This is what accrues in a typical night’s Coin-Zen Penny Search.
I’ll explain:
I perform the penny search with the Happenstance Quantum Entanglement of the coin which happened to it as it passed through the Einsteinian Universe of Business Circulation.
Using Emotional Meditation, I then assist the coin into the appropriate slot — rebirth or passage to another level, based upon grade, condition (they are separate issues), scarcity and placement in the population of that issue, plus any mint errors or unusual factors. When you sign up to receive a night’s search bag, this is about what you get, and you get it in an old-fashioned canvas bank-bag like we used to carry on the Wells-Fargo coaches back in the day.
I’d like to tell you what goes into this bag:
First of all, it’s not the product of a single bank box, not typically. Sometimes I get real lucky and the good coins just roll on in by the dozens. Some nights nothing happens at all, and I can zip through several boxes with no visible change in the pile of “good coins”. What is a “good coin”, exactly?
It’s a coin worth saving, packaging in expensive casings and taking the time and trouble to carefully tuck it away into an archival coin-friendly cardboard flip or even more expensive non-corrosive plastic slab.
A coin that’s worth more than a penny. It costs anywhere from $1 to $10 to package a coin correctly, which does include the labor, and I’ll tell you why:
A coin has to be looked at by an expert grader.
You wouldn’t want to pass up a great coin, would you? Through ignorance, we all have done it in the past, but once you have coin-knowledge from coinology.org, you won’t do that ever again, right?
Now, here’s the thing; I’m using in-circulation coins for my nightly Coin-Zen searches, which means I buy the coins at zero premium. In short, I pay a penny for a penny.
By the time you see the coins, I’ve gone through them with a fine-tooth comb and a powerful set of binocular goggles, plus a 40x diamond loupe. Why a diamond loupe? You need to see true colors when examining any coin, but especially copper.
A “good coin” is a coin that meets my standards. This is a multiple-attention thing, something I apply to every coin that passes through my hands, and believe me, I don’t miss a thing. You can search a bag and I could make a good living on just what you’ve missed.
Yes, I’m serious, and I ‘ll take the challenge anytime.
You have to know what you’re looking for; you need to smell the trail of the coin, like a tracker can find a missing person, but you must know exactly what you’re looking for, and in the case of Lincoln Memorial pennies, that means looking with 28 different kinds of attention, on three levels of awareness.
You can’t bullpucky your way there. It takes time. Sheer mileage.
By the time you sit in my shoes, you’ll be able to look at the back of a coin and guess correctly what it’ll look like from the front, and there is no substitute for experience.
Experience can’t be bought. It can’t be shared. It can’t be passed from hand to hand. It must be earned from inside the machine by exposure to outside the machine.
So where the heck was I??? Oh, yeh….the pile of coins at the end of the night.
When dawn comes, I’m left with a small or large pile of “good coins”. I have plenty of coins, and really don’t need any more from the Lincoln Memorial group — I have on hand atm something on the order of 20 full sets of Lincoln Mems.
I don’t cherry-pick from the pile, not ever, not one single coin for any reason, even if I spot a 1909s VDB. I don’t need your money, your coins or even your appreciation. Just take these coins off my hands, willya?
I’d hate to return them to circulation, but if nobody wants to work with them, that’s exactly what I’ll do, because I haven’t the time to market them correctly, and I haven’t the room to keep them forever.
Each pile of “sorted good coins” will cost you $50. Other than basic ID, the coins are unsearched, meaning that I don’t apply a 40x loupe to see them up close and personal.
The size of the resultant pile will vary greatly depending on the luck of the night. I generally manage to wade through two boxes a night, so if the luck is good, you’ll end up with a large yield of goodies which for me means a pile about 25 coins high and four columns deep, and a bunch of columns wide — leaving room for my wonderful Celestron Digital Microscope.
I can focus the search for you: 70’s coins, 80’s coins, only MS66 and above, etc. I can also search wheaties bags for you. I keep nothing, take nothing from the search. I return the selected “good” wheaties and the “not so good” wheaties both to you without further examination, or:
I will pull, identify and grade the better coins from an “unsearched” bag of wheaties. I must have at least $50 face value of pre-1940’s to work with, or can’t do this right. All mint-marks, all mint errors, all high-grade coins, anything discovered in the search, goes to you. I am a totally neutral “sorting agent” in this picture.
If you’re a coinology academy member and you’re at a workshop, you can request a wheaties bag search, which has to be arranged beforehand so we can get a bag for the search, and I’ll perform the “wheaties” search in front of students and on-camera.
BUT — BACK TO THE LINCOLN MEMORIALS “DEAL”:
In the nightly Lincoln Memorial Search, you will receive any and all:
1960, 1960-D, 1970-S small dates
1972 doubles, rpms
Any and all DDOs, OMMs and DDRs, if any.
Any wheaties that happen to pop up, as they tend to do.
Any coin with a value of more than US $1 will be included if found.
You will in fact get every decent coin that shows up in the nightly search, and that’s a fact.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE — PREPPING FOR SALE
If you wish, I will prep the better coins for you, meaning the ones that have a chance to sell independently of an album. The resultant coins will be examined, rough-graded and priced for you. All coins worth flipping will be flipped, identified, rough-graded and valued, ready for market.
The cost to me for this full-service ready-for-market LINCOLN MEMORIAL ONLY coin search is about $125 in hard costs, which would of course have to be covered by you, plus the layout — $50 — for two bank boxes of pennies, one from the East Coast and one from the West Coast, cost of shipping to be paid by you, about $15 for the shipping — luckily, someone there in our work-circle will buy them for you, pack them for you, and ship them to me on your behalf, or you’d have to pay for that, too.
What do I charge for this service? I leave it up to your generosity. All donations go not to me, but to IDHHB, Inc.
My interest is in demonstrating a powerful form of emotional meditation that uses Quantum Entanglement to create its psychic-spiritual effect.
The fact that you can also make a living from it is a wonderful thing. How many meditation techniques do you know that can actually earn you a livelihood?
If you have limited movement, but have upper-body motion, you can do this. If you’re stuck at home, unhirable or just plain out-of-work, if you have no other resources but you have plenty of time on your hands, coinology is for you, was created just for you, and you should give yourself permission to check it out and see if it can work for you.
There are many secrets to coinology, it’s true, and a long and difficult learning-curve with lots of study, almost like a college course, but it’s worth the effort, and you’re worth it, too!
When you do manage to master the basics of coinology, you’ll be hooked up with a whole community of coin-searchers and traders, and I think you’ll like the company I keep!
See You At The Top!!!
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