ wheats are common dates. The 1914 is 50 cent retail and the 1926 is 15 cents. The full Indian is 25 cents max. Even if the other one is $1, you are under $2. 100 wheats is $3.

ouch!

I spent most of the afternoon searching a bag of 5000 wheats...i got thru maybe about a third of it. filled up about 75% of the wheats in a 1941-74 date/mm whitman folder and about 15% of the 09 thru 41 folder. found about a dozen common indian heads and three buffalo nickels with dates

drank a pot of decaf and had one eye on college football. it was relaxing

keep it coming op

who wants to go into business with me:

https://www.amazon.com/Semacon-CM-75-Crimping-Complete-included/dp/B009MAAXC4/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=Coin+Roll+Crimper&qid=1607826918&s=office-products&sr=1-9

Lady called me yesterday 0830 and wanted to sell me her "coin collection"
she was a world traveler in the '60s.
so I drove 15KM and (masks on) looked at her stuff... a tiny bit of silver...
so I offered her $ 20 CAN. she said ok and then handed me an envelope saying: have this also and I hope it makes up for the junk here on the table.
at home, I checked the contents which I thought was maybe some MEX old pesos etc.....
contents: 4 1967 Canada centennial bills value $ 4
2 Canada $ 2 bills Value $ 4
and one 1870 shinplaster 25 cent bill in about VF 30 condition... value $ 120.
thank you so much. surely paid for the gas!

Periodically I release some IHC and wheat cents back into circulation just so collectors like you can find and cherish them. Maybe I should stamp them with an omega to make them even more special. Or maybe a sigma and a tau........

OINK

@jmlanzaf said:
who wants to go into business with me:

https://www.amazon.com/Semacon-CM-75-Crimping-Complete-included/dp/B009MAAXC4/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=Coin+Roll+Crimper&qid=1607826918&s=office-products&sr=1-9

EXACTLY what Joey needs........he can just re-roll them and re-market them on eBay. Maybe for 20% more than he paid? But with an upgrade for the end coins.

Well said @Bochiman

@Bochiman said:
Always fun to see someone enjoying the hobby THEIR way, especially when the relative cost is small but the enjoyment is high.

Just as "fun" (not!) to see the knowitalls say their piece, and then, not getting the response they want, continue telling someone what that person SHOULD do and how WRONG they are.

If the OP were brand new and asking for advice, that's one thing. He isn't, he knows he is overpaying/being taken, but it is a cost level he is comfortable with. He actually replied very politely to those that like to tell others how to do things and why they are so smart to do so.

As for the "sell in bulk of 5000 for $150, to someone who has a roller and then resells for $6.50/roll to someone like the OP"....sounds like the only 2 smart people are the one who buys for $150 and resells for a buttload more and the one who only spends ~$13 of "fun money"...the other person didn't maximize their profit potential so that's not someone to listen to on the business side, and the roll purchaser is spending less than a couple lattes to have fun for a few hours.

I don't have the heart of a thief. I sell the wheats at their legitimate market value. [Funny how there is another thread where everyone is complaining about "aspirational pricing" on eBay.]

About 2 weeks ago, a newbie showed up on this forum having bought some rolls from eBay that had a mercury dime on the end of a cent roll. This forum was so effing rude to him while telling him that he had been ripped off that he went away in a huff never to be heard from again.

The hypocrisy is staggering if not surprising.

I'll repeat what I said twice already: it's your money, spend it how you want. There are, however, cheaper ways to get coins to search.