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$50.00 in customer wrapped halves
Skunk

$8.00 in teller tray halves
Skunk

$3.50 in teller tray halves
Skunk

$2 Teller Halves - SKUNKAGE!!!

$95 Dime CWRs - 1 90% SILVER Roosevelt - '64

$500 string box - 1 40%

$500 Brinks box #164
Skunk

$500 Brinks box #165
1 - 1964
3 - 1967
2 - 1968
1 - 1969

$500 Brinks box #166
1 - 1967
1 - 1968
1 - 1969

$500 Brinks box #167
Skunk

$500 Brinks box #168
Skunk

$500 Brinks box #169
1 - 1966

8 Boxes Halves:

Box 1: 40% x 3

Box 2: Ben x 1, 40% x 3

Box 3: Walker x 2, '64 x 2, 40% x 12

Box: skunk

Box 5: 40% x 2

Box 6: Walker x 1, '64 x 1, 40% x 5

Box 7: skunk

Box 8: Walker x1, '64 x 1, 40% x 5

Hundreds of clad proofs! Too many to record- I tossed them all back.

$275 CWR dimes - 1 '36, 1 '62D, 1 '64

I stopped by a Chase bank. I asked if they had any half dollars and any customer wrapped coins. Teller said he only had 2 halfs, and that he personally wraps the other customer warpped coins, and he pulls all silver and other old coins out of them. I said, OK, then I'll just buy the 2 halfs. 1 clad, and 1 1968. Great percentage. Makes me wonder what was in those "searched" coins I declined.

$1k in bagged halves.
38 - 40%ers
4 - 90% kens
2 - franks
1 - 1949 walker

2005 S clad proof
$6.52 in extra change
1 - canadian toonie
1 - panama medio balboa (2010)

$250 Nickels - 2 War Nickels

Friday's box of halves produced .....nothing! Skunkage! Picked up a box dimes for the weekend....

A little silver search:

1 box o' dimes
skunkage

Mom's collection o' change
$65.00 dimes......1961 roosie
$35.00 nicks.......2 war nicks!
$170.00 quarts......skunkage
$20.00 lincolns......few wheats and 35% Cu
Hanging out with dear ol' mom priceless.

CRH for 6/10/2011 and 6/11/2011:

The following ten boxes are from one pickup, all BWR. Total pickup charge $52.50

Box #71 $500.00 Halves
one 1964, 1968d, 1969d

Box #72 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #73 $500.00 Halves
one 1968d

Box #74 $500.00 Halves
Short $1.00
Skunk

Box #75 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #76 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #77 $500.00 Halves
1967, 1968d, two 1969d

Box #78 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #79 $500.00 Halves
1966, 1967, 1968d

Box #80 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Coinflation.com silver value for the above (Friday's close) is $66.63.
So $66.63 - $52.50 pickup charge - $1.00 shortage - $5.50 face value = $7.63 profit. Considering the time involved, hardly a good batch. Have'nt dumped them yet and I'm looking for a branch that won't charge me to drop off. Two of the dump bank branches I've been taking coins to will charge going forward so I'm looking for alternatives. I need to get rid of these soon so that I can fund the next pickup.

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Next batch of sixteen boxes from another bank, all BWR. No pickup charge this time but they're going to start charging with next week's batch. Same challenge as above for dump.

Box #81 $500.00 Halves
1962 Franklin

Box #82 $500.00 Halves
1964

Box #83 $500.00 Halves
1964

Box #84 $500.00 Halves
1962 Franklin, 1964, 1967, two 1969d

Box #85 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #86 $500.00 Halves
1967
Proofs: 1971s, 1982s, 1989s, 1994s
Foreign: one 2000 Equador 50 Centavos

Box #87 $500.00 Halves
Proof: 2000s, 1976 bicentennial (looks like it could be silver, will check with LCS)
Edit: The 1976 is "a 40% silver impaired proof" according to the local coin dealer.

Box #88 $500.00 Halves
Skunk for silver
Proof: 1978s

Box #89 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #90 $500.00 Halves
Missing roll! So $10.00 shortage
Skunk

Box #91 $500.00 Halves
1965, 1967

Box #92 $500.00 Halves
1960 Franklin

Box #93 $500.00 Halves
1968d

Box #94 $500.00 Halves
1966, 1905 (my first Barber half! pretty worn and only weighs 11.6g)

Box #95 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Box #96 $500.00 Halves
Skunk

Total (coinflation.com) silver value for this batch: $134.43.
So $134.43 - $10.00 shortage - $7.50 face value = $116.93 profit.

