West Coast Report #2

Good news! My West Coast coin expedition has been going better and we're having a great time.

Yesterday I stopped by a few banks to dump and get more coins. I got a big mess of hand rolled pennies. Today I supplemented it even further with a mix of hand rolled stuff and machine rolled stuff. In total I went through 14,950 pennies! In that bunch I found 47 Wheats, 94 Canadians, 1 UK penny, 1 Canadian dime, 4 US dimes (2 in one roll!), 1 Euro 5 ¢, 1 Swedish 50 ore, and 1 German 2 Pfennig. The finds included two varieties I needed 1917S and 1923. (I found the two state quarters I needed too, but I accidentally put them into the Coin Star machine a day later. At least they aren't rare!)



Over the past few days I've gone through 22,350 pennies! In those I found 66 Wheats (.29%), 146 Canadians (.65%), and 9 other (.04%). The Wheat ratio is less than half than I've experienced in the northeast.

Here's the found Wheat population:

1917S
1923
1939
1940
1941 x 4
1942 x 3
1942D
1944
1944D x 2
1944S
1945 x 3
1945D
1945S x 2
1946D
1946S
1947D
1948
1949
1949S
1950
1950D
1950S
1951
1952D x 2
1952S x 2
1953
1953D x 2
1953S x 2
1955D x 3
1956 x 4
1956D x 4
1957D x 4
1958D x 8

Found: 3 pennies (1 at QFC, 1 in the parking lot, 1 at Washington Mutual)