Did an experiment to see the proportion of Wheats/Canadians

[Ecotic]

I started filling up these 1 gallon jars at the same time earlier this year, starting from 0 Wheats and 0 Canadians, and my wheat jar just filled up. I've gone through Brinks, Loomis, String, and customer wrapped rolls, so in scientific polling terms the margin for error is extremely low. The copper Canadians are in the jar on the left and it looks to be about 40% full. The non-copper Canadians are in the small orange container to the right. But I'm from the Southeastern U.S., it'd be interesting to see someone do this if they live right on the American-Canadian border next to say, Toronto. I bet there'd be a lot more Canadians.

[BenG76]

I am in VA near the NC line. I usually get more wheats than Canadian cents. Just today me and my daughter went through $45 and we got 25 wheats and 10 Canadians.

[scyther]

I'm in the midwest and this looks similar to what I would get. I also find that there are a lot more copper than non-copper Canadians. I've heard Canadian members here say they got about 40% copper before they stopped using pennies, so I guess that means steels outnumber zincs pretty heavily...

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

I get about two to three times as many wheats as Canadian cents in Southern California. Most of the Canadian cents are copper too. The steel ones probably wind up stuck to magnets in coin counters instead of making it into the rolls I pick up.

[Ecotic]

I get about two to three times as many wheats as Canadian cents in Southern California. Most of the Canadian cents are copper too. The steel ones probably wind up stuck to magnets in coin counters instead of making it into the rolls I pick up.

I've always just figured that the reason there's more copper Canadians than non-copper Canadians circulating in the U.S. is for two basic reasons. One (and primarily), is that Canadian pennies cross over into America from American tourists or Canadian tourists, and therefore the Canadian pennies that we find have been traveling around in America for a number of years now and so this favors the older, copper pennies. And secondly because copper Canadians were made for a lot longer than American copper pennies, up to 1996.

[scyther]

I get about two to three times as many wheats as Canadian cents in Southern California. Most of the Canadian cents are copper too. The steel ones probably wind up stuck to magnets in coin counters instead of making it into the rolls I pick up.

I've always just figured that the reason there's more copper Canadians than non-copper Canadians circulating in the U.S. is for two basic reasons. One (and primarily), is that Canadian pennies cross over into America from American tourists or Canadian tourists, and therefore the Canadian pennies that we find have been traveling around in America for a number of years now and so this favors the older, copper pennies. And secondly because copper Canadians were made for a lot longer than American copper pennies, up to 1996.

The magnets are the main reason... see how many of your non-coppers are magnetic. I think I have 3 or 4 steel ones, versus maybe 80 zincs.

[Bluegill]

But I'm from the Southeastern U.S., it'd be interesting to see someone do this if they live right on the American-Canadian border next to say, Toronto. I bet there'd be a lot more Canadians.

My ration was about opposite of yours. Canadian coins are very prevalent here in Detroit.

Was getting 75-80% Cu. Of that, was getting a consistent 40-20-40 mix of the pre-'80 - '80/'81' - '82 thru '96. The commercial coin processors in my area do not have magnets in their machines. Fe and Ni coins are aplenty, especially dimes.

[Franco American]

I have to agree with Blue Gill on this topic. I live in a suburb of Detroit and average 2 Canadian pennies per roll - with 80% of them being the copper variety. I find about 12 wheats per box so the ratio is completely different here

[spacemanX]

down in florida I get 10 wheats to about 3 canadians.

[Dave]

In Rochester, NY, I get about 10 Canadian to 1 wheat.

[michfan]

I live in Grand Rapids MI, couple hours north of Detroit and I find canadians in nearly every roll, probably 15+ to every wheat I find. The percentage of copper canadians I find is same as Franco American, around 80%. I get so many that I separate them by copper content.

[penny pretty]

In Rochester, NY, I get about 10 Canadian to 1 wheat.

rochester here also, about right, Ive even found 35 georges in a roll once, as opposed to my record of 13 wheats in a roll.( the georges were in a batch of all canadian rolls I got in a bank pickup ahwile back)