I’m Dave Gates and this article series documents my experience coin roll hunting pennies. I initially started coin roll hunting in November of 2017.
It’s a hot and humid Saturday / Sunday August 7 & 8, 2021 and I’m searching through pennies. Box 18 was a decent box. Continue reading for the results of this hunt.
Goals for coin roll hunting
Please read my inaugural coin roll article for my goals and thought process. Below is the short version.
- To have some fun, stay productive and keep busy.
- Treasure Hunting. Sort of fills that Indiana Jones wanna-be character. Finding treasure is always fun.
- To build up a copper bullion portfolio. There’s always room for more bullion in my portfolio.
So here is what I found from box 18 of coin roll hunting $25 in pennies.
- $5.83 of copper.
- (6) random wheat pennies.
- (2) Canadian pennies.
- (14) nice coin for albums.
- $19.17 of other newer zinc coins which I will return to the bank.
I’m lucky the bank I use has a coin counting machine when returning the zinc pennies, so this won’t cost me. Some banks charge a 10% fee on the amount counted. I believe vending machines like Coin Star are similar.
In fact one reason for starting this project was to keep my cost as minimal as possible. If I had to pay for returning the rejects I don’t think I’d be as agreeable to this project.
Conclusion
Note to self: honestly I don’t remember when I got this box. I’m just getting around to searching it. It was a decent hunt with some nice coins to add to the collection. The most significant finds were some 60s and 70s nicer coins, with brilliant luster, these make good album pieces.
As info, we now have a complete set of 4 boxes which I’ll gift to the kids for Christmas. Searching through 18 boxes, I’m learning is a very time-consuming process. I should really keep these for myself, but hey, I hope they enjoy them.
I have one more box I need to search and then I can start working on my own coin hoarding.
Thanks
Dave