I buy them by the bag when my local Dealer gets them in. He buys them for 1 1/2 cents each and I buy them from him for 2 1/4 cents each.

When I get done with them I turn around and sell off what I don't keep for 2 or 3 cents each depending on what the date mix is. Just recently I bought two bags--about 10,000 Wheats. There have not been very many early dates (pre 1940)in this batch but there have been quite a few varieties so far. I sit in my living room chair in the evenings and go through them while watching TV. Last night I found a 1910-S about VF, and a 1955 double die--NO not the one that is worth thousands of dollars. It's the one with the minor doubling, FS 021.9 in the Cherry Pickers Guide. Every now and then I get a few Indians thrown into the mix Just to keep it interesting. It's fun and I get to play with my coins without having to spend alot of money and when I'm done I sell off the bulk to get most of my money back and keep the better stuff for myself.

On another note. My son works the front end at a local grocery store until he goes back to college so he has access to the safe so he can give out change to the cashiers. The other day he called me from work and said that one of his cashiers just opened a roll of quarters and they sounded "different" when they hit the drawer. When he took a look at them he saw dates that go back to the 40's and 50's and that they had a bunch of old paper rolls in the safe. I told him that I would be right there! When I got there he handed me 8 rolls of dimes and a roll of quarters out of the safe. I gave him a $50 bill and headed back to my truck to take a look. Every coin was silver! I went back in to tell him what he had found and he asked me if I wanted the coins that were in the cash register drawer. I felt like saying "Duh-Yea"! All totaled I got $79.40 face value in silver that someone turned in to buy groceries with! The worst part about it was that some of the rolls had the word "silver" written on them!

This is one of the pennies that I have found while searching through bags. A 1909 VDB MS 64 Brown. Not bad for about 2.25 cents.