Docc's 1000th Post Giveaway - Sharpen A Pencil - Ends On 11/24/24 At 8pm Mst.

Thanks for the opportunity to play your game DOCC & congrats to the winners! .... Update, I just went back & looked, I didn't realize I was one of the winners, lol! Thank you so much DOCC!


.... The old poker adage.... "I'd rather be lucky than good." I'll be PM'ing you shortly.

Congrats to the winners!
Great contest. Thank you DOCC

Petespockets55 - You definitely had the count to value ratio pegged. Did you base that off your 'jug'?

Yep, just me over the past 3 years (sort of a semi-hobbyJob). But in all fairness, not necessarily same number of holes. Handful on the surface and 10-15% of holes had multiple coins. Given your fondness for analytics and detecting, you may have interest in some of these assumptions:

On distribution:
- Cents (coloration): Brown (mostly), blend in to most surfaces
- Dimes (size): Smallest so tend to slither to floor easily. And, out here we are primarily conifer needles, fluffy year 1 but decompose quickly.
- Quarters (weight): Given size, it is surprising to find so many. Assumption is weight drops them to floor quickly.
- Nickels: Just an outlier. The signal is the same as 22 bullet casings; in my neck of the woods we have a lot of bullet casings. Unless a signal is rock solid it tends to be ignored (even with that it is a 50/50 outcome)

I'm anal, GPS of each good find goes into Google Earth. Jewelry and other collectible relics aside - out of that 2-Gallon jug and rejects (roughly 6K coins), the following were processed.
Cents - IHC (17), LWC (Don't track but guess 125-175 range is fair)
3-Cent - Nickel (1)
Nickels - Shield (1), V (21), Buffalo (16), War Nicks (8), Pre-60's Jeffs (Guestimate 10-15, don't track)
Dimes - Seated (2), Barber (26), Merc (31), Roosie Ag (33)
Quarters - Barber (4), SLQ (1), Wash Ag (13)
Halfs - Seated (1), Barber (2), Walking (4), Franklin (1), Kennedy Ag (3)
Dollars - Morgan (4), Peace (1)

Obviously #'s are heavily skewed towards location researched/targeted. For example, currently working area that is 30's - 50's collectible coinage only.

Out of the roughly 300 isolated I'd estimate 50% conserved well enough to add to collection or sell. Only 5-10% of coppers ever get beyond cull. So somewhere around a 2-2.5% collectible recovery rate.

Thanks for the extra stats DOCC.
That was a lot of Barber dimes and V nickels.

Did the retailer really get 12.7% as their fee? (My calculation.) It seems high since I thought they were at about 11%.

Prize photo split into its own topic at Winner's request:

http://goccf.com/t/473743

Holy Moly - that is like 6++ weeks to travel across 5 states. I figured you got them a long time ago.