Bank box find!

[mojaveblue]

Well, my personal inventory list had been made without added lines for Indian head cents, I wasn't looking to buy any, and definately didn't figure to find any, but....
just opened a box from the bank and looking at the ends of the rolls, ok here's a copper, nah not that one, here's a copper,

whoa, here's a wreath????

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that box paid for itself and the gas to pick it up, and I havent even opened any rolls.

[Robert]

Does it have an "S" below the wreath? Even if it doesn't, nice find! Looks like a VG+.

I wonder where that cent has been hiding these past 50 years or so.

[Dick]

Phil, what does the reverse show? Is there an "S"?
the '08's are easy enough to find, and i find IHC in boxes fairly regular. The "S" will make it a keeper, for sure! I have one.

[Hunter09]

Nice find! I have only everfound one and it was just a common 1906.

[Dick]

I have never found an '08-S, . I bought the one I have. I have found many IHC in the boxes of cents.

[eagames]

I like it when you see something good on the end of a roll!

Cool find!
I bet it wasn't out long, must have been in a drawer then got pulled from retirement on turned into a bank. I doubt IHCs stay long in the wild nowdays, it's lucky enough to find a wheat.

[mojaveblue]

I turned it around and checked for the "S" after checking a reference, no "S".
Well I didnt expect they would still be out there, and I agree I think they were from someones collection which got turned in, I always wonder how many decent or average estate holdings get cashed in because the inheritors dont want to take the time to have it reveiwed and estimated and auctioned.
And I have to remeber to review my pics of coins right after, the software Im using will not always record the image, I had shot the reverse and was gonna post it also only to find the software had substituted the obverse image.
Also, the day after, I broke down that roll and one other which had a copper cent on the end, and found a low value but very nice wheat,
I might guess it to be nearly UNC if not for a strange dusting of some tightly adhereing material, both sides. I don't think I've seen wheat stalks so sharp.
Thanks for your responses, and the grade estimate, I was thinking "good" at best, not easy to see any of the "Liberty" in the headdress.
Ill post the nice wheat here this morning if I can.

[mojaveblue]

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here is the 1952D wheat, Im afraid after looking closer and advancing the hue of the image, the coin is seriously pitted, the pits have a copper oxide color (blue green) so it is goner, worth its weight in copper

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