Roll-searchers, post your results!

I search 2 boxes a week. I have a list of known varieties and errors compiled from the Cherrypickers Guide and online sources, such as CONECA, coppercoins.com and others, and check each one that has a chance of having an error or variety as I go with a loupe. It is time consuming and tedious (it takes a good 6 hours to go through a box), but it does pay off. I've found many DDO's, DDR's, various other errors and just a couple of hours ago found my first 1998 wide AM! (I've been searching for about 3 months now---so it took me around 60,000 coins to find ONE.) I have a half gallon milk jug that the pre-1982's go into. When it is full, it weighs about 17 lbs, which has an approximate value of $45-$50 based on the spot copper price of around $3/lb.---and it holds about 2200-2500 pennies. I'm running right at 18% coppers to zinc ratio----

On the halves front, finally got my first shutout box this week---and on one box I was down to the last 3 rolls before 1 40% showed up---

So Bob, Erin, and others---the averages finally caught up with me and I got skunked!

Edited to add this comment----I have a container that I put the wheaties in and will eventually encapsulate them in flips. I usually find about 4 or 5 per box. Plus I have a seperate container for "everything else" which includes a bunch of Canadian, Peruvian, Bahamian, Panamanian, Indian and all sorts of other "ian" foriegn coins---probably about 50 or so of them----

 

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How many boxes in a row did you find at least one silver Ferdyboy?

 

6 Boxes of Halves:

1-90%
4-40%
2-87p
1-bicentennial proof

Pretty disappointing. Buddy of mine went through 5 boxes and struck out on all of them. 4 more boxes tomorrow.

 

Well, as an estimate, I've been searching boxes for 3-4 months (4 boxes a week, until last week upped to 5), so I'd say about 40 or so----

I haven't done an exact count of my entire harvest, but I'd say about 3 Frankies, 8-90%, 80 or 90-40%, 8 or 9 proofs, and about 50 NIFC's----plus at least 2 dozen DDR's and DDO's, plus a die adjustment strike. One of the DDO's is a 1974-D listed in CPG at $50 in MS-62, which is about what the coin would grade----

Still no Walkers yet---but, I have the complete collection already. Still it would be nice to find one in circulation----

 

Nice find in my own stash haha. I was going through my proof halves I have pulled from circulation to get a couple to trade when one of them caught my eye...Without realizing it, I found a 1997S SILVER proof half a while back. It has been circulated a bit but I never would have though I would have found of the of the post 1992 silver proofs in circulation as some of them fetch a hefty price.

Oh and found only my second silver quarter in change today from the drive through, 1948S.

Erin

 

2 boxes of halves 2 shutouts......

 

There is no such animal in my opinion. If the mint sells you a coin in a sealed package, have they not circulated it to you ? Just a thought

 

I sort them into paper cups. Some are tossed into a cup for re-rolling and drop. Then I go through each year and pull the very best. Clad gets examined. I have so much copper, that I start sorting known years for varieties first. I doubt I will ever be able to check all the cents in my lifetime, because I just keep getting more of them.

 

I found this yesterday.

 

One week into collecting, picked up my first three rolls today.

Two rolls of half dollars, got a 1968D. - hey at least its silver.

Wasn't planning on collecting dollars right now but the next bank didn't have any halves. One roll of dollars, 22 president coins-15 different. (great, just started another collection)

 

Ferdyboy.....40 boxes in a row without a shutout is just amazing. Wow.

Why stop when you make money one each box? Count your blessings........the rest of us get skunked plenty of times.

 

Gonna get a box of pennies and maybe halves tomorrow if the bank near my work has them.

 

350$ in halves yesterday, only two keepers.

1 2008P
1 76S silver proof

Not great, but not a shutout.

 

I'm not planning on stopping anytime soon. I think, however, that I am getting down to the well searched boxes that my bank orders from. I had a "lull", if you can call it that, when I hit that monster box with over 30 40%. Maybe another one of those is waiting for me----

 

Went threw a box of pennies last night. Found 46 rolls of pre 1982 coins, 52 wheat pennies, and 13 S pennies. The oldest wheat penny was a 1935. My question is how come I got so many pres in this box? The only thing i could think of is that someone turned there collection into the bank?

 

Probably not a "collection" (meaning not collected as a numismatist would collect)---someone probably had an old "piggy bank" collection and cashed them in would be my guess. Hoping I'll find someone who gets rid of an old piggy bank collection in one of my boxes---

 

a piggy bank full of silver nickels, dimes, quarters, and some indian head cents would be nice.

 

That bank doesn't have any half dollars right now so I guess I'll just have to settle for a box of pennies.

 

Got a box of dimes while I was at it, and cool enough, I got 3 silver dimes. 1946, 1954, and a 1959 Canadian dime.

Make that 4... another 1946...

 

Found a 64-d dime in the register today. not bad