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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1552017, member: 12789"]I found 7 liberty nickels up until January, then I found the earliest being an 1890. I haven't found any since then. I find Buffalos about 1 in every 5-6 boxes. Silver war nickels - those are my primary quarry and I can usually average about 1.5 per box but a couple of months ago I found 14 of the little darlings in only $10 worth of nickels.</p><p><br /></p><p>IHCs - I have found 7 of them since 2007. The earliest is an 1889 I found back in March. Two weeks later I found a 1907. You can go extended periods of time and find nothing but fairly run of the mill later date wheats, or 1940s on up Jeffersons then have momentary periods of excitement when the finds seem to be dropping from the Heavens.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most wheats I have found in a box was 146, 73 of them were 1943 steel cents and quite a few of those were BU - it is apparent that collections occasionally get dumped into coin counting machines either through careless heirs or theft.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1552017, member: 12789"]I found 7 liberty nickels up until January, then I found the earliest being an 1890. I haven't found any since then. I find Buffalos about 1 in every 5-6 boxes. Silver war nickels - those are my primary quarry and I can usually average about 1.5 per box but a couple of months ago I found 14 of the little darlings in only $10 worth of nickels. IHCs - I have found 7 of them since 2007. The earliest is an 1889 I found back in March. Two weeks later I found a 1907. You can go extended periods of time and find nothing but fairly run of the mill later date wheats, or 1940s on up Jeffersons then have momentary periods of excitement when the finds seem to be dropping from the Heavens. The most wheats I have found in a box was 146, 73 of them were 1943 steel cents and quite a few of those were BU - it is apparent that collections occasionally get dumped into coin counting machines either through careless heirs or theft.[/QUOTE]
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