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 Posted - 11/19/2006 : 18:53:24
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Id like to know what is the most common date that you find as you
search lincolns.......
The 2 most common found dates for me are 1975 and 1979.
Looking for date ranges from 1959 to 1981.
"History records that the money changers have used
every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent
means possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling the money and its issuance."
James Madison
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 11/19/2006 : 19:19:26
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I seem to find a lot of 1979s too.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 12:35:33
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Here are the mintage figures for circulation grade U.S. pennies from 1959-1981 (total of all Mints), in order of increasing rarity:
1981 12,864,985,677
1980 12,554,803,660
1979 10,157,872,254
1975 9,956,751,442
1978 9,838,838,400
1976 8,895,884,881
1974 8,876,665,183
1977 8,663,992,300
1973 7,594,998,883
1964 6,447,646,500
1972 5,975,265,508
1969 5,684,117,200
1970 5,480,313,904
1971 5,355,669,059
1968 4,852,420,571
1967 3,048,667,100
1963 2,528,130,400
1961 2,506,611,700
1962 2,399,193,400
1966 2,188,147,783
1960 2,167,289,000
1959 1,889,475,000
1965 1,497,224,900
(I have excluded 1982, as the Mint did not record the number of coppers versus zincs made that year. However, 1982 is the record holding year for pennies; over 16 billion were produced!)
Note that the odds of finding one from a particular year are not just the straight up percentages from the above data. Many pennies go AWOL each year, due to a myriad of factors: swallowed, mangled, melted, collected, squished, buried, lost at sea, sucked into alternate dimensions, or kept as souvenirs by time travellers. Because of this, the number of pennies in circulation from a given year goes down over time, and so do the odds of finding one. There is what I call the Penny Half-life, the time period at which half of a quantity of pennies disappears. Any guesses what that half-life is, 10 years? 20 years?
I'll look at my OCD docomeentation spreadsheets and see what the year-by-year breakdown of my finds looks like compared to mintage figures. If it's of interest, I'll post it. |
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 16:22:16
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I seem to be finding more 1959 than one would expect from the mintage figures. I don't keep stats, but they seem to be easier to find than they were in 1981/1982 when I did my original first wave of penny hoarding.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 16:48:27
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Here's the yearly breakdown of my copper stash:
1959 3
1960 3
1961 2
1962 8
1963 9
1964 17
1965 3
1966 5
1967 16
1968 12
1969 19
1970 17
1971 19
1972 18
1973 31
1974 30
1975 50
1976 33
1977 32
1978 32
1979 45
1980 58
1981 50
1982 65
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Posted - 11/22/2006 : 06:07:24
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Nice job Cerulean.
Im searching 20 rolls now and i will post
the date % when i get done.
I see your 75 and 79 #'s are high as well.
Just curious if 20 - 30 years of circulation has deposited
an abnormal amount of a date in any givin area.
"History records that the money changers have used
every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent
means possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling the money and its issuance."
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Posted - 12/05/2006 : 17:23:39
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Just curious if 20 - 30 years of circulation has deposited
an abnormal amount of a date in any givin area.
As i sat and thought about it i dont believe someone could
tell about an abnormal amount of any givin date in any
givin area.
Maybe if an area is more city than rural and had a high flow
traffic thru the area you would get more of a variety with
mint marks P.D.S. but not any single date.
Anyway here is my % of dates
1959-0
1960-2
1961-2
1962-2
1963-4
1964-18
1965-2
1966-3
1967-4
1968-10
1969-7
1970-9
1971-9
1972-16
1973-16
1974-14
1975-18
1976-13
1977-13
1978-13
1979-20
1980-22
1981-34
"History records that the money changers have used
every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent
means possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling the money and its issuance."
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
601 Posts |
Posted - 12/18/2006 : 21:11:00
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This would vary considerably depending on where you live. Here in a large City area where I live I find that about 90% of any cents in change are in the 2000 to 2006 range.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 01/05/2007 : 23:05:29
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quote:
Originally posted by just carl
This would vary considerably depending on where you live. Here in a large City area where I live I find that about 90% of any cents in change are in the 2000 to 2006 range.
Carl
Hey, Carl. I'm in a large city (just outside Washington DC), and my rolls and spare change have been routinely returning about 24% copper. You aren't in Philly, just outside the P Mint's back door, are you? ;) |
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just carl
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 01/15/2007 : 07:53:51
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I'm in the Chicago area and like I said almost exclusively all my change lately has been in the 2000 to 2006 range. I've gone to banks numerous times over the years for $50 bags of cents (pennies) and then usually find well over half or more in that same range. the rest are basically in the 90's with a few odd balls in the 80's. Old coins in this area are just vanishing. We have as many as 2 to 5 coin shows, coin dealers at many flea markets, coin stores and coin counters at large stores. This massive increase in coin dealers is due to a large addition of coin collectors in the area so older coins in change are being depleated at a fast rate. Coin robberies are becoming more prevelant also. Weird people on the streets are also saying "pssst! Hey buddy. Want to buy a bunch of old coins?"
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