Wheat penny collecting

[PJ in WI]

I have been a crh for 20 months and started a crh penny book. I go through $275-$300 per week. I was wondering if any of the other penny crh have kept tabs on how long it takes to try and fill both books. I am 20 pennies (mainly the low mintage) short. It took me over 1 year to find the 54p, while I have found 18 Indian Head, 5-1943, 5-1909 and about 100 foreign coins (not counting Canadian) with 3 being silver. Any one else keeps tabs like this.

 

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[ckrakowski]

I have been a crh for 20 months while I have found 18 Indian Head,

18 IHC in 20 months that is very very good some might even say great.

 

[waseeker]

I started trying to fill a the cent albums about 5 years ago. All I need to complete it are the 09-S-VDB; 14-D; 22 Plain; and 31-S. Unlikely I'll ever find those, but I continue to look for upgrades. I also have put together all but 2 of the small size Canadian cents.

 

[PJ in WI]

Waseeker, I need the same 4 you mentioned plus 16 others. I am doing the same with the Canadians but live further from Canada than you so it will take me a lot longer for them. PJ

 

[Bigheed]

Thats alot of pennies to go through everyweek by hand! Do you save the copper as well?

I am going to start working on some albums soon. When I was home before Christmas I found my old cent and nickel albums that are mostly full and my dad had the silver rosie dime and merc dime books going he gave to me as well. The rosie book is almost full, the merc book not so much. On one of my long weekends I need to let the hunt rest for a few days and get my stuff organized.

I'd also like to get some higher quality albums, the old ones are just the classic blue whitmans and some of the coin slots are losing their compression so when you open it they just fall out lol !

HH,
Bigheed

 

[jrf30]

I have been a crh for 20 months and started a crh penny book. I go through $275-$300 per week. I was wondering if any of the other penny crh have kept tabs on how long it takes to try and fill both books. I am 20 pennies (mainly the low mintage) short. It took me over 1 year to find the 54p, while I have found 18 Indian Head, 5-1943, 5-1909 and about 100 foreign coins (not counting Canadian) with 3 being silver. Any one else keeps tabs like this.

18 IH in 20 months is awesome. Here's my list from doing a LOT more than you are doing, with less results in IH than you. (found 2 in 2011!)

Wheat Penny totals 12/21/11

Date Have Value Date Have Value
1909 2 $1.15 1935 30 $0.04
1909 VDB* 2 $9.00 1935-D 4 $0.05
1909-S $47.00 1935-S 5 $0.06
1909-S VDB* $550.00 1936 45 $0.04
1910 5 $0.16 1936-D 1 $0.05
1910-S $5.85 1936-S 6 $0.06
1911 5 $0.15 1937 35 $0.04
1911-D 1 $3.45 1937-D 6 $0.05
1911-S $15.50 1937-S 4 $0.06
1912 4 $0.70 1938 21 $0.04
1912-D 1 $4.35 1938-D 3 $0.07
1912-S 1 $9.50 1938-S 1 $0.10
1913 2 $0.39 1939 42 $0.04
1913-D 2 $1.65 1939-D 2 $0.09
1913-S $4.85 1939-S 10 $0.05
1914 1 $0.32 1940 91 $0.03
1914-D $125.00 1940-D 19 $0.04
1914-S 1 $10.15 1940-S 22 $0.04
1915 1 $1.00 1941 132 $0.03
1915-D 1 $1.00 1941-D 22 $0.04
1915-S $6.65 1941-S 15 $0.04
1916 2 $0.10 1942 110 $0.03
1916-D 1 $0.35 1942-D 49 $0.03
1916-S $0.65 1942-S 19 $0.03
1917 7 $0.12 1943*** 44 $0.12
1917-D 1 $0.15 1943-D*** 7 $0.13
1917-S 3 $0.16 1943-S*** 4 $0.15
1918 8 $0.12 1944 287 $0.03
1918-D 3 $0.16 1944-D 133 $0.03
1918-S 2 $0.14 1944-S 92 $0.04
1919 18 $0.12 1945 230 $0.03
1919-D 2 $0.12 1945-D 72 $0.03
1919-S 13 $0.14 1945-S 62 $0.04
1920 16 $0.06 1946 213 $0.03
1920-D 4 $0.08 1946-D 89 $0.03
1920-S 3 $0.16 1946-S 107 $0.04
1921 3 $0.12 1947 46 $0.03
1921-S $0.50 1947-D 58 $0.03
1922** $415.00 1947-S 35 $0.04
1922-D 2 $8.70 1948 58 $0.03
1923 7 $0.07 1948-D 52 $0.03
1923-S $1.00 1948-S 24 $0.04
1924 2 $0.06 1949 62 $0.03
1924-D $17.75 1949-D 47 $0.03
1924-S 1 $0.50 1949-S 22 $0.04
1925 6 $0.06 1950 53 $0.03
1925-D 1 $0.07 1950-D 127 $0.03
1925-S $0.18 1950-S 34 $0.03
1926 17 $0.06 1951 52 $0.03
1926-D 3 $0.07 1951-D 222 $0.03
1926-S $3.15 1951-S 67 $0.03
1927 11 $0.06 1952 38 $0.03
1927-D 1 $0.08 1952-D 329 $0.03
1927-S 3 $0.40 1952-S 68 $0.03
1928 12 $0.06 1953 47 $0.03
1928-D 2 $0.07 1953-D 257 $0.03
1928-S 2 $0.35 1953-S 115 $0.03
1929 19 $0.07 1954 14 $0.04
1929-D 5 $0.07 1954-D 112 $0.03
1929-S 5 $0.08 1954-S 47 $0.03
1930 13 $0.06 1955 73 $0.03
1930-D 4 $0.06 1955-D 270 $0.03
1930-S 3 $0.08 1955-S 8 $0.04
1931 2 $0.30 1956 104 $0.03
1931-D $2.35 1956-D 562 $0.03
1931-S $50.00 1957 59 $0.03
1932 $0.75 1957-D 557 $0.03
1932-D $0.75 1958 45 $0.03
1933 $0.50 1958-D 494 $0.03
1933-D $1.00 1956-D
1934 17 $0.04 1957-D
1934-D 2 $0.08 1958-D
255 6192
6,447 so far in collection

