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MaDeuce
Penny Pincher Member
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 Posted - 12/06/2007 : 10:11:44
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I've really enjoyed seeing the sorting percentages for pennies that people have been sharing. I've become curious -- does anyone have a feel for percentages of 90% and 40% half dollars? I see reports here and there, but nothing nearly as organized as what is on this site with pennies. Is there a generally recognized %yield for half-dollars as there is with pennies? Thanks,
MaDeuce
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 12/06/2007 : 12:11:45
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| The percentages on half dollars vary widely. Ahything from 0 to quite a few depending on how lucky you get. It is really luck of the draw on half dollars as opposed to pennies where the percentages tend to run pretty close in a given area. Obviously if someone were to sort a large number of boxes it would increase their odds of getting a few good ones. Does the CC2000 machine sort half dollar size coins? |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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MaDeuce
Penny Pincher Member
USA
124 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 13:33:26
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HCBTT, yes, the 2000 sorts half-dollars, though I have not done it. After going back through some of the realcent posts that I've missed recently, I've started to get a little bit of an itch to try sorting half-dollars just for fun. I may try that with the 2000 that I have yet to list on eBay. It must be a sight to see half-dollars come flying out of a sorter...
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 13:39:44
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
The percentages on half dollars vary widely.
So true. Depends where you live and how lucky you are.
I can only give my experiences. (all are approx)
1 year hunting
$72500 spent ($4500 recycled many times)
$550 face in 40% halves found
$125 face in 90% halves (inclues 1 Barber and many walking libs & Bens)
$1 in silver dollars (1886 Morgan)
At todays silver that works out to about $3665 sell.
I do better than most but there are others that put me to shame. Many try it a few times, get nothing and give up.
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 13:48:29
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*****The percentages on half dollars vary widely. *****
Very true. I have been skunked on my last three boxes. And, in those boxes I saw a number of black marker marks in conspicuous places like someone was sorting and seeing if they were getting any return coins.
Cyberdan -- from where do you order your half dollar boxes? |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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cyberdan
Penny Collector Member
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 16:24:25
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Originally posted by texcattlerancher
Cyberdan -- from where do you order your half dollar boxes?
2-3 boxes a week at BofA I don't even ask they just know i will be in.
2 boxes a month at BofWest. 1 bag of anything they can get mostly haves sometimes cents at my CU once a month. Then I do lots of "banking" on Saturdays. |
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TenBears
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1021 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 16:59:33
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Thanks Dan. My source has always been a BofA branch too. But, I need to change that to another bank entirely as I seem to be getting a bunch of someone else's post-sorts. Very disappointing.
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"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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