1 Wheat and 4 pre 81 pennies in an entire $25 box. Is this typical?

[carfire]

I bought my first $25 box of circulated pennies from the BoA in my town today and I found one wheat and only four pre 1981 pennies. Is this typical? I don't expect to find a grip of wheaties, but only four pre 1981 pennies out of 2500 leads seems awfully low. This BoA doesn't have a coin machine, so I'm not really sure that it would be a dump bank.

 

[arnofarrell]

That isn't very typical at all, I normally find maybe a quater of the coins will be pre 82. The wheats I find a few every box, 2-4.

 

[jamin_03]

I get the same results as Arnoferrell.

 

[carfire]

Must have just been a terrible box then =/

 

[sagittarius98]

Way below average, but someone probably searched for copper, and dumped a whole load of zincs.

 

[D1MES_101]

Thats terrible! i average 20 wheats/ a box and 25% copper - you maybe searched someones processed dumps. What year was the wheat?

 

[Thorne]

My 6th box of the year was like that 90% 2012. Just depends on what goes into the Hopper. I'd get a box from another branch and try again.

 

[CladSmoke]

I've done maybe 15 boxes of cents and have had 2 like that. Just depends, like he said, what goes into the hopper.

 

[50cent]

atypical

 

[Bell-Two]

Typically I expect 10 wheats from a $25 box on average. Have had boxes with none and some with 20+, and I am talking Brinks boxes.

 

[fixxxer9]

I have just been doing rolls of cents and have not bought a whole box yet. I have done 48 rolls so far this year and have found 66 wheats and about 14 rolls of pre 81. I got super lucky though with the wheats. I went through 8 rolls last week and found over 50 wheats. But you should definitely be finding more pre 81's though. Keep going at it you will find more.

 

[NJHunter]

I usually find a few wheat pennies a week just counting out my register.

 

[TimZim]

Why are you saving cents. Thats the real here is why. I did them what a waste of time. I know some guys do find some good stuff. I never did! Now i have 170lbs now what? Have you tryed dimes?

 

[carfire]

Thats terrible! i average 20 wheats/ a box and 25% copper - you maybe searched someones processed dumps. What year was the wheat?

The wheat was a 1941. There was a good mix of 1982 through 2012 in there, so yeah somebody must have already gone copper hunting through them.

I did find one of those pennies with a cross cut out of it, which ended up being the most interesting thing in there

 

[fixxxer9]

I did find one of those pennies with a cross cut out of it, which ended up being the most interesting thing in there [/QUOTE]

I have found a few of those. Does that cross mean something?

 

[carfire]

I did a second $25 box today and got 3 wheats (42,46,56) and 18 pre-1981 pennies. Certainly better than the first box, but man that ratio of coppers to zincs is just garbage.

 

[carfire]

I did find one of those pennies with a cross cut out of it, which ended up being the most interesting thing in there

I have found a few of those. Does that cross mean something?[/QUOTE]

I looked them up and the appear to be a just novelty item.

 

[CladSmoke]

I did a second $25 box today and got 3 wheats (42,46,56) and 18 pre-1981 pennies. Certainly better than the first box, but man that ratio of coppers to zincs is just garbage.

Keep plugging away. You're due for a normal box any day now.

 

[hikerdude]

You know, half of the 1982's are copper. I keep all the 82's and then weigh them. If it weighs 3.1 grams, it's copper, if it weighs 2.5 then it's zinc. I got over a hundred coppers, and 18 wheat out of the only box I ever did. Two months ago, I got $10.00 in pennies from my bank, and two rolls were all wheat, and one roll had 30 in it, plus there were maybe 18 more in the rest of the 17 rolls. None of the wheat were rare. Tomorrow I pick up my first Half Dollar box. I also got $30.00 in nickels, and $65.00 in dimes, and ended up with a 1964 dime and a 1943S nickel. One more thing. Last week I traded a lady at a COIN STAR for a dime that the machine kept rejecting. Yep, you gussed it, it was a 1956 Next time I see someone at a COIN STAR, I'm gonna hang around to see what if anything is rejected?

 

[NJHunter]

Aren't there only two or three that are worth much?