 

[AGBlex]

i've had some luck with harder dates but man that book still has some holes for me too.

ive come up with roughly 2000 wheat cents and 5-6 indian heads...... not including the collection i had inherited from a friend

then again I started in september so i'm not complaining.

i'd love to get some of those lower mintage wheats soon. need something nice to come out of a box.


sidebar...

just rolled all the canadian i took out of circulation...

25 $ in pennies... hahah that is alot

 

[Yinzi50]

I have 55 to go. I am still looking 41s for my wheatman book 2 folder. I search on average 4 boxes per week. PJ, you seems at a better location. I don't find S-mint much at all.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

~25 or so penny boxes searched in 2011, 4 of the 598 wheats were 1954p

 

[waseeker]

Waseeker, I need the same 4 you mentioned plus 16 others. I am doing the same with the Canadians but live further from Canada than you so it will take me a lot longer for them. PJ

Living just a couple hundred miles south of Canada and near I-5 results in lots of Canadian coinage both in the bags and in the reject bins. I typically get enough to pay for a trip to Canada once a year

Keep looking - you'll be able to add more.

 

[waseeker]

Thats alot of pennies to go through everyweek by hand! Do you save the copper as well?

HH,
Bigheed

Yes it is a lot of cents to go through but I'm retired and the winters can get kinda wet up here in WA which messes with my ground fishing time!. I haven't updated my finds for 2011 in a while but I'll end the year with about 3,500 wheat cents and I had 15 IHC (9 in one bag). Totals are way down this year because my primary pick up bank bought a new coin counter. It is one with a big bin instead of bags so I can't buy from them any longer.

No I don't save the copper - with the volume that I search, the floor would probably collapse from the weight

 

[PJ in WI]

Bigheed, I use a Ryedale and yes I do save the copper.

 

[PJ in WI]

jrf30, once again your lists show a great attention to detail. What kind of volume are you doing per week? I don't keep detailed stats like you but certain dates like 1919p, 1920p and 1939p are very common here. I would say that I get 4-5 1939p every week. I have been extremely lucky on IH. At Christmas, I had my 2 grandchildren opening a box of pennies and 1 of them says "grampa I found an Indian". A minute later the other says so did I. That was the first time I ever found 2 in one box.

 

[goldencoin]

I've been through over $8000 in cents. Here are my results (I'm missing 27 total out of both books)
Flying Eagle
1858 1
Indian
1891 1
1895 2
1899 1
1900 2
1901 1
1902 1
1904 1
1906 1
1907 3

Wheats
Date None D S can't tell
1909VDB
1909 3
1910 5 1
1911 7
1912
1913 3 1
1914 4
1915 1
1916 4 2
1917 15 3 1
1918 13 1 1
1919 19 4 8
191- 1 2
1920 20 1
1921 3 2
1922 1
1923 6
1924 4 1
1925 15 2 1
1926 6 2
1927 14 3
1928 12 5 1
1929 13 1 3
192- 1
1930 14 3 2
1931 2
1932 1
1933 1 1
1934 24 3
1935 33 5 2
1936 34 2 1
1937 33 6 2
1938 12 1
1939 35 2 3
1940 145 13 13
1941 212 18 6
1942 177 41 7
1943 15 1 1
1944 398 130 40 1
1945 318 51 18
1946 318 105 37 1
1947 35 76 20
1948 74 62 11
1949 53 55 6 1
1950 92 177 14
1951 52 260 15
1952 37 357 25 1
1953 57 345 34
1954 5 144 9
1955 72 311 2
1956 92 507
1957 34 495
1958 94 315
no date 22

Canadian
1929 1
1932 2
1933 1
1934 1
1936 1
1937 1
1938 2
1939 5
1940 33
1941 11
1942 22
1943 37
1944 15
1945 42
1946 30
1947ML 20
1947 21
1948 6
1949 11
1950 39
1951 32
1952 31
1953 47
1954 7
1955 34
1956 70
1957 91
1958 50
1959 75
total 738
Also, check out this post http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,144959.0.html
it is a list of all the coins found CRH'ing on the forum at the time. The guy who was in charge of it no longer shows up
I have heard of a guy who has finished both books, doing MAJOR volume

HH
-GC