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I searched through 1050 pennies in the month of January (21 rolls), and here were the results!

Year Distribution

• 0 coins from 1909
• 0 coins from the 1910s
• 1 coin from the 1920s
• 0 coins from the 1930s
• 4 coins from the 1940s
• 2 coins from the 1950s
• 28 coins from the 1960s
• 80 coins from the 1970s
• 163 coins from the 1980s
• 155 coins from the 1990s
• 133 coins from the 2000s
• 266 coins from the 2010s
• 217 coins from the 2020s

Mint Location

• 927 coins minted in Philadelphia
• 121 coins minted in Denver
• 1 coin minted in San Francisco

Keep or Recycle

After the hunt, the distribution of coins is as follows:

• Added 43 coins to my coin album
• Recycled 1003 coins
• Stored 4 coins in coin storage tubes

In analyzing the data from the January results, a significant number of coins were from the 1970s through the 2020s, with a particularly high volume from the 2010s and 2020s. The pre-1970s coins are relatively scarce, with only a few from the 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s. Furthermore, in living on the East Coast, the overwhelming majority of the coins were minted in Philadelphia, with a smaller proportion coming from Denver and just one from San Francisco.

Overall though, it was a pretty solid month! I also created some charts, to look at this data visually.

With a nearly full book (the 40s on are basically done, aside from San Francisco pennies), I’ll take having a 4% book rate for January as a success!

I’m a little late in getting started in February, and with it being such a short month, I doubt I’ll hit the 1,000+ mark this month, but I do wonder if the distribution on each will remain about the same.

Time will tell! Good luck out there!