Canadian Roll Hunting

Picked up 23 rolls of pennies at the bank today. Best finds were a 1949 and 1952 Canadian and a 1950D Wheat cent. Also found a handful of high MS grade 2012 cents and a really nice 1966. Went through all the cents I had pulled from 1990-1996 and made full rolls for 1992-1996 of higher grade coins. Have about half a roll of 1991 and a handful from 1990.

I pulled some mintage numbers off the RCM website and punched them into excel. There were 124,820,687 George V small cents minted of a total small cent mintage of 35,174,803,670. This represents 0.354858234%.

My findings of 7 of 130,300 represents 0.005372218%. Which means that in the pool of coins I have searched there is approximately 1 George V available for every 66 which were originally minted.

I'm not sure how many pennies would need to be searched to get enough George V's to generate reasonably accurate findings. I am hoping I can search 1 million pennies but they very well may run out before that number is reached.

Has the value of better date canadian pennies increased any since the penny was discontinued? Logic would tell me it should since an unknown percentage that accidentally make it into circulation over time will get sucked up by the mint, thereby depleting already low numbers, even if only slightly

Did another box of quarters today and 10 rolls of dimes. I hate searching dimes, they're just so small. I keep saying I'm going to stop doing dimes and then another silver pops out! That's 1x1967 and 1x1949 in the last $300. Sorry no pictures but the '67 looked almost new and the '49 was in a lot better shape than the one we had in our binder.
Still hitting about 1 silver Q for every 3 boxes and pulling out other interesting things as I go along. I've been finding some pretty high quality coins in the past year; I think so many people have turned in their jars of change with the 'end' of the 1c and we're seeing hordes of coins that were tossed in the bucket went they were brand new.

I just 'happened' upon this thread. So you guys are saying that you can still get cents from banks there in Canada? I had thought that they were gathereing them in for shipment back to the RCM (or wherever they are going to smelt them).

Last year I called a few banks in Windsor to see if I could buy a box. I finally found one bank (not sure which one it was anymore) that said that if I ordered a box they would have it waiting for me. Unfortunately I never had the chance to do that. I had thought that that was the last opportunity I had to find some better graded cents from the 60's to current. I find lots of Canadian cents in change here (Detroit area) but haven't seen any from 2005 and up.

I am planning on going to Windsor soon to buy coins at the Canada Post stores, and if the banks still issue cents then I may stop in a few of those too to see what I can get.

I couldn't wait any longer so I opened the roll with a 1943 on the end (first roll of box 2). Finds from the roll: 1933, 1936, 1939, 1940(4), 1941, 1943(2), 1945(3), 1946(9), 1947ML, 1949(2), 1950(3), 1951(5), 1952, 1953(2), 1955(2), 1956, 1957(6), 1958, 1959(4). One 58 and one 59 have nice mint lustre.

That makes 10 George V's found to date.

Another good roll: 1928, 1932, 1938, 1939, 1940(9), 1941(3), 1942(2), 1943(5), 1946(5), 1947(6), 1947ML(4), 1948(2), 1957, 1958(2), 1959(3). Three had some mint lustre (1946, 1947, 1959).

Up to 12 George V's found now.