Anybody Bought Real "Unsearched" Wheaties? Alan, Anybody?

MIckey wrote:

I would like to buy some bulk unsearched wheats for our YN "Young
Numismatic" programs at our club. Have any of you ever bought any bulk
wheaties from a seller that you felt like were really "unsearched?" I
bought a couple of half pound packages as a raw "newbie" when I was
"Collecting Everything". What I bought was pretty much all 50's and a
few 40s. All were no better than VG, most just G .
Thanks in advance.

I don't think that there is such a thing. The wheaties may be unsearched
by the current seller but I'm sure that a previous owner or ownerS had
searched through them many times over!

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I tend to agree, at least insofar as date/mm and gross errors are concerned.

But I'd like to make two points.

1. It depends on what you are looking for.
The Cherrypicker's Guide sells well for a reason. Variety is the spice
of life! When I first came to the newsgroup many people told me that
searching currently circulating rolls was a waste...modern mint figures
are enormous, everything worth finding has been found, blah blah blah.
I've found silver nickels, an Indian Head, steel cents, about 100 wheat
cents, BU rolls that are 40+ years old, cuds, countermarks, octagonal
cents, foreign coins, 1960 small dates, silver dimes, diebreaks,
struckthroughs, and a Lincoln Type 2 Reverse from each of the
acknowledged years, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Lots of this stuff interests
no one but myself, some of it is neat, some has value. Better yet, I'm
learning with each roll and growing in the hobby! My ability to grade
is improved, and I've noticed things, like the fins on the 1973-D cents
that have increased my enjoyment.


Very true! I have yet to get into varieties much. I have been able to
cherry a few but it has always been by accident. If I set out to search
all of my wheaties for varieties, I'd go NUTZZ! How long to you think it
would take to scope 15K or so lincolns with a loupe?


--
Jason Craton ---- CONECA N-3407 --- WINS #5
---------------------------
Interested in error coins?
http://www.error-coins.com - A work in progress (lack of progress
really).

Craton wrote:

I tend to agree, at least insofar as date/mm and gross errors are concerned.

But I'd like to make two points.

1. It depends on what you are looking for.
The Cherrypicker's Guide sells well for a reason. Variety is the spice
of life! When I first came to the newsgroup many people told me that
searching currently circulating rolls was a waste...modern mint figures
are enormous, everything worth finding has been found, blah blah blah.
I've found silver nickels, an Indian Head, steel cents, about 100 wheat
cents, BU rolls that are 40+ years old, cuds, countermarks, octagonal
cents, foreign coins, 1960 small dates, silver dimes, diebreaks,
struckthroughs, and a Lincoln Type 2 Reverse from each of the
acknowledged years, 1998, 1999 and 2000. Lots of this stuff interests
no one but myself, some of it is neat, some has value. Better yet, I'm
learning with each roll and growing in the hobby! My ability to grade
is improved, and I've noticed things, like the fins on the 1973-D cents
that have increased my enjoyment.

Very true! I have yet to get into varieties much. I have been able to
cherry a few but it has always been by accident. If I set out to search
all of my wheaties for varieties, I'd go NUTZZ! How long to you think it
would take to scope 15K or so lincolns with a loupe?

Well, I think I'm cooking when I can do $3.50 a day...that's 7 rolls.
It takes me an average of three days to do $5, but it's an on-the-fly
deal. ;-) For instance, today its raining so I can stop by the 'grading
table' more frequently.

If my methods (such as they are) were applied to your hoard (massive as
it is) I should be able to mine that vein in 43 days. ;-)

Alan
'with a Visine drip'

The obvious question is:
If they're really unsearched, how do you know they're wheaties and no
Memorial-backed cents?
Barry

On 28 Jul 2003 11:42:18 -0700, (MIckey) wrote:

I would like to buy some bulk unsearched wheats for our YN "Young
Numismatic" programs at our club. Have any of you ever bought any bulk
wheaties from a seller that you felt like were really "unsearched?" I
bought a couple of half pound packages as a raw "newbie" when I was
"Collecting Everything". What I bought was pretty much all 50's and a
few 40s. All were no better than VG, most just G .
Thanks in advance.

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MIckey wrote:

I would like to buy some bulk unsearched wheats for our YN "Young
Numismatic" programs at our club. Have any of you ever bought any bulk
wheaties from a seller that you felt like were really "unsearched?" I
bought a couple of half pound packages as a raw "newbie" when I was
"Collecting Everything". What I bought was pretty much all 50's and a
few 40s. All were no better than VG, most just G .
Thanks in advance.

Goggle Chrysta, rec.collecting.coins, unsearched wheat and you'll see a
list of a great assortment and the dealer from whom it was obtained.

Alan
'yearns for wheat'


I'll save you the trouble: it was http://www.jakesmp.com

Look for the specials by number, I bought 2 pounds of wheats by the
pound. A very nice assortment.

Chrysta