Narthoniel
Bronze Member
Hello,
Had to spend some of the day running around, so I decided to stop at a few banks for halves, dimes, and whatever I may find. Wound up with $32 in clad halves and 3 boxes of dimes. On my way home, I had to stop at the grocery store, and while looking for a basket, I noticed a coinstar machine. I have checked many of these with no success, so when I looked in the reject tray, my eyes popped out and my heart fluttered. The tray was full! 43 quarters, 9 dimes, 20 nickles, and 15 pennies. None was old, but its still free money! Maybe I should toss it into my monthly MD finds for my next meeting...nah.
Once home, and after chores and dinner, I opened up the first box. About 605 of the coins were 2008p - nice n shiny. But I did manage one 1964 silver!
On the second box, I decided to do an experiment. I grabbed my handy digital scale, and weighed every roll, and sorted them by weight. I started with the lightest, and saved the heaviest for last. 49 rolls in, no silver, but on that last heavy roll a 1946 rolled out to greet me.
Tried weighing the third box as well, but was surprised to see a great variation in weight. up to 9/10ths of a gram difference between the lightest and heaviest. Hoping there was a ton of silver, I started light, and worked heavy. I noticed that instead of one silver in the entire box, that the heavier the roll, the more new 2008 the roll contained. This box was just like the first box - mostly new. But I did enjoy my attempt to CRH scientifically, and will still do so. Sure is fun
2 silver dimes and free change today, 3000 halves to hunt tomorrow, oh joy!
Happy huntin,
Anthony
Had to spend some of the day running around, so I decided to stop at a few banks for halves, dimes, and whatever I may find. Wound up with $32 in clad halves and 3 boxes of dimes. On my way home, I had to stop at the grocery store, and while looking for a basket, I noticed a coinstar machine. I have checked many of these with no success, so when I looked in the reject tray, my eyes popped out and my heart fluttered. The tray was full! 43 quarters, 9 dimes, 20 nickles, and 15 pennies. None was old, but its still free money! Maybe I should toss it into my monthly MD finds for my next meeting...nah.
Once home, and after chores and dinner, I opened up the first box. About 605 of the coins were 2008p - nice n shiny. But I did manage one 1964 silver!
On the second box, I decided to do an experiment. I grabbed my handy digital scale, and weighed every roll, and sorted them by weight. I started with the lightest, and saved the heaviest for last. 49 rolls in, no silver, but on that last heavy roll a 1946 rolled out to greet me.
Tried weighing the third box as well, but was surprised to see a great variation in weight. up to 9/10ths of a gram difference between the lightest and heaviest. Hoping there was a ton of silver, I started light, and worked heavy. I noticed that instead of one silver in the entire box, that the heavier the roll, the more new 2008 the roll contained. This box was just like the first box - mostly new. But I did enjoy my attempt to CRH scientifically, and will still do so. Sure is fun
2 silver dimes and free change today, 3000 halves to hunt tomorrow, oh joy!
Happy huntin,
Anthony
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