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Ah, that reminds me. Another band for the covid era - "Tiers for fears".

One other noticeable inconsistency is the count for all of the 1960s pennies in comparison to the entry for 1966 as it is under half the count for each of the other years. I wonder if this is the result of the 10K of coins having been collected in a different area as to where the majority of the 1966s were released, and hadn't had time to spread out across the whole country, or that a large number of them were still in the hands of the banks still awaiting release , even as late as May 1967 when the article was released . ?

Or knowing where they were if there was any you were interested in. If someone was really stuck for getting access, or wanted a given article urgently (unlikely, but possible) I'd send them pics. But my photos are not brilliant.

They were living in the age of circulating pennies, and these figures represent absolute reality at the time. There's no way such a feel could be reproduced now, post decimalisation and post melt, over 50 years on. That's why these surveys, however rudimentary some of them were, are so historically valuable IMO. Actually there's nothing wrong with rudimentary - it's tabular. straightforward and very easy to understand the meaning in a few seconds, which is what you want. I wish more stuff was like that these days. Yes, he's obviously got the estimates for 1919 & 1919H the wrong way round. Also, as you say, quite why he would have nil as the estimates for 1922 and 1926 is a bit odd. What he actually found was (I reckon) pretty much in line with the sort of figures out of 10k, you might have expected for those years. Possibly even a tad under.

There's a major confusion due to a mix up between 1919 and 1919H. Apart from that, the estimated numbers seem very close to the actual found for 20thC pennies. Though I'm slightly baffled by the zero estimates for 1922 and 1926, I'd have thought some of each would be expected.

Funny how pocket sample survey results, from the time, match the 'feel' for rarity that developed from a child much more than mintage figures seem to do now.....