All Costs of Coin Roll Hunting

Be careful out there -- that might be just a bit too much multitasking. You could find yourself spending a lot more than you planned; emergency care is expensive!

 

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I also keep gas cost to nothing since I include crh bank stops with other banking I'm doing anyway. and I do that with other errands. Gas is really zero expense for me.
Wrappers to re-roll are given free at my bank so again a zero in that column.
There is the occasional roll that is short some coin, and almost never a roll that is over. Seems to be a bigger problem with dimes than others. I'm guessing the size of dimes is at the edge of what the machines can handle accurately. I haven't kept count but I guess less than one in 5 rolls is short with dimes, less than one in 20 for others, on average. Halves, almost never, interestingly enough. But all in all, a rather small cost.
I get halves in bags from the counting machine. The machine will count other coins and things like guitar picks, foreign coin, and plugs and tokens. so I am usually short $3 or $4 per hundred. but I also find some silver, often a Canadian twoney ($2.00 for fifty cents) Anyway, I still get a nickle or quarter instead of the half or some interesting foreign or something from most of these, so it's not a complete loss.
So apart from these small losses, it is really only my time. Time to carry them to and fro, sort through and examine them, and re-roll them.
There is also the time to research values of the ones I sell and time and fees and shipping to sell them. Cost for selling ranges from 50% for a small $2.00 item to 15% for larger values.
Now if I were to count time against wages? I'm not even making minimum wage. But I enjoy the thrill of the find, and that is the value to me.

 

Oh, and the cost of the occasional gift for the tellers. : )

 

Yeah, I haven't been giving gifts lately because I have not been getting anything. It will change though and I try to bring chocolate to the tellers once or twice a month.

 

It appears to be the reverse of 1940. It's actually the coin in my avatar on the left. The steps that are there look pretty straight. Here's a closer look.

 

Thanks... I'm extremely careful out there. I have my head on a swivel. The multitasking on the phone is always done on the sidewalk. Being a pedestrian can definitely be a hazard out there though as a lot of people don't seem to know what a limit line is, or what you're supposed to do at a stop sign as result of people either being in a hurry, or busy texting on their cellphone while driving. Distracted drivers are a MASSIVE problem. Below is what a STOP sign looks like to many of them.

 

Ok, I did the math and one ounce of 90% silver costs $1.38 an ounce. One ounce of 40% costs $3.38 an ounce. Gas is cheap where I live ($2.04 a gallon). So my conclusion is Coin Roll Hunt away baby!

 

$2.04!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gotta move.

 

Chances are that shrimp are also cheap where he is.

 

I usually get some food along the way

 

It's like 75 cents more a gallon (on a good day) here where I live in SoCal.

 

$2.07 this morning! Almost $0 if you are just searching boxes. You can't blind search you'll never even break even. Develop a strategy.

 

Yes... Strategy is everything... as is making "in game adjustments."

 

When I was a bartender on Ft. Myers Beach in the late 80's, it was routine for the shrimp boat captains to give each member of the crew a 10lb. bag of deveined 20-count shrimp so that they could drink until they got paid. Since our bar was close to the docks, it was one of the first to get the shrimpers' business, and we could buy the whole bag for $20.

Chris

 

I remember pulling into Port Canaveral back in the early-80's and buying shrimp DIRECTLY off a shrimp boat, and then puttering up the Banana River to a viewing spot for the next morning's Space Shuttle launch. Good eating, good viewing.

 

$1.99 at a few stations in eastern Iowa

 

damn!

I really gotta move

 

At one time I knew the actual cost of going to several places.
ie, when you drive to know the actual cost you need to calculate

distance as a proportion of fuel costs on per gallon and avg mileage
distance proportion of oil change costs
distance proportion of vehicle depreciation costs
distance proportion of avg vehicle service (general service, tires, etc) costs over time.

eh, just enjoy the hobby that you do instead of knowing it costs $3.57 to go on a 17 mile round trip.

I paid $1.89.9 per 87 octane gasoline just this morning.

 

By the way, will walking much less going forward. Rainy season is here. And frankly, I'm getting tired of playing "dodge car."

 

Oy... No kidding! I just paid around $2.90 per gallon give/take. Was 93 but still.