Tuesday - Coin pickup day 05-22-2007

[GMan00001]

Made my now weekly Tuesday run to pick up coin bags from my favorite three branches of my new favorite bank.

I haven't searched any of it yet, but here is the pickup - results will follow as I search it.

Branch #1
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1 - $200 bag of nickels
2 - $50 bags of pennies

Branch #2
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Nothing (they still have yet to fill a single bag of pennies, nickels, or dimes on their coin machine in the 1.5 months since opening). Hoping for the best once they start filling. Oh well, stop by every week anyway since its on my way home.

Branch #3
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1 - $500 bag of dimes
1 - $100 bag of nickels
3 - $50 bags of pennies

Equivalent to 15 boxes of coins (2 dimes, 3 nickels, and 10 pennies), should make for a busy week.

Note: I much prefer this bag searching as it much faster and less messy. No wrappers to open and throw away. My last 3 $50 bags of pennies have all taken 1.5 hours each to date search and sort out the ones I look for errors on. That is 5000 coins in 5400 seconds, or 1.08 seconds/coin average on date searching pennies. With boxes, I was doing a box an hour or 2500 coins in 3600 seconds, or 1.44 seconds/coin average.

The error check and results entry take additional time depending on what was found in the bag, but that is the same independent of bag or box.

Well off to search...something.

 

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[coincollector101]

Good Luck cant wait to Hear Results.
Im Finishing up my first Batch of bags.
I got
3 Pennies
2 Nickles
1 Dimes

the Dimes Yeilded 7 Rossies

Im 3/4 the way threw the first bag of pennies ive found 10 wheats and 10 canada pennies
Im also 3/4th the way threw one bag of nickles lol Ive found a ton of pre 60's But no Silver yet

 

[GMan00001]

Finished the $200 bag of nickels about 30 minutes ago.

Decent results, slightly above average.
1 - 1943-P War Nickel
1 - 1943-D War Nickel <---First of the year for me, in XF no less.
1 - 1955 <-- been a great year for this semi-key date for me.
Plus 50 other pre-1960 Jefferson (1939(3), 1940-D(3), 1941(5), 1941-S Small S, 1946(4), 1946-D, 1947, 1949, 1949-D(3), 1952, 1952-D, 1952-S, 1953, 1953-S, 1954, 1954-D(3), 1954-S, 1955-D(3), 1956-D, 1957-D(3), 1958-D(5), 1959-D(5))

13 Canadian (1965, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989(3), 1991, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000(2))

1 Foreign
Mexico, 1 Peso (2000)

and 1 Memorial Penny

With the 1943-D, I now only need 1938-D, 1938-S, 1944-D, and 1950-D to complete finding the 1938-Present Jefferson Nickel circulated set in 2007.

 

[thurmownator]

Good finds, gman; especially on yet another scarce 55p.

You are the "Nickel Man"; can I get a high "five" ?

 

[drink-7-up]

Use your 2'nt branch as a dump bank.
They don't get that many coins anyway

 

[GMan00001]

Use your 2'nt branch as a dump bank.
They don't get that many coins anyway

True, but I have so many dump branches already (although I also use some of them as sources for boxes occasionally). I counted 26 branches of my 3 dump banks/CUs that I frequently/semi-frequently use that are within a 15 mile radius of my normal routes . If you expand that distance to 20-25 miles or add the less frequently used branches I easily have 40-50 branches to dump at. That being said, I would prefer to use what I refer to as Branch #2 as a source. Especially since they are in a neighborhood with lots of older folks if you catch my drift. They just haven't been open very long so they don't yet have a regular customer base. The few coins I have gotten from there have been very productive.

Also, I prefer to use the self-serve coin machines at other banks for most of my dumps so the tellers don't have to do much heavy lifting as then they don't mind the coin dumps at all since all they have to deal with is paper.


On a separate note, finished the $100 bag of nickels earlier this evening:
30 pre-1960 Jefferson (1938, 1940, 1940-S, 1946-D, 1947-S, 1948(2), 1949-D, 1952-D, 1953(3), 1953-D(2), 1954, 1955-D(2), 1956-D(2), 1957-D(3), 1958-D(3), 1959-D(5))

5 Canadian (1968, 1975, 1981, 1984, 1992)

1 Foreign (Japan, 1 Yen(1990))

 

[GMan00001]

Finished off the $500 bag of dimes this evening as well.

Fairly typical results for me for the amount from a coin machine bag with the exception of a low number of Canadian coins which is fine by me.

