I opened 50 CWR's tonight. They were obviously dumped by someone that had been holding them for awhile. The newest penny was a 1992. The copper percentage came out to just over 37%. I normally average about 22% on CWR's. I've never come close to 37% before. I only got 6 wheats all 40's and 50's. I was able to pull over 100 barely circulated 1985-1989. These will help with the albums.
I've been having uglies in my cwr's and have been having better luck in the box this week. It somehow seem that the bad always out ways the good on them.
Nice, once I went through a small hoard of about $300 face miscellaneous coins that were saved by someone in the family from the 70s-90s and there was a good 30%+ coppers and a handful of 90% silver. "Time capsules" like that are great.
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world. -Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables, 1484
I bought 30 bucks of customer returned penny rolls last weekend and got 19 rolls of machine wrapped that had a bank name on them last went under back in the 90s nothing in the rolls was later than 1980 and about a third of tghem were mixed late 70 bu/au but only 3 wheats in the lot. Gotta love those time capsule rolls
50 CWR's like a time machine
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Posted - 03/26/2010 : 19:41:29
