2015: Hunting Is a Harsh Mistress

[TheMastermind]

Picked up three boxes of halves over the weekend, skunked on all three.

Picked up a box of halves + $2 in loose halves today on my lunch break, loose halves were all keepers:

1964
1967 x 3



Will search the box of halves tonight.

 

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[baddbluff]

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[TheMastermind]

Picked up a box of halves + a box of dimes yesterday.

The box of halves gave up five keepers, two 90%ers and three 40%ers:

1959 Ben
1964
1965
1967
1968D

The box of dimes gave up one Roosie: 1961.

This just might be the year that I hit that 100 ozt. goal of mine.

 

[TheMastermind]

I'M ON VACATION!!!!!!

Really, it's a staycation; and I plan on hitting the hunting hard! This is the first staycation that I don't have any house projects lined up, so I'm going to be able to focus on my CRH escapades exclusively. I've hit a silver vein and have been getting a lot of good boxes lately, so hopefully I can take advantage of that while being off from work and not having any projects lined up at home.

Picked up two boxes of halves yesterday on my lunch break, one of which was a skunk. The other box gave up six keepers, one 90%er and five 40%ers:

1964
1966
1967
1968D x 3

Also, I've been neglecting putting my finds into my spreadsheet. I have a lot of finds to log, but now I've got the time to do it. So, I'll be posting an update in a little bit on my year-to-date total so far.

 

[TheMastermind]

I've officially hit, and then surpassed, my goal of 100 ozt. for the year!!!



Currently sitting at 102.75 ozt., with something like two-and-a-half months still left to hunt!

My new goal is 125 ozt. before the year is out.

 

[baddbluff]

That's an awesome milestone! Congrats. I wish I could hunt like I used to - my per box totals this year are better than ever. There is a ton of silver to be had, but I don't have the time or bankroll to extract it :/

 

[TheMastermind]

There has been a lot of silver dumped into circulation recently it seems.

I ran into a fellow hunter at the bank yesterday while we were both picking up our halves. I run into this guy maybe three or four times every quarter, the areas where we operate overlap by three or four miles in two different spots. Each overlap has two banks that we both hit. Just so happens that we bump into each other either dumping or picking up.

So yesterday we were talking after we both made our pick-ups, and he was saying how he had found two seated halves in a box last week and his son had picked up a box with 107 keepers. And I was telling him I've been having a lot of good boxes lately too. We both remarked that it's uncommon for this many good boxes to be in our areas, some really big-time collector must have died or got robbed or something. Then I remembered a few weeks back one of the coin shops in our area was broken into after hours. I mentioned that to him. And we both felt kind of sad that we might be profiting from that coin shop guy's loss.

But then we kind of just shrugged our shoulders and wished each other luck and went about our business.

 

[TheMastermind]

Picked up two boxes of halves yesterday, both of which gave up silver!

The first box gave up three keepers, two 90%ers and one 40%er:

1964 x 2
1966

The second box gave up eight 40%ers:

1965 x 2
1966
1967 x 2
1968D
1969D x 2

 

[TheMastermind]

Picked up three boxes of halves over the weekend, two of which were skunks.

The third box gave up two keepers, a 90%er and a 40%er:

1964
1966

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Great news! Hope you're able to hit it hard while the getting is good!

 

[TroutBumDave]

Don't feel too bad for the coin shop guy... Unless he was a complete moron, he probably had detailed records of inventory, and awesome insurance. I remember a couple years back somebody broke into my place and stole my sports card collections. Luckily I kept good records of my stuff and my insurance replaced all of it. The best part? The vast majority of my collection got upgraded because the condition that I needed wasn't available. So, what I'm slowly getting at is... If he kept records, he should get it all back. I betcha he too will get a lot of "upgrades" on his inventory as well.

As for your silver finds -- man, you are the man. 100 oz? I'm under 4 oz for the year and I'm tickled pink about it.

 

[Infowarrior]

Glad to see your still raking the silver in, good luck buddy!

 

[Sfynks870]

Awesome work themastermind! I am going to start somewhat of the same system you have going and posted a thread this morning introducing myself and explaining my logistics issues http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=479324
Please stop by and shoot me some pointers man. I'm subscribed and will be following your progress closely as well.

 

[Sfynks870]

Also, one other thing I am somewhat curious about but am unsure if you are willing to divulge such information. You mentioned in your last post that you picked up three boxes over the weekend. Where are you getting that much coinage on a weekend? Banks that stay open or some secret crhing weekend honey hole? Lol

 

[TheMastermind]

All of my pick-up banks are open on Saturdays, some only until 12PM others until 2PM. I usually pick two boxes up at one bank and another, or sometimes two, at a different bank.

 

[Sfynks870]

Awesome, so what if you don't mind me asking is your target volume to search through in a weeks time?

 

[TheMastermind]

I don't really have a target volume, I just do as much as I can each week. Some weeks it's more, some weeks it's less.

 

[TheMastermind]

This post will be a record of my finds from 10/13/15 to 12/31/15 which I had neglected to post as I was finding them...

So, from 10/13/15 to 12/31/15 I had found the following out of boxes, loose coins I've picked up, and various teller or reject trays:

Walkers:
1941
1942

Bens:
1949
1952
1957D
1959D
1960
1962 x 2
1962D x 2
1963
1963D

Kens:
1964 x 24
1965 x 7
1966 x 15
1967 x 33
1968D x 38
1968S
1969D x 25
1970S

Finds from teller trays:
1959 Roosie
1964D Roosie
1962D Washington

Finds from reject trays:
1937 Merc
1961D Roosie
1940 Canadian Dime (80% silver)
1956 Australian Six Pence (50% silver)
1964 Washington

 

[TheMastermind]

Alrighty, here are my year-end totals:

Total silver found in 2015: 134.59 ozt.

Highlights:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...-first-one-while-couple-other-firsts-too.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/coin-roll-hunting/465635-nice-couple-boxes.html
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...-2015-hunting-harsh-mistress.html#post4342438 (Two proof dimes from a single box!)
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...-2015-hunting-harsh-mistress.html#post4379688 (An envelope chock full o' silver!)
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...015-hunting-harsh-mistress-2.html#post4512577 (Two good boxes!)
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/c...015-hunting-harsh-mistress-2.html#post4523958 (1917 Walker with an obverse mint mark!)

It was an absolutely awesome year of hunting for me. Crushed my initial goal of 100 ozt. by early October; with two+ months left I increased the goal to 125 ozt. and then blew right by that goal too! Such a great year.

The one and only low point for me was having my computer take a dump at the end of the year and losing all of my spreadsheet data. I had everything tabulated, what coins I had found when, whether or not they were found in boxes, reject trays, etc. I had my DCA calculated for each year and just meticulously recorded everything. I'm an idiot for not backing it up at all this year. The last I remember, my DCA was something around $8.xx for my entire stack. Oh, well.

Good luck in 2016, everyone!