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$25 box. fresh box.
LMC copper 613
1982 zinc 6
1982 copper 55
1959 7
1960 6
2009 10
Canadian Copper 3 lowest 1932
Canadian Steel 1
Wheat 8
.2768

$25 box. fresh dirty box.
LMC copper 623
1982 zinc 10
1982 copper 69
1959 9
1960 4
2009 9
Canadian Copper 9
Canadian Steel 1
Wheat 11
.29

It is amazing to me how you consistently pull 25-30% coppers out of the boxes you get. I am about half that.

Recyclersteve wrote:It is amazing to me how you consistently pull 25-30% coppers out of the boxes you get. I am about half that.

It would seem like a good number from what I figure here are some numbers for all cents including proofs up to 2016.

Total % of all cents minted
Copper wheat's 5%
Steel wheat's <1%
Copper Memorials 28%
Aluminum Memorials <1% (never released)
1982's Copper & Zinc 3%
Zinc Memorials 53%
2009's Zinc & Copper <1%
Zinc Shield 10%

Those would be good numbers in an area with NO coin collectors, copper hoarders or coins missing ( I.e., the buried ones that metal detectors occasionally find).

As an example, with 5% copper wheats that would equate to an average of 125 wheaties per $25 box of pennies. That is a HUGE amount. I bet nobody on this site is even close to that figure.

Thanks for the stats, however. It is nice to see those numbers for a bit of a different perspective.

We all know the wheat's are held as they are at least 60 years old, so if we just used the copper memorials, zinc memorials and zinc shields still good numbers there +/- the 82's and 2009's that are copper!

Another one that is interesting is the 1943 steel cents. I bet it has been over 40 years since I found one of these in the wild. By comparison I've found more of all these items:

1) Indian cents
2) Buffalo nickels
3) War nickels

Yet the steel cents (with over a billion minted) seem to be far more elusive. Go figure.

$25 box. fresh box. Highest percent box in years, quite a few cleaner copper and more copper 1982, absence of newer shields tells a tale too.
LMC copper 720
1982 zinc 11
1982 copper 72
1959 8
1960 8
2009 10
Canadian Copper 3
Canadian zinc
Wheat 18
.3328

The 1943 is an odd duck, I find it near unbelievable they sell for $10-20 dollar a roll on the bay, less for rusty culls, and uncirculated rolls go for hundreds of dollars. I never find them either because magnets slough all that goes into sorters. I didn't have a sizable quantity so bought a roll some years back. The 1944-46 are true war pennies made with recycled munitions, and the 44 is very common.
Where I live people seem to save their pennies or change in big glass jars, I hear people mention it all the time. Two guys at work mentioned it in the last couple of weeks. Then they don't do anything with them, they just bring them into the bank when they have a large enough quantity so it's worth something. Not long ago I went through my Mothers penny jar to slough off anything good, and she asked if I wanted to go through her husbands too. They pile up in car ashtrays and consoles as well, which is where the sticky gooey pennies come from, people spilling sodas, coffees, and what not.

Even when I'm at the bank doing a dump and someone comes in to dump a couple of cups or so of change I'll notice often they are only dumping silver, quarter, dimes.

Recyclersteve wrote:Another one that is interesting is the 1943 steel cents. I bet it has been over 40 years since I found one of these in the wild. By comparison I've found more of all these items:

1) Indian cents
2) Buffalo nickels
3) War nickels

Yet the steel cents (with over a billion minted) seem to be far more elusive. Go figure.

Recyclersteve wrote:Another one that is interesting is the 1943 steel cents. I bet it has been over 40 years since I found one of these in the wild. By comparison I've found more of all these items:

1) Indian cents
2) Buffalo nickels
3) War nickels

Yet the steel cents (with over a billion minted) seem to be far more elusive. Go figure.

lolol i got a 43 steelie in a roll of dimes recently

$25 box. fresh box.
LMC copper 619
1982 zinc 10
1982 copper 63
1959 5
1960 8
2009 8
Canadian Copper 10
Canadian Steel 0
Canadian Zinc 0
Wheat 9
.2856

cwgii wrote:

Recyclersteve wrote:Another one that is interesting is the 1943 steel cents. I bet it has been over 40 years since I found one of these in the wild. By comparison I've found more of all these items:

1) Indian cents
2) Buffalo nickels
3) War nickels

Yet the steel cents (with over a billion minted) seem to be far more elusive. Go figure.

lolol i got a 43 steelie in a roll of dimes recently

A penny in roll of dimes? That's odd, since the penny is bigger. I'd think finding a dime in a penny roll would be more common...

Two boxes this month.

Loomis $25 box result $3.71 = 14.8%
Loomis $25 box result $3.33 = 13.3%