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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
565 Posts |
 Posted - 02/15/2010 : 21:24:09
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Hi all-
Northern Illinois appears to be all trapped out, fellas. I haven't gotten a decent half score in a month!! I started the year off VERY well, but since then = Crap!
Anyone else feeling the burn?
wags
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Only when they CAN'T have it, ......THEN they'll want it.
I love Cents. If you get an UNC box, you win. If you get a regular circ. box, you win. If you get a zinc box, you don't lose....so you still win. |
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kirkland
New Member
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2010 : 21:26:40
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| Yeah. Too bad. My silver scores have really been dormant this month, but my penny finds have been absolutely spectacular. Guess that made up for my bad luck in halves. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2010 : 21:30:35
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| Lousy here in eastern PA, Northern De. (for me) |
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 00:56:36
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I've been dumping a ton of halves in Zion and Waukegan, trying to get them out of WI... Enjoy. :)
Cecropia and I are trying to clear our area of Clad... |
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Dave
Penny Pincher Member
156 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 05:13:19
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| Terrible in Rochester NY, one 40% in the last 8 weeks. Did find a couple of dates I needed and a roll of BU 1979D's. |
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 07:52:31
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| Also terrible here in Western NY. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 08:19:47
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I had one sweeeeeeet bag a few weeks ago. I don't think that I have had a total skunk week this year. You just have to sort more.
Make sure you are not dumping at a bank that uses the same armored car service as your pick-up bank. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 08:29:10
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The stats don't lie. With 60% skunks ratings across all Half searchers, some of us are not going to be enjoying this period of low returns.
I have found 1 40% through about 9 skunks. It's hard to want to continue searching, but you can't find silver halves unless you search. Personally i just switched my funds around and will now do both copper sorting and some half hunting.
I'm not greedy, i just want maybe a handful each box is that so much to ask? 
BTW wags just saw your you tube video yesterday. Do you speed up the recording or are you really sorting that fast? I too would think twice about a ryedale if i could sort as fast as you! 
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Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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zerocd
Penny Hoarding Member
555 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 10:45:45
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My sources are fairly cleaned out. I haven't had boxes like those south of me for a year. I found a hot spot at a small bank and when that was gone, so were the big finds.
I have pretty much exhausted my choices and will continue with brute force unless I cannot fund the hunt.
Money is tight as hell in my industry and everyday is the loaves and fishes.
I still find huge amounts of interesting stuff and can always relie on the war nickel a box.
I certainly don't consider hunting nickels a silver hunt. Just a side show.
I collect coins and silver is gravy.
Pass the gravy please!
0CD
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 11:20:25
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| I have not been able to get halves for the last two months. One good thing is I can't get skunk if I can't sort. |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
 Posted - 02/16/2010 : 12:01:58
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| I'm still finding SILVER halves in central Virginia. January was terrible for me, but February has been great for finding SILVER halves. Sometimes I have to search through the SKUNKS to get to the good stuff. I'm not getting my dumps back because I dump at a Dunbar serviced bank and get halves at a Brinks serviced bank. That seems to let me get to the good stuff once I get through the SKUNKS on top of the pile. |
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 12:25:08
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| Country, I wouldnt bet you dont get your searched halves back. I pick up sometimes with Dunbar and have on occasion been supplied by Dunbar, coin counter bags that come from Brinks. Says it on the bag. I really think that when the suppliers run low they buy between themselves rather than going back to the main source. |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 13:26:23
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Originally posted by AGCoinHunter
Country, I wouldnt bet you dont get your searched halves back. I pick up sometimes with Dunbar and have on occasion been supplied by Dunbar, coin counter bags that come from Brinks. Says it on the bag. I really think that when the suppliers run low they buy between themselves rather than going back to the main source.
It may be true that Brinks gets some coins from Dunbar when they run low. However, I clean out everything from my boxes, including the NIFCs, and I rarely get a box without any keepers. When I see NIFCs, I know that the halves I get are not my dumps. |
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– Theodore Roosevelt
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 13:33:39
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| Well they could be mine Country. I don't keep any of the NIFCS aside from '87 and proof mints |
Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 13:42:12
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| May not exactly be yours but another searcher. There are so many people doing this now, its hard not to be searching someone elses dumps. Even the bags I get that have silver have numerious marked coins. Guess I get lucky every once in a while and find something someone dumped into the counter. Anywho, happy hunting. |
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
-Thomas Jefferson
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand
________________________________________________
Lenin: Class-based International Socialism
Hitler: Race-based National Socialism
Obama: Class- and Race-based Post-National Socialism
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 13:49:50
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Originally posted by JobIII
Well they could be mine Country. I don't keep any of the NIFCS aside from '87 and proof mints
I guess they could, or someone else's dumps. Are you searching in Virginia? |
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 14:56:35
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| No i am not searching from VA. I think AGcoinhunter said it best about what i was implying. |
Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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redneck
1000+ Penny Miser Member
1273 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 15:11:17
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Originally posted by AGCoinHunter
May not exactly be yours but another searcher. There are so many people doing this now, its hard not to be searching someone elses dumps. Even the bags I get that have silver have numerious marked coins. Guess I get lucky every once in a while and find something someone dumped into the counter. Anywho, happy hunting.
Exactly...
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
THIS IS A NICHE MARKET.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when people feel the need to share with others there good fortune (brag) by talking and posting their finds for the entire world wide web to see.
Discretion is what is needed.
In most states it would only take a couple of dozen people ( or less) to completely saturate the half market.
