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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;d_lairson, post: 294875, member: 8441&quot;]I was in Jacksonville, FL this past week, and Jacksonville is a much larger city than the one I currently live in, so I did an informal survey of penny&#039;s from several different banks around my parents house and I&nbsp; found out something interesting. I got $10 in pennies from each bank and went through them looking for my list of usual suspects, which in my case includes any 1982, 1959, wheatie, and anything I still need for my Whitman folder, plus several others to look for DD and the such.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found that out of all the banks, Wachovia&nbsp; had the best mix of coins, including the most pre-1982 cents and the most pre-1959 cents. Out of $30 worth I averaged 2.73 keepers per roll. The worst was the Navy Federal Credit Union, which while I was able to get 2 rolls of unc 2007&#039;s, I only found 7 pre-1982 cents and no pre-1959 cents out of $20 worth.&nbsp; Bank of America was next with .7 keepers per roll, out of $20 worth. Two other local banks had almost the exact same mix, 1.3 keepers per roll, out of $20 worth each, and I am 99% sure they came from the same source. Strangely I found that Bank of America averaged exactly one Canadian cent per roll, while I found no Canadian coins from any of the other banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this common? Has any one else noticed that some banks have better change than others? Could it be that this highly un-scientific study has produced flawed results?</p><p><br /></p><p>I also noticed that all of the banks in Jacksonville took the change that they received and sent it out to be re-rolled, and I must assume that some places sorted the change. Here in Port Saint Lucie, I can go into a local bank and buy change that was turned in by other customers, still in the paper rolls that they used, but I have not noticed a real difference in the number of keepers from these types of rolls, although now I will keep track and look into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>David[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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