FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY reached a HUGE Goal!!!

[Shake-N-Bake]

Hello All,
After just 11 months of searching a HUGE amounts of pennies, about 3.9 million to be excact I reached my goal of 20,000 WHEATS!!!

I first set a goal this year of 10,000 wheats and hit that mark in late May. I then upped the goal to 20,000 (with a little presure from some guys on here!).

As of today November 15, 2009 I hit 22,368 wheat pennies, 25 Indian Heads, and 2 Flying Eagles.

I am now going to relax on the pennies and do about 20 boxes a week of them, But am going to hit about 30 boxes of Dimes a week.

I am thankful for the support of everyone on this board and having a bunch of great fellow hunters to chat with.

Happy Hunting,
Jason

 

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[coinmojo]

Congratulations on an amazing accomplishment.

Mojo

 

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[AGCoinHunter]

Nice SNB. Goal for next year --- 40K wheats!

 

[mountainman 2]

Consider this. You've searched more pennies this year then the total mintages of some of the less common cents. Congrats on reaching your goal.

 

[LemonThrower]

wow, congratulations.

did you do this manually or with a ryedale?

on a percentage basis, that is 1 wheat per 195 pennies.

 

[Shake-N-Bake]

WOW WOW WOW!!! I'm speechless... 25 Indians! Btw, not to sound rude or anything, but do you have a job/wife/kids? Just wondering, because I can't imagine a person with a job to have that much time on their hands; sorry if I sound rude.

Don't worry I did not take it as you being rude. It is a common question with the quantities that I do. OK... Wife = Yes, she helps also, not as much as me but she does love to search nickels. She searches about 5 boxes a week of nickels. Kids = Yes, Three (14, 8, 6). They help open the rolls and then search the for wheats in the copper after being sorted by the RYEDALE. So that also answers a few others questions, Yes I have a Ryedale (may be adding another Ryedale after the first of the year). Job = No. I owned a sign and printing company for 12 years then had a serious back injury. I then sold the business and after 2 surgeries and 18 months of recovery I now consider myself a PROFESSIONAL COIN ROLL HUNTER!!! I just cant handle retirement at age 35 so I took up this AWESOME hobby.

As for hitting more coins this year I think I am going to take a little break. Not Stop hunting just slow down to about 20 boxes a week and work on some wood crafts.
Below is a couple of pictures of wood crafts that I make with some tools I kept from my sign business.

Have a great day!!!

 

[golden silver]

Shake I love the handy work. I am a bit of a handy man myself. Would love to have the free time to take on a project.

Golden Silver

 

[Cherryman68]

Only 20,000. What a slacker. I mean really I could do that in a month. I thought you were the penny king.

If anyone thinks I'm bluffing send me a ryedale machine and ill prove it.

 

[mistergee]

thats some very nice handy work there. i wish i were that talented.

 

[mountainman 2]

3.9 million pennies. How much would that weigh? I'd like to see that all stacked up in one room. Someone had a post here awhile back showing what a certain number of pennies would look like. It would show a million, then a billion, and so on. Anyone remember that post?

 

[Fredness]

12,129,000 Grams [Assuming they are all "Memorial Copper"]
1 pound = 453.59237 grams
So: 26,739.8678 pounds or 13.3699 tons (US :Short Tons)