historical percentages
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BuffaloBoy
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I have only been doing CRH for the past 2 years, but the bext I have ever gotten from machine wrapped brinks penny rolls were 4 wheat pennies. That box contained 58 wheat pennies, which I think is a "wheat dream box"
ancesthntr
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I've been doing the CRH thing for about the last 1 1/2 years, more seriously as time goes on. I haven't kept specific records, but I do count when I finish a load of coins, and I have a good sense of the average that I've gotten over time.
Pennies - I sort pennies for the pre-'82 copper, though lately I've started taking the '82s out and keeping them separate - someday coppers will be worth $0.10, and a healthy percentage of the '82s are coppers (but I don't want to sort them right now by weighing each one, it just isn't worth it - I'll sell them someday as a group on Ebay). I have generally gotten right about 14% coppers, though the last 2 loads ($100 and $50, respectively) I got about 17%. Don't ask me why, I got them all from the same bank. I generally get 1 wheat per 500 coins, though 1 box of 2500 gave me 18 of them. I'm keeping the wheats in plastic tubes organized by decade. Oldest one was a 1910, I never found an Indian. I did find 2 of the 2000 "Wide AM" variety, though in less than MS-60, so I don't know what they're worth (maybe $5?).
Nickels - I haven't bought boxes, though I'm going to start. I have gotten about $250 worth (and kept them all for the metal content), and found 1 War Nickel, 2 1939, about 20 in the 1940s and 30 in the 1950s (including 4 that looked pretty pristine - those went into holders). I also got 41 of the 2009-D nickels. I never found a Buffalo, but maybe as I begin to do many boxes I'll find a few.
Dimes - haven't done any, though I'll remedy that since I see so many reports hear of successful silver mining in those boxes.
Quarters - haven't done it, and won't - those are basically gone, from every report that I've read or heard. I have gotten all of 2 silver quarters in change over the last 20 years, and not one in dozens of rolls that I've purchased for parking meters, laundry machines or tolls.
Halves - I have gone through about 35-40 boxes altogether, and including my own personal "dream box" (6 90% and 58 40%ers), I find that I get 1 90% and 2 40% per box. Discounting the dream box, it is about 1 40% per box and 1 90% per 2 boxes. I will still do these boxes as even small finds are worth a decent amount, and there's always the hope of hitting a rich vein when some idiot sells their husband's or father's halves to the bank at face value.
Pennies - I sort pennies for the pre-'82 copper, though lately I've started taking the '82s out and keeping them separate - someday coppers will be worth $0.10, and a healthy percentage of the '82s are coppers (but I don't want to sort them right now by weighing each one, it just isn't worth it - I'll sell them someday as a group on Ebay). I have generally gotten right about 14% coppers, though the last 2 loads ($100 and $50, respectively) I got about 17%. Don't ask me why, I got them all from the same bank. I generally get 1 wheat per 500 coins, though 1 box of 2500 gave me 18 of them. I'm keeping the wheats in plastic tubes organized by decade. Oldest one was a 1910, I never found an Indian. I did find 2 of the 2000 "Wide AM" variety, though in less than MS-60, so I don't know what they're worth (maybe $5?).
Nickels - I haven't bought boxes, though I'm going to start. I have gotten about $250 worth (and kept them all for the metal content), and found 1 War Nickel, 2 1939, about 20 in the 1940s and 30 in the 1950s (including 4 that looked pretty pristine - those went into holders). I also got 41 of the 2009-D nickels. I never found a Buffalo, but maybe as I begin to do many boxes I'll find a few.
Dimes - haven't done any, though I'll remedy that since I see so many reports hear of successful silver mining in those boxes.
Quarters - haven't done it, and won't - those are basically gone, from every report that I've read or heard. I have gotten all of 2 silver quarters in change over the last 20 years, and not one in dozens of rolls that I've purchased for parking meters, laundry machines or tolls.
Halves - I have gone through about 35-40 boxes altogether, and including my own personal "dream box" (6 90% and 58 40%ers), I find that I get 1 90% and 2 40% per box. Discounting the dream box, it is about 1 40% per box and 1 90% per 2 boxes. I will still do these boxes as even small finds are worth a decent amount, and there's always the hope of hitting a rich vein when some idiot sells their husband's or father's halves to the bank at face value.
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