Looked thru a bunch of Lincoln Wheaties!

Well, my Lincoln wheat penny albums are a little fuller tonight. My project for this week, as I'm on vacation after having some dental surgery yesterday, was to look thru close to 10 rolls of wheat cents.

Some things surprised me. I thought I would find more D and S mints than I did. However, the most common coin I found was the 1957-D, which doesn't surprise me since I live west of the Missippi River, but other than those, some 56's and 58's, I didn't find too many others. Maybe I should explain, for those of you who didn't read my previous post, these coins were pulled out of circulation by our local small town bank. In fact, I was amazed at just how many 57-D's I found, I was guessing about 20 per cent out of 10 rolls, and in the last 2 rolls I searched, it came out to 15%. Yes 15 out of 100 were 57-D's, so I'm estimating now between 15 and 20 per cent of the coins were 57's.

Anyway, out of all these, I found 22 coins for my folders. The earliest was a 1910 and a 1911. Bother were in fairly bac shape, pitted and corroded, but until I can find better ones at a reasonable price, they stay. One good thing though, my friendly banker said I could replace the 22 with 22 duplicate wheaties I have in a tube here at "collecting central". So all I have in my folders have only cost me a penny a piece. Not too bad I'd say.

Anyway that's my wheaties report. I'm going to work on my pictures the rest of the week, and hopefully Thursday night right my more or less end of the year report before set & journal judging begins. Good luck to everyone for the awards.

My coin for this entry is the obverse of a raw 1953 Great Britain crown.