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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chicken_little, post: 275800, member: 4114&quot;]Pennies seem to be the best for errors.&nbsp; Here are my stats.&nbsp; All mine were found in $25 Brinks boxes of pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Total boxes searched:&nbsp; 9</p><p>Total Wheats: 83</p><p>Most wheats in a box:&nbsp; 14</p><p>Least wheats in a box:&nbsp; 3</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors found: 6 total</p><p>3 - 1998 wide &quot;AM&quot; in America</p><p>2 - 2000 wide &quot;AM&quot; in America</p><p>1 - 1997 double ear &quot;doubled die&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The person you should ask about seaching pennies is a guy on this board whose user name is &quot;foundinrolls&quot;.&nbsp; I printed off a copy of a post he made almost 2 years ago when I started searching pennies for errors.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the list of errors he wrote down off the top of his head(these are only the errors since 1959):</p><p><br /></p><p>1959 DDO</p><p>1960 DDO</p><p>1960 D DDO</p><p>1960 D Repunched Mintmarks</p><p>1961 D Repunched Mintmarks</p><p>1962 DDO</p><p>1963 DDO</p><p>1963 DDO</p><p>1964 DDR atleast two types</p><p>1966 DDR</p><p>1968 D DDR</p><p>1969 S DDO at least two types</p><p>1970 S DDO</p><p>1971 DDO several types</p><p>1972 DDO several types</p><p>1972 D DDO several types</p><p>1972 S DDO</p><p>1973 D</p><p>1980 DDO</p><p>1982 DDO</p><p>1983 DDR two types</p><p>1983 DDO four types I think</p><p>1984 DDO at least three types</p><p>1984 D DDO</p><p>1985 DDO</p><p>1985 D DDO</p><p>1986 DDO</p><p>1989 DDO more than 20 varieties</p><p>1992 AM touching on reverse</p><p>1994 DDR</p><p>1995 DDO several types</p><p>1995 D DDO</p><p>1997 Doubled Ear DDO</p><p>1998 AM seperated on reverse</p><p>1999&nbsp; &quot;</p><p>2000&nbsp; &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was also a website that listed ALL the penny errors.&nbsp; I went through those pictures and made a list of all the ones that were the &quot;easiest&quot; to find - that is, the easiest to see/pick out.&nbsp; Unfortunately I lost the link.&nbsp; I suggest doing a google search for penny errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to start looking for errors I strongly suggest you get a jewelers Loupe.&nbsp; Using a loupe is alot easier that using a magnifying glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I would do is as I would go through a box of pennies was to set aside the &quot;key dates&quot; inside a small box(key dates being the dates of errors I was looking for).&nbsp; When I got done looking through all the pennies I would then grab my loupe and start looking through all the &quot;key dates&quot; to see if any were errors.&nbsp; As you can see from my totals, 7 errors in 9 boxes, thats close to 1 error per box.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck!&nbsp; It takes time and effort, but if your interested in doing this, the error coins ARE there.&nbsp; You just gotta keep at it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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