How many coins have you searched through

[sir]

I would like to know many coins, thoughout your entire crhing career, that you guys have searched through.
I've gone through 560,000 pennies in 2.5 years

 

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[obediah]

I would like to know many coins, thoughout your entire crhing career, that you guys have searched through.
I've gone through 560,000 pennies in 2.5 years

Since March of this year when 1st started 180,000 plus Halves
5000+ Dimes
2500 Pennies

 

[Silver Stripe]

my calculator caught fire trying to get the answer. somewhere between a million and a billion.
HH Mark

 

[Shake-N-Bake]

The Pennies I am pretty accurate on, but the others give or take a thousand or so...

This is totals from Sept 2008, but 90% 0f the total is from Jan 09 till present(I put it in over drive)

Pennies 3.4 million (1,360 Boxes)

Nickels 150,000 (75 Boxes)

Dimes 75,000 (30 Boxes)

Quarters 7,000 (2.5 boxes)

Halves 90,000 (90 boxes)

Small Dollars 1,500

Large dollars 23,000


Wow I peolpe are right, I AM CRAZY!!!

Jason

 

[Kantuckkeean]

I don't keep records. I started to, but then I thought...this is a hobby and if I keep good records, it'll be too much work. I'm gonna quit slackin' as my New Year's Resolution and keep track for a while, see how it goes. I started in July, very small at first, then getting up to buying and ordering boxes. So, this is just a guess.

Halves: ~20,000 4 boxes, plus the machine bags, loosies, and handrolls
Nickels: ~50,000 about 25 boxes
Cents: ~20,000 about 8 boxes

Just a guess. I'll start keeping track next year.

Kindest regards,
Kantuck

 

[golden silver]

So far this year $125,000 worth of coin give or take a few hundred mostly in halves and some dimes.

Golden Silver

 

[Ju8vP3t]

Approximately $100k in Halves since the begining

 

[sir]

Pennies 3.4 million (1,360 Boxes)

Nickels 150,000 (75 Boxes)

Dimes 75,000 (30 Boxes)

Quarters 7,000 (2.5 boxes)

Halves 90,000 (90 boxes)

Small Dollars 1,500

Large dollars 23,000


Wow I peolpe are right, I AM CRAZY!!!

Jason

Did you know that if you stacked every penny you searched it would be 14,520 feet high or about 2.75 miles. That's halfway up mount everest. Some semi key wheats don't even a mintage as high as that. At my rate it would take me 17.5 years to go through what you went through in 1 year. Now that's alot of coin. Also it seems you've gone through alot of large dollars, have you found alot of morgan's or peace dollars, how'd did you get you're hand on so many?

 

[coinmojo]

Well over 3 million Halves alone.

Mojo

 

[Immy]

How many stars are in the sky...

 

[47thelement]

Then asnwer to your question is better answered like this. When will you stop searching coins? and that is a very simple answer...

When I wake up and see crushed velvet 3 inches from my face

 

[golden silver]

Pdiddy, So are you saying you will stop when the Artist known as prince gets up close and personal with you?

Golden Silver

 

[Rich Hartford]

I started on Nov.27, 2008 10 months ago.

Here are the numbers searched
Halves-171,416
Quarters-44,600
Dimes-450,590
Nickels-33,900

 

[maine_Jim]

About 600,000 in halves
100,000 in dimes
5,000 in nickels
10,000 in cents

Only exact number here is for number from the boxes of halves - 452,000 in last twelve months the rest are a pretty good estimate. Can't imagine what some of the serious cent searchers do with their copper machines and bank bags.

Maine_Jim

 

[sir]

Pdiddy, So are you saying you will stop when the Artist known as prince gets up close and personal with you?

Golden Silver

I think he means when he wakes up to find out that he is in a casket, dead.

Coinmojo, how long did it take to go through 3 million halves. Thats 1.5 million dollars.

 

[goldencoin]

Between 1 and 2 million, mostly pennies, dimes, and nickels

HH
-GC

 

[47thelement]

Pdiddy, So are you saying you will stop when the Artist known as prince gets up close and personal with you?

Golden Silver


I think he means when he wakes up to find out that he is in a casket, dead.

GS - that's funny!! Wrong but funny oh and by the way yes Sir is correct

 

[GMan00001]

Although I have searched more than this, these totals are from my documented results.... (about april 2006 - present)

pennies - 3,178,980
nickels - 977,831
Dimes - 1,169,911
Quarters - 253,549
Halves - 163,022
Dollars - 2118

Total - 5,745,411 coins

I would guesstimate that the numbers prior to that would be primarily on the order of
250,000 to 500,000 pennies
300,000 to 600,000 nickels
25,000 to 50,000 dimes
10,000 to 50,000 quarters
2,000 to 5,000 halves
100 to 200 dollars

 

[coinmojo]

Coinmojo, how long did it take to go through 3 million halves. Thats 1.5 million dollars.

15 boxes a wee for 52 weeks for the last 4 years.

$7,500.00 x 52 x 4 = 1,560,000.00

It's amazing how that adds up.

Mojo

 

[katzky]

Well over 3 million Halves alone.

Mojo

Are you able / willing to reveal the breakdown of the keepers found? I am interested to see how a long term average yield / box might look.