March 17th Hunt Results

Are ya sittin' down???

I know, I can hardly believe it myself! I don't know for sure in which order they came out of the ground, but at this point it doesn't really matter? Let's take a closer look at how really, truly great this hunt was!

First off, lets look at how many pennies the U.S. Government has issued for circulation (roughly) since 1967... the oldest penny I found today. The answer: almost 393 BILLION (392.978 roughly). That's alot!

Let's break this down a bit more:

1967, 3.048 billion pennies were made

1972D, 2.665 billion pennies were made

1980, a whopping 7.414 billion pennies were made!

Not done yet...

Assuming that NO ONE collects pennies and every single one made is still out there in circulation

my chances of pulling a:

1967? 0.775%

1972D? 0.678%

1980? 1.886%

What does that mean to me?

It means that if I had a jar full of 393 pennies with each year appropriately represented by their mintage numbers, I'd have a 0.775% chance of pulling a 1967 penny, 0.678% chance of pulling a 1972D, and 1.886% chance of pulling out a 1980 penny.

Why is this important?

I have no idea...

But... to my buddy AUDIGGER... my offer is still extended to you! I will trade you the first two items of my NEXT dig, for those 2 beautiful finds shown in the post below!

STAY TUNED!