*Official December 2010 Half Dollars and Other Coins

[BamaJoe]

I've been SCROOGED and GRINCHED

Half Box #189 and Half Box #190 - Skunks, Nada, Zip.

Then to slap me around some and make me nauseous this guy shows up in the last.


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My eyes are still burning.

At least I do have the pleasure of knowing some idiot paid an outrageous price for it only to spend it on a blunt for their crack rock later.

[uthminsta]

that's REAL money.

[BamaJoe]

Half Box #191

1 1967
1 1969D

[zerocd]

1-Box Niks
Skunk

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[Country]

not sure if you are doing a 'year total ' but,,,,,, i ended up with 230 war out of sorting $31,000


SO I AM NOT SURE OF 'DOUBLE POSTS ETC'. AS I ONLY HAD 230 BY MY RECORDS, AND YOU HAVE ALREADY CREDITED ME WITH 232. I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW YOU COULD KEEP US ALL STRAIGHT.

SO, YET AGAIN, A PROFOUND , THANK YOU.

Thanks... I try to be accurate, but sometimes the data is a little off.

For 2010, I have ya down searching $30900.30 nickels and finding 2 V-Nicks, 20 Buffalos, and 240 War Nicks. That's a lot a nickels you've searched...

Within an Excel file, I use a worksheet to enter monthly data from each person's posts; it has column tables for easy sorting. Each month I create a new empty worksheet to collect the month's data. I have other worksheets that automatically summarize the state and yearly data by collecting the data from all of the monthly worksheets using conditional array formulas; no hand calculation necessary. Finally, I have an output worksheet that summarizes the data and then I copy it and paste into the first post of the thread. Hand pasting sorted monthly, yearly, and state data into the output worksheet takes the most time.

[Country]

Silver Santa visit!

$660 in halves:

7 x 90%
5 x 40%

The cool thing was at one bank, I only had $100. Teller says she has a bag w/ $429. She was nice and counted out $100 for me, in which were 3 90% Kennedys! Needless to say, I dumped immediately, scrounged up another $200+, and went back. This time I took her a little bag of Christmas candy to say "thanks for being a dear and counting out those coins... and by the way, could I get the rest of that bag?;-)"

All the silver was in that one bag.

WELCOME!!!

In what state do you find your SILVER?

[Country]

Went through another $250 Brinks dime box today and found:

1-1953 Rosie
1-1964 Rosie

Also, the teller had some loose halves in her drawer and I asked to have look at them. She got them for me and in the pile was a 40% 1967. How do you calculate that, Country? I didn't buy the whole pile, just cherry picked the silver...

I count them the same way you find a SILVER dime in change. One coin searched, one SILVER coin found.

However, I would suggest you take all the halves when you get them from tellers. No sense letting the tellers understand what we are doing. Why, they might just start pulling those SILVERs for themselves, as many tellers already do....

[Country]

Half Box #184

1 1967

That's the last of that batch and I'm not sorry to see to go. Hopefully tomorrow's batch will not be from the same cursed pallet.

BTW - does anyone happen to have any idea how many half boxes are usually on a full pallet?

Sometimes, I think it's a function of how many others, including yourself, are dumping back into the service company in bank $1000 bags. I would assume that the boxes are fresh made with halves that are dumped and bags on the pallet (if necessary). You may be getting some of your dumps re-boxed and delivered back to you.

As for what's on the pallet, I think it would be a pile of $1000 bags that are pulled when needed. I've never seen a pallet of bags, but I'd guess it could be $50000 worth easily. Perhaps, others will tell us how its done.

[Country]

1-Box Nickels
2-WN
1-No date buf
1-1883 "No Cents" V nickel in the mid AU condition Crisp, sharp detail.
I almost died. Wife rolls eyes and then was quite surprised at the find.

1-Panama 5c

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PS, hoping a camera comes through for Christmas.
My scanner takes a lot of work to deliver images suitable to post.

Tremendous find... Congrats...

[chris6084]

searched 11 boxes of dimes:

Box 1: 2 silver roosies
Box 2: Skunk
Box 3: Skunk
Box 4: Skunk
Box 5: Skunk
Box 6: 1 silver roosie
Box 7: Skunk
Box 8: 1 silver roosie
Box 9: Skunk
Box 10: 1 silver roosie
Box 11: 2 silver roosies

[Country]

The latest SILVER stats for December have been posted. Look to the first post of this thread to get the details. Always look to the line just before the Kitco quotes to see the last post that was included in the latest update.

This will be the last update for December and 2010 until the final December update is posted on January 1, 2011.

[cwgii]

9.50 halves , teller tray, 67,68 andddddddddddd a 64

2 ikes and a half................... 67

[cwgii]

dimes....... xmas came a couple days late. . teller , tells me. this older lady brought up to the counter a handfull of coins that the machine would not take.

teller was smart enough to take home the mercury dimes. but............................. i got 26 rosies.

misc. , got a cdn dime and a 'foreign ' in the reject slot

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

dimes....... xmas came a couple days late. . teller , tells me. this older lady brought up to the counter a handfull of coins that the machine would not take.

teller was smart enough to take home the mercury dimes. but............................. i got 26 rosies.

misc. , got a cdn dime and a 'foreign ' in the reject slot

I never get lucky like that....NEVER! Good score!

[BamaJoe]

Slim Pickins, but better than a Skunk.

Half Box #192

1 1964

Half Box #193

1 1967

[knibloe]

$60 in CRW halves 1-1964.

I opened the first roll and it was on top. I thought I had struck it rich again. No such luck. Still happy for the silver I did get.

[beauanderos]

Box 1
1962

Box 2
skunk

Box 3
1962 Balboa
1964
1966
1967 x 3

Box 4
1964
1967
1968 x 3
2003 proof

Box 5
1967
1969

Box 6
1943
1964 x 2
1965 x 3
1966 x 2
1967

[gravybro]

Picked up 5 boxes of dimes 12/23:

3 Brinks boxes . . . skunked
String box . . . solid 2010P
Loomis box . . . another skunk

[uthminsta]

Box 3 1962 Balboa

Medio balboa? That's the same 900 fineness and weight as our half. Nice score.

[AGCoinHunter]

$100 in nickels
2 - Wars

$1k bag of halves
Skunk

[bankmining]

$46.50 all loose halves from 3 banks - 1 '64, 1 40%

[zerocd]

1-Box Dimes
Skunk

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[hirbonzig]

Halves--
$147 in loose halves
1-1964 90% JFK
14-40% JFK's

Box of halves--skunked

Dimes--
box 1--1 silver Roosevelt
box 2--3 silver Roosevelts
box 3--skunked
box 4--skunked

[BamaJoe]

Half Box #194

1 1965
1 1966
2 1967
2 1968D

1 1964

On a side note, I found 6 halves in the boxes with "Just Give Up!" written on them in black. Some new fad or maybe some other sorter trying to discourage others?

[agmoose]

$500 bag o halves:

AG - Skunk
NIFC - 2005, 2006