jim4silver
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A reject coin's travels
About two-three weeks ago I saw a 1977 D Kennedy half that had a sticker on the reverse that completely covered that side. It was a white sticker with blue print that said "change from Budget Tackle, Granby, CO". It also had a blue buffalo on it.
It caught my eye because it was odd. Anyway, I dumped it at my bank that uses Brinks. Recently I bought a Dunbar box and got that same coin in my rolls. Apparently someone got my reject from a Brink's roll and dumped it at a Dunbar bank. I believe that Dunbar actually re-rolls a bank's coins and holds them until they order. I was told that by Dunbar and have seen my Dunbar bank not get in boxes when ordered because their vault was empty. On the other hand, I believe that Brinks comingles all the coins that come in, so you might get coins from any bank that the Brinks facility handles. Thus, someone is dumping their Brinks rejects at the Dunbar bank and I usually dump my Dunbar rejects at a Brinks bank. No wonder we all keep getting so many skunk boxes.
I still get the best results from Brinks boxes though. Dunbar has been skunky lately (so has Brinks but not as bad, about one out of 6 boxes is pretty good on average). Maybe due to the high volume of halves they take in (in my estimation, Brinks handles 90% or more of all the banks in my town) Brink's gets more variety??
Pretty quick turnaround it seems to me for that dump half.
Jim
About two-three weeks ago I saw a 1977 D Kennedy half that had a sticker on the reverse that completely covered that side. It was a white sticker with blue print that said "change from Budget Tackle, Granby, CO". It also had a blue buffalo on it.
It caught my eye because it was odd. Anyway, I dumped it at my bank that uses Brinks. Recently I bought a Dunbar box and got that same coin in my rolls. Apparently someone got my reject from a Brink's roll and dumped it at a Dunbar bank. I believe that Dunbar actually re-rolls a bank's coins and holds them until they order. I was told that by Dunbar and have seen my Dunbar bank not get in boxes when ordered because their vault was empty. On the other hand, I believe that Brinks comingles all the coins that come in, so you might get coins from any bank that the Brinks facility handles. Thus, someone is dumping their Brinks rejects at the Dunbar bank and I usually dump my Dunbar rejects at a Brinks bank. No wonder we all keep getting so many skunk boxes.
I still get the best results from Brinks boxes though. Dunbar has been skunky lately (so has Brinks but not as bad, about one out of 6 boxes is pretty good on average). Maybe due to the high volume of halves they take in (in my estimation, Brinks handles 90% or more of all the banks in my town) Brink's gets more variety??
Pretty quick turnaround it seems to me for that dump half.
Jim
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