I was able to find $1,580 in clad! I was down this year compared to 2016. I found I think $1,700 + then. Still a lot of clad for sure!
I see you broke the $1,000 barrier too!! Congrats!
atpro dude
Yep!
I never let it sit around long enough to figure out how much I've got though. I think, though, that it's not nearly the quarter ratio that you have (Unless you simply converted your clad to quarters).
Looking at my find rates over my Coinstar reciepts, I have pretty even find rates across quarters dimes and nickels, but pennies have a big jump.
Volume-wise I'm finding:
Pennies: 45%
Quarters: 19%
Dimes: 18%
Nickels: 17%
Dollars and halves: 1%
Which really isn't bad, when you consider that the value of the above chart ends up like this for every 1000 coins:
Pennies: $4.50
Quarters $47.50
Dimes: $18.00
Nickels: $8.50
Dollars& halves: 9.00
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TOTAL: $87.60
Which comes dang close to an "average Month for me."
I'd never really considred the NUMBER of coins I'm digging up. looks like I'm clearly about 10K-12K a year. That's stupid. LOL Add into that 200 rings, too, and that's where the real money is. I found 56.55 grams of 14K, an 30.59 grams of 10K, along with over 4 ounces of silver.
Add to that a few knives I found and sold, and the value of the diamonds in the rings (over 4 carats total, I've sold about 2.25 carats worth so far, for just over $530), and it adds up nicely.
Now,*puts on nerd voice* assuming my calculations are correct *the value of what I have found is just over $3500, and I put just about 700 hours into the hobby. That means I made., THIS YEAR... DRUM ROLL... $5 an hour for a hobby. Not too shabby.
Which is almost spot on with the other to years I've done this. (the first year, I had really poor recovery, and time-in, comparatively, but I found a ring that was sold for $2500.) Let's see how this one rolls!
Skippy
really great year!
