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Valued Member
United States
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Anyone else have trouble finding 71S pennies ?
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Valued Member
United States
251 Posts |
The S mints in general in the 70's appear to be more difficult to find. I for one have not been able to find a decent 73-S in circulation. I'll keep my eyes open for you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you mean circulated examples from change ,, I found a total of 8 in 5000 cents while searching for the Cent project .
Thats not a large number ,it will be interesting to see what the results are for any given date ,,when coppercoins can get the info assimilated.
Metalman
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
The 73-S was only half as frequent in my search with a total of 4 found in 5000 cents searched for the project .
although I have found several dozen of each in all of my searching of cents its interesting to note the frequency which I did not do prior to the project count .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
560 Posts |
My rate is a bit higher than Metalman's. I've found 15 1971S and 18 1973S in 5000 cents searched. I'm in the Bay Area so maybe that accounts for the difference.
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Valued Member
 United States
243 Posts |
I have 71S coins in two 1941-72 books and four 59-98 books but I'm building 5 more 59-98 books .I have 4 68's-4 69's-3 70's-3 72's-6 73's and 12 74's.I've went through 45 rolls in the last week and found one 73S and 7 wheats.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
JBakic,I'd be glad to trade coins ,but I only have 30 posts.But building more every day.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
Apparently I don't...just went through a pile of 1971s I had and pulled out 15. None of them are red but they're in good shape. I had 6 of the 1973s. A link to the coins I'm looking for can be found in my signature line if anyone wants to trade.
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Valued Member
United States
140 Posts |
1973S for me....I went through 2500 coins and had zero S mint coins...the next 2500 had zero S mints...this latest one has had 4 so far....
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Member
United States
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we get a lot70-73-S in roll and just change from wally world. I just got a 69-s a week ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The lack of 71S, 72S, etc is mainly due to several reasons.
1. Lots of people just save S mint cents thinking they are all rare
2. Lots of people think S Mint cents are all Proofs and save them just in case they are
3. Many know they are the last non proof cents made at the S Mint so they think some day they will be valuable and hoard them
4. From 71 to 74 the S Mint produced about 1/10th the amount of cents compared to P and D Mints.
5. Some get confused with the 70 small and large date S cents so they save all cents from the 70's just in case.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For the Cent Project I had the following:
From California area, 5000 cents:
68S: 7
69S: 11
70S: 22
71S: 14
72S: 52
73S: 25
74S: 10
From Shreveport, LA area, 5000 cents:
68S: 0
69S: 2
70S: 0
71S: 5
72S: 0
73S: 0
74S: 1
Clearly, there is a geographic bias. If you live in California, the S mint marked pennies will be easy to find. When I lived in Philly, searching through cents for more than 10 years, I had only accumulated about 30 68-74S coins.
Unfortunately, I threw all the coins back into circulation.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
I went through a plastic container (probably 1000) pennies today and I found 1 70S .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1713 Posts |
Hey c - if you still need the 1971S drop me an email and I'll send you one.
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Valued Member
United States
243 Posts |
arthrene,I can't deal, trade or buy coins here yet ,not till the 16th.
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Valued Member
United States
140 Posts |
This got me to thinking...anyone wanna do a "box trade"?
I live in Atlanta area...anyone on the west coast wanna trade a bank box of Lincolns?
I don't know what the shipping cost would be, but if anyone is interested, we can check into it...
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Posted 01/09/2008 1:48 pm
