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fb101
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2009 : 20:09:22
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| $100 nickels, 1 WN |
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coppernicus
Penny Collector Member
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 20:43:07
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| $200 in nickels sorted... nothing. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
267 Posts |
 Posted - 02/24/2009 : 03:31:04
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I finished my small town silver hunting yesterday and here are the results.
24 banks visited
$1740 in halves searched
2 Franklins
7 1964 JFK's
23 40% JFK's
2 NIFC's
I had a wide range of tellers, from ones that went out of their way to find every last half dollar in the bank for me to one that said NO rather loudly and nothing else. Maybe one of us was in northwest Wisconsin as I had quite a few tellers either saying "someone was just here a few days ago and bought all our halves". I even had a nice teller ask me if I was looking for silver and then saved me the time of going thru them because she knew a silver searching customer was using her bank as a dump bank for halves.
I did seem to find a trend of only getting silver from the smallest of small town banks. I went thru alot of towns I never heard of before,but as I entered the town of Luck, Wisconsin I thought, every silver searcher within 50 miles HAD to come here and I would find nothing. But as luck would have it, I found my best roll of the day here! I got my 2 Franklins and 5 40% halves in the same hand wrapped roll!
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gothboi30
Penny Pincher Member
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 11:03:09
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| $100 NF String box of nickels, silver skunk. |
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Computer Jones
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
960 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 14:33:29
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2 $500 NF String boxes last night:
#1
4 '02D
1 '02P
#2
1 '68D
1 '72 with no initials, just a blob |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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Market Harmony
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
699 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 19:18:43
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Let me know if you think this is a good idea:
Order $1000 in halfs and $300 in pennies from one branch and then dump in a free coin counter at another branch of the same bank... repeat.
I spoke with the branch manager and she is willing to order whatever I want. I have already gone through quite a few hundred in pennnies. She says that the Brinks guy hates me. I got $200 today and the results were very odd... 3 boxes were only 5% zinc, 3 boxes were 98% zinc... 2 boxes have not yet been searched. Anyone else in similar shoes with seeing percentages like that? These were all Brinks plastic-wrapped rolls |
Market Harmony
Producer of rare and unique Gold, Silver, and Copper bullion products. Also offering PM refining services. |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
60 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 19:54:05
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Just finished a $500 box of halves, and things may be picking up a bit. 3 40%'s and 2 90% Kennedy's.
Market Harmony:
Check the pack date on those penny boxes, if there is one. I've gotten all kinds of varying boxes, and sometimes the pack dates can help you isolate the good from the bad in the future. Also, invest in a scale. There's likely a noticeable weight difference between the 5% zinc boxes and the 98%. If it feels light, it may not even be worth opening the box to sort. Just trade it in at another bank and don't waste the time. I believe pure zinc boxes weigh about 6250 grams, while a 30% Cu box will weigh-in at about 6700.
Some people were reporting near 100% copper brinks boxes in the past. The theory was that they had begun dumping the copper they sorted out at their facilities once the spot market price plummeted. Your high Cu % boxes may be the result of this supposed dump.
As far as dumping at a different branch of your source bank, I wouldn't recommend it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they'll likely each have contracts with the same processing company (as would be handled by corporate policy, not at the branch level). Meaning coins you dump at either could ultimately wind up in the same pool anyway. By dumping at a different banking company altogether, you could feasibly keep your old waste out of your source pool if they use a different coin processor. Don't **** where you eat, as they say. |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
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Computer Jones
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
960 Posts |
Posted - 02/24/2009 : 22:51:40
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2 $500 Brinks boxes:
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SKUNK
#2
1 '67P (beat to H3ll)
1 '68D
1 '06D
1 '07P
And a '64P out of the teller's tray that schlepped the boxes from the vault (Huzzah for 90%)!
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There's profit if you melt things!!
