Anyone else LOVE pennies?

[silvershark]

I have been CRHing for about a month now and I cant really get off the high of finding my first Indian head in a box.

Don't get me wrong, I love my silver, but I find pennies more fun to go through. also, you get way more for a much cheaper price. All that says to me is more opportunity for less money.

I am going to get 50 Worth in a few, and yesterday, I turned in 75 worth (the teller was mean to me before anyway).

Am I alone with the penny addiction?

 

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[bobr]

I like to do pennys too. They don't take up a lot of space and it's nice when you find a key date.

 

[TreasureTales]

I'm not doing any CRH, but I do love the pennies. (Techinically they are cents, but that's neither here nor there.) Anyhow, a penny can return the biggest PERCENTAGE than nearly any other coin still in circulation. 1 cent can be worth $30.00 - a 3,000 % increase - not too shabby! And that's only an average example.

 

[silvershark]

Just got done with my first box, and this is what I got.

9 wheat's

55*2
44
40
58
50
46*2
41

1Canadian 1962

I gotta wait till my girlfriend gets off of school to open the next box, but it will be posted too.

 

[Coincollector22]

Of course I love pennies, bought to rolls, and it gave me 4, one being a 1920

 

[LJ]

I started searching pennies recently.....haven't searched many but I agree....it is enjoyable.

 

[Pennyworth]

I enjoy searching cents, and I use to do that as a child. My grandmother would give me $10.00 or something like that to go buy rolls of cents at the bank. She would babysit me and I would open up the rolls and look for wheaties. I never found an Indian Head cent while crh, at leat not yet. But I am still looking for my first one!

 

[SwampHunter]

I hunted my first coin rolls today....halves and dollars, and I really like it.
I went and got my daughter's penny jar... it's a water cooler tank that is half full of pennies, and we are going to go through that tonight looking for Wheat pennies and Indian Head pennies.

I like this hobby. You find neat things and it doesn't cost anything.

 

[tw656]

pennies are fun too. Are you working on a whitman? I have found one IH this year. it was a rush.

 

[Codes]

I gotta wait till my girlfriend gets off of school to open the next box, but it will be posted too.

So you have to wait until yours leaves to hunt too? I know how it feels man, you're not alone.

 

[TxTim]

I gotta wait till my girlfriend gets off of school to open the next box, but it will be posted too.

So you have to wait until yours leaves to hunt too? I know how it feels man, you're not alone.

I don't hunt pennies but probably will in the future however -

My wife started hunting with me and loves it!
Sometimes we fight over the last roll!
Get the gals involved if you can!

 

[GMan00001]

Although I like to search just about any coin. I would say my favorites are in the following order:

1. Nickels
2. Pennies
3. Halves
4. Dimes
5. Quarters
6. Large Dollars
7. Anything but SBA/SAC/Pres Dollars
8. SBA/SAC/Pres. Dollars

Although the return on investment currently isn't that great, I think the reason I like nickels is the following:

1. The number of "keepers" per box (average around 25)
2. The frequency with which I find pre-Jefferson nickels is much better than the frequency with which I find Mercury dimes or Indian head pennies.
3. Usually about 1 silver war nickel per box.
4. Relatively low cost.

I have always enjoyed pennies because of the sheer number you can search for the cost. the only pain is cashing them back in when you get $200-$300 worth. :P

Halves are currently high on my list, possibly even above pennies mainly because I don't have many pre-Kennedy halves and I only recently began to search them regularly. The only reason, they are #3 is they are a pain to acquire in volume compared to pennies due to availability and cost.


I actually have never really searched SBA/SAC/Pres. Dollars as of yet, though I have considered trying it once just to see what I find. One of biggest concerns is finding too many foreign coins per box to justify the cost of the search since each foreign coin in a SBA/SAC bag/box would cost $1 each and I don't know where the payback would come from... proofs maybe if you can find any.

I have also always wanted to go try searching canadian coins just to see what I find... particularly dimes, quarters, and halves since their switch from silver was more subtle to the naked eye. But I haven't yet gotten the chance, at least not yet. I tried once at a Canadian casino, but it was already coinless 9 years ago when I was there. Or was it that they didn't use real coins. Either way, there wasn't anything to search.

 

[silvershark]

I gotta wait till my girlfriend gets off of school to open the next box, but it will be posted too.

So you have to wait until yours leaves to hunt too? I know how it feels man, you're not alone.

Yea, I usually buy one box for me to search, and one for both for us to search together. That, and I would never be able to wait to open them if I only had 1 box.

she likes it because she practically got tackled when I found my indian head.

-SS

 

[LvDaisyBaby]

I have been CRHing for about a month now and I cant really get off the high of finding my first Indian head in a box.
she likes it because she practically got tackled when I found my indian head.

sry but darlin, I FOUND THE INDIAN HEAD!! thank you very much

 

[coolpix9]

Hey Patrick

We have the start of a brewing controversy. This could be fun. Watch out for the "Little Sista" , Jim

 

[goldencoin]

i love pennies! they are the easiest coin to get and the most bang for your buck. I got my first injun and a bonanza of wheats

HH
-GC

 

[LvDaisyBaby]

Re: Hey Patrick

We have the start of a brewing controversy. This could be fun. Watch out for the "Little Sista" , Jim

you have no idea the controversy between the two of us...He's my ex now, hooray!

 

[LadyDigger]

I love the WHEATIES!!! I have been collecting them for years!!! Only since Oct 2007 have I been TILL HUNTING though...found a Indian Head Cent...extremely worn, but you can still see the date.

Since Oct ... I search for pre-'64 dimes (which I found about 3 or 4 in the TILLS....collect all pre-1970 nickels (even found a PROOF 1985S Nickel!!!!...in the TILL!!!!) and I love Bi-Centenial Quarters! As for other Quarters....can't find anything older than a 1965 .....

One night of TILL HUNTING...I found 9 Wheaties....whooo hooo!!!

TILL HUNTING is just as fun as COIN ROLL HUNTING....except mine is always being exchanged...just have to make sure I trained all the cashiers correctly...some let me know when they find a Wheatie or a Foreign Coin (like those too)....

Except, I have one who likes to collect the Bi-Centenial Quarters (I let him have them...) and another one who recently found when opening a new roll of dimes...at 1937? Merc...can't remember the year...but it was in the 30's...I even offered him $1.00 for it and he wouldn't give it up...oh well, his gain, my loss

Happy Hunting...whether it be COIN ROLL or TILL
Annmarie

PS: don't like collecting the dollar coins, sacs ...but keep my eyes open for the older half dollars and some of those older dollar coins.

 

[Section10]

I haven't done any CRH yet, but I intend to start soon and I think I will start with pennies.
Wheat pennies are fun to find. Yesterday I went through some change we had accumulated and found two of them -- a 1947 and a 1920.

 

[Silver_Fox]

Not for me. I have big hands and they are to small....especially after working with halves.