I was a teenager in the 60s and we used to get $50 of pennies and search through them over the weekend for our collection. Sometimes we did nickels or dimes or quarters. Rare coins can indeed be sold. You can look on eBay for prices, but condition really matters when it comes to prices. A few months ago, I thought it would be nice to give everyone attending my high school 50th reunion a 1970 half dollar. I had the bank order $1000 of halves for me. Well, 1970 was a year when halves were still partially silver. I found zero 1970 halves. I found two halves minted between 1965 and 1970 (the years when they were 40% silver). 2 out of 2,000 coins = 0.1% and none of them were from 1970. Luckily, there is a small but growing local bank that still has coin counting machines, and I deposited them in $200 batches. I kept the two 1967 halves. Each currently has a melt value of $2.61 so I spent about 6 hours (I am really fast) plus gas to find two "valuable" coins. As collectible coins, they are worth about $5 each on eBay. So, I made at most $1.66 per hour. Do rare coins exist out there, still in circulation? I am sure that they do. I estimate that my brother and I looked at several million pennies (do the arithmetic) and we never found a 1909 S-VDB penny. We did find five 1909 VDB pennies (Philadelphia mint not even Denver mint) and they are worth about $4 on eBay.
It is true that handwritten addresses on envelopes cause envelopes to be opened more often. That is a real opportunity, but ask how much they pay per envelope and whether you mail the envelopes or have to send them back to the charity (who pays the postage if you have to mail them back). Then find some addresses, and see how many you can do on plain paper (for an hour or until your hand cramps up). Estimate your hourly pay. I actually think this is a viable opportunity for some people who are homebound. Much better than searching through coins.
@shoptastic wrote:
I read about coin roll hunting and was shocked that some people can make 10's of thousands to $100,000 off of it.
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Apparently, these individuals are taking home coin rolls from the bank and searching through them for rare ones.
Weird job #2: RST Marketing (my cousin works for this company)
You get a bunch of envelopes/mail and you hand sign them with the address on the envelope. Why? I was told that people statistically open letters more if they are hand written/signed on the envelope. So...if you're a charity and send a letter out, you get a higher probability of someone opening (vs. throwing in trash ASAP) if the envelope was handwritten in ink.
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For you stay-at-homers, here are some interesting jobs you can do possibly if interested.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008
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