jackpot! what are the odds?

[bag and drag]

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what are the odds of this?
my two weekly boxes came on friday and each had only one silver coin showing on the end of the rolls.
box #1 had a '67 showing and we opened that one first,twas the only silver in that whole box.
box #2 had one franklin showing and hidden inside were 20 walkers,6 bens,14 1964 kennedys and 38 40%ers.wow! not my best box by far but I was happy.
now there are 1000 coins in a box and and by looking at both ends of all rolls you can see 100 of them or 10% of the box so logic would dictate that if you can see 1 AG there should be an average of 10 coins in that box.
I've been doing this for a few years and it seems that the 10% thing is pretty consistant over the long term in that if you can see 4 on the ends you got somewhere around 40 silvers in the box.I guess this is not always the case.
anyone else ever see a pattern with this?

 

[LJ]

More of box #2 please!!! Great score B&D. Congrats. Boxes like that will build a stash quick.

If you have been doing this a few years, where have you been? Holding out on us huh.....j/k. Lets see some pictures please.....love the pictures!!!

Good luck on the next boxes and keep em coming..........

 

[Rich Hartford]

I have discovered through extensive research and study that if all clad coins are showing on both sides of the rolls, that the contents will be 100%
clad.
In a couple of boxes I did find one or two of those all silver colored coins,the old ones with no copper showing.Fortunately this does not happen too often.

 

[bag and drag]

I've been here for the last couple of years,dont post much (ever) due to slow typing and I would rather use my time reading and searching.
WV has been a good state for halves but its alot slower now.

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Excellant Haul.... ...as for your theory of silver showing, I WISH it worked for me, last box showing, that was it!! nothing more, , but that's the nature of this crazy game we play Congratulations

 

[kestrelia]

Funny you should write about your theory. I just wrote about mine in another post. My rule of thumb is # of silvers showing (tops only) x 10 = silvers in box. Of course this is entirely accurate, but I find that it gives me a good idea of what to expect. Using the silvers showing as a "true sample" doesn't seem to work for me.

Brian

 

[joad]

I just searched 2 boxes...the first had 1 silver showing. That was the lone silver in 2000 coins!

 

[Yinzi50]

Yes, statistically true. Especially when they are so many silver coins showing in the end of each roll. Here is an eye-candy for you all. 32 of the 50 are silvers. The whole box yielded 651 pieces.

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Incredible that's a 65% silver box......congratulations

 

[STDevil]

Yinzi50,

Holy moly!!! That is more than my entire stash! I can only bow down to thee, and say congrAGulations. I think even LJ would have to worship you...

May you have many more, and may you use the spoils for something good.

 

[Yinzi50]

Yinzi50,

Holy moly!!! That is more than my entire stash! I can only bow down to thee, and say congrAGulations. I think even LJ would have to worship you...

May you have many more, and may you use the spoils for something good.

Thx, STDevil!
That was a long time ago. I hit a mother lode of 40%ers with only a few 90%ers that single day. Maybe it was a good karma for giving back $500 that a teller over-changed me a few months before that.
I probably created a single day record: 1563 pieces (40%+90%). But LJ is still unbeatable as to overall silver totals.