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
5229 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 00:43:25
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Market Harmony:
I like your idea. I go against the conventional wisdom and have no problem dumping at a source bank. I am not afraid of a bad penny coming back. I look at it as if you are dumping into a vast river of coins flowing past if you are dumping at a major commercial bank. The fact that you are getting Brinks wraps makes me think you are going to a Wells Fargo or BofA. I would guess it to probably be the former. I like the idea of the convenience factor of being able to dump at their free coin counting machine. You would think this might help keep you off the radar. But if they have to change the bags too often they will figure out who you are pretty soon. Then you will be told the manager would like to talk to you. Chances are it won't be to offer you one of those low interest loans. This is why you have to spread your dumps around a bit. Otherwise you will probably get cut off at some point, even using a free counting machine.
I have one bank I use as a dump bank fairly often, yet I still get coins there. When I take in 6 boxes or so they usually ask me it I would like 2 or 3 boxes of pennies to take home. Since mine are all nicely machine wrapped in paper, they give those to their merchant customers. I take home the Brinks plastic wrap pennies, process them, add a few more boxes of zinc I have laying around, and take them back the next day. No chance of getting my zincers back since they never get returned to the pool.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Let me see if I understand this? If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor; the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the US border illegally, you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps, free health care!
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
60 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 11:11:01
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Maybe I should have been a little clearer when I mentioned how I don't recommend dumping at any branch of your source bank. I was talking about the half dollars, not so much the pennies. If you do any volume of half dollars, dumping the coppernickel coins at a bank which uses the same processing company as your source could almost guarantee you the same coins over and over again. When was the last time you saw halves in circulation? Keep giving the coppernickel back to your source, and it will most likely keep getting cycled back to you more rapidly than it would otherwise. This could depend highly on how wide a coverage area each processing center services though. Not being privy to this info, I've been erring on the side of caution and keeping my half dollar dumps separate from my pickups. YMMV, but I'd take it under advisement with the halves.
With pennies it won't matter in the slightest given the sheer volume of pennies which circulate daily. Especially if you're only doing a few hundred dollars worth a month.
Also, Hoard: The latter part of your advice may be a little unfair :)... Not everyone has a personal processing center at their disposal (in fact, you may be the only one!). |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
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Market Harmony
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
699 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 19:20:50
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Good advice from all, thanks!
I have a few options for dump banks, and will most likely be switching things up to keep the tellers on their toes.
I was talking to my father on the phone last week about the full roll of 40% that I found. He never knew that I had ventured into the half dollar sorting... he got me into the pennies when he brought over $5 and we hand sorted them- found a few wheats and about 25% copper. His idea got me hooked and I thought we were on the cutting edge of a new trend... I did not know of Ryedale or RealCent 3 years ago.
Anyway, I just got off the phone with him and he reported that he went to 6 banks in Alabama today, and found only $9 in halfs. Of that, he found one 69... he's already hooked! He's talking about getting a manager to order halves for him now.
An odd thing happened. One teller told him that halves are no longer in circulation! |
Market Harmony
Producer of rare and unique Gold, Silver, and Copper bullion products. Also offering PM refining services. |
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killerken53
Penny Pincher Member
126 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 19:40:22
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2 boxes of halves, silver skunk.
4 NIFC, including an 87P! |
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fb101
Moderator
USA
2240 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 20:15:54
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| 1 $500 box halves - skunked |
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Computer Jones
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
960 Posts |
Posted - 02/25/2009 : 22:27:15
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$500 NF String box:
1 '98 Proof, but the "S" is horribly scratched
1 '68D
$50 CWR's
Skunkage (A la eau de pew!) |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1356 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 09:25:38
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5 Boxes Halves ($2500)
1st box - Skunk
2nd box - 1 40%
3rd box - 2 40%
4th box - skunk
5th box - 12 40%
Total - 15 40%
The first 4 boxes came from the same bank. The last came from my main bank less than a mile from my house. Will only order 1 at a time but this time it was the best box.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
5229 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 10:20:40
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Originally posted by mingusdew
Also, Hoard: The latter part of your advice may be a little unfair :)... Not everyone has a personal processing center at their disposal (in fact, you may be the only one!).
