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An interesting article from Wired magazine today;

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2...-of-pennies/

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Pretty interesting analysis. Anyone try it yet, to see how different their results are?

It took them 630 cents to search through, to find one of each year from 1959 to 1997. How many would it take for you to do it?
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I think that's probably about right for a year set. I know I had a year set before getting through a whole box. Date and mintmark is a harder math problem because you have to figure in geographical distribution, as is including the popular varieties like the 70-s small date, some of which might not be known by exact mintage. I inexplicably still don't have one of the 1982 permutations, and am missing several S mint, and the scarcer small dates.
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