CRH for January 2009

[Brett]

I did 4 boxes of pennies tonight, I had 1 really good box with 32 Wheaties in it, that was my best box so far. Here is what I found.

Oh come on, I could dig up 66 wheaties in a day no problem.

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p.s. Where'd you bury your stash again?



Congrats! Are your eyes and fingers getting tired yet?

 

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[treasurefiend]

Thanks guys, I was just blowing off some steam, no CRH find can ever replace the feeling of when I found my first silver (1937 Merc) and all of the other cool finds I made while MD'ng. I am still going to go out and hunt just like last year!!! Joe, Mike you remember the old parking lot in the woods I was telling you about last year (but we never made it over to check it out). I wanna hit every square inch of that place starting this spring. Oh, I also want to try and find that old tavern, I heard about it before but never had an exact location (now we do). I am about half way there (with CRH silver) to getting my Excalibur 1000. I should have enough by summer.

The bad part is that Joe knows where I live, so he could really sit outside my place and picket!!! LOL

My back is aching but my eyes are fine. The secret location to my stash is my safe inside my house.
I have thousands of 40's & 50's Wheaties, I was thinking of burring a cache somewhere, but if I did, it would be somewhere where nobody would have a reason to go there. Like out in the absolute middle - like do the math and use a gps to find the exact center of some woods and bury like $5 in Wheaties in an old bottle that I have found..

 

[mikewaz]

He's Back!!!

 

[treasurefiend]

 

[Lowbatts]

Wow!

 

[Brett]

Holy crap Kermit! Those were some rockin' boxes!!!!!!!!! I finally got some more halves (2 boxes) so hopefully they produce! I'll update later.

 

[treasurefiend]

Awesome, I hope you get a dream box!!!!!

 

[Brett]

Well I got my first GREAT BOX of halves!!! I guess this is as close to a dream box as I have ever got, so check it out!











Box #1 (pictured)
5 - 90% (1 - '53, 4 - '64)
23 - 40%
1 - 1973 Iran 20 Rial (nickel plated copper)
1 - 2001-D

Box #2 (not pictured)
6 - 2001-D
1 - 2004-D
1 - 1972-D (double rim)
1 - 1971-D (double rim)

I love adding so much loot at one time.. I'm finally catching back up to you TF!

 

[treasurefiend]

WOW - Awesome job bud!!!! Lots of silver with including a Frankie, and a cool foreign coin too - CONGRATS!!!!!

Is that foreign coin silver? You can check by sound. Get a 90% and flick it in the air using your thumb, listen to the sound. Then do it to the foreign. Then flick a 40% and see if they sound similar.

 

[Brett]

Thanks man! Gotta love it when the silver's flowing. After about an hour of looking, I found out that foreign coin is an Iranian 20 Rial from 1973... it's just nickel plated copper. Oh well, still cool.

 

[treasurefiend]

I just got done with a dime box & 2 penny boxes, they had 23 Wheaties, here is what I got:

Dime box:
Skunk

Penny box #1:

1940d
1942
1944d x 2
1945
1953s
1954d
1954s
1955d x 2
1956d
1957d

Oldest Canadian Penny:
1946

Penny box #2:

1934
1939
1940
1940d
1941
1944
1945
1952d
1956d
1957d
1958d

Not the best and not the worst, hell - I just killed 2 hours at work!!!

 

[treasurefiend]

Thanks man! Gotta love it when the silver's flowing.

Hell yea, I hope it keeps up. Sadly I seen a dramatic down turn in the dimes, now I am 50/50 on getting 1 silver per box. I guess people were turning in the silver dimes to get more money for Xmas. On the otherhand, I am doing a whole lot better with silver half's!!! Weird....

 

[Brett]

At least you are killing it with wheaties as well. I bet those are as slow as halves... I don't like having to look at all of the dates and mintmarks, but I'll do it for some big silver! I've also seen a similar downturn in dimes... avg. like 1 per box now.

Oh, btw... did you check your 55-d's for double die obverse? I don't think they are all as pronounced as the books show... might not be very obvious.

 

[treasurefiend]

Oh, no I didn't even think to look.I'll check when I get home.

 

[treasurefiend]

I did 4 boxes of half's today & they were stinky!!!! I did however find 1 1964 half, but it is also silver plated.... Why in the heck would someone silver plate a 90% silver coin? Hey I will take the however I can get them!!!!

The coins is a lot more shiny than in the pix, also the edge is screaming plated, it doesn't have the same feel as my mercury dipped half so I believe its silver.

 

[Brett]

Pretty cool TF! Sucks about the 4 boxes only having one... but dang, when you find one you find one! WTG

 

[treasurefiend]

2 more boxes, just killin time at the night job. I found 21 wheaties.

box #1
1920
1945 x 2
1951d
1953d
1956d x 3
1957
1957d
1958d

forign:
1998 Bahamas 1 cent

box #2
1937d
1941
1945
1947d
1949
1951d
1952d
1953d
1956
1957d

I also found a cool gold plated penny. The clad penny next to it is just to show what a regular penny looks like with my lighting. That makes 2 plated coins for me today, 1st was the 1964 half that was silver plated then this.

 

[Brett]

Awexome TF! Are you doing wheaties just to fill books, jars, whatever... or are you looking for those key date ones to hit it big?

I just think is amazing how many coins we are searching through in such a short time. I've gone through more coins in one month than I've ever had passing through my hands my entire life.

 

[treasurefiend]

I look through wheats for earily dates and someday I hope to find an Indian Head!!!! Other than that, I just toss the rest into a cigar box. Just in January I searched $20,570.00, that is 127,040 coins searched!!!!

 

[Brett]

Geez man... I've only done about a fourth of that. You've gotta be grabbin' coins every day just about.

Good luck on getting an IH! That would be sweet... like the barber you found CRH'ing dimes.