hokiemojo

Well, I've basically given up on 1/2's a long time ago because they are difficult for me to regularly pickup and dump, they tie up money that I simply don't have, and the finds had pretty much dried up. Rather than inconvenvience the tellers with my erratic schedule, I've switched to the...

I don't post much because I rarely find anything spectacular. The occasional War Nickel or 40% in between skunk boxes, but I have found a few things recently that I thought might interest a few of the numismatists. First I'll start with with the non photo finds. In the past month, I did 4...

If you had the choice of a walker (cull condition), ben (very worn), 90% (nice), 3-40% ers (mint), or a modern (non silver) commem, which would you want to find? Note that none would be considered AU70 or anything to attach a huge premium. I ask because of my modest finds, I think my favorite...

I'm sure many of you have heard this, but I figure I'll pass this along. Apparently, the $100 bill will be changing soon. As someone that never really handled $100 bills until I got into this hobby, I thought I'd let you know what to expect in a few months when you are dumping. On a side...

When I picked up my box of pennies this past week, I got a box full of CWRs. These aren't fun because the coins had all the wheats pulled. I'm still going through all 50 rolls to be sure though. What was also odd about this box after ~40 rolls was: 1) there were no coins newer than 1985 2)...

Just wantedt o check in. I've been going through a box of halves and a box of pennies each week since mid january. So in the 8 +/- boxes of halves I've found a few keepers. Last box had a 40% in the first roll. I'll admit, it got my hopes pretty high, but unfortunately that was about it. My...

Merry Christmas everyone, I was doing some last minute Christmas preparations and while I was waiting for my slow ocmputer to "think" I did a few rolls of nickels. I found my first baffalo nickel in almost a year!! WN's I find every 2-3 boxes, but it's been a REALLy long time since I found...

My first box had about 800 1994's, 100 2000's and 100 miscelaneous. no keepers, not even NIFC. Second box had a keeper for me. My first Balboa 1/2. It was a 1993, so not AG, but I thought it was cool. I also found a bicentenial that was 1/2 black, but I swear it looks silver. It is really...

So I've been hunting for a yearr and a half. I've found more proofs than AG. Is that typical? Unfortunately, only 2 or 3 are even nice enough to be considered attractive, but i do keep em, since i date check anyway. Just wondering what your ratios look like (if you are just an edge searcher...

When I had just started CRHing, there were a few posts on here about tracking spreadsheets used to keep up with your finds. While everyone has their own purposes and needs from tracking software, none of the posted sheets had what I was looking for. Since it's been a while, I wanted to see...

I picked up two boxes of halves the other day and now I've got a dilema. Each box appears to be all the same year. I checked the enders and the ones with a date all show the same date. The first box only shows 2000 (I could probably see about 40 dates). The other is all 1996s in the box...

Hey everyone. I'm a regular on the CRH forum, but have some questions that might be better suited to this forum's audience. I've come accross some very new 1995 (and a couple 1996) half dollars. These things are in VERY nice conditions compared to circulated coins. I don't know if they've...

I was doing a little research on the various denominations we search. I checked out kitco (silver spot price), coinflation (melt value), and provident metals (current offer prices). Some things I noice were obvious like war nickels have no offer price (I suspect due to the melt ban). OThers...

So recently Hopper39 had a post with a 1996 grease filled die. His was heavily affected. I too had some grease filled die finds (I think) from 1996 as well, but they are very different. I found about 25 coins that all have a similar effect, but they gradually show less and less effect as it...

So I finally told the teller at my bank I needed to take a break after 8 straight boxes of repacked searches (box was sealed, but the rolls were open and marked). I guess he forgot to relay the message because the head teller called to ask if I would be coming in (she had two boxes, twice my...

CRHing has been fun for the past 6 months, but it has not been very rewarding financially. Fortunately I look at this as a hobby, but again this week, I got my one box and it was repacked by the coin supplier. I told my bank I am going on a hiatus. I'm going to try to open a new account as a...

PICS ADDED - Found a washer in a roll of nickels or maybe WAY better??? I ADDED PICS!!! See below. I was hunting a few CWR of nickels tonight and they were all labeled with name/phone number (if I knew banks redistributed CWRs, I never would have written my name/acct numbers on them years ago...

It happened again. I know there was a similar post last week, but i think my situation is a little unique. I've done a box a week for 8 months now (about 30 boxes). Of those, I've had 24 skunks. I can deal with the skunks. It's how I'm getting them that bothers me. Of those 24 skunks, 15...

Nice to get a find worth 100's of times face Too bad it was a penny. lol. I found a 1931D. Redbook says in this condition it is worth about $5.00 so I guess $2-3 is probably more realistic? The low value stuff seems way high in redbook. The higher dollar stuff seems like its a bit more...

Just a quick question to anyone who has ever sold through provident. They post prices on their website and they seem to update continuously. Are these pretty close to the prices that you can lock in at when you call? Thanks!

I've been through about 700 in nickels now. I don't always look at mintmarks, but I came accross the first S mintmark that I noticed. A 1970S. Obviously a keeper for me since I've never found one, but are these unusual in hunting? Thanks everyone!

As some may have deduced, I am a big Virginia Tech football fan. I got into roll hunting pennies because the games were stressing me out and doing something else while watching helps me stay a little calmer. While the Hokies are my team, my favorite sport will always be hockey. Tonight I...

I found a 1943P while searching about $20 worth of CWR's. I know it isn't a big deal to find a $1.00 coin, but my first find was fun. This goes with the three buffaloes I found a couple weeks ago. It's pretty tarnished, but overall, still pretty decent shape for a 70 year old coin. I've been...

I know everyone loves the idea of getting a valuable coin for face value, but I tried something new this week and used my CRH funds to buy a coin lot at an auction. I spent about $50 to buy $45 in face value coins. As far as I can tell, the only things that would count as keepers would be a...

A similar question has been asked before, but I don't think this topic has been approached the way I'm presenting it here. If I'm wrong, I apologize. I've gotten into CRHing, mostly though pennies and with some nickels. Then I branched out into CR dimes and found my first keeper a few weeks...

I know that the unpredictability of this hobby is well known by the vetrans out there, but my own experience is often the best teacher. I"ve been going through my 4th box of nickels (never found anything unless you count pre 1960's jeffersons)s and thought I had a miserable box. The reason I...