Got one of those penny boxes today

[doug]

While I was on the road today I picked up a box of pennies from a local bank that always helps me with a smile even though I do not have an account there yet. This evening when I started dumping the rolls out of the box in a pail to run through the Ryedale I noticed that there was an awful alot of coppers in them. It was a machine wrapped string box. So when I finished the box I ran them seperate to see the percentage.

No wheats
No Canadian
156 zincs
2344 coppers

For an percentage of 93.7% coppers, Nice to hit the jackpot occasionly.

Doug

[Morsecode]

Sounds like you went through a worm hole back to April 1983. I expect that would've been the norm average at that time.

[tn-dave]

Wow.. Did you happen to notice the average dates of the Zincs.?

Sometime in CWRs when I get a really high % of copper like that I'll see that the latest date is the early 90s or so. I always guessed that somebody was digging the penny jar out of the closest when they needed extra $$. I'm in a pretty low population comunity and I wish we hadn't gotten a couple of Coinstar machines at the two big grocery stores here. I'm sure they've lowered the amount of nice CWR rolls the banks get in..

[doug]

These were machine rolled in a sealed box. The newest zinc I found was an 2010 sheild.