Starting a Tribe (and questions about yours)

[Silver Runner]

Hi
I will put this up in the tracking threads as well, but I wanted to share it here since my primary motives to CRHing is accumulating copper bullion. Last night I found my 2nd Indian Head Penny of the year! It is a 1909, I crossed my fingers before I flipped it over, but that was not enough to make an S appear on it.

All I can say is that luck must have allot to do with it. I have only searched 11 boxes this year so far. I recall from my days on TNet that most people said they discovered 1 Indian Head Penny per 100 boxes.

I would like to hear on average how much in FV do each of you search per Indian Head cent discovered? Thanks for your replies.

HH,
Silver Runner

[Madwest]

Coin-grats on your finds. I've done well over a ton of cents and not found a single IH.

I bought 5 IH cents from the LCS ($1.25ea) to make sure my comparators reject them properly. Both comparators in both of my sorters reject all 5 of my store-bought IHs. Yet, I've never pulled one from the wild. I don't get it.

note:
My sorters use a Zn reference in the fist comparator and a Cu reference in the second one. Foreign coins, us dimes, early wheats, and badly corroded Zn memorials fall to the final reject bin. All 5 of my store bought IHs fall to the final reject bin.

[Numis Pam]

Nice find! Keep searching,,,

[mbailey1234]

I get one for every 3-4 bags usually ($200 face) but I never order pennies. All of mine come from customer returns in $50 bags right off the coin counters. I may go 10 bags before I see one and then get 2 in the next bag so it's kind of hit and miss.

The only way I can get them with the Ryedale is to run the zincs back through on a zinc accept run with the sensitivity turned up. This also knocks out a few pre 1940 wheats that were missed on the copper accept run.

It has taken a bunch of bags but I think our tribe has topped 30 now.

[scyther]

I get one for every 3-4 bags usually ($200 face) but I never order pennies.

Wow. That's a lot. I also only search bags and I've never got one...

[clone]

My tribe is currently suffering from a membership problem.
Indian head cents found : 0
Cents searched 700

[NHsorter]

14 rolls!!! Step it up my man.

If Adam Young dropped 14 rolls, it would not be worth his time to pick them up.

[spacemanX]

Tribe is at 4
Number of cents searched around $3000
So I guess around $750 per Indian

Keep sorting

[justoneguy]

check the KSA this month.
there may be a wandering tribe looking for a new home.

[outofsort]

You're on a good pace, I have yielded one lonely IH (1906 - AG) from $800+ searched.

[Silver Runner]

Thanks for the info everyone. It seems that it takes both luck and persistence to start a tribe.

HH,
Silver Runner

[twoten01]

I searched around $8,000 in pennies last year and found 18, in the past 3 years of sorting I have just over 1 full roll worth. Now flying eagles are even harder only 1 in all that time, and 1 Army & Navy Civil war token.

[SilverDragon72]

I have been able to find just a couple...

[Romalae]

I cannot confidently give an average because I've only found one IH spill once a few years ago and have found nothing since. It was by luck that I came across those IHs, but there hasn't been any average but zero otherwise.

[Madwest]

Coin-grats on your finds. I've done well over a ton of cents and not found a single IH.

I bought 5 IH cents from the LCS ($1.25ea) to make sure my comparators reject them properly. Both comparators in both of my sorters reject all 5 of my store-bought IHs. Yet, I've never pulled one from the wild. I don't get it.

note:
My sorters use a Zn reference in the fist comparator and a Cu reference in the second one. Foreign coins, us dimes, early wheats, and badly corroded Zn memorials fall to the final reject bin. All 5 of my store bought IHs fall to the final reject bin.

UPDATE: Found my first (and second) indian head cent today. There were two in this bag. I'm only a few weeks away from stacking my 2nd ton, all from bags. I stopped thinking about finding an indian head cent long ago. This bag had a few early wheats, but nothing extraordinary and a typical amount of brass. It did have a 1917D and 1917 plain to go with the 1917S I found last weekend.

Quite satisfying.