Total profit $116.93 + $7.63 = $124.56. And that's if there's no dump fees. Considering I went through $13,000.00 in halves and over 8 hours work to get this result, I find it rather disappointing.

Pickings seem to be steadily dwindling. If I can't get better results than this then I'll have to quit, if I'll also be incurring pickup and dump charges. No sense doing all this work just to give up my silver value to the bank in the form of fees.

$270 in CWR dimes
1 silver Canadian 1960
3 non-silver Canadians

$2 in CWR nickels, SKUNK

Tonight's box of dimes yielded....4 x rosies! 1 x 64, 1 x 59, 1 x 55, 1 x 49.

Slump time around here.

Half Box #237, #238, #239 and #240 - All Skunks.

Report on dimes searched:

$125.00 -- 25 CWRs

Silver dimes found - ONE -- 1/1964D
2009 dimes found - NINE

Other found - NONE


Other stats: One roll shorted ten cents


Overage/shortage total: SHORTED 10 cents

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

$13.00 Loose Change Searched -- ($8.00 quarters, $4.00 dimes, $1.00 nickels) -- from Teller Tray

Found:

NOTHING

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

$13.00 Loose Change Searched -- ($8.00 quarters, $4.00 dimes, $1.00 nickels) -- from Teller Tray

Found:

1/2011P Gettysburg Quarter

Enjoy your coin searches, everyone.

Saturday's effort:

$500 in halfs = 0
$500 in dimes = 16 silver all '59-64. Best dime bag I have encountered. Took 1 hour and 10 min to edge sort. These were not plastic rolls.
$100 in nickels = 3 war nickels, 1 impaired proof.

Mr. L, Don't quit half sorting, just reduce to a low level. If you find a hot streak, you can increase again. Back when there was a reliable level of silver, I was hitting about 2 pick up/2 drop branches per day 6 days a week. Sorting over 10,000 halfs a week. For me, that was a big number, especially since I limited my dumps to only 1,000 halfs per branch per week, NEVER dumped back into the Aromored Serice I was picking up from, and I tried to keep no more than $500 in halfs at any one time. It was for me, with a full time job and 2 teenagers, a frantic pace. But silver really dried up in my area around Christmas, or a little before that. So it is no longer worth my effort to do so many banks in a week. I just do a couple a week now, and it is much more relaxing, doesn't threaten my job performance, and in general, its a much better pace for me. When you decide the large time sink isn't worth it, don't quit; just cut back. Also, I think banks won't likely charge you for 1 bag a week. If silver becomes more pentiful, you will know from your smaller sample size monitor.

(and find a way back into that credit union stash ---- try it one bag at a time, using fronts if necessary)

$100. Bank Bag Nickels

V nickel - none
Buffalo's - none
War Nickel - none
15 - pre 1959
4 - S- Mint.
Proofs - none
1 - 2011P
Canadian pre 1982 none
Others - none

Did 18 boxes of dimes between Saturday and Sunday, here are the results:

Box 1 - Skunk
Box 2 - 1941 Mercury
Box 3 - 1946, 1950, 1961
Box 4 - 1964
Box 5 - 1964
Box 6 - Skunk
Box 7 - 1964
Box 8 - 1945 Mercury, 1960, 1960, 1964
Box 9 - Skunk
Box 10 - 1961, 1964
Box 11 - Canadian King George V (date unreadable), 1960, 1962, 1964,
Box 12 - 1959
Box 13 - 1952
Box 14 - 1950, 1960, 1962, 1962
Box 15 - 1947, 1957, 1964, 1964
Box 16 - 1963
Box 17 - 1957
Box 18 - 1935 Mercury, 1964

$1k bag of halves, nothing.

CardsNCoins wrote:Did 18 boxes of dimes between Saturday and Sunday, here are the results:

Box 1 - Skunk
Box 2 - 1941 Mercury
Box 3 - 1946, 1950, 1961
Box 4 - 1964
Box 5 - 1964
Box 6 - Skunk
Box 7 - 1964
Box 8 - 1945 Mercury, 1960, 1960, 1964
Box 9 - Skunk
Box 10 - 1961, 1964
Box 11 - Canadian King George V (date unreadable), 1960, 1962, 1964,
Box 12 - 1959
Box 13 - 1952
Box 14 - 1950, 1960, 1962, 1962
Box 15 - 1947, 1957, 1964, 1964
Box 16 - 1963
Box 17 - 1957
Box 18 - 1935 Mercury, 1964

Nick, you are a machine!