In the winter time when I can't detect I mess around with my finds. Last winter I decided to stack all my wheatie finds up by dates, 10 high in each stack. From left to right start with teens, then 20s then 30s, 40s, and last seperated stacks are the 50s. These were all found over 6 years of detecting. Shows that the 20s and 30s were lean years, as we all know. Look how prosperous we were in the later years with all the 40s being found. More than likely dropped during the late 40s thru the 50s. Its funny also that I find way more mercury dimes than I do silver roosevelts. Of course the mercs were produced for a longer time and I'm sure when silver was taken out of coins the rosies were easy plukin in circulation.
Well, the 1920's weren't called the "Roarin' 20's" for nothing - that is, until October, 1929. The rest of the decade was quite prosperous. My theory as to why you found so few 1920's cents is because everyone was lighting cigars with 100-dollar-bills and had no use for the lowly cent... :kewl: But, oh what a dramatic difference the 1930's would bring!
