bag of pennies

[GMan00001]

Picked up another $50 bag of pennies today...must have been a slow coin week at the bank as they had almost nothing.

oh well, the bag was decent.
21 wheat pennies (1929-S, 1940, 1941-D, 1944-D, 1945, 1946-D(3), 1947-D, 1950-D, 1951, 1952-D(2), 1953-D, 1954-D, 1956-D(2), 1957-D(3), 1958-D)

20 Canadian (1951, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1974(2), 1975, 1976, 1977(2), 1978, 1981, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000(2), 2004)

9 dimes

 

[coinmojo]

Looks like you definitely made 81 Cents. (9 dimes - 9 penny's = 81 cents)

Mojo

 

[Immy]

GMan, I'm very curious about this.

Thru the first four months of '08 you've found 95 varieties out of 1,520 wheats. I've found 69 varieties out of 342 wheats. On the surface that looks like the pool of pennies I have to search thru yields more varieties, but that may not be the case. As your wheat totals increase, and the varieties left to be found get scarcer (due mostly to lower mintages and in general just older, hard-to-find dates) your repeat ratio also increases, making it seem like you're not finding as many varieties.

Soooo, in our little wheat surveys here, the only way to see who's got the better source for pennies is for you to dig into your stats and find out how many varieties you had when you were at 342 wheats. Should be interesting...

 

[GMan00001]

GMan, I'm very curious about this.

Thru the first four months of '08 you've found 95 varieties out of 1,520 wheats. I've found 69 varieties out of 342 wheats. On the surface that looks like the pool of pennies I have to search thru yields more varieties, but that may not be the case. As your wheat totals increase, and the varieties left to be found get scarcer (due mostly to lower mintages and in general just older, hard-to-find dates) your repeat ratio also increases, making it seem like you're not finding as many varieties.

Soooo, in our little wheat surveys here, the only way to see who's got the better source for pennies is for you to dig into your stats and find out how many varieties you had when you were at 342 wheats. Should be interesting...

My first 342 wheats of 2008 produced the following variety (63 different)
1913, 1917-D, 1918-S, 1919, 1919-S, 1920, 1929, 1930, 1930-D, 1934-D, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1937-D, 1938, 1939, 1939-S, 1940, 1940-S, 1941, 1941-D, 1941-S Small Mintmark, 1942, 1942-D, 1943, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1945-S, 1946, 1946-D, 1946-S, 1947, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1948-S, 1949, 1949-D, 1949-S, 1950, 1950-D, 1950-S, 1951, 1951-D, 1951-S, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-D, 1954, 1954-D, 1954-S, 1955, 1955-D, 1955-S, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958-D



My first 344 wheats in 2007 produced 64 different wheats and 1 Indian
1908
1914-S, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1919-D, 1919-S, 1920-D, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1930-S, 1934, 1934-D, 1935, 1936, 1936-D, 1936-S, 1937, 1937-D, 1938, 1938-D, 1939, 1940, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-S Small Mintmark, 1942, 1942-D, 1943, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945, 1945-D, 1946, 1946-D, 1946-S, 1947-D, 1948, 1948-D, 1949, 1949-D, 1949-S, 1950, 1950-D, 1950-S, 1951, 1951-D, 1951-S, 1952, 1952-D, 1953, 1953-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1954-S, 1955, 1955-D, 1956, 1956-D, 1957, 1957-D, 1958, 1958-D


Those are just 2 samples (they happen to be from 2 completely different sources as well). I'd bet I have other samples which show a higher variety over the same number of wheats, but that is just speculation.