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United States
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Umm, yes...the Mint was not counting on us tossing their work into jars. They figured the coins would be needed for commerce, because otherwise they wouldn't have made them in the first place.
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 United States
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Yotie, a Wide AM has a small space between the A and M in America on the reverse. A narrow AM is where the A&M are nearly touching or are touching at the base of the letters. I think all of the cents 1992 and older should be wide (you can use one of these to see what the Wide AM looks like) and 1993 and newer should be narrow. The ones to look for are: 1992 narrow AM- Some were made with a narrow AM, instead of wide 1998, 1999, and 2000 Wide AM- Some of these were made with Wide AM, instead of narrow. |
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United States
369 Posts |
So far the average % is 25.5%
11 states and counting...
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United States
417 Posts |
Central FL (MCO) here and I do find wheats in every box (or bag of hand-rolled if it's from BOA.... ::glares at BOA::). Found 3 Wide AMs, Canadian, dimes, and always copper.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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30-35% Here in Western MD
Best find roll searching in general prop 45 Buffalo's with dates for $2.
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Valued Member
United States
369 Posts |
Wow  , I have only found one Buffalo in a roll, a 1936, and a 1923 at work. 12 states and counting... |
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United States
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East Coast-Charleston, SC area
23% copper, average 10 wheats per box. Have been searching boxes now for 4 years. Best finds so far has been Interesting, I'm in the same area and I almost never get a box over 20%... I gave up on the shrink-wrapped Brinks boxes altogether after getting a half-dozen duds in a row. Guess you've already gotten all the coppers! I've never even looked for wide/narrow AMs... aside from a few clips (all in the past month) and a couple planchets, I haven't found any errors. :( Edit to add- finished a box yesterday and counted them out, 458 copper LMC, plus 3 wheats, for 18.44%. There are probably some more coppers in the 1982 stack, but still not enough to hit 20%. Edited by PennehChaos
12/31/2008 10:00 am
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Valued Member
United States
429 Posts |
Northern Utah
25% copper
2-4 Wheaties
Southern Utah
30-40% copper
5-9 Wheaties
I have not searched for a few months (and need to start again) but this is about the numbers I was getting when going through them.
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Valued Member
United States
383 Posts |
Long Island, NY:
About 25% copper and 15-20 wheaties per box.
I've only done about a dozen or so boxes though. I'm new to the game.
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United States
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In NW Indiana it was just a little over 20% the last time I got a sample and counted back about '98. At that time there were lots of brand new cents up to two years old.
Since then the complexion of these coins seems to have dramatically changed. The zinc cents are much more evenly spread out by date and many look horrid. If anything the incidence of copper seems to have actually increased! It seems to be close to 25% now. Most of the copper looks fairly good and few have much wear. With patience I think I could put together a set of the coppers in red AU and better though some of the '65 to '73 dates would be tough.
Wheat cents also seem to be steady or increasing. They used to be .25% around here.
It sure seems odd that the newer coins are being seen less and less. The economy has been quite strong here since the early '90's and hasn't been impacted overly much recently.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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United States
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Shreveport, LA must be the low spot for copper. Only 14% in 5000 coins searched, 10 wheats (5 per $25 box). Most of the time when I ask for cents, I get brand new $25 freshly minted boxes. We are absolutely loaded with new coins down here.
In a coin by coin analysis for the Cent Project, 2910 of the 5000 coins were 2000-2007 (I searched last year before the 2008 came out).
There are just not enough wheats in the boxes here to make it worthwhile to search them anymore.
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United States
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Alright, the average is still just above 25%
16 down, only 36 states to go!
Happy New Year!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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thank you Tex and for my next stupid question 82's besides a scale how can I tell if it is a copper or zinc
and I have noticed the zincs dont look like they will have the life span of the coppers I am working on my change jar and I have noticed that some of the new coins in bad shape have their zinc showing
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Valued Member
United States
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Just did a box and $3.80 was copper, so probably 7.6% with that box. Five wheats, two Canadian, one 1959, (58) 1960s, (211) 1970s, (67) 1980-81, (42) 1982s.
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United States
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thank you Tex and for my next stupid question 82's besides a scale how can I tell if it is a copper or zinc I use sound, drop it on a glass table, copper makes a distinctive ping whereas zinc is more like a thud. |
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Posted 12/29/2008 12:41 am