3 pre-1965 Roosevelt (1956, 1963-D, 1964-D)

3 Canadian (1973, 1977, 1999)

2 Foreign
France, 5 Centimes (1968)
Trinidad And Tobago, 1 Cent (1994)

Also 1 state quarter (2007-D MT)

 

[coinlover]

thats alot of pre 1960 nickels! nice finds!

 

[GMan00001]

Finished off 1 bag of pennies (manily last night).

'Twas one of my better bags recently:

26 wheat pennies (1919, 1944, 1944-D, 1945-S(2), 1947-D(3), 1948, 1948-D, 1949-D(2), 1951-D, 1952-D, 1955-D(5), 1956-D(4), 1957-D(2), 1958-D)

34 Canadian (1955, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977(2), 1978(3), 1979, 1980, 1981(2), 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2003-P, 2004, 2006(3))

1 - 1998 Wide AM

Hopefully I'll get 1 or 2 more bags in later tonight after the kids go to bed.

 

[GMan00001]

Well, I ended up crashing last night after the kids went to bed, but tonight I got one more bag of pennies in.

19 wheat pennies (1938, 1941-D, 1944, 1944-D, 1944-S, 1945(3), 1945-D, 1947-D(2), 1948, 1950-D, 1950-S, 1952-S, 1953-S, 1955, 1955-D, 1958-D)

32 Canadian (1953, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970(3), 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1991(2), 1993, 1994(3), 1995, 1996, 1999(2), 2000, 2002(2), 2005)

And with this bag I crossed 1000 wheat pennies threshold for the year.

 

[thurmownator]

Kudos on the 1K Kopper milestone !

......and congrats on your new finds in general. Bags are fun; aren't they ?

 

[GMan00001]

Yet another bag of pennies complete:

18 wheat pennies (1920, 1935, 1937-S, 1940-D, 1941-D, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1950-D, 1952-D, 1953-D(3), 1955-D, 1956-D, 1957-D, 1958-D(2))

23 Canadian (1962, 1963, 1967(2), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975(3), 1978, 1981(3), 1982 1985, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999(2), 2003)

The 1937-S was my first of that date/mintmark for the year.

 

[whitesid]

nice finds
how do you drop off the bags? you roll them up? or just put back the same amount of coins you out and hand the bag in?

 

[LJ]

GMan....simply put.....your amazing! I still don't know how you do it. Congrats on all of your nice finds! You still have my vote for CRH'er of the year!!

BTW - What does the "G" stand for in GMan?

 

[GMan00001]

After jogging about 5 miles this afternoon, I went metal detecting for a couple of hours and picked up a few more clad coins (8 pennies, 1 nickel, 4 dimes, 2 quarters) and another hot wheels car. Still waiting on my first silver find. Enough about that as that's for a different area of this site.

Then after the kids went to bed, I went through one of the remaining two bags of pennies from this week's run (tomorrow is pickup day).

15 wheat pennies (1942-D, 1945(2), 1945-D(2), 1946, 1949, 1951-D, 1952-D, 1953-S, 1954-D, 1955-D, 1956-D(2), 1957-D)

27 Canadian (1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1979, 1981(3), 1982, 1983(2), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989(3), 1999(4), 2003, 2005, 2006)

nice finds
how do you drop off the bags? you roll them up? or just put back the same amount of coins you out and hand the bag in?

I cash them in at many branches of a couple different banks. Almost all banks in my area have coin machines, so not a big deal. I knew if one credit union that didn't have one a couple of years ago, but they do now.

Part of the deal I have with the bank I buy from is that I won't bring them back to them. This is because they have to pay an armored service to ship them out. If I buy them coins, they save this cost which is why they let me buy the bags.

 

[GMan00001]

Finished off the last bag of pennies of this batch today.

Pretty good bag.

1 - 1943 steel penny.
20 other wheat pennies (1917, 1937, 1940-D, 1941, 1941-D, 1944, 1944-D, 1946, 1946-D, 1948, 1950, 1950-D(2), 1951-D, 1954-D, 1956-D, 1957-D(2), 1958, 1958-D)

25 Canadian (1964(4), 1968, 1975, 1978, 1980(2), 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998(2), 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005)

2 Foreign
Singapore, 10 Cents(1986)
Switzerland, 10 Rappan(1999)

and 1 Play money penny

 

[Sheldius]

That a lot of coin roll hunting. Glad nickels are providing some silver for you. Sounds like dimes as well. I've only been able to find 3 coin counting machines (all same bank, but different branchs). I was really happy until I was told they don't count half dollars. Guess they needed that slot for the new dollar coins?

Now I have $860 that needs spending or rerolling. Only problem is I didn't keep the wrappers. LOL.

HH.