*Official May 2011 Half Dollars and Other Coins

[cwgii]

a single 1964 out of 31.50 loose

[cwgii]

50.00 dimes, cwr... nothing

[CrazyTom]

$185 in CWR dimes, SKUNK
$8 in CWR nickels, SKUNK

1 non-silver Canadian

[BamaJoe]

Half Box #221

2 1966
1 1967
4 1968D
4 1969D

1 1964

Half Box #222

2 1965
3 1966
6 1967
3 1969D

[Country]

20 dollars worth of dimes. skunked
$2500 in halves 3 40% 1 90% 3 NIFC

WELCOME!!!

In what state do you find your SILVER?

I'm assuming that you sorted 5-$500 boxes of halves. How many SILVERs were in each box? Thanks...

[Country]

Picked up a box of dimes yesterday.....skunk!!!

I'm assuming that this post is a duplicate of your previous post.

[CardsNCoins]

$10.00 customer wrapped halves
2 - 1967
1 - 1968

$250 dime box
Skunk

$250 dime box
1960

$250 dime box
Skunk

$250 dime box
1956

$250 dime box
Skunk

$250 dime box
1962
1964

[BamaJoe]

Half Box #223

2 1968D

Half Box #224

2 1966
3 1967
3 1968D
4 1969D

1 1964

Well, that's going to finish out the month for me. Going to be doing some family type stuff over the holiday. Not a bad month, but not as good as April.

30 boxes sorted. 101 40% found and ony 9 90%. My ratio of 40% to 90% dropped to half of what April was. Averaged 0.6064 oz of silver per box and found an average of 3.66 silvers per box. 5 skunks out of the 30 boxes.

[Saabman]

Country,

Sorry about that but you are right. I guess I got a little trigger happy with that post!

Picked up a box of dimes yesterday.....skunk!!!

I'm assuming that this post is a duplicate of your previous post.

[cwgii]

85.00 dimes

1956, 1959d, 1963d

[rainsonme]

$500 in dimes = 2 1964s

$125 in halfs from teller = 7 40%s

[Locutus]

Coin roll search for 5/27/2011 and 5/28/2011 (only looking for silver, not NIFC or other interest)

18 loose rolls of halves, CWR, one 1966.

The following seven boxes were CWR from my credit union. All were short to varying degrees with up to 19 rolls per box short by one or two coins. I suspect that these were gone through by another collector, but silver found was not replaced by clad to bring each roll up to 20 coins. It was obviously deliberate. A pox upon that person for his dishonesty! Instead of taking these to my usual dump bank I'll take them back on Tuesday to see if I can work something out with the credit union. They keep a paper trail on everything but since I discovered the shortages at home, I'm probably S.O.L. That is, I probably can't prove it to the CU's satisfaction, even though I kept a log.

With my digital scale I can tell a shortage instantly by weight. A full roll is about 226 grams, whereas a single missing coin brings the weight down to about 214 grams. So in the future I plan to weigh every CWR that I buy--at the teller counter.

Karma did catch up to the dishonest collector though, through his own ineptitude. One of the rolls had nineteen 1964 Kens and one 1967 Ken, my first solid silver roll! So while all these boxes were shorted pre-searched skunks (except this one roll), I did come out ahead. Probably his best roll too, inadvertenly returned to the box.

$500 halves, Box #42: Skunk & $5.00 short
$500 halves, Box #43: Skunk & $3.50 short
$500 halves, Box #44: Skunk & $8.00 short
$500 halves, Box #45: Skunk & $9.00 short
$500 halves, Box #46: Skunk & $9.00 short
$500 halves, Box #47: Full roll silver--nineteen 1964 Kennedys & one 1967, box was $12.50 short
$500 halves, Box #48: Skunk & $6.00 short

The rest that follow were all boxes I ordered from my pickup bank, all BWR.

$500 halves, Box #49
7-1964
2-Franks
2-Walkers--1934, 1946
1965
1966
2-1967
2-1968D

$500 halves, Box #50, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #51, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #52, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #53, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #54
1967
1968D
$0.50 short

$500 halves, Box #55
3-1968D

$500 halves, Box #56
2-1967
1968D

$500 halves, Box #57
1967
1968D

$500 halves, Box #58
1966

$500 halves, Box #59
2-1964
1967
2-1968D

$500 halves, Box #60
2-Franks
1943 Walker
1964
1967
1968D
1969D

$500 halves, Box #61, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #62
Franklin
1946 Walker
1966
4-1967
2-1968D
1969D

$500 halves, Box #63, Skunk

$500 halves, Box #64
1967
1969D

$250 Dimes, Box #2
1952 Roosevelt

$100 Nickels, Box #2
1944P
1945P
Canadian Nickels: 1985, 2-1986, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1999

Summary:

Walkers--4
Franklins--5
1964 Kennedys--29
40% Silver Kennedys--36
Silver dime--1
War nickels--2
Foreign--7

Shortages: $53.50

Face value of silver coins found: $37.20
Value of silver content: $730.86
(Based on Friday's closing spot of $37.96 as reported by Coinflation.com)

I probably won't be doing very many dimes or nickels in the future, just a box each every so often to gauge a trend in silver content. Dimes take longer than halves, and nickels take WAY longer than either halves or dimes, since I have to look at the date on every nickel.

