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Valued Member
United States
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I haven't found one in almost a year. I'm still buying boxes of cents for the cause. My copper collection is getting very heavy after 2 1/2 years of this. Over 100lbs of them.  The misses has some interesting ideas of doing the kitchen floor in cents.  When I started searching for the WAM cents 2 1/2 years ago I would find them at a rate of about 1 every other box. That slowed down to one every third box on average. Last WAM I found was the coveted 1999 back a year ago. (Still pinching myself, lol) This last year I've searched over 100 boxes straight without a WAM to be seen. Well, there was one. But it was so bad I threw it back to the wild. It was a poster child for zinc rot. Any rate, how is the rest of the WAM hunters doing? I'm still seeing the occasional new find here. But seemingly not as often either. I'm curious if the proverbial WAM well is drying up for everyone, or if it may just be my region. I'm in SE KY. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only hunter in these parts, as they say. -Chadwick |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Are WAM cents worth more than non-WAM cents ? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I'm still finding a few...probably average two a month, but no 99's since last year.
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 United States
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I have not found one in about a year and still waiting to find a 1999 WAM. I look through about one box per week. John1  |
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I think that they are getting harder to find. I have found three in the last week, but not many this year. The total count stands at 135 (70-1998, 55-2000 and 10-1999).
Still Lookin
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United States
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10-1999)  Save some of those for the rest of us who have yet to find one. John1 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You have to consider that as time passes more and more of the older coins are simply being permanently tied up in long term coin stashes and also over the last two and a half years the supply of cents has been diluted by another 8 or 9 billion cents. Even if every cent remained in circulation they would become fewer and further between simply because there are more and more cents to look through. The real question is not how many boxes you have to go through to find the WAM but how many cents of those dates you have to go through to find one. Because with the passing of time you will find that there are fewer and fewer of those dates found in the boxes as well. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I go through about $400 in pennies a week. I find more WAMs in the regular wrapped rolls than the bank wrapped ones. And yes I believe the well is drying up!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I haven't found a single one of any date but I see very few Philly's out this way.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@52Raymo
Same here, it's all D minted stuff in California. I'm still trying to find my first 92-D CAM, it will be a serious home run for sure if one surfaces.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I find more WAMs in the regular wrapped rolls than the bank wrapped ones The wrapping machines must have a WAM magnet.  |
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United States
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Just wanted to add that some of the WAM's are going to rot away too so there will be even less to find especially in conditions worth keeping. John1 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Better find what you can now as far as red ones.
These coins are nearing 15 yrs. in circulation.
They will become zinc rotters if not already very soon.
Then after a while there will be a better idea on which date
is the scarcest. There are no definitive answers on that question at the moment. Not everyone looks for them and tallies their finds.
Logically thinking, if this mistake started in 1998 and then continued
for two more years before they finally figured out that there was a problem, then the last yr. (2000) should be the scarcest. As the mistake was most likely noticed during that year and then corrected
before total mintage was reached. 1998 would thus be the more prevalent one if 98 total P mintages were higher than 99. One could check the total mintage figures on all of the P mint 98,99 and 2000 cents. Then some odds can be also figured from that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mintage figures:
98-P - 5 billion
99-P - 5.2 plus billion
00-P - 5.5 billion
Probably not a lot of help with these :)
No one can find out any info from the P mint
on when in 2000 they found the problem ?
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Valued Member
United States
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No more 96 WAMS found yet folks?
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United States
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No more 96 WAMS found yet folks? The first one hasn't been found yet |
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Posted 08/01/2012 05:27 am