The good ole days,
are gone...
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 17:11:06
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Originally posted by wagsthadog
Anyone else feeling the burn?
The burn has been here in S.E. MI for about a year now. 
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 17:13:30
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Originally posted by redneck
Exactly...
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
THIS IS A NICHE MARKET.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when people feel the need to share with others there good fortune (brag) by talking and posting their finds for the entire world wide web to see.
Discretion is what is needed.
In most states it would only take a couple of dozen people ( or less) to completely saturate the half market.
The good ole days,
are gone...
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I'm with you on this one. Shhh....
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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Bluegill
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1964 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 17:26:29
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Originally posted by redneck
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Originally posted by AGCoinHunter
May not exactly be yours but another searcher. There are so many people doing this now, its hard not to be searching someone elses dumps. Even the bags I get that have silver have numerious marked coins. Guess I get lucky every once in a while and find something someone dumped into the counter. Anywho, happy hunting.
Exactly...
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
THIS IS A NICHE MARKET.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when people feel the need to share with others there good fortune (brag) by talking and posting their finds for the entire world wide web to see.
Discretion is what is needed.
In most states it would only take a couple of dozen people ( or less) to completely saturate the half market.
The good ole days,
are gone...
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You are spot on... 
Between this forum, and the Treasure Net, and Coin Community forums, there are at least 8 members I know of who are literally neighbors who halve hunt.
4 of my banks have tellers who have told me they order halves for other customers.
I ran into the Total Armor guy one day at TCF while dumping. We got to talking and he said him and his partner are delivering boxes of halves all the time.
A Brinks driver commented to a teller that he has a coin dealer on his route that he delivers and picks up from, and he too always has boxes of halves in his deliveries.
Everybody knows why, to look for Ag.
In my area, it doesn't matter where one buys/dumps. You got a dozen folks buying from Brinks supplied sources, and a dozen buying from a CWI supplied source. These boxes are flying back and forth and crossing paths between the 2 companies.
There are more web sites and blogs praising the virtues of CRH halves for Ag than I can keep track of. The Golden Age of halve hunting is drawing to a close...
On a plus note, dimes are producing better than ever for me right now.
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 19:06:23
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| Switched to mostly dimes for now in SE Wisconsin. Halves are either feast or (mostly) famine. One of my half dollar banks(US Bank)has stopped ordering them alltogether. |
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rainsonme
Penny Pincher Member
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 19:15:30
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| In the Oregon area, I believe I saw a significant drop in Ag last Sept, and for me at least, it continues to be much less than this time last year. I know of many bank tellers who pull out the silver, most before it goes into their machines, or in rolls, but a few after the coins have gone thru the counter. So, in addition to many people looking for coins, there are also increasingly bank tellers active in the pursuit of Ag. |
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bankmining
Penny Pincher Member
USA
120 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 19:53:10
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Originally posted by rainsonme
In the Oregon area, I believe I saw a significant drop in Ag last Sept, and for me at least, it continues to be much less than this time last year. I know of many bank tellers who pull out the silver, most before it goes into their machines, or in rolls, but a few after the coins have gone thru the counter. So, in addition to many people looking for coins, there are also increasingly bank tellers active in the pursuit of Ag.
When I spot a silver edged-half in the teller's tray and ask for all her halves I always cringe when I notice her looking at the halves closely while she's counting. All it takes is one educated teller in a bank and you can pretty much forget about loose silver halves and hope like heck they don't check the rolls, too. |
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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 21:35:20
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Originally posted by redneck
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Originally posted by AGCoinHunter
May not exactly be yours but another searcher. There are so many people doing this now, its hard not to be searching someone elses dumps. Even the bags I get that have silver have numerious marked coins. Guess I get lucky every once in a while and find something someone dumped into the counter. Anywho, happy hunting.
Exactly...
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
THIS IS A NICHE MARKET.
Unfortunately, this is what happens when people feel the need to share with others there good fortune (brag) by talking and posting their finds for the entire world wide web to see.
Discretion is what is needed.
In most states it would only take a couple of dozen people ( or less) to completely saturate the half market.
The good ole days,
are gone...
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Hi there redneck-
Well, apart from that seated liberty, I'm not really one to disclose my finds either, but I look at it like this-
1) I found out about half hunting through the kitco forum in late 2007. Someone told me about it, so I can't hold it against anyone else if they decide to half hunt from hearing about a forum since I came from those humble beginnings too.
2) Unless they discontinue the half dollar, finding silver will NEVER be "extinct." We're all searching like maniacs for silver, and hopefully finding good-sized stashes, but who's to say one of our family members won't cash them in at face when we're gone, and start the cycle all over again? Or, if some old guy buys a bunch of $1000 bags from apmex, croaks, and his "little old lady" wife cashes them in? A little morbid, but I'm sure similar scenarios have happened over time.
3) We're still finding silver 40 YEARS after they were pulled from circulation. I don't think it will all be wrapped up and done in 2 years. It might not exactly be economically feasible, but as long as I'm not getting hit with fees I HAVE to ride this pony.
Just my opinions, but I do see your points.
wags |
Only when they CAN'T have it, ......THEN they'll want it.
I love Cents. If you get an UNC box, you win. If you get a regular circ. box, you win. If you get a zinc box, you don't lose....so you still win. |
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marine70
Penny Pincher Member
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 02/16/2010 : 23:36:41
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| Terrible in Southern Illinois I keep getting the one's that are marked. |
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