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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eskychess, post: 101369, member: 4692&quot;]I thought I&#039;d share my search statistics with all you other coin hunting enthusiasts. I have to admit, I have grown quite fond of buying $50 bags of pennies and hunting wheats! and other goodies associated in penny circulation. Of course my goal is to search 1,000,000 pennies, which should take a couple years. After that, I&#039;ll go for 5,000,000 which should take near a lifetime, hehe :hail: I have yet to strike gold - but I have found some interesting stuff. Here goes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since 11/28/2005 (When I started) I have searched 52,500 pennies. I have done pretty good about going to way different banks so I don&#039;t end up searching the same rolls and bags. Of that number, I found 163 Wheats (The best was a 1910, several teens, 20s and 30s. Mostly 40s and 50s, although one was a steel penny. Amazing that was in circulation! hehe. One Indian Head penny - 1905 but in extremely rough shape. We&#039;re talking G-4 type of status. My son found it and I let him keep it. 4 foreign pieces not including Canada of course. Hehe I got an Australian Nickel, which is silver in color, how that ever was passed off as a penny is beyond me, a Barbados Penny, a Belgie (I&quot;m thinking Belgium? Perhaps) 50 Centimes piece and Panama Penny. I also found one of those Kennedy Stamped Pennies ... I used to have one with a card long ago showing the similarities in assasinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. 2 CUD pennies, one not so great, but the other a 1969 S CUD that turned out pretty good. Last but not least, a very beat up dime, that passed as a penny, that I put in the bank as a dime. Call me a dork, but I made 10 times face value in one hit <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> hehehe <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>So all in all, it probably was not all that profitable for my work, but I had a lot of fun and my kids helped me find the goodies. My Wheat Hunting Percentage is a mere - .3105% which is nothing to brag about, but now I have an idea that roughly every $3.00 to $3.50 in pennies I find a Wheatback Penny - which isn&#039;t the worst odds in the world I suppose. It is a lot of fun and I hope to bag a big one, one of these years, like a 1909 S or a 1924 ... Perhaps a Double Die error? Only time will tell. I&#039;ll continue these statistics when I hit the next 50,000 and see where it goes from there. I&#039;m open to any feedback <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Esky[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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