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drcaulfield

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merc dime.jpg I have not been doing this a long time....started about 2 weeks ago. I have gone through roughly 8 boxes of dimes and found 5 roosevelt dimes and one 44 merc. It is interesting to not that I have found them all in the clear plastic wrapped rolls that my local bank is kind enough to let me examine and return 5 minutes later.


I have been skunked in every paper roll I have undone.


Has anyone else had this type of luck?


I also have a newbie question.......since these coins are bought and dumped locally do they then go to a central brinks depot to be rewrapped if returned in bags to my local bank? it would seem to me that a specific geographic area serviced by say brinks would simply be recirculating the same coins over and over and so a area with a bunch of CRHers would have serious diminished returns. Am I wrong in thinking this?


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That's funny, I've searched hundreds of thousands in dimes and never get any silvers in the plastic, because they are Brinks, and Brinks, well, you know....culls - I mean services Coinstar, which rejects silver.
 

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That's funny, I've searched hundreds of thousands in dimes and never get any silvers in the plastic, because they are Brinks, and Brinks, well, you know....culls - I mean services Coinstar, which rejects silver.


I search Brinks, and you know I find Silver, now, I ( as well as everyone else I'm sure) wish they would wrap halves in plastic, wouldn't that be cool! HH, Maverick.
 

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it doesn't matter to me, i average roughly the same in either style wrapper.
 

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I only do pennies since my funds aren't great right now ;p but I just got 2 brinks boxes for the first time and the first box had 25 wheats in it o.o can't wait to go through the next box. These are plastics I'm going through :) Hated the paper.. always a huge mess to clean up I just cut down the middle of the plastic tap em out and throw them in the box.
 

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When you cut down the middle of those wrappers don't you also put cuts into your coins?
 

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I also have a newbie question.......since these coins are bought and dumped locally do they then go to a central brinks depot to be rewrapped if returned in bags to my local bank? it would seem to me that a specific geographic area serviced by say brinks would simply be recirculating the same coins over and over and so a area with a bunch of CRHers would have serious diminished returns. Am I wrong in thinking this?


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Yes, for the most part.
 

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