Percent of wheats/pre-40s

[uthminsta]

after sorting $340 in December, I've found 12 pre40 wheats. And one Indian, but that's not part of this discussion. Let's just call it a pre-40. 13 coins out of 34000. That comes to just a little less than one per box. But I sort mostly bags - this $340 was 6 bags and 80 rolls - so yeah... about 2 per bag, or one per box, or .038%. That is sure to vary as I sort the two bags calling my name right now...

2013 totals so far:
$1,331 sorted
43 pre40 Lincolns, 2 Indians, and one 1937 Canadian (George VI's first year) found.
1.73 pre40s per bag
.032% just pre40 Lincolns, or .035% including all pre40s.

[scyther]

Good luck with 1922. I recall finally buying a 22D a few years ago, and noting that with that purchase, I had completed a "one-per-year" set all the way back into the 1870's. 7.16 million that year, which is the least of any Lincoln-era year. The next tier down would be 1931-32-33. Also very low total mintages those years because of the depression. I suppose that is part of the reason for the extremely low mintage on the 31-S.
Check out this chart I just made with the total cent mintages (across all mints) for the pre-1940 years.
1922 … 7,160,000
1932 … 19,562,000
1933 … 20,560,000
1931 … 24,742,000
1921 … 54,431,000
1915 … 55,975,120
1914 … 80,568,432
1912 … 82,995,060
1923 … 83,423,000
1924 … 89,394,000
1913 … 98,437,352
...
Damn. So the rarest I have is a 1913.

Well, I've since found a 1931. Almost 4 times rarer. Not bad!

[silverflake]

10 years of on and off, low budget penny searching and copper pulling, I have 15 complete rolls of wheats:

8 1950's
6 1940's
1 1940's steel (some of these I had already)
1 1930's

I have a tube with teens and twenties - I have 27 of them. That's it.

Keep stacking.