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Has Anyone Gotten Over 50 Wheat Pennies In One Box? Or Is That Just Me?

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to CCF. I voted yes,I once got a full box of wheats. I average 10-50 per box and I go through one box per week.
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Not a box but my best haul was 52 solid rolls of copper wheats and 2 solid rolls of steel wheats at one bank visit.
Actually, credit must be given to my wife, she made the buy.
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Geez, guys! What part of the country do you fellas live in?
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Geez, guys! What part of the country do you fellas live in?
I'm flabbergasted myself! My average is 6-9 per box.
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At most, I've gotten 24. I average about maybe 13 to 18 every box.
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One can fall into 50 or better wheat cents per 50 rolls (one box), but's it's not a frequent occurrence. I average about 4-6 per 50 rolls.
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My best was 17 in one box, though I tend to average 6-10. Man I'd be thrilled to find 50+ in one hunt
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I used to keep a spreadsheet of what I find in each box, but I stopped doing that in 2017. According to what I have, my best was 45 in one box.

My worst (not including the two boxes of 2017-P OBW rolls I got) was 6 in a box.
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My box came from a credit union in a rural town, and was an obvious dump, almost all of the rolls were wheats. Including 2 x 22d's
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I'm doing a challenge right now where I look through 1 million pennies and, after 130 boxes of pennies, I average a little more than 10 a box (10.75 to be exact). My best box so far has been 38 wheats, but I'm only doing bank-wrapped coins, so my results don't usually vary that much.
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ive been through 50-60 boxes and never found more than 20, usually 8-12
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Several years ago I had a box with 256 I believe.
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most ive ever gotten was 23. 50 would be great!
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We get about 15 a box, Indiana.

Our best is around 80, an obvious dump
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My guess? is that they are all culls of common dates in lower grades, from a CRH'er.

No profit to be made by trying to sell them, so may as well re circulate them. Let some other CRH'er have a go at them instead.

I have deliberately re circulated lower valued numismatically interesting coins myself. Let someone else have some fun.
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