jamesandsons
Sr. Member
I picked up $30 in bank-rolled cents on Saturday, and decided to dump them all out on the dining room table at once. Then I decided to go crazy and open the 2 Loomis cent boxes I'd been hoarding for a rainy day. Here's what $80 in cents looked like on my table (along with my son and his multi-purpose spelunking/coin searching headlamp.
That was about 4pm on Saturday. We spent a few hours sorting on Saturday night, and a few hours here and there yesterday. Finally finished them when I woke up around 11:30 last night and pushed hard for about 90 minutes.
For once I managed to keep pretty good stats on the entire search, so I thought I'd share them here for kicks. Here goes:
8,000 cents searched
2,267 total Lincoln copper cents (28.3%)
44 wheat cents (1 in every 182 coins or 3.6 rolls) (quite a bit better than average - I usually get 10-12 per box)
-oldest: 1927-D
-8 pre-1940
-11 1940s
-25 1950s (7 58-Ds)
16 "S" (1968-74) (these seem to be drying up - or my eyes are getting bad and I'm missing them)
16 Canadian (oldest was '63) (very low total; I often get that many out of a box)
259 1982s
-202 copper (78%)
-57 zinc (22%)
45 AU 2009s (haven't broken them up by design)
So that's it. Not the most exciting rolls, but pretty good numbers on wheats.
How does this compare to the boxes you've been searching lately?
That was about 4pm on Saturday. We spent a few hours sorting on Saturday night, and a few hours here and there yesterday. Finally finished them when I woke up around 11:30 last night and pushed hard for about 90 minutes.
For once I managed to keep pretty good stats on the entire search, so I thought I'd share them here for kicks. Here goes:
8,000 cents searched
2,267 total Lincoln copper cents (28.3%)
44 wheat cents (1 in every 182 coins or 3.6 rolls) (quite a bit better than average - I usually get 10-12 per box)
-oldest: 1927-D
-8 pre-1940
-11 1940s
-25 1950s (7 58-Ds)
16 "S" (1968-74) (these seem to be drying up - or my eyes are getting bad and I'm missing them)
16 Canadian (oldest was '63) (very low total; I often get that many out of a box)
259 1982s
-202 copper (78%)
-57 zinc (22%)
45 AU 2009s (haven't broken them up by design)
So that's it. Not the most exciting rolls, but pretty good numbers on wheats.
How does this compare to the boxes you've been searching lately?
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