End of 2016 goals

This thread is to talk about your goals for up until the end of the year and to share your results. For example one of my goals is to find 200 more wheat cents in the next month and a half. I found 11 today. The next post will be a general example of what would be expected.

 

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Today I tacked on another 11 wheats to my end goal of this year! 11/200 found for this goal.

 

If this thread happens to be successful there will be a similar thread made for the new year to share your goals and post your results. Lets complete some goals! Good luck roll hunting!

 

AH - you never said numismatic goals! My goal is watching the Browns go 0-16 so we can have a "Perfect Season" parade!!
http://www.complex.com/sports/2016/11/browns-fan-0-16-parade

 

I need to figure out what the heck I'm doing (or better yet, how I'm going about it!) I coin roll hunt pennies. At the moment I sort them out in to dates and when I get a roll of 50 I roll them up and mark them with the date. I plan on later going through each date and look for the errors that come with that year. At the moment, I haven't stopped sorting by date, lol. I've been doing that for 4 months now and the pile of dates is getting big but I can't stop buying cents and sorting them........ I think I need to find a better way to look for the error but my short memory span will not allow me to remember all of the key dates and errors that come along with cents.

 

You have a point. This is based on numistatic goals!

 

Here are some of my goals. Goal 1 is to find 5 war nickels, 5 buffalo nickels, 200 wheats, 5 silver dimes and 5 silver halves by the end of the year. This week I added a war nickel 1/5 and buffalo nickel 1/5. I also tallied to 20 wheats this week 20/200. I will keep posted and see if this can get this thread started!

 

I own folders containing cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and a 20th century type set found from CRH/circ. My goal is to complete a page within one of these folders, here are the 2 most likely candidates

I think the nickels will be the easier of the 2 because that 55S cent is a tough find

 

Back when I put my first Lincoln post-1940 set together (many years ago), the 55-S was the only one I just could not find in circulation. So I finally bought one at a flea market for 65 cents (in 1979). Then I stopped collecting for 35 years. After picking coin roll hunting up again a few years ago, I have since found 4 1955-S pennies in circulation (3 of them were in the same individual CWR). This time around, I'm helping my son build another collection and the 1949-S is proving to be the elusive one.

 

I got lucky and knocked off 41S and 49S on the same day.
I'm focusing on one at a time for now, I'll be happy with any of the 3, but that 55S sure would be nice.
Do you still own your set from back then? And did you roll hunt or were those all circ finds?

 

Nice goals. This weekend I found two 1954s nickels in the same box. So they are out there. Good luck on completing those pages!

 

You gotta look into some dansco albums. Cost more but well worth it.

 

That sounds terrible. You don't come off as a variety collector so why bother with all that? I just save wheats and older, foreign and any noticeable errors.
Used to look for CAMs and WAMs but wasn't worth my time. And that craze has died down a little.

 

I'll check em out, it would be nice to display both sides of the coin.
I'll look into it after the holidays when money isn't as tight

 

Yes, that set sat in my parent's attic for 35 years. Except for the 55-S they were all circulation finds (either my own finds or trades I did with a friend who also was a coin roll hunter back then).

A few years ago my parents moved into a retirement community and so they cleaned out their attic and gave me back my old coin collection which they discovered. Looking back through that collection is what rekindled my interest in coin roll hunting again, since I thought it would be a good idea to get my 10 year old son interested. I did have to replace the coin folder since it wasn't in the greatest shape after all those years but I still have all the coins. Other than replacing a few of them with some better upgrades I have found recently, I still have that set almost as it was in the late 70s.

 

Between now and the end of the year I would like to find at least 20 ounces of silver in halves.
That's 56- 90s or 140- 40s...give or take. Current rate means I'll need to search at least 24-35 boxes, or 35000 half dollars. That's 9 boxes per week, leaving vacation week out of the mix. Should be able to sort through that number, now just hoping to hit some silver half dollar veins.

 

Cool, but please don't post videos of the searching process!

 

That's awesome man! Must bring back a lot of memories. I'm sure wheats were much more prevalent back then

 

And everything else for that matter.

 

Already at my goal! Found 19.8 ounces this week in three boxes.
29-90%s, 63-40%s