I thought everyone here had a personal processing center.. some just have a few more machines stuffed in theirs than others. There are several folks here that have more machines machines than me.. but most of them have "commercial" operations. They have machines that give me machine envy. It is a bit more work now that I have to roll all my rejects.. I used to just be able to fill bags with the high speed counters and turn them all in, but they cut me off.  I did add a nice piece of equipment to my personal penny processing center the other day.. I got a new penny wagon.. 1000 pound capacity.. perfect for moving small quantities around the penny processing center.
I agree with you on the half dollars.. I dump mine at a different bank than my source bank. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Let me see if I understand this? If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor; the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the US border illegally, you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps, free health care!
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
415 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 16:10:55
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$600.00 in CWR halves.....
1 - 64
1 - 68
1 - 65
$8.00 in CWR halves.....
1 - 66
2 boxes of fed rolls....
1 - 67
8 boxes of dimes.....
8 - roos
I picked up some yet to be sorted halves today. I found $360 in brink rolls, a change from loomis. I also found $140.00 in CWR halves. I have 5 boxes of dimes. Will report results later.
UPDATE:
$360 fed rolls:
65 - 1
66 - 1
67 - 5
68 - 2
69 - 1
$140 CWR rolls:
66 - 1
67 - 1
68 - 1
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Corsair
Penny Collector Member
485 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 17:00:55
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| Two boxes of dimes: 1 1963. |
Am I a good person doing bad things? Or a bad person doing good things? |
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fb101
Moderator
USA
2240 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2009 : 20:17:40
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$500 halves
1 walker
1 franklin
1 '64 kennedy
5 40% |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
60 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 09:24:31
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$500 bag of loose halves out of a sorting machine yielded nothing. Proofs, NIFC, silver - nothing. I did get to keep the canvas fed bag though, which is somewhat neat. I also got a $10 star note when I dumped them at another bank. It's easier to deal with skunks if you find ways to rationalize it, I'm noticing.
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Hoard: I'm dying to see photos of all that equipment, one panoramic shot from the doorway. It amazes me the volume some of you guys are equipped to handle. 1000lb capacity cart for moving "small quantities" around the processing center? Incredible. |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
Edited by - mingusdew on 02/27/2009 09:42:08 |
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Computer Jones
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
960 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 14:13:08
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$500 N F String box:
4 '40%'ers (one looked like it had survived a fire)
1 '07P |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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kieblera5
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
787 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 14:21:16
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$21 searched ($22 paid)
1 40%
1 1974s PROOF
16 Walking liberties!
22 Franklins!
I think I should hold a record for the most non-kennedys found in one sort. |
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you mercilessly with experience.
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Market Harmony
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
699 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 14:29:37
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Originally posted by kieblera5
$21 searched ($22 paid)
1 40%
1 1974s PROOF
16 Walking liberties!
22 Franklins!
I think I should hold a record for the most non-kennedys found in one sort.
WOW! Congrats. that's a great score... why did you have to pay $22 for $21 worth? |
Market Harmony
Producer of rare and unique Gold, Silver, and Copper bullion products. Also offering PM refining services. |
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kieblera5
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
787 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 14:31:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Market Harmony
quote:
Originally posted by kieblera5
$21 searched ($22 paid)
1 40%
1 1974s PROOF
16 Walking liberties!
22 Franklins!
I think I should hold a record for the most non-kennedys found in one sort.
WOW! Congrats. that's a great score... why did you have to pay $22 for $21 worth?
One roll only had $9 in it. |
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you mercilessly with experience.
"Any country where the central bank head is called 'Helicopter Ben,' you better own some gold," |
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Corsair
Penny Collector Member
485 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2009 : 15:30:55
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| $10 halves - 1 1968 D. First silver in over $2000! I'm so happy! |
Am I a good person doing bad things? Or a bad person doing good things? |
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*Official 2009 Half Dollars and Other Coins
