100 oz career update

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Found my first silver on March 30th of this year. Yesterday I pulled 4 Rosie's out of $180 in CWR (including 3 1946's in the same roll) that put me over the 100 oz mark for my 6 1/2 month CRH career. I'm including 1 silver quarter and 4 silver dimes found while dumping.

In addition to the standard silver I've found the following:

Dollars - 2 proof IKE's, 3 NIFC IKE's, one 40% IKE
Halves - 57 proof's, 708 NIFC's, 1 Commemorative, 8 foreigns (1 silver), 29 holed halves, 6 errors (1 clipped planchet, 3 substantial struck through grease, 2 no FG's), found a '70-S, '76-S silver (not proof) and an '03-S 90%er. Also found two holed silver halves and one gold plated silver half. Oldest half is 1918.
Quarter - Nothing besides silver. Oldest quarter is 1954.
Dimes - Found one gold medallion / token (~0.03 oz AU). Oldest dime is 1939.
Nickels - 13 Buffalo's, 5 proofs, lots of foreigns. Oldest nickel is 1920.
Pennies - 491 Wheats, 3 Indians, 2 Proofs, lots of foreigns. Oldest cent is 1902.

Records
Boxes - My best half box was 13 silvers, which included 3 enders. My best penny box ever had 13 wheats.
MWR - Had a roll in it with 4 silvers including an ender.
CWR - I've had 3 CWR halves worth noting. Found one solid roll w/ 8-90%ers, 1-80%er, 8-40%ers. Found another solid roll, all 1966's. Found a 3rd roll that had 5 Walkers, 5 1964's, 6-40%ers and 3 clad
Have found 4 silver quarters from teller trays, but never in a roll.
Yesterday I found three silver dimes in a roll which is a new record for me.
Found 2 Buffalo's in a roll, have never found 2 war nickels in a roll.
Found 34 wheats in a roll once. Other than that never found more than 3 before. I did buy a roll of pennies once that really had 50 dimes in it.
Found 20 mint sealed NIFC rolls once. Picked up 2 more later.

Have found silver in Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Washington State, Idaho, Oregon and California. I've looked in Maine, New Jersey, Texas, and Georgia and not found anything.

Thanks for looking,

Twitch
 

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Iamrussell

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Wow 100oz in 6 1/2 months thats awesome- congrats

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Yeah! that's a heck of a haul for 6 months, love the detailed stats. How much would you say you search a week?
 

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Russell, Joe - Thanks. I also should have noted that my wife and kids found a fair portion of the 100 oz and others listed above. All I have to do is order the coins, pick the coins up, catalog and store the finds, dispose of the refuse and dump the unwanted coins. They're happy to help with the rest of the CRH'ing.

mAGma - I've hunted the follow quantities over the past 28 weeks.

Dollar coins - $1,466
Halves - $69,510.00
Quarters - $1,551.50
Dimes - $6,430.40
Nickels - $3,314.00
Cents - $1,310.50

It works out to ~$2,985 / week amongst all the denominations.
 

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Nice results. Wish I could do the volume I did last year. I'll be lucky to hit 40 oz this year. Congrats!
 

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What is a NIFC Ike?

My understanding is the all Philly and Denver minted Ike's were for circulation
There were 3 types of S mint mark Ikes made
CuNi proof
40% silver proof
40% silver uncirculated

Technically speaking all S mint are NIFCs but generally the term NIFC is not used for proofs or silver.
 

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What is a NIFC Ike?

My understanding is the all Philly and Denver minted Ike's were for circulation
There were 3 types of S mint mark Ikes made
CuNi proof
40% silver proof
40% silver uncirculated

Technically speaking all S mint are NIFCs but generally the term NIFC is not used for proofs or silver.

Sorry for the confusion. I'm not really an IKE expert so if stated this wrong I apologize. I found two 1973's and a 1973-D IKE. I believe they were NIFC.

As you note I also found three IKE's with 'S' mint marks, two clad proofs and one 40% uncirculated.

Thanks for looking.
 

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Very cool...I'm hoping to hit 50ozt this year but will be happy with 40.

You have over 700 in NIFC's. Are you going to hang on to them?
 

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Sorry for the confusion. I'm not really an IKE expert so if stated this wrong I apologize. I found two 1973's and a 1973-D IKE. I believe they were NIFC.

As you note I also found three IKE's with 'S' mint marks, two clad proofs and one 40% uncirculated.

Thanks for looking.

You are correct, 1973 Ikes are NIFC. Only released in mint sets.

- DS
 

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Very cool...I'm hoping to hit 50ozt this year but will be happy with 40.

You have over 700 in NIFC's. Are you going to hang on to them?

I've kept them so far. 420 of them are still in the mint rolls, the rest I've thrown into rolls. I don't really know why I keep them, will probably dump them at some point.
 

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Congratulations on hitting the 100oz milestone, Twitch. :silvermedalgreen: Sounds like you've been getting silver all over the country...
 

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Yeah, about to add a few more states to the list. I'll be moving to Georgia at the end of the month. Will need to set up a whole new network, supplies, dumps, new relationships.
 

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Very nice detailed accounts!!

Good going on all that silver!

HH
 

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Yeah, about to add a few more states to the list. I'll be moving to Georgia at the end of the month. Will need to set up a whole new network, supplies, dumps, new relationships.

I know about that. It's definitely a very humbling process.
 

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