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  1. A Personal Best Nickel Box

    Well, I've basically given up on 1/2's a long time ago because they are difficult for me to regularly pickup and dump, they tie up money that I simply don't have, and the finds had pretty much dried up. Rather than inconvenvience the tellers with my erratic schedule, I've switched to the...
  2. My recent finds with photo

    I don't post much because I rarely find anything spectacular. The occasional War Nickel or 40% in between skunk boxes, but I have found a few things recently that I thought might interest a few of the numismatists. First I'll start with with the non photo finds. In the past month, I did 4...
  3. Which would you rather find in a box?

    If you had the choice of a walker (cull condition), ben (very worn), 90% (nice), 3-40% ers (mint), or a modern (non silver) commem, which would you want to find? Note that none would be considered AU70 or anything to attach a huge premium. I ask because of my modest finds, I think my favorite...
  4. Changes are coming

    I'm sure many of you have heard this, but I figure I'll pass this along. Apparently, the $100 bill will be changing soon. As someone that never really handled $100 bills until I got into this hobby, I thought I'd let you know what to expect in a few months when you are dumping. On a side...
  5. an odd box of pennies

    When I picked up my box of pennies this past week, I got a box full of CWRs. These aren't fun because the coins had all the wheats pulled. I'm still going through all 50 rolls to be sure though. What was also odd about this box after ~40 rolls was: 1) there were no coins newer than 1985 2)...
  6. 2013 finds so far

    Just wantedt o check in. I've been going through a box of halves and a box of pennies each week since mid january. So in the 8 +/- boxes of halves I've found a few keepers. Last box had a 40% in the first roll. I'll admit, it got my hopes pretty high, but unfortunately that was about it. My...
  7. St Nick brought a buffalo Nick!

    Merry Christmas everyone, I was doing some last minute Christmas preparations and while I was waiting for my slow ocmputer to "think" I did a few rolls of nickels. I found my first baffalo nickel in almost a year!! WN's I find every 2-3 boxes, but it's been a REALLy long time since I found...
  8. results of 2 boxes this week and a first (no Ag)

    My first box had about 800 1994's, 100 2000's and 100 miscelaneous. no keepers, not even NIFC. Second box had a keeper for me. My first Balboa 1/2. It was a 1993, so not AG, but I thought it was cool. I also found a bicentenial that was 1/2 black, but I swear it looks silver. It is really...
  9. which is more common?

    So I've been hunting for a yearr and a half. I've found more proofs than AG. Is that typical? Unfortunately, only 2 or 3 are even nice enough to be considered attractive, but i do keep em, since i date check anyway. Just wondering what your ratios look like (if you are just an edge searcher...
  10. Tracking Spreadsheets

    When I had just started CRHing, there were a few posts on here about tracking spreadsheets used to keep up with your finds. While everyone has their own purposes and needs from tracking software, none of the posted sheets had what I was looking for. Since it's been a while, I wanted to see...
  11. what to do, what to do...

    I picked up two boxes of halves the other day and now I've got a dilema. Each box appears to be all the same year. I checked the enders and the ones with a date all show the same date. The first box only shows 2000 (I could probably see about 40 dates). The other is all 1996s in the box...
  12. Grading Coins

    Hey everyone. I'm a regular on the CRH forum, but have some questions that might be better suited to this forum's audience. I've come accross some very new 1995 (and a couple 1996) half dollars. These things are in VERY nice conditions compared to circulated coins. I don't know if they've...
  13. does provident pay more than melt?

    I was doing a little research on the various denominations we search. I checked out kitco (silver spot price), coinflation (melt value), and provident metals (current offer prices). Some things I noice were obvious like war nickels have no offer price (I suspect due to the melt ban). OThers...
  14. Ever see a series of grease filled dies? Pictures

    So recently Hopper39 had a post with a 1996 grease filled die. His was heavily affected. I too had some grease filled die finds (I think) from 1996 as well, but they are very different. I found about 25 coins that all have a similar effect, but they gradually show less and less effect as it...
  15. 2 month skunk streak ends, barely

    So I finally told the teller at my bank I needed to take a break after 8 straight boxes of repacked searches (box was sealed, but the rolls were open and marked). I guess he forgot to relay the message because the head teller called to ask if I would be coming in (she had two boxes, twice my...
  16. Taking a Break... For now

    CRHing has been fun for the past 6 months, but it has not been very rewarding financially. Fortunately I look at this as a hobby, but again this week, I got my one box and it was repacked by the coin supplier. I told my bank I am going on a hiatus. I'm going to try to open a new account as a...
  17. Found a washer in a roll of nickels or maybe WAY better???

    PICS ADDED - Found a washer in a roll of nickels or maybe WAY better??? I ADDED PICS!!! See below. I was hunting a few CWR of nickels tonight and they were all labeled with name/phone number (if I knew banks redistributed CWRs, I never would have written my name/acct numbers on them years ago...
  18. Not again! Please help...

    It happened again. I know there was a similar post last week, but i think my situation is a little unique. I've done a box a week for 8 months now (about 30 boxes). Of those, I've had 24 skunks. I can deal with the skunks. It's how I'm getting them that bothers me. Of those 24 skunks, 15...
  19. Nice to get a find worth 100s of times face

    Nice to get a find worth 100's of times face Too bad it was a penny. lol. I found a 1931D. Redbook says in this condition it is worth about $5.00 so I guess $2-3 is probably more realistic? The low value stuff seems way high in redbook. The higher dollar stuff seems like its a bit more...
  20. Provident Metals Posted Prices

    Just a quick question to anyone who has ever sold through provident. They post prices on their website and they seem to update continuously. Are these pretty close to the prices that you can lock in at when you call? Thanks!
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