Handsorting's going a little slow for me - must be because the blogging gets in the way
Anyways, here's the stats for my first 100 rolls. They came from Trillim Coin Services of Toronto, and are a fairly good represenation of what's floating around the city. I should say that a bank roll would be better for "finds" - i.e., curiosities that don't have much numismatic value but would be likely be kept by a novice or sentimental penny collector.
So here's the stats, for my first 5,000 Toronto pennies:
* 1942 - 1977: 481, or 9.62%.
* 1978 - 1979: 190, or 3.80%.
* 1980 - 1981: 251, or 5.02%.
* 1982 - 1996: 1377, or 27.54%
* U.S. pre-'82: 132, or 2.64%.
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Total coppers: 2431, or 48.62%.
I really lucked out, particularly in the '82-'96 category. These figures suprised me; for some odd reason, I thought I was getting unlucky.
Two other tracking categories of interest:
* "Keepers," or semi-numismatic coppers that a naive or sentimental collector would keep: 32, or 0.64%. (These are all coppers.) Not bad for regular circulation rolls.
* U.S. pennies, '82 and after: 312, or 6.24%. Total U.S.: 444, or 8.88%.
I'd better stop now, because the jerky form is telling me I've run on too long.