NEW! *Watchmaker’s Hoard* Original Covered End Coca Cola Mixed Lincoln Wheat Cent Roll 1c 50 Coins 1909-1958 Some BU WOW!. It has been hard to find a wheat hoard as Fantastic as The McDonalds Hoard. I have found several hordes of wheats that after opening a dozen rolls, I saw that they were junk. I found that if the hoard had rolls with what appeared to be great dates on it, the rest of the roll was terrible. I must have based on 4-5 offered consigns. When I was in Long Island about three weeks ago, I mentioned to the very stoic guys who had given us an exclusive on The Island Hoard if they knew of anyone who might have any large grouping of Wheats. They barely replied, and that reply was merely a shake of their heads, indicating no. I left and forgot I had even inquired. But…about a week ago I got a call from that very stern secretary of their and she advised me that “They think I should call “The Watchmaker””. So I called “The Watchmaker” and he invited me up to his very large home in Providence New York. The house was a cross between The Adams Family mansion and the House from Hitchcock’s Psycho. And once again I was very uncomfortable at a meeting stemming From the Long Island guys. Anyway, I made my way up the very steep stairs and rang the ancient bell. “The Watchmaker”, a hunched over very old man, welcomed me inside. The first thing I noticed was the the electrical system in the house was that old style, Knob and Tube, where you pressed little buttons. I was both fascinated and creeped out. While the outside was Hitchcock’s Psycho, The inside reminded me of Miss Havisham house right out of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. A book mind you I never finished in school, but I enjoyed the movie years later. Anyway, I was apt to explore the place but he took us into the Dining room and on the table were 9 Tubs of Rolled Coins, this meeting was sprucing up. We talked and he allowed me to open a dozen rolls that I picked at random from the 9 tubs. I opened one right after another and at the end I smiled from ear to ear (internally, I’m not dumb) and we came to an agreement on the rolls. The rolls are made up of many different mini hoards. A Coca-Cola batch, A Nathan’s Batch, A Mills Novelty Company Batch (one I had never seen), a Gimbels and Korvettes grouping, a Smaller Batch of Radio Shack, TRS-80 ones, as well as a couple I have yet to unearth. I thanked “The Watchmaker” and prepared to leave. He inquired, “Wasn’t I taking the pennies”, I smiled and said no, not with those stairs and my balance. And then I told him one of our runners would be up to pick them all up in a day or two. I gave the boys double time to pick up “The Watchmaker’s Hoard”. You might think the tale ends there but let me give you the epilogue. Not 20 minutes into my drive home I get a call from, one other than the Long Island Guys Stern Secretary. I say Hello and she quickly launches into telling me that the guys are leased that the deal went well and that I got the consignment. I was dumbfounded how they knew so quickly. She continued today’s soliloquy by advising, not asking or requesting but advising me that the guys will be paid $3.25 a roll on top of what I had negotiated with “The Watchmaker” as a finders fee. And then she hung up. Ad Now I am Proud to Present “The Watchmaker’s “ Hoard of Wheat Cents. I found lots of Teens, lots of Mint Marks, 20’s, 30’s, and a bunch of Unc Red Ones from the 40’s and 50’s. I found no Flying eagle, and no Indians in the dozen I opened. Good Luck and I hope you will have many hours of fun, or buy a spare roll and keep it Unopened. Get one of each, it’s a great Hoard. Best, Corey
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