Wacky Wheats

Things started off on a better note yesterday when I got my Monday coins and saw that for the first time in a few weeks the dimes weren't all 2007P's.

When I got home I first went through the quarters. In them I found one silver quarter (1964), twelve Canadians, and one French 1 Franc coin. The silver quarter is a nice looking one, but unfortunately it's a variety of which I already have two. It was sure nice to find one though! One of the Canadians was one I needed too, 1990.



The two boxes of dimes produced one Mercury (1943) and two Canadians. The Mercury's an upgrade and while the turn-out for these two boxes was low it was much better than the double skunk I had gotten used to.

The real story of the night and morning was the four boxes of pennies I got. In them was 282 Wheats and 47 Canadians! Even stranger was that about half of the Wheats were S's. And this is right before our West Coast trip. Very strange, I think. I got seven new varieties from these boxes (1916, 1941S, 1946S, 1947S, 1949D, 1954S, 1955S). Here's the year/mint breakdown.

1916
1927
1935 x 2
1937 x 2
1939 x 2
1940 x 3
1940S
1941 x 10
1941D x 5
1941S x 3
1942 x 8
1942D x 5
1942S x 3
1944 x 16
1944D x 4
1944S x 5
1945 x 13
1945S
1946 x 12
1946D x 3
1946S x 7
1947 x 7
1947D x 4
1947S
1948 x 13
1948S x 3
1949 x 4
1949D
1949S x 7
1950 x 10
1950S x 10
1951 x 4
1951D x 5
1951S x 5
1952 x 10
1952D x 8
1952S x 5
1953 x 4
1953D x 6
1954
1954D x 6
1954S
1955 x 11
1955D x 5
1955S
1956 x 9
1956D x 8
1957 x 7
1957D x 12
1958 x 6
1958D x 2