Bingo!

[murphy]

This must be my lucky day. I found a coin that has been very elusive for the past 5-years that I've been hunting it. It's the 1999P Wide AM cent. I've found many 1998 and 2000 Wide AM's but this is the first 1999 that I have found. It's been circulated and it shows. There are a normal amount of scratches on the obverse and the reverse has a broad area of green corrosion. So it's not an ideal specimen for most collectors. However, I will keep it in my collection as a most prized find because of the many cents I had to look at before finding it. ...or I could take a picture of it and add it to my Ugly Cent Photo Collection, lol.

For those interested, I'm within the 8th Federal Reserve Banking District which is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. I found the cent in Fed Wrapped rolls that came from a local bank and was delivered to them by AT Systems. And I assume they get their coins from St. Louis. The 8th Banking District:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/regecon/maps/d8todata.html

[Steven]

Great find murphy,
I'm deep into that area of the map you displayed and have been searching as well. For some reason I get very few 99P cents to check.

Congrats on the great find.....
Steven

[Dick]

Nurph, Two questions: 1. Can one ask for rolls, bags, or boxes. And 2. Is there such a thing in Southern Ca.? All we have is armored car services, delivering to busines, etc. An OBW out here is practically unknown! All we get from the BofA, is coins in condoms. And all "D", with "S", a close second. One of the main reasons for going "Back" to B of A. is that we can't get rolls, and a big fight, for even thinking of a box! I asked if the '07's had come in yet, and they said, '07's? we don't even have the '06's, yet!
Dick

[murphy]

Hiya Dick,
I've never been to So-Cal so I may not be able to answer your questions properly. I don't know what you have out there. I can only tell you how it is here in So-Indy.

1. If you can't get boxes then search what you can get. Try other banks if you can and if you have to, pretend you have an account with them, lol. I ask for a box or even a sealed box of cents. Whatever you get will be worth looking through whether it is circulated or 2007 uncirculated new cents. If it is uncirculated 2007D cents then look through at least a few rolls if you're only searching for new varieties. That will give you some indication of what's in the rest of the rolls of that box. If you are also looking for high quality ones to send in hoping to get that top pop then look through all the rolls. If you don't find anything then get another box. If they are circulated rolls then search them all. Even Denver mint cents are worth looking at. There are many good examples found. Also there are many Philly mint cents found in California due to people traveling back and forth and spending their pennies.

Also, if you can get bags of pennies, which I can't, they are a little easier to handle due to the fact that they don't have to be unwrapped! My bank has a coin counter which counts cents and then puts them into a $50 bag of pennies. They are then sealed and sent to their Federal Reserve Bank. They are not allowed to take the bag off the counter until it's full. Once full it has to be sealed and sent to the Federal Reserve Bank. So that's why I can't get bags here. You might ask at your bank and see what they offer you. Other branches of my bank do have both new and circulated boxes as well as bundles of customer wrapped "local" rolls that I like to search through. I fiond a lot of 2006P varieties in local rolls.

If you get coins that customers wrap up and bring into the bank then you are getting what I call the "local" rolls. If you search them and notice that a particular variety is found over and over, it means that variety was probably released into circulation in your neighborhood and you should be able to find even more of them. Sometimes you find more in Fed Wrapped Rolls because of varieties released into circulation in other areas of the Federal Reserve District that were NOT released in your neighborhood.

2. You should make a list of all D & S mint varieties that you are likely to find in your searches and look for those. If you want to find new varieties then look at all the cents you can get and maybe you can find some new ones like Darrell has been doing lately.

Armored car services deliver to both businesses and banks. They both contract with the armored car companies to deliver money to them from the nearest Fed Res Bank in their district. The bank or business will put in an order the week before of what they need and the armored car will deliver it.

Your best chance of finding a bank that gets deliveries of new and uncirculated Fed wrapped cents from the armored car companies is to find one with a lot of businesses around it. They cater to the businesses more than a bank near a residential area would. Therefore, they will probably have more rolls of cents going out to the businesses that coming in from their customers. If that's the case then they must "buy" some and have them delivered from the Feds by the armored car company. That should answer most questions about how to get what pennies from which banks and what to ask for.

[eagames]

Wow! Nice find on that 99 Am!!! Even a roadkill of that is a worthy find

In AZ I find the banks with boxes are ones with a "bussiness center" they get boxes for the big customers and anyone can use the bussiness center if you get to the right line at the end of the counter. They also seem happier to accept your already searched stuff back.

[Earwig]

I can tell you that in the metro detroit area you can get both 07p and 07d rolls. Never got a 06 roll at all. 07p from brinks 07d from loomis/gaurdian

[Dick]

Murphy, I appreciate your input, very much. I can get sealed boxes of pennys, nickels, and quarters. Don't know about the dimes. I don't look at them, anyway, too darn small!
Where I am in So. CA., there is a LOT of business. We are nearly coast to mountains, with people! I am about 70 miles East of Los Angeles.. There are many different names of banks. Some are "user-friendly", while others are not. I changed banks, because the bank would not sell boxed coins, and it was a hassle, to even get a roll. No business window, even! Out of all the boxes of quarters I got, (before I bought my QSZ scope), (about one box a week), I got one roll of solid date coins. All since, nad now, only the cent boxes, have Plastic tubes, all circulated. I have one box i'm working on right now, and probably a dozen put away, that have been checkes, and listed with dates, and another five, that are wheats, (culls, said to have been "unsearched")! They were "unsearched," by me. Not any more! THere is a dearth of Philly mint coins, here, just like it is on the east coast. The ones who live in the center have the best of both. They "git 'em all"!
Again, many thanks for your info, and may you find that "most elusive" coin, in the next box of uncirculated coins!!
Dick