1st penny box

[mws_1984]

Decided to grab a penny box the other day. Been doing a few rolls each day. Not too thrilled with it and maybe just stick with nickels and dimes, definitely not getting the results like I've seen others get. I know it's just one box, but it's alot of work to do them as it is date searching.

6 Wheats
5 Canadian pennies
582 Coppers minus any 1982s as I don't have a scale to weigh them to see which is which. But I did find this link that gives a guide how to make a cheap scale and identify key markings. I didn't want to bother at this time though. So keeping any 81 and earlier for copper and checking any 83s for the DDO.
Guide to identify 1982 coppers.
http://www.cointalk.com/t55647/

 

[Zephr]

Like any type of coin boxes, you get bad ones and you get better ones. I know the first box of pennies I did, I only got 2 wheats

 

[SilverFace]

that is a little disappointing. I've only searched 15 rolls of my first cent box of the weekend and I've already found 6 wheats including 2 pre - '40's.

I suppose just search whatever you enjoy most and whatever seams to be the most successful for you.

Good luck & HH.

 

[mws_1984]

that is a little disappointing. I've only searched 15 rolls of my first cent box of the weekend and I've already found 6 wheats including 2 pre - '40's.

I suppose just search whatever you enjoy most and whatever seams to be the most successful for you.

Good luck.

I'm sure there are a few people who search pennies with sorters so it is easier than how I'm doing it. At lest dimes you can edge search and then do a quick run thru by eye for any foreign or odd coins. Nickels as well you have to date search but it seems to go faster.

 

[mws_1984]

Updated original posting.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

I am consistantly averaging 18 wheats per box in my area, though my worst box to date is 8 wheats, and my best box to date is 32 wheats. They are very unpredictable sometimes. keep at the pennies for at least 2 more boxes. You'll never get skunked on pennies, unless it is a new batch of 2011's(or soon to be 2012's). which never happened to me, because i think brink's does not deal with new coin. HH.

 

[mws_1984]

I am consistantly averaging 18 wheats per box in my area, though my worst box to date is 8 wheats, and my best box to date is 32 wheats. They are very unpredictable sometimes. keep at the pennies for at least 2 more boxes. You'll never get skunked on pennies, unless it is a new batch of 2011's(or soon to be 2012's). which never happened to me, because i think brink's does not deal with new coin. HH.

Mine were String rolls so I guess maybe it was decent, possibly just a bad first time at pennies. Maybe I'll venture with them again, maybe not.

 

[dp2013]

It's certainly not for everyone. If it's not enjoyable it's not worth it. You wont get rich searching cents. If you think you might stick with it throw the 82's in a container and leave them there until you come up with a plan. The 82 Cu will boast the copper percentages.

 

[Goldmanford]

Keep at it if you enjoy it. I have found 126 wheats in a box, 98 wheats in another box, and I once found a solid box of non-copper cents of all years (not just a solid year like 2011). This was a machine wrapped box and I hand searched every coin in it and there were NO copper cents at all. There will be highs and lows but if you like it, keep at it.

 

[mts]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would never "date search" cents. I wouldn't weigh them either. It just isn't worth the time. Get yourself a metal detector that can tell you the difference between zinc and copper and have at it. You can sort them as fast as you can run a cent over the coil.

This site started as a metal detecting web site. Yet so many of the CRH's here don't have a metal detector. I guess that's to be expected. But those of us who metal detect as well as CRH have an advantage when it comes to cents.

For a decent metal detector to sort pennies with, you can go to Hobby Lobby online and pick up a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV detector for about $60 plus tax and shipping (it's $99 with a 40% off online coupon). Not only is it an inexpensive way to sort cents, it makes for a good starter detector if you want to hunt for coins elsewhere besides in boxes. No, it's not a super duper high end machine. But if it turns out that you don't like metal detecting (after giving it a good shake) you haven't lost a bunch of money. And it is probably the BEST all around detector for the money you will spend. How could you go wrong for $60?

 

[mws_1984]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I would never "date search" cents. I wouldn't weigh them either. It just isn't worth the time. Get yourself a metal detector that can tell you the difference between zinc and copper and have at it. You can sort them as fast as you can run a cent over the coil.

This site started as a metal detecting web site. Yet so many of the CRH's here don't have a metal detector. I guess that's to be expected. But those of us who metal detect as well as CRH have an advantage when it comes to cents.

For a decent metal detector to sort pennies with, you can go to Hobby Lobby online and pick up a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV detector for about $60 plus tax and shipping (it's $99 with a 40% off online coupon). Not only is it an inexpensive way to sort cents, it makes for a good starter detector if you want to hunt for coins elsewhere besides in boxes. No, it's not a super duper high end machine. But if it turns out that you don't like metal detecting (after giving it a good shake) you haven't lost a bunch of money. And it is probably the BEST all around detector for the money you will spend. How could you go wrong for $60?

Oh I have a detector. It's just put away for the year now. I could have actually done that with my detector to tell the cents metal composition.