In lieu of a December results thread, I figured we'd just skip right up and do a yearly recap thread. I wrapped my last boxes for the year today and I will probably go hit up some banks roadtrip style on Monday, but I doubt I'll find anything. If I do, I'll update. Onwards! Here's my numbers for just boxes and bags, not CWR's. Halves; $248,771 searched (So close to a quarter mill!) 213 90% 1260 40% 90% broke down as follows; 2 Barber 38 Walkers 47 Franklins 126 1964's Quarters; $8,420 searched 5 silver Washies 1 silver state proof. Dimes; $80,350 searched 1 Barber dime 33 Mercury dimes 375 silver Roosies Nickels; $15,886 searched 6 V-Nickels 95 Buffal nickels 147 War nickels Including CWR's, my total ounces on the year was 408.215oz. Not bad for a hobby.
Further validation for the fact that quarters are practically not worth searching for silver. I have searched about $5k this year and only turned up a 1964. Done far better with the meagre halves I can find, and of course dimes.
My yearly numbers are joke compared to yours. I am just estimating the amount that I searched through since I started doing it in late October. Halves $1200 searched 1 90% 38 40% Quarters $100 searched nothing Dimes $100 searched 1 Roosevelt Nickels $500 3 Buffalos 4 War Pennies $100 searched 1360 copper 65 Wheats Only a measly 6.27 troy oz of silver. Starting next year I am going to document what I do for the year and hit it harder. I didn't have much time these last months.
I'm new to CRH. I started the week before Christmas. $248 in halves: (1) 90% (12) 40% $180 Dimes: (3) Roosies $24 Nickels: (3) Wars I ordered my very first box of halves yesterday. It will be in on Wednesday. Hoping to start 2013 off with a bang!
Halves $2500 searched 5 40% (Gotta be kidding me....) Quarters $0 searched Found a 1999 Connecticut Silver Proof in my change though! Dimes $0 searched Nothing Nickels $100 1 Buffalo Pennies $250 searched 194 Wheats Not that great. Hopefully I do a lot better next year. Would love to have results like the rest of you guys.
I only started in September so yeah... Halves $41.50 searched 1 40% I can't find halves to save my life and my CU won't order them. Not sure what to do about that. Quarters $1,150 searched 2 Silver: 39, 64 Dimes $555 searched 2 Roosies 47, 64 Nickels $1,056 2 Buffalo: 35, dateless 9 war Pennies $601 searched 941 Wheats $154 worth of pre 82 copper I may pick up some nickels and dimes on Monday but this will probably still be accurate since my dimes have skunked me most of the time and nickels are about 1 for every $100 searched.
12 boxes of pennies: 128 wheats, 2000 wam 12 boxes of nickels: 10 wars, 5 buffs 9 boxes of dimes: 5 roosies, one merc 1 box of quarters: nothin' 4 boxes of halves: one lonely 40%
I have kept records of my finds for almost a year now, but I have recorded them in logbooks and not on the computer and sometime should digitize the finds and totals.
Should have saved more of these danged things back when I was a paper boy in the sixties. If I hadn't succumbed to the candy store, comic book, boyhood extravagances I'd be sitting on 'easy street'........
Of course you're right, but it sure would be fun to look through all that stuff that I threw away back then.
I was thinking that if I keep track of this it will either encourager or make me never want to open a coin roll again
I'm not sure about others, but keeping tabs on what I find encourages me. It also lets me practice basic computer skills.
Just started recording in September: Halves: $35,000 searched 17 - 90% 73 - 40% About 17 oz of Silver.
Let me try this. My spreadsheets don't help much with this kind of tally. Cents: $1675 searched 739 wheats Nickels: $580 searched 47 Buffs 46 War nicks 1 V nick Dimes: $2750 searched 16 silver (no breakdown between Mercs and Roosies) Halves: Searched 39 different days, but no breakdown between boxes and CWR. Probably something like 25 boxes, plus a lot of CWR. 135 silver halves. No breakdown by date of 40% vs. 90%, but they're mostly 40%ers.
I've crunched and recrunched, reviewed old entries and I think this is about as close to a final tally as I'll get. Here's my 2012 roundup. Grand total searched - $111563 nicks - $200 dimes - $69845 quarts - $1250 halves - $39697 ikes - $527 SBAs - $44 straight from rolls - $156.50 face mercs - 32 roosies - 259 CDN - 19 40% - 199 90% - 50 ikes - 1 total: 68.8825 t.o. (not including CDN) rejects barber dime - 1 mercs - 1 CDN - 2 quarts - 3 other several clad proofs in dime, half, SBA and commem form steelies and a near mint '09D Professional Life penny a purchased war nick and '23 peace dollar yard sale 1834 CBD and 1866 3CN best CRH find 1852 QE All in all, a year of many ups and downs. In the end, I still miss my Dad very much, but highly doubt I would've found this hobby without the occurrence of his passing. I wish I could share this with him...but still like to think that maybe he put in a word or two with the coin fairies and gods/goddesses to bless me with some awesome finds and beginner's luck. I try to remind myself when I feel frustrated with the hunt that I'm doing it for the fun, pleasure, enjoyment and as an honor to his memory. With that, I will press on.
$255 in dimes - 3 roosies $154 in nickels - one war, 2 99.9% canadian nickels $50 in quarters - skunk $39.5 in halves - skunkaroo $65 in pennies - about 4 lbs of copper
