[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I said,

“In a $25 box of pennies you have 50 rolls * 50 coins = 2500 coins. If 10% are goodies, and that is right around my yield, you have (in crude terms) doubled the value of 250 pennies, meaning you made $5.”

No, you made $2.50. Halves = much better.

[Smokin' Joe]

My bank doesn't stock halves, and the pennies are roughly 30% copper here, along with 4-5 wheat pennies in 40 rolls. You do what you can with what you have.

The grandkids get a kick out of helping sort the "coppers" from the "zinkers", and their Lincoln Cent collections are coming along pretty well.