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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/03/2010 : 18:36:38
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No wonder it's so hard to find anything to post on Uthminsta's pre-1940 tracking thread! According to cwgii, he found thirty wheaties per 10,000 cents searched last year. At the rate he searches, that's a big enough base to form a reliable basis for calculations. He's also in my same District 12 (although I doubt that nationwide there's much variance in wheaties percentages... about one percent of all coppers encountered). So I just counted my pre-40's from my handsorting days of October/November 2009 and, get this... I had only 34 pre-40's out of 505 wheaties!  Correlating with cwgii's stats... that means your odds of finding a pre-1940 wheatie are only one per every $50 searched.  How do your own stats compare? 
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Edited by - beauanderos on 03/03/2010 18:38:29 |
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1617 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 18:52:28
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You don't really want to get into this again?
Do you? |
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1617 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 18:55:36
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It comes out to 1 in 4951.
edit: Unless you're the magic 9 IHP in a box man
edit again: stale cereal? |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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beauanderos
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thogey
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1617 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 19:06:16
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Perfect!
Edit: That's about where I am. I hand job $100.00 in cents a week and yes, it is about 1-3 pre 1940's per week.
At this rate, Before I die I stand to make Hundreds |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 03/03/2010 : 21:03:32
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beauanderos that stale cereal thing is a sick joke.
worthy of ME!
I think I'm beating the 1/4951, by maybe 1 extra.
I was doing better a year ago, and I do better than that with bank bags. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2408 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2010 : 21:57:30
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quote:
Originally posted by fb101
beauanderos that stale cereal thing is a sick joke.
worthy of ME!
I think I'm beating the 1/4951, by maybe 1 extra.
I was doing better a year ago, and I do better than that with bank bags.
in a previous life, I was a German Shepherd. My master was always telling me "sic em.!" |
Hoard now and hold on!
http://coppermillions.blogspot.com/
http://wherewillyoubein2012.blogspot.com/ |
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cesario
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 03/04/2010 : 01:29:50
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Originally posted by beauanderos
quote:
Originally posted by thogey
edit again: stale cereal?
Old Wheaties
BOOO!! Bad pun, booooo!!! |
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Be Nice to BankTellers
Penny Sorter Member
USA
77 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 22:52:00
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| I was in that ballpark of 1 per $50, but lately that has changed to 1 per $10. Common pre-1940, however. |
Grandpa always told me, "Back in 1964..." I listened.
Selling copper cents @ $2.50/lb. + shipping. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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jtm3
Penny Pincher Member
USA
187 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 23:01:16
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| I get about 1 pre-1940 per $15-$25. |
Copper Cent Hoarding Wiki
coppercenthoarding.wikia.com
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snappy
Penny Collector Member
USA
301 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2010 : 11:48:56
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You must be logged in to see this link.
here is the thread. |
Selling Ryedale sorted USA cents
1.5 each + shipping over 500fv 1.5 each +1/2 shipping
If you pick up 1.35 each
located MT/ND boarder.
after Ryedale sorting they are hand sorted to remove canadian then rechecked with Ryedale to insure all copper and count out $50 FV then placed in cloth bags and sealed with #1 copper wire. |
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Flbandit
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
851 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2010 : 17:54:24
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| I currently am working on a box that is coming up a bit better. I'm getting 35% copper and I've found 12 wheats, including a 1912 (very rough though). |
Are you throwing that out? |
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PreservingThePast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2010 : 07:43:41
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I'm currently at $108.00 since my last pre-1940 wheat cent.
Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.  |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Mikep2020
Penny Collector Member
USA
402 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2010 : 08:34:00
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| I haven't found a pre-40 in the last 4 boxes, even though i've been getting 25-30 post 40's per box. Last year I was getting at least 1 pre-40 per box, sometimes 2-5 per box. Yes, the pre-40's are getting scarcer now. |
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ronin
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 12:30:54
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| The past two months have seem a dramatic improvement for me... copper up to an average of 39% per box, wheats running about 16 per box and of those 4 are pre 40's, so about one in $7 +/-. My Canadians in boxes are trending older too, I must be getting a lot of recycled change drawers and penny jars to make bill payments showing up in boxes now. |
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beauanderos
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2408 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 18:20:23
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| That's the one good thing about the recession. These cents haven't totally disappeared, they're just in hiding. Every once in awhile, they'll see the light of day and surface when someone steals a coin collection and spends it, breaks open a piggy bank, or inherits a huge stash of wheaties and dumps them back into the circulation pool. I really think that's what accounts for the older wheaties we see now. I seriously doubt that they've been in circulation for a hundred years, they are just continuously trickling back into circulation after having sat out maybe several decades at a time |
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http://coppermillions.blogspot.com/
http://wherewillyoubein2012.blogspot.com/ |
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Kurr
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