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Rate Of Finding Wheat Cents?

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 Posted 12/12/2008  3:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add daveg131 to your friends list
I've been averaging 18 per 2500 box.
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 Posted 12/12/2008  6:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mycrob to your friends list
About 10 per 2500 box
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 Posted 12/12/2008  6:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikep to your friends list
My last box was 21 wheats. Average has been about 15 lately. My best 25.00 box was 67 wheats. Doubt I'll ever see that again.
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 Posted 12/12/2008  6:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mikep to your friends list
I've also been finding roughly 10 Canadian pennies/box.
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 Posted 12/12/2008  6:48 pm  Show Profile   Check BH1964's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add BH1964 to your friends list
Looks like an average of 0.5% so far! 1 in 200. It would be interesting to know what portion of the 0.5% are from the 1950's.

I may have to dump a roll of wheaties into circulation!
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 Posted 12/12/2008  8:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
By far, most of the Wheats I find are 50's.
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 Posted 12/12/2008  8:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sir Ferrari to your friends list
Wow, I must have extraordinary luck! I get 1 in every 100 at least, and those are rolls right from the bank.
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 Posted 12/13/2008  12:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add neversuited1 to your friends list
Same here..about 8-12 per box. I have had better luck with personally wrapped coins, esp during Christmas and a bad economy.
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 Posted 12/14/2008  4:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list
Somewhere around 10-15 per $25 box is average these days. Back when I started roll searching in the late 1970s, I searched rolls $10 at a time and would end up with 50-75 per 1000 coins. Some of them were older wheat cents too.
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 Posted 12/14/2008  7:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rogers to your friends list
Coppercoins - wow, you must have quite a collection from your searches!

MikeP - you're getting around 10 Canadians per 2500? I've gotten 102 Americans so far from 2000 searched, and it's quite unremarkable to get American cents in change etc.
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 Posted 12/15/2008  01:15 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add neversuited1 to your friends list
found a 1925 and a 1928 in back to back rolls from a box. The search continues...!
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 Posted 12/15/2008  03:36 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add copper nickel daddy to your friends list
When looking through bank boxes, I find that if you find one unusually good coin, there very well might be one or more similar to it in another roll in the box. The coins that make up those boxes are bulk coin turned into the armored car companies from banks with either counting machines or a large number of bulk customer rolls. Coinstar also contributes a lot. It probably isn't uncommon to see little old ladies walk into the bank and pour a coffee can of loose change into a counter. I found three Indian cents in a box a couple of weeks ago. I've been looking through rolls and boxes for over 20 years and had never found an Indian. Suddenly, three in a box!
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 Posted 12/15/2008  11:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BadThad to your friends list
Wow, three Indians in one box...that kinda proves your theory....that'a amazing.
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 Posted 12/16/2008  12:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rogers to your friends list
Wow! The oldest wheat cents I've gotten so far are early 1940s, but I'm going to keep looking as cent rolls are by far the most satisfying ones to search (not to mention the cheapest!)
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 Posted 12/16/2008  12:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ken8400 to your friends list
I get one about every 2 or 3 rolls. Oldest found was 1940. Most are the 50's. Never found an IH , yet.
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