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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1835220, member: 44079&quot;]I am assuming that like me many buy rolls seeking a specific coin, be it a 1916d Mercury or a 1955 double strike.&nbsp; For decades when doing that I just dumped the other 49 coins (sometimes 50 if I found nothing) into a can or a jar, then bought another roll.&nbsp; A few years ago I started filling albums.&nbsp; Why do I still buy rolls?&nbsp; I dunno.&nbsp; It somehow just seemed easier than going through the coffee and fruit cake cans of raw pennies.&nbsp; Lately however I have changed my methodology for dealing with the surplus coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I have started doing is sorting the rejects.&nbsp; All of the S rejects into that can.&nbsp; All of the 1910 to 1919 rejects into that can, all of the 1920 - 1929 coins into that can, etc., etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some (to me) interesting observations begin to emerge.&nbsp; I have way more 1950s coins than I do circa 1920s coins.&nbsp; I have enough 1940s pennies.&nbsp; For someone who has no interest in IH pennies I have an amazing number of IH pennies in PO1 or PO2 condition.&nbsp; Steel 1943 and 1943D pennies are way more prolific than steel 1943S pennies.&nbsp; Heck I find 1909VDBs to be more prolific on rolls I search than 1943S pennies and at a 10:1 minted ratio and a much more recent vintage, that makes no sense.&nbsp; With 191 million steel 43S pennies made I should see them more often than once every 30 rolls, but I don&#039;t.&nbsp; Why is that?&nbsp; I have pawed through many rolls, tins and bags from both coasts.&nbsp; Yet I only have about 5 rolls of S marked pennies vs almost 300 sorted rolls of P and D pennies.&nbsp; I am presuming based on memory that if I go downstairs and start sorting the coffee cans of pennies I pulled from rolls years ago, the statistics will be about the same.&nbsp; &lt;Must be almost 900 PO1 IH pennies in those cans.&gt;&nbsp; Finding almost uncirculated 1957D pennies seems to be fairly easy.&nbsp; Finding AU 1920s coins is very rare and only 1 or 2 from the teen years comes to mind as being pulled from a roll in AU condition.&nbsp; I have about half a roll of 1909 variants but none of them are better than VF with many AG and a few PO. </p><p><br /></p><p>Question: Where are the S coins? </p><p><br /></p><p>Question: Why is the number of 1943S steel pennies found in rolls so low?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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