Very Short Sat Morning trip 08-18-2007

[GMan00001]

I was planning to do a Saturday morning road trip after my trip while waiting for my parents to drop off my kids, but I was out late Friday night and forgot to set an alarm so I didn't wake up until it was too late to do much. So I just drove down to a bank in a small town about 15 miles away that I occasionally buy bags from and have done okay. Also stopped at a few banks on the way.

Bank #1:
Picked up 1 box of nickels and 1 box of dimes

Bank #2:
Picked up $60 in hand rolled halves...skunk

Bank #3:
They only had a single half dollar which I left there.

Bank #4 (my primary stop):
Picked up the following
1 - $500 bag of dimes
3 - $100 bags of nickels
4 - $50 bags of pennies
And while at this bank I cashed back in the $60 in halves and while they machine was counting I could hear silver in the bag. I asked if I could exchange for a couple of halves since I had 5 more in the car, she said wure so I ended up with 4 - 40% as well (1968-D(2), 1969-D(2)). She also put my name down to buy the half dollar bag once it is full.


Last night I went through all $400 of nickels but didn't post them as we had a pretty good lightning show going on at that time so I didn't want to be on the computer.

Nickel Box:
27 pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940(4), 1941-D(2), 1946(3), 1947(3), 1947-S, 1948, 1949, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953-D(2), 1954-D, 1957-D, 1958-D(2), 1959-D(3))

8 Canadian (1966, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1994)

1 Foreign (Phillipines, 25 Sentimos (1967))

Nickel Bag #1:
1 - 1942-P War Nickel
25 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1940, 1941(4), 1942, 1947-D, 1948-S, 1952-D, 1953-D(2), 1954, 1954-D(2), 1955-D(3), 1957-D(2), 1958-D(3), 1959-D(3))

2 Canadian (1979, 1985)

1 Flattened Penny (1971-D) <--- Not an elongated penny, just flattened as it was wider in all directions

Nickel Bag #2
1 - 1939-S
1 - 1949-S
26 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1939, 1940(2), 1941, 1942, 1946, 1946-S, 1947(2), 1949, 1953-D, 1954-D(3), 1954-S, 1955-D(2), 1957, 1957-D(2), 1958-D(4), 1959, 1959-D)

1 Proof Jefferson (1981-S)

6 Canadian (1985, 1988, 1990, 1994, 2000(2))

2 Foreign (Bahamas, 5 Cents (1987), Japan, 1 Yen (1967))

Nickel Bag #3:
1 - 1943-S War Nickel
1 - 1945-S War Nickel
25 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1940(2), 1940-S, 1941(2), 1946(2), 1947, 1947-D, 1947-S, 1948-D, 1951, 1952, 1953-D, 1954-D(2), 1955-D(2), 1956-D, 1957-D, 1958, 1958-D(2), 1959-D(2))

3 Canadian (1986(2), 1995)

Probably get to the dimes later today at some point.

 

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[GMan00001]

Did the $500 bag of dimes early this evening.

Basically a skunk.

3 Canadian (1984, 1994, 1999)

1 Foreign (Great Britain, 5 Pence (1998))

1 Penny

and a 1982-D Roosevelt with extra metal above the D.

 

[GMan00001]

Just finished the box of dimes

1 pre-1965 Roosevelt (1962-D)

2 Canadian (1981, 1983)

 

[tw656]

Well, you did get a few keepers, but wow that was a lot of coins to go through.

 

[thurmownator]

Persistence is the key, gman.

Kudos on your finds.

 

[GMan00001]

Finally did the first of the bags of pennies. pretty good.

17 wheat pennies (1909 VDB, 1930, 1941, 1941-D(2), 1942-D, 1944, 1945, 1945-D, 1948-D, 1949-D, 1950-D, 1951-S, 1952-D(2), 1953-D(2))

28 Canadian (1956, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969(3), 1972, 1974, 1975(2), 1977(2), 1978, 1979, 1981(5), 1982, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000)

 

[Immy]

Great finds as usual GMan, 'specially that VDB.

I get a kick out of how you know which bags are from which pick-up as well as the corresponding original post. I could only dream of being that accurate. You should work for NASA, if they had a CRH program, that is.

BTW, do you have a tally on your pre-1940 wheaties this year? You always seem to find 'em easily.

 

[GMan00001]

BTW, do you have a tally on your pre-1940 wheaties this year? You always seem to find 'em easily.

Yes, I do keep a tally, but my breakdown is pre-1941 instead of pre-1940 to align with the dates in the coin folders in this case.

I don't have the number on me, but I have a good guess as I average almost exactly 1 per $25.

625,000 (approx searched) / 2500 (per box) = 250 pre-1941 pennies. I would say that is within +/-20 of being correct.

I have been averaging around 8 total wheat pennies per box, so about 12.5% of my wheats are pre-1941.

I also can't remember the exact numbers, but I do know they minted a lot more wheat pennies post-1940 so the percentage should be low. I want to think it was less than 25% of all wheat pennies were pre-1941, but I can't remember for sure. I'll look when I get home tonight as I had calculated the answer a while back out of curiousity.

 

[GMan00001]

Turns out I was a little low.

266 pre-1941 wheat pennies (oh and 4 Indian Head pennies)

 

[GMan00001]

I also can't remember the exact numbers, but I do know they minted a lot more wheat pennies post-1940 so the percentage should be low. I want to think it was less than 25% of all wheat pennies were pre-1941, but I can't remember for sure. I'll look when I get home tonight as I had calculated the answer a while back out of curiousity.

Wheat pennies minted between 1909-1940 = 6,788,521,698
Wheat pennies minted between 1909-1958 = 25,824,458,676

so 6.XXX/25.XXX = approximately 26.3%

 

[Immy]

Well, there are two less wheats as of today. Stopped by the penny casino on my home from the movies and got $10 more. Found a 1942 and a 1944-S and two Canadians, both 1998.

Only a few billion left for everyone else! Thanks for the wheatie numbers GMan, I've always meant to tally those.

 

[GMan00001]

Did another bag of pennies over the past few days..

14 wheat pennies (1940, 1941, 1941-D, 1944, 1944-S, 1945(2), 1953-D, 1955-D(2), 1956-D, 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

33 Canadian (1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974(2), 1975, 1979, 1981, 1982(2), 1983, 1986(2), 1987(2), 1988(2), 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993(3), 1998(2), 1999, 2000(2), 2001)

1 Foreign (Switzerland, 10 Rappen (1975))

1 Dime

 

[GMan00001]

Finished a bag of pennies from this bunch over the past couple of days.

Not too good.

6 wheat pennies (1941, 1944, 1945, 1952-D(2), 1955-D)

27 Canadian (1964(2), 1968(2), 1971, 1972, 1978(2), 1980(2), 1981, 1982, 1986(4), 1989(2), 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995(2), 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006)

 

[silverfinder37]

awsome! the pennny god!
Keep it up you inspire me!
Best Wishes, Ray

 

[GMan00001]

Just finished the last bag of pennies from this lot (and the last remaining bag from August.

A little better, but not great.

14 wheat pennies (1939-D, 1944(2), 1944-D, 1945, 1946-D, 1948-S, 1951-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1955-D, 1956-D, 1958-D(2))

23 Canadian (1944, 1956, 1959(2), 1964, 1965(2), 1966, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1997(2), 1998(2), 1999, 2001)

1 - 2000 Wdie AM