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by mlpfan » Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:46 pm
thought i would list my averages here.
i average 28-30 percent coppers on every $100 dollars fave value, i find about 10 wheat cents in every 25.00 face.
and i have found 3 indian head cents so far 1870, 1905, 1904. all from customer rolls from the bank
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by TwoAndAHalfCents » Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:25 pm
Those percentages are pretty good. What part of the country are you in? Here on the west coast I only get about 17% copper. Getting 10 wheats in a box is on the high end for me. It's been over a year since an Indian head has shown up.
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by spacemanX » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:08 pm
agree with twoandhalfcents.
i average around 16-17 percent. and wheats are more like 8 or so per $25. bad boxes are 5 per box.
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by mlpfan » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:24 pm
i am in lawrence county ohio.
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by outofsort » Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:06 pm
I've averaged 28.1% Cu over the past 18 months (not including Canadian). My wheat number is less than 10 per box, with 2 Indian heads and 87 pre-1940 Lincolns found. <<<Minnesota>>>
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by silverflake » Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:13 pm
When I first started penny sorting 10 years ago here in southwestern Virginia, I had a sweet 30% copper ratio. Now I am down to around 20%. I figure it's dilution with 10 more years of zincolns and all the realcent folks sucking the copper from circulation (!).
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by TwoAndAHalfCents » Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:58 pm
mlpfan wrote:i am in lawrence county ohio.
Hmmm. Good copper percentage there but probably limited number of banks to pickup from. Here in Southern California I could easily find hundreds of banks to pick from but I would be stuck with the same old 17% average from all of them. Oh well. At least the weather is great driving to the bank to get more coins.
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by bookshelf » Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:11 pm
TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Hmmm. Good copper percentage there but probably limited number of banks to pickup from. Here in Southern California I could easily find hundreds of banks to pick from but I would be stuck with the same old 17% average from all of them. Oh well. At least the weather is great driving to the bank to get more coins.
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I'm in SoCal too and my average is just under 17%.
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by Engineer » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:44 am
bookshelf wrote:TwoAndAHalfCents wrote:Hmmm. Good copper percentage there but probably limited number of banks to pickup from. Here in Southern California I could easily find hundreds of banks to pick from but I would be stuck with the same old 17% average from all of them. Oh well. At least the weather is great driving to the bank to get more coins.
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I'm in SoCal too and my average is just under 17%.
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I can get 30%+, but my wheat percentages suck. Maybe 5 per box...
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by Shazbot57 » Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:01 pm
Just finished this weeks 14 boxes and hit 24.8% coppers including my first ever Indian Head cent (a nice 1905), several rolls of wheats including some older 1909 (no vdb), ten 1920's & '30's, plus a half dozen "S" mint marks scattered thru the remaining 1940's and '50's Wheats.
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