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ENTRY THREAD: SEPTEMBER , 2005 "QUANTITY" AWARDS (Most Face Value US Coins, Most Silver Co

goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
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If you wish to compete for the two monthly "quantity" awards (Most Silver Coins, Most Face Value US Coins), post your silver coin and face value totals for the month here.

Just edit your posts to update your total counts (instead of reposting the count each time you make new finds). Please try to limit your replies here to one post, if possible. You'll need to have your final edits in before the last day of the month, as that is when the awards will be tallied.
"Silver count" in this instance refers only to COINS, be they US or foreign. "Silver count" does not refer to silver jewelry. However, if you find a piece of coin jewelry, you may count it on your silver count, your face value count (if it's a US coin), AND enter it in the jewelry competition.

Silver coins also count toward your face value totals, so if for example you found nothing but a silver dime and two modern (nonsilver) quarters all month, your silver coin count would be 1, and your face value count 60 cents.

Non-US coins will not count toward your face value total, but if they are silver, you may claim them on your silver count. For example, if you found nothing but a silver English shilling and two modern (nonsilver) US quarters, your silver count would be one and your face value count 50 cents.

The 1942-45 "wartime" Jefferson nickels DO count as silver, though they are only .350 fine instead of .900 fine.
(For those less numismatically inclined among us, these are the coins with the large mintmarks over the building's dome on the reverse.)

Please copy and use this format when posting your counts (just enter your totals where the zeroes are).



Cents: 0
Nickels: 0
Dimes: 0
Quarters: 0
Halves: 0
Dollars: 0
Gold Coins: 0

Face value count: $0.00
Silver coin count: 0
Gold coin count: 0
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  • CROCKofCOINSCROCKofCOINS Posts: 1,545 ✭
    Cents: 108
    Nickels: 35
    Dimes: 83
    Quarters: 81
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 1 ? ($50.00)

    Face value count: $31.18. . . not counting the gold coin :-|
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 1 ???

    Finds for Sept. Note*** I won 5 Silver Rounds at the club meeting image
    One Silver Round each for: The Gold Coin
    The Pirate Coin
    The Gold Bracelet
    The Overall Display
    And to top it off---> Membership drawing LOL

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    Jerry
    CROCK of COINS
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Cents: 16
    Nickels: 18
    Dimes: 21
    Quarters: 32
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $11.16
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cents: 0
    Nickels: 0
    Dimes: 0
    Quarters: 0
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $0.00
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0


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  • laserartlaserart Posts: 2,255 ✭
    Cents: 5
    Nickels: 0
    Dimes: 1
    Quarters: 0
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $0.15
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0
    "If I had a nickel for every nickel I ever had, I'd have all my nickels back".
  • CoinOnTheCobCoinOnTheCob Posts: 712
    Cents: 15
    Nickels: 2
    Dimes: 6
    Quarters: 2
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $1.35
    Silver coin count: image
    Gold coin count: image
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  • speer34speer34 Posts: 375 ✭
    Cents: 3
    Nickels: 2
    Dimes: 9
    Quarters: 2
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $1.53
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0

    In addition to the US change that I have found, I have also found 27.67 British Pound Sterling. With the current exchange rate of approx 1.85 here on base, that equates to $51.19.

    Speer34

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  • SilverDreamsSilverDreams Posts: 427 ✭✭
    Cents: 15
    Nickels: 6
    Dimes: 9
    Quarters: 9
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $3.60
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0

    Coins of Note: 1944 Wheatie
    I lust for silver.
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  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    Cents: 304
    Nickels: 38
    Dimes: 120
    Quarters: 53
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $30.19
    Silver coin count: 2
    Gold coin count: 0

    1943 Merc, 1952 D Rosie,3 Wheatys
    +21 Canadian cents, 1 Canadian quarter
    1 2003 5 pence
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    No coins but I save a buttload on my insurance by switching to Geico

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    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • loditomloditom Posts: 684
    cents-271
    nickels-48
    dimes-98
    quarters-65
    halfs-0
    dollars-0
    gold coins-0

    face value count-$31.16
    silver count-4(43s&43p war nickel's,05s barbar dime,190?s barber quarter)
    gold coin count-0
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  • BoxToppBoxTopp Posts: 113
    Cents: 5
    Nickels: 0
    Dimes: 5
    Quarters: 1
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $0.80
    Silver coin count: 5
    Gold coin count: 0

    1953s quarter, 1937s merc, 1946s rosie, 1963d rosie, 1946s rosie
    1914s wheatie, 1910 wheatie, 1917s wheatie, two 1944s wheaties
  • BoxToppBoxTopp Posts: 113
    Is it allright to just do a silver count?
    very rarely do I count all my clad.
  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    Fine with me but it looks kinda funny. At least add up the value of the Silver...Just for kicks.

    Thats better image
  • mdlessmdless Posts: 94
    Cents: 54
    Nickels: 4
    Dimes: 5
    Quarters: 6
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $2.74
    Silver coin count:
    Gold coin count: 0
  • RiccarRiccar Posts: 789
    haven't kept track of the clad but I did find a couple silvers at the beginning of the month...

    Cents: 0
    Nickels: 0
    Dimes: 0
    Quarters: 0
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $0.00
    Silver coin count: 2 (1943-S and 1945-D silver war nickels)
    Gold coin count: 0
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    cents----------613
    nickels----------43
    dimes----------164
    quarters-------159

    face value----$64.43
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • mdlessmdless Posts: 94
    How do you find all those coins in a month? that's unbelievable. Do you ever go to sleep?image
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I generally carry my detector everywhere I go. We have a new grandaughter and have been visiting alot. I found a baseball complex and a large number of soccer fields that haven't been gone over too well. Very little of the coins have been found on top of the ground. I go around the edge of the soccer fields where the fans sit in their lawn chains. There must be around 15 fields there. I only use a screwdiver to find them. This has been benefical when the park people come around checking to see if you are tearing up the place. I can understand their concern as sometimes I have followed someone that digs like a hog. These people can ruin it for everyone else. I think that people just throw their pennies away. It's not uncommon to find between 15 or 20 in a small area. But they do add up.
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • mdlessmdless Posts: 94
    I'm still shocked at the volume in a one month timeframe. WOW!!!. Truly amazing. How do you dig them up with only a screwdriver?
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I probe until I hit the coin or object (if I'm lucky a ring) . Then I find the edge and work it up. I wear a pair of batting gloves and sometimes I follow the screwdiver down and pull up the coin. When you are finished you can hardly tell you've been there. After a bit the screw diver wears to a point and really goes into the ground better than a knife.
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • Freak1cFreak1c Posts: 714
    Cents:
    Nickels: 0
    Dimes: 0
    Quarters:
    Halves: 0
    Dollars: 0
    Gold Coins: 0

    Face value count: $0.00
    Silver coin count: 0
    Gold coin count: 0

    Freak
  • BoxToppBoxTopp Posts: 113
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