Box Searching Poll

I just did another thread asking this same question--but with regard to wheat pennies only. My personal experience w/ the wheaties is an average of around 10 or 12 per box, with an occasional Gift From Above Box that'll get up above 20. The responses to my thread seemed to be pretty much in the 12 per box ballpark.

I've given halves a what I consider to be a serious effort. I've gone through over 40 boxes and I didn't find even one single silver. I keep reading about everybody else's happy finds and good luck with hunting halves, but those experiences have just plain quite totally eluded me. I have a big bunch of flat half wrappers still left. I'm going to use them all up and if my thus far Skunk-O luck persists, I'm going to call it quits with the halves when I run out of wrappers.

I haven't tried dimes or quarters yet, so I'm in the dark (but admittedly not too optimistic) about them.

For 2012:

Halves: 2 silver per box
Nickels: 1 silver per box, 1 buffalo per 2 boxes.

everyones averages are of course different but mine are like

1.5 dimes a box
1 quarter every 1.5 boxes
.70 40% every box - thanks to a bad streak for months

I just started writing this stuff down.

wheats average 14 per box, weird in one of the last boxes of pennies I got 2 silver dimes, also some of the cleanest wheats I have ever seen pulled from from circulation.
wheats average 9 per roll on customer returned rolls that's 18%, it was up to 16 per roll or 32% but I had hit a bunch of rolls that were full of wheats so that's come back down.
i am also averaging 28% copper on boxes and 44% on customer returned rolls, it was also higher and has come down.
halves 6 boxes and 0
dimes 1.2 per box
quarters 3.6 per box I caught a lucky box those numbers are dropping

I have a friend that was already doing the copper penny hording thing, I looked on line and saw that you can make a few bucks on the coppers so I jumped in, using a machine to cull the zincs then I have been pulling the foreign and wheats. I had also started with halves, dimes, and quarters a while ago. I gave up on halves, every time I get some other coin I think I need to ask for halves, just not that brave to ask for more than I am getting now, half the banks are asking if I have a business, which I do but it's not really retail.

Well, while waiting on the boxes to come in I got 2 counter bags of nickels. Got 2 War Nickels and 40 pre 1958 out of the two of them. Just got the boxes in today. The box of dimes I got skunked. Try again.

MSteele - how come your desire just for wheat pennies ?

how about looking for non-error varieties say like a 1999 Wide AM, 1992D Close AM or a 1988 RDV-006 ...etc ?
while they are passing by on your table

each one are worth alot more than hundreds of common wheat pennies

like I found a 1999 Wide AM and sold it for over hundred dollars on ebay . Snowman