Half a million pennies...

Twitch

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So my last penny hunt took me over 500,000 pennies searched. I've never hit a single large score, either MWR or CWR. Though I've done OK overall. Certainly did better when I lived in the SE, now that I'm in the midwest it's a bit slower. There are a couple of exceeding large volume penny hunters in my area now that drain the pool. Overall my penny stats are as follows.

Wheaties - 1,634. Oldest 1909. Rare dates - '13D, '16D, no real rarities. Found a blank planchet, an atheist cud, several other cuds and clips.
Proofs - 4, including a 1960 proof obverse ender.
Indian Head Pennies - 4. Oldest 1874.
Dimes - 156, including one solid roll of dimes (2 CWR, 1 was solid dimes, 1 had an IHP)
Foreign - 91, not counting Canadians
Other - 16, stamped masonic, kennedy or other oddities.

Overall slow but steady. These are finds from the wife and kids as well. The wife found a roll with 37 wheaties, one of the boys found one with 9. Other than than I've never found more than 5 in a single roll. Pretty amazing for 10,000 rolls searched. Thanks for looking.
 

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My aunt gave me a shoe box full of wheats I need to sit down and search one day. I did skim it for I.H's but have yet to look at each one. You did 500,000 I should be able to do a shoe box! lol
 

sweet finds can you post pics
 

Did you keep a record of % of copper, if you saved them?
 

Twitch: what time frame are you talking about, years or ? It is an accomplishment to say the lease.
 

Twitch: what time frame are you talking about, years or ? It is an accomplishment to say the lease.

Dozer - took my about 3 years, a little over.

I occasionally keep the coppers, but I've never kept statistics on them.
 

don't you have a TV?
 

Nice. I figure I'm at about 400,000 searched. I don't keep as detailed records on cents searched as I do on silver, but I keep all copper, have just over $1,000 face, and average right at 27% copper. Took me ( years to get this far, cracking that half million mark for me may take a while yet.
 

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