{"id":298,"date":"2008-09-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/wordpress\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-09-03T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T13:00:00","slug":"where-have-all-nickels-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regoarrarr.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/where-have-all-nickels-gone.html","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the nickels gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s been awhile of change finding for me and I thought I would give some reports. My Internet friend Carey<\/a> has been tasked with creating a website to track change finding and I am pleased to report that this morning he made some good progress on it.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I am just using a spreadsheet. So, in 54 separate occurrences (on 29 distinct days) I have found $4.29. That’s 67 days since I started on June 28th, meaning there have been more zero days than coin finding days.<\/p>\n

Breaking it down, I have found coins in 15 different municipalities in 5 states. 3 different people have found coins for me (I count coins found by me ever-growing army of minions) and an additional 4 people have tipped me off to coins.<\/p>\n

Breaking it down another way, that’s 7 quarters, 16 dimes, 6 nickels and 64 pennies (12 of them being pre-1982 copper pennies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So it got me to wondering, why have I found so few nickels? I had an interesting conversation yesterday with my friend Jeff who writes an incredibly boring blog<\/a> about Microsoft stuff (). Since he lives in (near) Columbus, I was IMing him to ask what city \/ township \/ municipality the rest stop on I-71 just north of Columbus<\/a> was. See on the way back from Cleve-o Sunday night I found a dime there and so I needed to ensure accurate reporting for my log.<\/p>\n

In the end, we decided on “Sunbury” but that is neither here nor there. After we decided on that, the conversation went towards my dearth<\/a> of nickels. He said that he also gets fewer nickels back in change. We started talking about the various price endings (00, 01 … 99) and how you only get nickels if it ends in 5-9. So I started writing up a spreadsheet with the different values and what coins you might get. Then I slapped myself and remembered Dan’s first law of the Internet<\/a>. Naturally that was already done<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what about you, dear readers? Do you also find that nickels are the least-used coin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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