2021 CRH results and statistics

[CJ9]

2021 was a good year CRH for me. The highlights being in April where I found 3 solid rolls of 40% halves on 4/3 and then 3 solid rolls of 90% walkers on 4/30. Also picked up a solid roll and a half of dimes on 2/6, a nickel hoard (buffalo, WW2 silver) on 5/21. Got a Peace $1 from a teller with some Ikes. In August I got $8 in silver quarters that the teller at the bank closest to where I live had saved for me. These were all in prior posts. I don't search boxes of coins. All in it was 71.1 oz of silver of which 1.34 oz came from Coinstar machines

Nickels: $4,120 (82,400 coins) searched: 63 WW2 silver, 52 buffaloes + 1 buffalo from a Coinstar - a little more than 50% of the buffaloes had the date worn off
Dimes: $23,355 (233,550 coins) searched: 201 total silver - 165 FDR, 16 Mercs, 1 Barber (1914), Canadian 80% silver (2), and 1 50% silver (1968). Also 16 FDR from Coinstar. Also found the 1996W dime. The dime silver hit rate was 0.086% or 1 silver every $116 (take out the solid roll and a half and the rate falls to 0.054% or one for every $185) - the rates include the Coinstar finds.
Quarters: $1,868 (7,472 coins) searched: The $8 from the teller save I mentioned above, 1 from a coinstar and 1 other from a CRH
Halves: $1,118 (2,236 coins) searched: 195 total silver - 114 40%, 10 1964, 7 Franklins, 64 Walkers - for a silver hit rate of 8.7% (1 per $5.73) - and breaking this down further:
CWR: searched $580 (1,160 coins): 67 40%, 2 1964, and 62 Walkers - silver hit rate of 11.3% (1 per $4.43)
MWR: searched $80 (160 coins) and got nothing
Loose from tellers: $458 (916 coins) and got 47 40%, 8 1964, 7 Franklin, 2 Walkers - silver hit rate of 7.0% (1 per $7.16)

Thanks for looking and HH

 

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[Fat]

...roughly 325 thousand coins by my count. About how many man hours did that take? Do you have a special or custom table or sorting tool? How many years have you had this hobby?
I think you obviously have a good system to work those kind of numbers, nice work...

 

[TheMastermind]

Nice take this year! Congrats!

 

[CJ9]

...roughly 325 thousand coins by my count. About how many man hours did that take? Do you have a special or custom table or sorting tool? How many years have you had this hobby?
I think you obviously have a good system to work those kind of numbers, nice work...

Good question. I don't know how many hours it took, but I live in the NYC metropolitan area so there are lots of banks around both where I live and where I work. Therefore, I am able to get some amount of coins to look at nearly every business day (call it $50 in dimes and $6-$10 in nickels on average). Sometimes on a Saturday morning I will go to 3-5 banks near home to pick up coins - usually $50-$75 in dimes and $10-$20 in nickels + asking for halves at each bank (that can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a half). I never ask for a lot of coins at any one time because then they start to wonder if I am a business, etc., and I just don't need that trouble. So it adds up over time. A handful of places know I search to collect so I am able to dump and pick up new CWR rolls there - and in some cases they save halves, etc. for me (the $8 in quarters that I mentioned, for example).

I have been searching coins since the 1980s when I was a kid - I would look for wheat cents. I realized that I can find silver halves in the mid-1990s, and then went searching for those for several years wherever I went. I figured out sometime around 2003 or so that I can get silver in dimes, so started looking at those. Nickels are newer for me, but just to get some variety.

I prefer CWR because they are easy to re-roll (I don't have access to a machine to dump coins) and you can sometimes get a hoard of coins from a collection (usually when someone passes away their heirs turn in coins to the bank) - or on the other hand you can get some other CRHers dump.

 

[port ewen ace]

2021 was a good year CRH for me. The highlights being in April where I found 3 solid rolls of 40% halves on 4/3 and then 3 solid rolls of 90% walkers on 4/30. Also picked up a solid roll and a half of dimes on 2/6, a nickel hoard (buffalo, WW2 silver) on 5/21. Got a Peace $1 from a teller with some Ikes. In August I got $8 in silver quarters that the teller at the bank closest to where I live had saved for me. These were all in prior posts. I don't search boxes of coins. All in it was 71.1 oz of silver of which 1.34 oz came from Coinstar machines

Nickels: $4,120 (82,400 coins) searched: 63 WW2 silver, 52 buffaloes + 1 buffalo from a Coinstar - a little more than 50% of the buffaloes had the date worn off
Dimes: $23,355 (233,550 coins) searched: 201 total silver - 165 FDR, 16 Mercs, 1 Barber (1914), Canadian 80% silver (2), and 1 50% silver (1968). Also 16 FDR from Coinstar. Also found the 1996W dime. The dime silver hit rate was 0.086% or 1 silver every $116 (take out the solid roll and a half and the rate falls to 0.054% or one for every $185) - the rates include the Coinstar finds.
Quarters: $1,868 (7,472 coins) searched: The $8 from the teller save I mentioned above, 1 from a coinstar and 1 other from a CRH
Halves: $1,118 (2,236 coins) searched: 195 total silver - 114 40%, 10 1964, 7 Franklins, 64 Walkers - for a silver hit rate of 8.7% (1 per $5.73) - and breaking this down further:
CWR: searched $580 (1,160 coins): 67 40%, 2 1964, and 62 Walkers - silver hit rate of 11.3% (1 per $4.43)
MWR: searched $80 (160 coins) and got nothing
Loose from tellers: $458 (916 coins) and got 47 40%, 8 1964, 7 Franklin, 2 Walkers - silver hit rate of 7.0% (1 per $7.16)

Thanks for looking and HH

my 2021 was $90,000 in nics, qtrs, halves, 10 $700 laundromat quarter bags (at least they had some silvers, West Point's, CUDS & greasers)........ final year's tally?-------- I got me a bunch of cardboard to haul to the landfill ------- udder than THAT-------panning a storm drain for gold may have been more lucrative---- 2022.... COME ON DOWN!!!!!!!