I did discover a timesaver though. It turns out that bank branches that take CWR have to break open the rolls and dump the coins in a bank bag before they ship them out. My dump banks' vault tellers and I worked out an agreement that I would save them this step, (and my time in rewrapping) by simply dumping my searched coin in bags myself rather than wrapping. This saves me about 15 minutes per box. So I ordered a box of 100 plastic coin bags from my dump bank ($48.00). Cheaper than wrappers, actually, at $0.48 per bag. My dump bank will even cash me out without depositing to my account first, which to me is important since my dump bank has my joint account, but the funding for the coins comes from a separate account (inheritance).

[appjoe]

$100. CWR's Nickels

V nickel - none
2- Buffalo's 1935, 1 dateless
1 - War Nickel. 1945 P
27 - pre 1959
11 - S- Mint.
Proofs - none
1 - 2009 P
Canadian pre 1982 none
1 - Other - The History Channel token. A eagle on one side and the Liberty bell with 1776 on the other.

When finshed there were a total of 5 extra nickels in the rolls.
When I stopped in my pick up bank for a box of nickels they asked if I also want $100 of CWR's that just came in I said sure and they were happy I took them.

[Locutus]

Appjoe, what is the significance of pre-1959 nickels? I found a couple dozen in my nickel box but didn't keep them (no silver). Are they worth any more than face value?

[hirbonzig]

2 boxes of dimes yesterday--no silver they both were solid 2011-D boxes

[appjoe]

Appjoe, what is the significance of pre-1959 nickels? I found a couple dozen in my nickel box but didn't keep them (no silver). Are they worth any more than face value?

I save them because they are getting harder to find. Look at the stats here. In a $100 box that's 2000 nickels you find 20 - 40 of them, also it's away for me to save nickel bullion a little at a time instead of buying a $100. box and just putting it away. If you check Feebay under coins/nickels/1938-1959 you'll see they are selling at a premium and it just makes it more interesting searching. Maybe some other Realcenters can chime in here and voice there opinion on this.

[rainsonme]

I keep all pre-1960 nickels. Some of them from the 50's have a little premium. It doesn't cost much to have a box of pre-60 nickels, and in 10 years they may appreciate. 55, 51d, 51s, 50d, 50, 49s ---- they have some value now. They might appreciate more if the nickel content was changed, and the older coins removed from circulation.

[Locutus]

Appjoe and Rainsonme,
Yes but don't they have to be in top condition (little wear and clean) to be worth more than face value? The listing I saw on the Bay show high grade coins. Those are the ones getting bids anyway.

[Saabman]

This weekends box of dimes yielded 1 x '52. I start back on halves Wednesday!!!!

[CardsNCoins]

$250 box of dimes
2 - 1946

[appjoe]

$100. Brinks box Nickels

V nickel - none
8 - Buffalo's all dateless
2 - War Nickel. 1943 S, 1945 P.
28 - pre 1959
5 - S- Mint.
1 - Proofs - 1989 S.
2 - 2009 P, 2009 D.
Canadian pre 1982 none
Other - none

[adamsp27]

$250 Nickels - 1 Silver Nickel

[rainsonme]

Replying to Locutus question about older nickels, yes, today the older Jefferson's have to be in top condition to have any value above 5 cents. Buy a used copy of the Red Book, it contains grading guides as well as prices. The silver coin prices are irrelevant because of the price of silver, but the other coin prices haven't moved that much. Still, it doesn't cost much to have a box of old nickels, hoping for greater appreciation if the current nickels are replaced by another composition coin. Not going to make much money on them, but its something to do while searching for silver nickels.

[Locutus]

Thanks, Rainsonme.
I think that since I'm focusing on acquiring the most silver possible, and considering the time it takes to go through a box of nickels, I'll only be doing nickels occasionally, if at all. Maybe I'll keep the pre-'60s and maybe I won't. I can search five or six boxes of halves in the time it takes to search one box of nickels. And the potential payoff per box of halves is much better.

[sparechange]

$500 Half Box #17
SKUNK

$500 Half Box#18
SKUNK

$250 Dime Box
SKUNK