First year of Hunting

[Rosco53]

Well, yesterday marked the first anniversary of my first roll hunt. Started with 8 rolls of cents, man did that escalate quickly. These are my totals:

Total Coins: 1,491,200 (plus whatever odd change I found)

Cents: 1,063,000
7 Indian Heads, 5,514 Wheats, 64 Proofs, 4 1972 DDO, 1 1983 DDR, 1 blank planchet, 1 Magician's 2x reverse, 1 2.91 gram 1983, 2325 Canadians

Nickels: 296,000
91 War nickels, 20 proofs, 28 Buffalo, 6 Liberty

Dimes: 100,000
46 Silver Rosies, 2 Merc

Quarters: 32,000
5 Proof, 1 silver Canadian

Halves: 200
1 40% 1964

Foreign: 113 coins from 28 different countries (not including Canada)

And, just to cap it off, this was in my last bag of Cents for my first year, first 2019:


Happy hunting everyone!

 

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[baddbluff]

Nice stats & finds
Wish I could do pennies - can’t dump w/bags anymore so it’s too hard to dump them now

 

[port ewen ace]

now..... just think how many errors..... you missed

slow down and get it all --- still--- respectable results

 

[Dozer D]

Rosco: I recall your first posting, the excitement shown in the hobby, etc., you've come a long long way. See, I told you back then, NOW YOU ARE HOOKED, and you still are., CONGRATS my fellow hobbyists & keep hunting.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the great first year, may your second be more grand!

 

[Uncleslick18]

Nice volumes rosco. Was starting to feel like I was the only one looney enough to search cents in any real volume. I pickup 250-300 per week in boxes. Nice finds!

 

[Dozer D]

COPPER CENT HOARDERS !!!!
You guys that are heavy penny hunters, are you also hoarding the remaining copper cents in your searches. If so, what do you plan on doing with them? Wait, cash them in for what value, or hopes that the U S Govt goes off the penny standard which would cause all copper cents to become a COPPER commodity.
I too am a copper hoarder, but it's getting to a point of: how long do I hold on to these, cash in at FV, find a black market copper buyer, or hold on to them as a commodity precious metals. Your comments here appreciated.

 

[Uncleslick18]

eBay for the copper. The long answer is, the wife is pregnant again, so I’m doing the heavy hunting to take money that we have now that would otherwise be spent, and stash it away for when she’s out of work.

I’ve already dumped $1,000, and have 2-3 hundred more to dispose of over the next couple of weeks.

Should I be able to sell the copper at a premium,
That’s great, but if not, at the end of the day, it’s still money. So I can just go dump it at face value, which I hate to do, but if I get to the point where I need to do that I can..

I made the decision to start saving dumps instead of reinvesting then into more boxes around the end of jan or beginning of Feb, so there were several hundred bucks worth of dumps that I used to either buy more cents, or halves, which overall I’ve had half way decent luck with since I started back up in November.

I don’t keep stats as to how much I have searched because it just leads me down rabbit holes, but I like all of the rest of you, have this compulsion that has slowly lead me to increase my volume. My original thinking was to do $200 per week, which has increased now to 250-300..

I really just love hunting cents. So I guess maybe it’s just a big excuse to do that, which has other benefits as well (the saving dump money), but either way, yeah I’m nuts.

My estimate is that I’ve found 20-30 fv in wheats so far, I’ve found about 60 king George cents (the large face one, I think it’s vi?) and have also turned out 4 IHPs so far.

My rough estimate is that I’ve hunted about $3k since November.

 

[Rosco53]

I don't hoard. I kept stats on copper through my first 100,000, but just because mainly. Honestly over the last couple hundred thousand I've nearly stopped looking for errors too. Started off microscoping for like every error there was, then backed down to just the key dates, and now I'm really just setting aside 1998/2000 for WAM, 1972 for the DDO, and 69/70S to microscope. May give that up soon too, realizing more and more I'm doing this in the hopes of finding old and foreign coins. Unless an error is blatantly obvious (cud/die crack/clip) I may just give 'em up... I do like finding proofs though, so will probably still glance at dates in stead of just hoping to find different obverses.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I tried CRH for a bit, great backlash from my bank on returns, and even my barber got po'd when I gave him two rolls of halves for a $7 haircut. That was a $13 tip by the way.

 

[Uncleslick18]

Rosco, do you sell the errors? Is it worth the additional time spent looking for them?

Deepseeker, that tip is nothing to sneeze at!

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Rosco if your 1 half was a 1964 like your post says, that is a 90%er not 40%.

 

[Rosco53]

Rosco, do you sell the errors? Is it worth the additional time spent looking for them?

Deepseeker, that tip is nothing to sneeze at!

Nope, just keeping my finds.

 

[Rosco53]

Rosco if your 1 half was a 1964 like your post says, that is a 90%er not 40%.

1968, my bad.

 

[Philvis]

I skim read the first paragraph, which I am horrible for, and saw the Total Coins: 1,491,200. I thought you found them metal detecting and about had a heart attack! Haha! Regardless, that's a ton of coins you have sifted through!

 

[CJ9]

Wow you went through massive amounts of volume in pennies and nickels. Nice finds!