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Every little bit helps pay for &/or support the hobby! Mathis is my second trip to the bank this year, a few months ago I rolled $140... I haven't been "cladding" as much but just rolled $101.50 this trip... and if my math is correct ( I am really bad) 1,430 coins... which averages out to around .07 each recovery... not really free money if I'm working for it... but I'll take it!
We'd all have to change jobs if we considered the hobby work.
Actually, I may have to move over to your neck of the woods. Just did a little quick math on my coins so far for the year and my average is .06 per recovery. May have to start passing on some of the zinc's. Keep in mind, the occasional piece of silver and gold helps the recovery average a bit, too. Anyway, good haul! HH jim tn
That made it a 6.22¢ PCV. It also means that those stinkin' Lincolns accounted for 62.2% of my coin finds when typically, over the last decade or so Pennies only amounted to 53% to 56% of my average take.I only use one bank, the one I have my checking and savings account with.
I have my main checking account with my long-term bank, but I also kept my business account with a different bank. Between th two I can go to one that uses a coin counter.
I very seldom have a stained or discolored coin after cleaning, and the banks people like that. Naturally, like many of us, I am not too excited about the crappy modern Zinc Cents that start deteriorating shortly after being lost in the ground. Some are decent to clean and cash in, some are a little 'iffy' and those I spend, and then there are the 'uglies' and those get tossed.. Like you, I clean coins based upon the quantity build-up. Sadly it isn't like it used to be when my busy Coin Hunting months of April thru August would net me 1600 to 2200 coins-per-month. Then I'd clean them at month's end, but that was back in '95 thru about 2000. The earlier era of vast amounts of coins called for them to be cleaned often, but it was also when a big chunk of them were older, choice coins that got cleaned and carded and put in a binder. I sure miss those days..
I wasn't really a 'clad' hunter early on because I got started in early '65 when 'clad' dimes, quarters and halves got started. I was simply a Coin Hunting and the majority of the coins were older. For the first decade it want from 9-out-of-10 Dimes and Quarters being silver to about 50% of the recoveries being silver as the 'clad' coinage loss increased. By about 1990, a quarter-century of modern 'clad' saw a lot more use and the abundance of lost change got less exciting. Coupled with fewer people using parks and other playgrund to lose stuff, and a shift where less changes seems to be carried by all ages, we just take what we can get. Most of the time, when hunting any grassy areas, I try to select older portion of parks or schools, or get onto private yards / property to increase my chances to find older coins, but to keep enjoying this great sport we have to accept the fact that junk pennies and modern clad is out there and live with it.
That does look faster, aka simple, and I'd use it and roll 'modern' coins if I planned to keep them for a long duration ,,,, but I don't. It's modern money and I just save it up until I use it for a worthy cause: Things like holiday season shopping. buying a new detector, coil other accessory, or firearms' and ammunition. So I just clean them, jar them, and when ready they go to the bank to change for foldable money.
