Another 25 this weak

[Styfflin]

"Weak" was on purpose. 25 boxes of half dollars produced 6 40% and 1 90% ken. I'm taking a week off of orders. Instead I'll catch up on dumping and local searching. Then I'll reduce my funds to $10,000, order 12 boxes of halves and 16 boxes of dimes for two weeks from now, and put the rest of my excess funds toward my mortgage. 25 boxes of halves is too much of a task to dump. I have way more banks in the area with self-serve coin counters that can suck up dimes with ease.

 

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[silveraddict]

Hope things turn around for you. Makes my looking at dumping 3-4 boxes a week look like child's play. But, I have no banks with coin counters anywhere around. I still have to reroll.
Currently on a 9 box skunk streek.

 

[Liu21]

Imagine if you worked at a coin facility, you're part of the section that loads the truck with coins. You have the option of cherry picking each box. Lol

 

[IceePirate]

You either have wayyyy to much time on your hands, or you can dump really easy. Either way, I envy your hunting numbers.

 

[Styfflin]

You either have wayyyy to much time on your hands, or you can dump really easy. Either way, I envy your hunting numbers.

I long for the days when I had way too much time on my hands, especially now with a legacy-building hobby like this one. But I am a man with a family, and I have to make the most of the little time I have.
Like I said, my dumping situation isn't made for this kind of half dollar volume. I only have two strong dump banks who handle the majority of my halves. When I scale down to 12 boxes, those two banks will only see me once per week with six boxes each. Then my 16 boxes of dimes will easily be dumped at three branches of a local credit union that have self-serve coin counters with two dime bags that fill at $1,000. If everything goes smoothly, I can see this all happening in one lunch break. And if that's the case, I might be able to pull off some local hunts (bank-wrapped rolls and full coin counter bags) with the time I freed up.
It's a fun challenge. I hope the result of this tweak is more awesome finds that I can share on here.

 

[ugotit22]

Ouch
I no the feeling. Good idea with the dimes. Old reliable, they are great to break that I just wasted my time feeling.
Just keep in mind I had about a month like this two months ago. Cooled it off for dimes and a few weeks later pulled 100+ from ten boxes.
Next good score is right around the corner

 

[Styfflin]

Ouch
I no the feeling. Good idea with the dimes. Old reliable, they are great to break that I just wasted my time feeling.
Just keep in mind I had about a month like this two months ago. Cooled it off for dimes and a few weeks later pulled 100+ from ten boxes.
Next good score is right around the corner

Lackluster finds don't make for fun Treasurenet posts, but it's nice to insert some reality every now and then. Time and patience do pay off in this hobby and everywhere else for that matter. I'm looking forward to getting 100% caught up on dumping next week, hopefully snagging a lucky bag, and then hitting the orders hard again in two weeks.

 

[bertmaster2000]

Impressive photo of the boxes and wrappers! I only search boxes when I travel. Last summer I looked through 26 boxes over the span of 5 days and found 12 40%-ers. Last month I looked through 12 boxes in 2 days and found zero silver coins. Sorry to read your recent luck was as poor as my recent luck! Picking up and dumping while traveling is a PITA, but at least I find something worth keeping when I search outside of my area, so it's worth it to me. I'm also not giving up. Best of luck to you.

 

[IceePirate]

Sad how I usually hit a silver every box. Now its a silver every other box.

 

[LooseChange]

Be careful dumping those dimes into self-serve counters. That is the biggest risk for machine count errors (not in your favor).

If you are cracking and searching rolls, it is a pretty easy exercise to make mini dump containers of $100 or so (ie butter tub, cool whip container, etc). That way you can watch and verify the count during the dump. Dump $100, wait for it to pretty much catch up. If it looks like you are on pace, then dump another $100, so on. This way, you will know if the machine is accurate without risking more than a few bucks. Once you get confidence with a machine, you can go back to rapid dump.

 

[Vdubguy]

Great pictures! That's a huge pile of wrappers.