Indian Heads and Flying Eagles per box of cent?

[Coppercrazy]

This was a poorly phrased title. Should be...INDIAN HEADS AND FLYING EAGLES PER HOW MANY BOXES OF CENTS? As another newbie question I would like to ask what the average is for finding indian head cents and flying eagles. I know it must be low on the indian head cents. But to find a flying eagle would be like next to impossible...but apparently it's been done before.

 

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[goldencoin]

Amount Searched >$9100.00 (Lost some records)
Indian heads Found: 13, or .0357 per box
Flying Eagle Cents found: 1, or .00274 per box (Found in CWR)

I have always had better luck with hand wrapped pennies if you can get them, good luck!

HH
-GC

 

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[unclehuckelberry]

I pulled a 1916 yesterday. It has that green stuff, can't remember the technical name, on it so I need to get some of that stuff, also can't recall the name, that will remove it. My girlfriend told me to use ketchup because that is what her mom cleans her brass with.

 

[sagittarius98]

I pulled a 1916 yesterday. It has that green stuff, can't remember the technical name, on it so I need to get some of that stuff, also can't recall the name, that will remove it. My girlfriend told me to use ketchup because that is what her mom cleans her brass with.

It is called verdigris. Don't use ketchup, use Verdi-care.

 

[jrf30]

I can give you some larger numbers than most. I do a fair amount of pennies.

In 2007 - "about" 260,000 pennies. 2 IH
2008 = 540,000 pennies. 2 IH
2009 = 750,000 pennies. 1 IH
2010 = 175,000 pennies. 1 IH
2011 = 170,000 pennies. 1 IH
2012 = 115,000 pennies so far. 1 IH

Stuck on one a year lately. Need to break that this year. :-)

My grand totals so far? 8 IH and zero eagles in about 1,750,000 pennies.

One very 218,750 pennies. Or one every 87.5 boxes.

that help?

And 336,000 coppers in that, so about 19.2% copper.

 

[baddbluff]

Jrf30-

Do u search the coppers for wheats/errors? Ever find any dbl dies or key dates? I'm thinking of buying a Ryedale this year & wondering if anyone finds any good dates. I figure w/ your volume you must have found something.

 

[Nickel Searcher 219]

I found 3 indians in the first box I ever did along with about 40-50 wheaties.But I have not found A single indian since then.that was about 10 boxes ago.

 

[gordon and tanner]

Tanner and I have averaged 1 Indian Head every 40 boxes of cents. about 1per $1000 worth of cents searched.

Dad and Tanner
Keep on Searching

 

[jrf30]

Badd,

I absolutely check the copper side for wheats. That's where most of them go. PLus, as i do the sorting, I check the reject side, since that is where the pre 1943 coppers normally go. They just don't match up to the target coin, so they get rejected. I watch all the shiny coins popping to the reject side, and when a dark one goes there I flip it over to look for the wheats. I don't even have to stop the machine, and let it continue flipping out coins as I quickly (key word) check for a wheat in the reject pile. Get one of them every once in a while on older wheats. I don't miss much of anything that way. :-)

To buy the Ryedale or not to buy it? OH YEAH, buy the ryedale. I started out selling some pennies for 1.6 cents per cent, to pay for the ryedale AND to see if it could happen. Then, after about 8 weeks, without selling ANY Of the wheats or the 1 IH I had by then, I had the ryedale PAID for. You can't say that with a MD unless you get "lucky" and find something big. :-) I've sold some, but have a bunch of them in the garage right now. About a ton give or take.

 

[Canadian hunter]

I got 3 IH in a 1,25 years of CRH. This is a surprising result, because they all must have been sooo lucky to slip through the border and stay in circulation.

That streak of fortune continued for them, until they came in my way.

 

[Sleazyj]

I've found that from the strings and sons boxes you will find at least 10 per box, which is the great part about boxes... It just sucks cutting all those rolls open

What I do is swap the paper wrapped for the plastic at banks. They don't mind, and brinks produces for me