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2012 Year-End Totals

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,324 ✭✭✭✭
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Alright, finally got to getting the Excel sheet in order to more easily provide coin counts and other info…Here’s the 2012 Breakout:
Number of trips: 112
Cents………..2,529
Nickels………..702
Dimes………1,015
Quarters…….648
Misc……………7
Total Coins…4,901 (one year record. Previous record was 2,704)
Total Face…..$326.93 (hopefully things add up) (one year record. Previous was $166.26)

Coppers: 9 – certainly a mix
-1690s William III Halfpenny (my oldest coin ever)
-1722-1724 Hibernia Halfpenny (was oldest coin for a couple weeks)
-1 Toasted LC
-1802 Draped Bust Large Cent
-1828 Matron Head Large Cent
-Dateless Matron Head Large Cent
-1837/1838 Canada Un Sou Copper
-1833 Canada Halfpenny
-1807 Great Britain Halfpenny

Cents
Miscellaneous Canadian cents from 1850s to mid 1900s
1860 Great Britain Penny
1- 1858 Flying Eagle Cent
44 – Indian Head Cents (one year record. Previous was 13)
538 – Wheat Cents (one year record. Previous record was 242)

2-Cent Pieces
1- Dateless 2-cent piece

Half Real
1 – 1819 Half Real

Nickels
2 – Shield Nickels
24 – V Nickels (one year record. Previous was 6)
42 – Buffalo Nickels (one year record. Previous was 27)
30 – Silver Wartime Nickels (one year record. Previous was 6)
1 – 1927 Canada Nickel

Dimes
2 – Silver Canada Dimes
5 – Seated Dimes (one year record. Previous was 2)
11 – Barber Dimes (one year record. Previous was 4)
59 – Mercury Dimes (one year record. Previous was 23)
32 – Silver Roosevelt dimes (one year record. Previous was 19)

Quarters
3 – Silver Canada Quarters (never found a silver Canada quarter before)
1 – Seated Quarter
3 – Standing Liberty Quarters (one year record. Previous was 2)
12 – Silver Washington Quarters (one year record. Previous was 6)

Half Dollars
3 – Barber Half dollars (never found a barber half until this year)

Jewelry
24 – Pieces of Silver (one year record. Previous was 18)
9 – Pieces of Gold (one year record – previous record was 7). Including two older gold rings.

Overall Totals
162 Silver Coins (one year record – previous record was 64!)

Some 2012finds:
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Comments

  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    Great year!

    I'm not tossing in the towel just yet even though about half my hunting grounds are under 6 inches of snow. I'm less than 100 coins from 35,000 (since I started keeping track in 2002). I want to get there before the end of the year.
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you sure that your totals are complete? You still have the whole month of December to go and you never know with global warming what might happen. Great totals. Your non-clad totals are just unreal. What does all of this look like in one pile?image
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Woo Doggies! That's awesome!
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
    thats a real nice haul. wtg
  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,324 ✭✭✭✭
    Dock, get out there and hit coin 35,000! Would be a nice feat if you can get it done this year. If you don't mind me asking, where do you live? Here in NH, there isn't any snow right now, but it's been below freezing so the ground is starting to freeze in some areas.

    PPC, no guarantees that the detecting year is over. Would be nice to get some weather back in the 40s, and even high 30s. Right now, looks like low/mid 30s for the next few days. Let's all go spray our aerosol cans to get the temps up! Would love to pile up all of the silver for the year and see what kind of pile it creates! Unfortunately, every silver gets put in a 2x2 holder and thrown in an album. Might be able to track down the IHCs, buffalos, Vs, etc and pull a mini Scrooge McDuck. Can provide a pic of that!

    Thanks goldrush and Johnny! It's been a long year, now that winter's here, probably good to find a girlfriend, haha.

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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ya have to love that "Expired" piece. You need to get out there and find that Silver Dollar. The dirt in you pics sure looks moist. Ours is still dry out here in the midwest.
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    PCGS, do your knees still function?
  • DockwalliperDockwalliper Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭
    I'm in Tonawanda NY. Just north of Buffalo, south of Niagara falls. We got a dusting of snow this afternoon but they say we should be in the 50s over the weekend so I might get a shot at 35,000.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Go for it..... very impressive year....hope the weather holds out for you....Cheers, RickO
  • C0INB0YC0INB0Y Posts: 627 ✭✭
    wow! 43.75 coins/per dig!

    Like finding a full Parking Meter every dig!
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  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,324 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>wow! 43.75 coins/per dig!

    Like finding a full Parking Meter every dig! >>



    haha, well kind of... finding a parking meter half full of lincoln cents.

    Also found another piece of parking meter that day too, don't think it ever got posted here:

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