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Valued Member
United States
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I am interested in wheat and Indian pennies, silver coins, and the like. I don't have the patients for looking for error coins unless it is blatantly obvious. We have always sorted Brinks boxes of pennies and had a fair yield of 20-30 wheats/Indians per box. Done our 1st bag today and got 20. So I ask all you silver barons and penny sorters out there, what is an average yield on a box of quarters, halves, dimes, and pennies? FYI, I looked through the threads didn't see the numbers I search, but I may have missed them. Thank you all for your help! |
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Pillar of the Community
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I get one silver quarter every 3 boxes, my half average is insane thanks to a two month hot streak, but is closer to 1.5 or so realistically (per box, that is), dimes about 1.25 per box, and back when I used to search cents, I usually pulled about 10-15 wheats per.
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New Member
United States
4 Posts |
I've been getting 10-12 Wheats per box
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
Halves-one 40% per box
Quarters-one silver per $700
Dimes-one per $150
Cents-5/15 per $25
This is my average over the last five years
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1200 Posts |
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.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I haven't tried dimes or quarters yet, so I'm in the dark (but admittedly not too optimistic) about them. Freddy, give dimes a try. Boxed halves have always been poor for me here, even when I started five years ago. Dimes, oth, have always produced. You may even try War Nickels, as there were millions minted and they are often overlooked. When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Valued Member
United States
83 Posts |
For 2012:
Halves: 2 silver per box
Nickels: 1 silver per box, 1 buffalo per 2 boxes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
632 Posts |
Indian cents are very rare for me, I'd say 1 every $1500 searched.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1770 Posts |
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
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Valued Member
United States
92 Posts |
Wheats for me are around 7 - 15 per box. Indians almost non existent - probably along the lines of what willy13 estimated.
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
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
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Valued Member
 United States
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Are the coppers worth anything more to hoarders? I mean, if I am sorting and make a dime on what I'm already doing, I'm game.
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
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.
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Valued Member
United States
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okay think I am going to start tracking the fraction of the total coin so something like
wheats 200/50000
indian heads 2/50000
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coins searched 50000
wheats 200
indian 2
I picked up $100 in quarters and found nothing but three nickels in the rolls LOL, picked up 40 in pennies same bank customer rolled and so far I have found 6 wheats and an indian. need to go back and see if I can buy some of the same rolls tomorrow.
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Valued Member
United States
67 Posts |
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. Edited by msteele
12/20/2012 03:19 am
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Valued Member
United States
370 Posts |
I made my rounds on monday and was able to pick up 185 in pennies, several customer rolled rolls, one bank put a box together for me and 4 rolls from that one bank were all wheats. found 3 dimes and one looks like a penny with most of the cladding missing, I just got a microscope so need to get it going to take some pics of these gems LOL
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Posted 12/11/2012 01:31 am
