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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I switch denomination for a while when I get bored. If I'm feeling unmotivated normally ill just get dimes or quarters and edge search them. Sure I might miss something like errors and such but if I dont search anything I'm not going to find any silver or foreign coins either like I do just edge searching.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have trolled through dealers' junk boxes with a price per item of up to $15, for the last three decades, looking for World coins and lesser priced ancients.
Better pickings and no obstructive bank policies against against CRH'ers there.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I haven't CRH'd since early august, maybe even late july. I've been meaning to pick up a box, but when I have time to I never want to go. Just a slump in motivation. But hey, maybe that next roll of nickels has a MS-66 1926-S Buffalo nickel? Maybe that roll of cents has a gem UNC 1931-S! That's my motivation! |
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Moderator
 United States
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Take a break. If you miss it, you will be back. If not, you will find something else to do.  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
4932 Posts |
Hey John, send me a roll! Haha! Good recommendation, maybe I need to sit down and stare at my 1983 DDR I found CRHing.. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
663 Posts |
Oh man, that feeling is the worst...... I go through it too. I finally get the kids to bed, go get all of my stuff set up (light, towel, boxes, magnifying glass, lists, coin books, and little beverage) and by the time I have it all set up I don't feel like looking or I get super tired within the first couple of rolls. When that happens, I just take some time off. I even take some time off from the forums. Then it seems like I'll randomly check the forums a few days/weeks later and get excited about someone else's find and that seems to get me fired up again. Hang in there!
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Valued Member
United States
486 Posts |
this happened to me for about a week. I realized with me was that I was going too slow and it was boring. I was scanning every coin front and back, up and down with my loupe. I realized that the way to find more was to go a little faster. before, I was a little too afraid of missing anything good, but I now trust myself that ill see anything of interest, and if its so small that I couldn't see it, it most likely wasn't worth keeping. not sure if any of that made sense hahah, but once you find something good I'm sure you'll be hooked again
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Pillar of the Community
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That is how it was for me at the start when I only had 1 penny folder and my 20th Century type folder. I needed everything to fill every hole! So I began sorting everything, then picked the best* coin for the hole filling. As time went on I needed to sort less and it gained speed. Now I can almsot eyeball all the keepers from a bunch of rolls dumped out, but still check all dates anyway.
*Best meaning ones I want to put in the hole based on what I look for out of a coin in my collection. Volume hunting gets you more because you have more access to coins to look at, the only problem is what to do with the higher volume of leftovers. Luckily I have found a use for all coins except large quantities of pennies. dollars spend easy, halves go to the gas station, quarters a bar will buy to help keep change and have them for their pool tables, dimes get mixed in with gas money, nickels get weekly lottery tickets and the Sunday newspaper, and pennies gt the Wednesday newspaper. And for some reason I still got a dump bank after working all that out....
But I have 10 rolls of nickels for 3 weeks now I just haven't looked. need to rest my eyes and do other hobbies every so often or watch some movies and give my hands a rest as well as my eyes.
I am sort of the opposite when sorting. I throw coins into a pile I know I don't need, and anything suspect for any reason gets set aside for resorting later and I whittle it down over time. That way I can get rid of the bulk in the above mentioned ways, and then anything left over that was kept is just the cherry on top I can spend later. That Is how I found 4 rolls worth of 1976-D halves I had forgot why I kept and now wondering should they join their 1976-P brethren to be spent on something for myself.
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Valued Member
United States
449 Posts |
i also lose interest once in a while. its been a few months for me too, I think its the summer months also. so busy with family stuff and army training and work. once its winter I will have more time. and I'm kinda mad about ATB mintages. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
513 Posts |
Consider buying a new folder/album for moderns (pick a denomination) that needs to have all holes filled.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
624 Posts |
Quote:and I'm kinda mad about ATB mintages What are you mad about specifically? I see you are an ATB fan. That the mintages are too low? Too high? The S coins? The quality? Just curious. It is my favorite series so far, always wondering other peoples opinion on them. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
663 Posts |
In addition to getting a new folder, I also find either getting a new book or going back and looking at my current books also helps perk my interest. "Strike it Rich" or the Cherryickers. My wife subscribed to Numismatic News for me and so I get one of those every other week or so. That helps too! :) I'll also go on copper coins, maddieclashes, PCGS, or some other website and just read, check out errors/varieties from a particular year, etc. The more you learn the more you want to find certain specimens or want to go back and recheck stuff you already have set aside. |
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Pillar of the Community
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always wondering other peoples opinion on them. STOP! That is my opinion. State Quarters was a novel idea, then they add the DC and territories, then they want to do it with 56 more coins on top of Pre$, SAC/NAs... in 2021 there will be 118 circulating quarter designs in the USA. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! They want to complain about the cost of the penny and how "nobody uses them" because they are just "storing them away somewhere" but what do you think happens when they try to turn a coin into a collector series? Did they think people weren't going to "store them away somewhere" when part of the gimmick for the State Quarters was to invigorate the coin collecting product market? over half the shelf space currently for coin collecting products is State and ATB products! How much did it cost for those engraves and sculptors for all those molds and designs? Want less coins "stores away and not spent" then you shouldnt have made 15 a year over 20+ years when 3 a year would have sufficed! The US Mint makes a killing off of them with the new "invigorating collectible items" they sell with them since the State Quarters. Year sets, $10 rolls for $20 + S&H, weird little sets here and there that otherwise they wouldn't have had had the quarters not had so many designs. Yet these numbers aren't recorded when they complain "the penny costs too much to make" as the Mint still makes a killing in profit on ALL its coin product sales! When you combine all these factors the State and ATB are at the center of lies and fraud the Mint gives to the US public AND congress! Really do we need 118 designs on a quarter for cashiers to have to memorize and be accountable for when most of them probably don't know about the dollar coins or even half dollars still existing as spendable money? That level of knowledge is well above their pay grade and qualifications for a simple CASHIER! So most just don't care and more coin related policies exist now because of and since the State/ATB quarters where they don't even want to deal with any coins quicker than just waiting for everyone to transition to plastic/electronic money. I call them hogwash! But that is just my opinion, now excuse me while I check my pocket change for a Bombay Hook to fill a hole in my folder so I can have at least every circulating coin design released in my lifespan.  Edited by shadz
10/06/2015 7:17 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
729 Posts |
Ive lost most of my motivation as well. But when I find some silver it picks me up.
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Pillar of the Community
1325 Posts |
Last roll in a box of nickels I have been working off an on with for a month, 1951 and 1943 P. That's a pick me up!
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Posted 10/03/2015 09:01 am
