Q. When is an investment of $589.50 of...............

[thurmownator]

..............halves you've already looked at, just to buy a bank's coin counter bag because they won't sell you a partial bag, a good trade-off ?

A. When it yields an insanely 290 (of just) half dollar keepers !

There was supposedly $410.50 already in there, so I gambled and plucked down the necessary $589.50 to fill it; knowing I'd be re-looking at over half the bag. But it was obviously worth it.

The bag yielded:

23 Walkers

34p (that I didn't have yet !)
41dx2
42px5
42s - large mintmark (that I didn't have yet !)
43px4
43d
43s - large mintmark
44px3
44d
45d
45s
46p (that I didn't have yet !)
47p (that I didn't have yet !)


44 Franklins

50dx2
51sx2
52px4
52dx3
53dx4
54dx2
57d
59dx3
60p
60dx3
61dx5
62px2
62dx5
63p
63dx6


40 90% JFKs

64px13
64dx27


182 40% JFKs

65x18
66x19
67x77
68dx62
69dx16


.......also gave up an '07p US half, US bicentennial quarter, twelve pre-83 US cents, an Adams dollar coin.

Additionally, for whatever reason, with all the other non-halves in the bag it actually held $1035.41; not the $1000 I paid for it !

Lastly, if my good karma wasn't already maxed out, when I returned the rejects, the coin counter (a different coin counter) reject bucket gave me 2 common Ikes and an Australian 2001 centennial half dollar.

Clearly the best single day I've had in thirteen months of CRHing. In fact, to put things in perspective, yesterday's one day number of silver halves was better than nine full month totals from last year. Yeah, I'm still riding the high.

 

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[cmhoose]

Amazing! Someone cashed in a collection. You should keep going back and buying bags from that machine. Sounds like if you don't get silver you could still score free money with the machine errors.

Hoose

 

[low xtreme]

wow

 

[sneak]

Congrats! That is a great score! You should go back and buy all the other denominations too.

 

[Silver Stripe]

Awesome. Major congrats, HH Mark

 

[LJ]

Grand Slam Thurm!!!!! What a score buddy.....kudos!! The gamble obviously paid off.......in big way. Not really a gamble because you can't lose in this hobby....I'll rephrase that and say the tactic paid off.

Nicely done!! Someone turned in a collection. You might want to go buy the quarter bag, dime bag, nickel & even the penny bag. You never know until you try.

What a way to start the year......Congrats Mike. I guess that roller coaster is on the way up?.....ha!

 

[copperpennies]

Good job! I wish i could do that good.

 

[Whyme]

WOW! Man o man what a great day you had!

 

[Silver_Fox]

The gamble obviously paid off.......in big way. Not really a gamble because you can't lose in this hobby....I'll rephrase that and say the tactic paid off.

Great score Thurm. Like LJ says, it's the best "slot machine" in the world. Load it up, pull the handle, get a big payoff and your original money back. It's a win-win situation.
I picked up a dream bag last year. It was a machine that uses clear plastic $500 bags. they pulled it out and all I could see was silver. No Ben's or Walker's BUT:
431 - 40%ers and 8 -90's. Here is a picture for all you non-gamblers.........

Like my brother likes to say, Take a chance......Columbus did.......

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Wowzers, now that is nice. Man I wish I lived near a town that even had an accessible coin counter.

Happy Hunting,

Scott (Mich)

 

[jrf30]

Best score I've heard of in a while!

Great thinking, and great results. Good job!

And i agree with the others. Go get the nickells, dimes and quarters. Let us know if that same collection ended up there too, and how much more silver you get!!

:-)

 

[Immy]

Astounding! Big congrats!

Did you get tipped off as you added your $589.50? Could you hear all that silver in there?

 

[TxTim]

Awesome score, Thurm!
Someone turned in coins for Christmas money!

You deserved a big hit after all the skunks last year.

Congrats!!!

 

[Cat J]

Congrats to you. Wish I could find a bag like that then my husband would stop telling me I was wasting my time. LOL

Proud of you man

Cat

 

[jewelerdave]

Those are great moments arnt they, I love it when I find a bank willing to do that.
yeah ya gotta go though your own junk again but who cares when you get results like that!
I have only gotten a few of those but every time I did get that chance I am so glad I did.
Nice on the extra cash too, thats a very profitable day, now you just need to find a dump bank that has some coins stuck in the till that get knocked lose by all that to give ya some more.
How long did they say it had been filling up for? when I get those sometimes they have been sitting half full like that for months and even years.

YA also never know when a bag like that is going to the fed. thats why its a good Idea to circulate and spend halves as hopefully they get dumped at some bank that is just on the brink of sending them in when they have a policy to not sell the bag....fill there bag I say.

Congrats on the score!

 

[GMan00001]

Great find! I fill up bags like whenever I get the chance and there is enough in there to bother. Part of my logic is how soon afterward I am likely to return to that bank as well as how much is needed to fill the bag. Usually guideline for me is at approx half full.

I am still waiting on my first bag/box/whatever like that with numerous Walkers and Franklins. Though I did have one with 90% and 40% Kennedys early last year.

Also, I was updating the tracking list, is your 1942-S a small S or a large S? The large S will be like the 1943.

 

[Wetgreenie]

Woof!

 

[Vrent]

nice bag good for you


Keep at it HH Vrent

 

[thurmownator]

Thanks for the kind words guys. It certainly was a rush that's lasted all weekend.

Thanks to those who suggested I go back for the other bags. I hadn't thought about that, and it makes good sense. I picked up two bags of quarters, a bag of nickels and three bags of cents on Saturday morning. And, I'm picking up the bag of dimes tomorrow.

While I haven't got to the bags of cents yet, the two bags of quarters didn't offer any silver, though I picked out a bicentennial quarter, but I did make a dent in state quarters (just one from each mint/each state) I had been lagging.

The nickels were pretty decent:

undated Buffalo
39px3
40px2
40dx2
41px2
41d
41s (small mintmark)
42p (silver !)
45s (silver that I didn't have yet !)
46p
46d
48px2
48d
49d
52p
53px3
53s
54px3
54dx3
54s
57d
58p (!)
59p
59d
.............and a British '82 20 pence coin


Speaking of undated Buffaloes, what are your experiences or the pros and cons of Nic-A-Date ? I never plan on selling any Buffs I might use it on, and just want to find out the dates; so I can fill in some spots in my coin folder.

Thanks again.

 

[Immy]

I can't endorse Nic-a-Date enough. It's cheap, works like a charm and since you only need a drop at a time, it lasts forever. Since I bought my 1¼ oz. bottle nine years ago I've used it on probably 80 or so coins and the bottle is still 90% full. There's nothing cooler than seeing the long-gone date appear right before your eyes.

The only con is of course the surface is premanently marred, but since you're not thinking of resale it's no big deal. It does leave a pale circular area where the drop was applied.