Whats the most common date wheat you find

[sir]

What's the most common date wheat you find

For me it has always seemed to be the 1956 wheat. Even if i only find 14 wheats about 3 or 4 would be 1956. Is it the same for guys too.

 

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[GMan00001]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

My good records only go back to the beginning of 2007.

So from Jan 1, 2007 my list is as follows:

This was mainly a copy and paste exercise from excel, so I added a couple of other columns as well.

Column meanings
# - My ranking by number found
Date - self explanatory
# Found - The number I found
Mintage # - The ranking accoring to the mintage numbers
Actual Mintage - The actual mintage figure.


#Date# FoundMintage #Actual Mintage
11958-D8137800953300
21957-D78731051342000
31956-D76121098201100
4194453011435400000
51952-D4858746130000
6194547341040515000
71953-D4739700515000
81955-D42214563257500
91946-D42122315690000
101944-D39815430578000
111951-D38512625355000
1219463585991655000
131945-D31031266268000
1419412866887039100
151950-D26318334950000
16194221911657828600
171954-D20234251552500
181947-D18042194750000
191948-D16049172637500
20195615516421414384
21194014513586825872
221949-D13553153132500
23195712528283787952
241942-D10939206698000
251941-D10562128700000
26193410336219080000
2719519627284633500
281944-S9429282760000
2919399221316479520
3019488820317570000
3119508430272686386
3219378325309179320
3319538132256883800
3419367224309637569
3519356835245388000
3619496837217775000
3719556619330958200
381940-D607181390000
391953-S5747181835000
4019585533253400652
411947-S546699000000
421954527771873350
431940-S5164112940000
4419194617392021000
4519204623310165000
461946-S4440198100000
4719524345186856980
481945-S4348181770000
491952-S3958137800004
501951-S3959136010000
5119293446185262000
5219473344190555000
531950-S3263118505000
541948-S327081735000
5519183126288104634
561941-S296892360000
5719382852156696734
581937-D288350430000
5919302750157415000
6019262451157088000
6119272455144440000
6219172341196429785
6319282360134116000
6419432210684628670
651919-S2157139760000
661954-S216796190000
671935-D218747000000
681930-D219240100000
6919251856139949000
701949-S187964290000
711936-D169140620000
721934-D1610228446000
731955-S148944610000
741942-S136985590000
751919-D128057154000
7619161161131833677
771913107276532352
781928-D99931170000
79192487475178000
801935-S89438702000
811943-D738217660000
821911765101177787
831918-D78647830000
84192367574723000
85190967672702618
861917-D68155120000
871929-S68450148000
881938-D611120010000
891939-D611715160000
901910554146801218
911929-D59041730000
921932-D512210500000
931943-S443191550000
941939-S48252070000
951920-D48549280000
961937-S49734500000
971925-D410822580000
98191437375238432
99191237868153060
1001917-S39832620000
1011936-S310029130000
1021909 VDB310427995000
1031925-S310626380000
1041916-S310922510000
1051928-S311317266000
1061938-S311615180000
1071920-S28846220000
1081926-D210328020000
1091915-D211022050000
1101921-S211515274000
1111918-S19537680000
1121916-D19635956000
1131915110129092120
1141930-S110724286000
1151933111814360000
1161927-S111914276000
1171911-D112012672000
1181924-S112111696000
1191912-D112310411000
1201933-D11276200000
1211913-S11286101000
1221931-D11324480000
1231914-S11344137000
1241924-D11362520000
125192109339157000
1261927-D010527170000
1271931011219396000
1281913-D011415804000
129193201249062000
1301923-S01258700000
1311922-D01267160000
1321910-S01296045000
1331915-S01304883000
1341926-S01314550000
1351912-S01334431000
1361911-S01354026000
1371909-S01371825000
1381914-D01381193000
1391931-S0139866000
1401909-S VDB0140484000

 

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[sir]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

Wow, I cant thank you enough for posting such a detailed report Gman. As I look at it it seems you get alot of Denver mints, I guess because i live on the east coast it tends to be more difficult to find a mintmarked 40's wheat than it is for you (these might come once out of 4 or 5 boxes for me, relativly not too common). It seems odd how even after several decades wheats tend to circulate most where they where minted. It's also odd how the highest minted wheat is 4th on your list while #7 is first on your list even though you have a huge sampling of the wheat population. This should have meant your list should have closely followed the mintage list more than it did. Correct me if im wrong about something.

 

[GMan00001]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

Wow, I cant thank you enough for posting such a detailed report Gman. As I look at it it seems you get alot of Denver mints, I guess because i live on the east coast it tends to be more difficult to find a mintmarked 40's wheat than it is for you (these might come once out of 4 or 5 boxes for me, relativly not too common). It seems odd how even after several decades wheats tend to circulate most where they where minted. It's also odd how the highest minted wheat is 4th on your list while #7 is first on your list even though you have a huge sampling of the wheat population. This should have meant your list should have closely followed the mintage list more than it did. Correct me if im wrong about something.

I would say you pretty much nailed it. In the midwest I tend to get a pretty good mix, but definitely more Denver than anything else for most coins.

I have looked at this exact breakdown a couple of other times over the past few years just to see how closely my numbers match the expected numbers as well as trying to figure out how many wheat pennies are really left in circulation. I have wrote that analysis in a different post (or possibly posts) a couple years ago. I am not surprised that the 1944 falls off compared to the late 1950's ones as there was just more time for those coins to get lost, misplaced, damaged, etc. Basically all coins will fall percentage wise as time goes on due to just that loss, damage, being collected, etc.

Back in 2006 when I didn't have as big of a population to work with, I had even kind of come up with a crude percentages that predict that how many one would expect to find compared to the mintage numbers and it was surprisingly fairly accurate at predicting the number that you would get from a certain year, but not as accurate at the percentages of each mintmark. My formula said that if you searched through a pile of wheat pennies pulled from circulation today that the point at which you would find roughly what you would expect was 1944. Anything newer you would find more than expected and anything older you would find less than expected with 1958 finding roughly 1.25X the expected number and 1909 finding roughly 0.45X the expected number. I should probably redo my logic with my new breakdown and see how close it is...hmmm....

The biggest surprises are

• 1957-D and 1956-D follow 1958-D...(one of the three years 1958-D did trail, but not it lead in the other 2).
• 1946-D is way high compared to similar other coins such as 1950-D, always has been that way for me...can't explain that one.
• I am overdue for a 1921

 

[Shake-N-Bake]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

GMan, you always seem to amaze me. You are unbelievable at your record keeping. I always tell myself I am going to keep good records but it never happens. I took the summer of and then just started back two weeks ago and my records have already lapsed!

Good job GMan, my hat goes off to you.

Jason

 

[Kantuckkeean]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

I concur. That was an awesome report Mr. Man.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[klava]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

I dont have records from last year but for this year

56d:15
57d:14
44:14

-K

 

[DAS7NY]

Re: What's the most common date wheat you find

57D by far

YES!