2013 recovery totals: CardsNCoins

[CardsNCoins]

Stay safe tonight, and Happy New Year to everyone.

In 2013 I searched $1,575 (63 boxes) in cents, $4,500 (9 boxes) in quarters, $279,500 (1,118 boxes) in dimes, $100 (1 box) in nickels, and $377,500 (755 boxes) in halves. Here is what I was able to recover:

43,851 - Copper Cents
949 - Wheat Cents
2 - Indian Head Cents
1863 - Union shall be preserved token
13 - Silver Washington Quarters (only 4 or 5 were from boxes)
3 - Barber Dimes
201 - Mercury Dimes
1,824 - Silver Roosevelt Dimes
13 - Silver Canadian Dimes
1956 Swiss 1/2 Fr. (.835)
2 - War Nickels
1901 Barber Half
1940 1 Rupee (Silver .500)
1952 Booker T. Washington/George W. Carver Commemorative
1964 30 Drachmai (Silver .835)
1966 Bahama 50c (Silver .800)
77 - Walking Liberty halves
88 - Franklin halves
129 - 1964 Kennedy halves
1,073 - 40% Kennedy halves


Best of luck to everyone in 2014

[beauanderos]

great finds! Thanks for sharing...

I mean it, thanks for sharing...

need my address?

[paymehigher]

Thats.............INSANE!

[pennypicker]

77 - Walking Liberty halves

Somebody has been a busy little beaver this past year! It's amazing how Walkers can find their way back into circulation--Mercs also.

[beauanderos]

77 - Walking Liberty halves

Somebody has been a busy little beaver this past year! It's amazing how Walkers can find their way back into circulation--Mercs also.

take a look at those box numbers divided by 52

[stlouiscoin]

Somebody has been a busy little beaver this past year! It's amazing how Walkers can find their way back into circulation--Mercs also.

take a look at those box numbers divided by 52 [/quote]

That's 5.34 boxes PER DAY, every day of the year.

[RichardPenny43]

Wow!
When do you sleep?

[MrIncredible]

Wow!
When do you sleep?

My question is where does he dump all those boxes!?

[Saabman]

Stunning Nick! Amazing! Congrats on an fantastic year!

[plus1hdcp]

Outstanding

[stlouiscoin]

I was bored... at current spot prices, he found about $8100 in silver, and $965 in copper.

[Numis Pam]

Wow!!! Wish I had kept records like this!
Did anyone else do cumulative records of what you accomplished?

[$nack-Money]

curious as to why you do so many dimes instead of just more halves. I love doing dimes myself but cannot justify dime boxes compared to the silver production of halves.

[CardsNCoins]

curious as to why you do so many dimes instead of just more halves. I love doing dimes myself but cannot justify dime boxes compared to the silver production of halves.

For the final 9 months of 2013 I was finding $11.74 worth of silver per $1,000 dimes searched and $11.59 worth of silver per $1,000 in halves searched.

Obviously I did not continue going heavy dimes those last 9 months for the extra 15 cents per $1,000 searched. There were factors involved like ease of acquiring, ease of dumping (very big reason), using my Ryedale to sort them, etc...., but I also knew that I was not hurting myself by keeping my dime searching at a high level instead of adding more halves.

[dakota1955]

Just wondering how many banks do you work with. I know the number I work and I don't come close to that kinds of coins.

[tedandcam]

Nick,
You are the King of roll searchers here on Realcent (at least those who post).

I have a question also. What is the average dollar amount you lose when you dump? Especially on halves.

I had real troubles in the begining with counters ALWAYS being short when I dumped. I complained very politely with the Branch Manager and we split the difference on what I received and what I said I had for a 3 month period. Then she made a big mistake by saying I could roll the coins if I wanted and they would give me credit at the window for what I had rolled. Eureka! I roll the coins put them back into the boxes and presto! I have immediate credit for what I say is there.

They re-roll a lot of the halves and sell them to anyone that comes in and asks for halves They told me my rolls have all been correct that they have re-rolled. It takes me 30 minutes to search, roll and box $500 in halves. I have a pretty good system. And I cut my own paper for the rolls so the cost is almost nothing to do it this way.

If it wasn't for re-rolling, I would probably just buy silver at my LCS or here on RC. Between the inaccuracy of the coin counters and my time, it wouldn't be worth my while to search rolls. And my average per box is just over 2 dimes per box and just over 2 halves per box with 1 in 7 being a 90% half.

[SilverDragon72]

Ok. That is some serious coin sorting you've got going on.....when, exactly, do you sleep?

[camtender]

curious as to why you do so many dimes instead of just more halves. I love doing dimes myself but cannot justify dime boxes compared to the silver production of halves.

For the final 9 months of 2013 I was finding $11.74 worth of silver per $1,000 dimes searched and $11.59 worth of silver per $1,000 in halves searched.

Obviously I did not continue going heavy dimes those last 9 months for the extra 15 cents per $1,000 searched. There were factors involved like ease of acquiring, ease of dumping (very big reason), using my Ryedale to sort them, etc...., but I also knew that I was not hurting myself by keeping my dime searching at a high level instead of adding more halves.

Nice work. Are you getting rolls of dimes or are you getting customer return bags?

[mishra142]

Thanks for sharing Nick. Impressive year. Here are my totals for the year.

376 box of halves searched:
40% - 614
90% - 106

34 boxes of dimes:
24 keepers

25 boxes of nickels:
31 - warnicks
10 - buffs

I search ~500 in pennies per week but i don't keep numbers on them.

[GGerrands]

And here I was going to post about getting 6 boxes in dimes today. Makes me want to up my dime searching by a factor of 10!

[J_Dodge]

Reading a post like this makes me want to scream!!!

You guys that are hitting the mother lode on silver - I mean you no dis-respect or ill wishes - BUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT...

Gol' dang it - it makes me jealous.

Maybe one day my ship - err - box(es) of coins will come in - all loaded up w/ silver. I can only hope.

Keep up the good work.

JD

[mtldealer]

Thats great. I like the meticulous bookkeeping. Last year I did just over 1 million in halfs but its going to take a while to put it all in a excel file. I do have this year mapped out a lot better.
From the begining of the year till now I found

Ben Franklin 1954 - 1
Ben Franklin 1963 - 1
Kennedy 1964 - 15
Kennedy 1965 - 20
Kennedy 1966 - 16
Kennedy 1967 - 36
Kennedy 1968 - 17
Kennedy 1969 - 8
Plus a bunch of foreign that I just throw into a container. One of these days I look thru it.
I searched thru $54,000 in halfs (8K every monday, Wed and Fri)

[chester5731]

Thats great. I like the meticulous bookkeeping. Last year I did just over 1 million in halfs but its going to take a while to put it all in a excel file. I do have this year mapped out a lot better.
From the begining of the year till now I found

Ben Franklin 1954 - 1
Ben Franklin 1963 - 1
Kennedy 1964 - 15
Kennedy 1965 - 20
Kennedy 1966 - 16
Kennedy 1967 - 36
Kennedy 1968 - 17
Kennedy 1969 - 8
Plus a bunch of foreign that I just throw into a container. One of these days I look thru it.
I searched thru $54,000 in halfs (8K every monday, Wed and Fri)

Where do you gat all of the halves? I like searching them but they seem hard to come by.

[fasteddy]

fella's that is some serious searchin'...a big city helps along with some super friendly tellers and banks.

[AGCoinHunter]

Nice work on those dimes. Hope you have an even better 2014 CC.