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No question you will do better with LWC in California, Oregon, and Washington, which have always been supplied by the SF mint over the last hundred years.

It does to some extent. In some areas certain coins have been picked over so much that the chances of finding a decent bunch is rare. If there are already a bunch of CRH'rs out there then they may have already grabbed the best stuff.

Good finds may still be around almost anywhere, occasionally Junior steals Dad's coin collection and runs it through CoinStar or someone will cash in Grandma's tin can of old silver. These work their way through the system and into the hands of CRH'rs.

In some western states that had silver mining interests, such as Montana and Idaho, larger silver coins like dollars and halves stayed popular longer but even those have pretty much disappeared from daily use. While they are usually available at banks, often with some consternation from tellers, you may have ever so slightly better results.

If you are in an area that has no other CRH'rs then the local supply of coins may still be fairly ripe.

Coin supplies do tend to move around a bit so none of this is hard and fast.

A few "S" mint cents and nickels from the late 60's and early 70's as well as occasionally 50's and earlier are sometimes found, more so out West than back East. San Francisco hasn't made circulation coins in 40 years or so so those tend to be pretty unusual anywhere. Add to that the fact that they were minted in lesser quantities and many CRH'rs tend to snag them.

"D" mint coins tend to predominate west of Chicago and "P" coins east. There is enough churn so that these are mostly just trends however. Strait US Mint rolls or boxes tend to come from the closer mint facility, either Denver or Philly.