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i keep reading, and seeing the photos posted of many great coin finds. many of them are posted by the same people over and over again. my question is - how many coins are you searching through, to keep finding the quantities your posting.

personally I manage only about 1 box (or so) of cents in a month. I don't expect to have the same quantity of finds, and I DO come across the occasional jewel. but some of you people must be going through huge amounts of coins. just wondering. thanks.
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 Posted 08/03/2010  4:10 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add John1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I average three boxes of cents per month. I think this topic was posted before
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 Posted 08/03/2010  4:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismo to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As long as my eyes don't act up on me, I do a box a week, mostly in the evening.
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 Posted 08/03/2010  5:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gutkowski to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Its hard to say was doing 2 boxes a week but now I buy them bulk so maybe 3500 a week
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 Posted 08/03/2010  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add cdiddle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I do an average of 4 boxes in 7 days and either my eyes are much worse than I thought but I don't even find jewels very often.
Should have added that I do pennies.
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08/03/2010 8:18 pm
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 Posted 08/03/2010  8:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add okiepb to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Halves I can go thru pretty fast - 4 boxes a week is easy. Cents take longer - a box takes a couple weeks. So it varies depending on what I'm searching.
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 Posted 08/03/2010  11:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add legend to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Greetings.
I go through about a fifty dollar bag every other week. I posted a pic of my five gallon jars on another forum, but it felt like bragging, so I kept from posting it here as a newby. The copper cents still waft into the area freely here, and all my LMC are unsearched. I get full bags of fifty bucks all the time for face. No end to cents collecting here.
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 Posted 08/03/2010  11:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Secret Argent Man to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow, there's some dedication going on here.

Myself, I tend to go in spurts...

Generally get a roll of dollars every payday. The ones I don't need are spending money and I actually carry/spend them. (Hey the gov wants them circulating, I'm doing my part!)

All other pocket change I get goes into a jar, and when the jar gets full-ish I go through it. Maybe once every couple of months?

Friends & family also know I collect so some will do similar and when they have a bunch they'll "sell" it to me. And then sometimes when the wife is complaining her purse is too heavy I'll raid that too.

And then on extreme occasion I'll get a roll or two of something else from the bank "just because"

I've only recently begun looking for errors though and I think it's like any skill and it goes faster the more you do it.
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 Posted 08/03/2010  11:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wolf-n-wa to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I will do a box (of cents) a week when I get them. WOLF
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I haven't searched any coins with dependable stats in a while now, but back when I did, I would often go through about 50 rolls a day. I currently have half a million to go through, so I haven't bought any bank boxes in years.
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 Posted 08/04/2010  08:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Waredu to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I do a box of nickels and a box of cents every week.
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My son and I usually have $25 in change rolls (sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less). Most days, I can get to the bank and trade them in for whatever he's asked me to get. Today, for example, I'll pick up a roll of quarters and three rolls of dimes.

I also save out all the Canadian change I get. We have a friend who visits from Canada once in a while; when she does, she'll pick up rolls of cents equal to what I have for her in Canadian change. Right now, I'm at $15.50, so I could get 31 rolls of Canadian cents to look at. Where's my '85 pointed 5?!
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 Posted 08/04/2010  1:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add southerngent to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
At least a box of cent a week and sometimes a box of nickels as well. Sometimes luck is with me and I get some nice pieces and other times, just dirty fingers.

Seeing quite a few foreign lately in both.
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 Posted 08/04/2010  6:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Tim Stroud to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I might do a box of cents every two months. Halves I will search every time time I am able to get them, whether it be everyday or every six months.
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