The Cent Project

"12/14/2007 - Cent Project on temporary hold"

It appears like he latest update is from December 2007, so my guess is that the "project" is dead.

Any News on the life of the project? I've gone through and read most of the archives concerning Mr. Daughtrey's relocation to Florida followed by an overflowing plate.

Regardless, thank you to Mr. Daughtrey's constant updates to his coppercoins website and insightful explanations on the forums here!

It seems as if there is no shortage of volunteers for sorting/data gathering, and also data entering/interpretation. Although I am relatively new to the hobby; I am willing to help out with the project in any way possible. I'm great with data interpretation/compilation and have coordinated large groups of geographically separated individuals.

Given the length of time and changes that this country's economy has seen since the Cent Project's inception, now is the best time to resurrect this unique endeavor! There hasn't been a time in recent history where so many hoards (cents in particular) have been turned in for cash by those needing to liquidate to stay afloat. We should be able to gather a better cross-section of data given the sample population is more true to life.

My questions are these: Where is the raw data now? What form is it in? How much time is left on the cent project's web address registration? Would you be willing to monetize the site (if only google adwords, ebay, pcgs,ngc?) to pay for operating and administration (marketing?)?

There are definitely more resources available to administrators and volunteers to make their jobs easy - could even create a standard webform for volunteers to input data that could compile and analyze in real time. Just as other niches across the internet, the social interaction and comradery among participants could spin off into meetups, get togethers, organizations.

As you can see, I am very interested in awakening the beast, and am positive there are dozens of CCF members as well as other enthusiasts that don't even know about it yet. So I guess if you are reading this CopperCoins, please weigh in with your 2 cents (pun intended) to make this thing happen!