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One year of hand sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:46 pm
by spacemanX
First of all, i want to say thanks to everyone here. when i found this site a year ago, and saw what everyone has been finding, i was amazed (and a little disbelief). so
I started by getting a box (or two). After that, i was hooked again. Keeping statistics of what i have found seemed logical, and in line with my personality. It has reignited my interest in coins again, and has provided many, many hours of entertainment.
Here are the finds so far thru July 1st.

pennies searched: 594,100 (only kept this statistic since the beginning of 2013, so 6 months)
Wheats found: $46.82
Pre 1940 (357 in 2013)
dates/mints not found: 26
errors: 4 2009 lincoln on the log
Indians: 10 total, 2013 - 6, 2012 - 4 oldest 1867
1909 - 2
lowest mintage found: (1933d) 6,200,000
highest mintage not found (1911) 101 million - go figure

Biggest challenge - finding a dump bank(s)

goal is to search 1 million in 2013. Good luck all, happy hunting

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:27 pm
by BenG76
It looks like you are doing pretty good. I need to keep better records myself. I usually hunt a while and then take a break for a bit.

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:03 pm
by mtalbot_ca
Impressive!

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:58 pm
by SilverDragon72
All of these sorted by hand? Wow. :o

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:05 pm
by Morsecode
Nice :thumbup:

Keep going :mrgreen:

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:13 pm
by scyther
Very impressive! I thought I was a prolific hand sorter. You're like 4x faster than me! If you don't get sick of it, you're on track to hit 1,000,000 in one year...

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:58 am
by jacer333
Wow, with those numbers hand sorting we might have to classify you as a machine sorter :thumbup:

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 11:46 pm
by HoardCopperByTheTon
Wow.. those numbers are higher than many machine sorters! At that level finding a dump bank or 2 can be a real challenge. :mrgreen:

Re: One year of had sorting (summary)

PostPosted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:43 am
by 68Camaro
Serious stuff - congratulations!