Beginers luck with Cent Boxes - Flying Eagle!

[mentalvirus]

I started doing some boxes of Cents to fill in between the boxes of halves and to start making up some sets for myself and my two nephews. My first stop I picked up two boxes of CWR's and hit a Flying Eagle on the second box! To date I have done 8 boxes (6 CWR's & 2 were BWR's) and my averages so far are:

11 Wheats/box
41 Copper Canadians/Box (copper only) - Near Canada so we get a TON of Canadian coins around here.
27.85% Copper Cents (including Wheat & Copper Canadians)

Interesting Finds:
3 Dimes Total
1 – 2 Cent Euro
1 – 1996 10 Cent Jamaican
1 – 1857 ONE CENT FLYING EAGLE!!!

I think I'm off to a good start and making good progress on the albums Seems like a pretty decent % on the copper from what I've read here also. Now for a picture of my very well worn Flying Eagle

 

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[papa1956e9]

Nice find, seems like almost impossible but who knows, I found a silver dime in a penny roll about a month ago.

HH

 

[mentalvirus]

Nice find, seems like almost impossible but who knows, I found a silver dime in a penny roll about a month ago.

HH

Yeah I know, I didn't realize just how uncommon this would be until I started reading more on here. Has anyone else come across one in a roll before? Also, does anyone know if the Flying Eagle and Indian Head Cents would get 'weeded out' my machines that do the BWR's? I have not specifically asked for CWR's as of yet but 6 of 8 have been. If the Flying Eagles and Indians heads get separated by the machines then I'll try to ask specifically for CWR's. This Flying Eagle came from a box that was CWR's but did not have unusually high Wheats or Copper. 28% copper and only 8 wheats (one of the lowest actually).

 

[n9zez]

As many hands as this passed through to get into a roll it makes you wonder how it did!

Nice score!

 

[Goldmanford]

What an excellent score! Congrats!

 

[rfishoutofwater]

I scored a Flying eagle in a brinks box of pennies a few months back. Nice score. HH

 

[mentalvirus]

I scored a Flying eagle in a brinks box of pennies a few months back. Nice score. HH

So yours actually made it through a machine and into a roll? That's even more impressive. It seems like the Flying Eagle is thicker than regular Cents and I was thinking them might actually get weeded out the rolls.

I do wonder what the reject bins look like at a place like Brinks or Loomis

 

[fistfulladirt]

Congrats! One of the coolest finds on here in a while!

 

[BuffaloBoy]

incredible, and you can get nearly anything in a coin roll, I found in a dime roll a 1 centimiso coin from peru that was half the diameter of a US dime and twice the thickness made of aluminum.

 

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