Silver Saver
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- Mar 15, 2017
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- 939
- Detector(s) used
- Etrac- Sunray x5, x8, x12. Garrett Carrot.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I started CRH a little over a month ago and everything has been going well until last week. I happen to live in the only state with a state-owned bank and they act as the money courier for every bank in my city and surrounding area. Every bank in the area orders their money from this state-owned bank, and also sends their excess money there. Last week they complained to the bank about my half dollar orders. I'll go into detail about my experience so far.
I've been ordering $2k each week in half dollars from a credit union that I joined when I started CRH. When I opened the account, I first ended up talking to the V.P. of the credit union and told him what I was looking for as far as supply of half dollars and I got the OK from him to do so. That C.U. has been super friendly and accommodating toward me. I've gotten $2k in halves each week with no problems until last week. I was told that the V.P. wanted to talk to me again, and according to him the money courier, Bank of North Dakota, made a stink about my half dollar orders and pretty much said they don't want to be dealing with them. Part of the couriers annoyance with the situation is just with the whole CRH process in general and that they feel like they are just picking up dumps and re-wrapping the same coins over and over.
I'll also say that on top of the $2k from that credit union, I've also been picking up another 2-3 boxes from other banks each week. A couple weeks back BND(Bank of North Dakota) made these same kind of comments to a different bank I made an order at that week. And I've also been picking up 1 box every monday from another source too, with zero problems, but then today(4th) they didn't have a box for me. But the vault teller wasn't there so I wasn't able to find out why. But it could be related.
I'm not sure if this courier(Bank of North Dakota) has ever dealt with volume CRH in the past, but I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person in the area attempting to volume hunt halves at this time. When I first started hunting they provided me with C.W.I. boxes that were stamped 2015, then 2017 CWI boxes shortly after. And every other denomination box I've picked up has been CWI boxes. So BND gets their supply from CWI, and when I first started CRH I asked BND what they do with the bags of coins they receive off coin counting machines and at that time they told me that the bags get sent off to "the fed". But after BND started receiving my dumps of half dollars they started re-rolling my dumps to send back out for my orders, these re-rolled halves are machine wrapped and come in a BND canvas bag.
So I adapted to that situation and made accounts at multiple banks in order to spread my dumps out as thin as possible and create a higher chance of getting back halves that other customers might have deposited. While the courier(BND) is looking at the situation as sending out the same coins over and over, I'm looking at the situation of being this is just how the CRH game goes. I might be getting the same coins back for the most part, but there might be a handful that aren't the same and you never know when that one person will deposit a collection. And with it being only me doing volume halves in the area, I'm willing to play that game until I'm not finding anything at all. And that isn't happening yet. In my last 9 BND supplied $500 canvas bag of rolled halves I've found 16 silver. I'll also add that every bank I've been to so far has coin counting machines and most require coins brought in to be ran through the machine, then when the bag on the machine fills it's sealed then sent to BND. For the most part anyway. So that adds to the chance of making finds from BND supply.
I guess it's just somewhat frustrating that I have banks that are willing to order half dollars for me, but a courier that seems to want to get in the way. I look at it as they've taken on that role as money courier for the area, so they should do their job and supply the banks with what they ask for without making a stink about it. Even if the money being ordered is only being used by a CRH. All I'm wanting to do is have fun and enjoy the hobby.
I think I need to talk to management at BND and see what the issue is. This is a hobby I would like to do long term, and hope that they can work with me and not against me.
Sorry about the length, I just wanted to share the situation. Any thoughts?
I've been ordering $2k each week in half dollars from a credit union that I joined when I started CRH. When I opened the account, I first ended up talking to the V.P. of the credit union and told him what I was looking for as far as supply of half dollars and I got the OK from him to do so. That C.U. has been super friendly and accommodating toward me. I've gotten $2k in halves each week with no problems until last week. I was told that the V.P. wanted to talk to me again, and according to him the money courier, Bank of North Dakota, made a stink about my half dollar orders and pretty much said they don't want to be dealing with them. Part of the couriers annoyance with the situation is just with the whole CRH process in general and that they feel like they are just picking up dumps and re-wrapping the same coins over and over.
I'll also say that on top of the $2k from that credit union, I've also been picking up another 2-3 boxes from other banks each week. A couple weeks back BND(Bank of North Dakota) made these same kind of comments to a different bank I made an order at that week. And I've also been picking up 1 box every monday from another source too, with zero problems, but then today(4th) they didn't have a box for me. But the vault teller wasn't there so I wasn't able to find out why. But it could be related.
I'm not sure if this courier(Bank of North Dakota) has ever dealt with volume CRH in the past, but I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person in the area attempting to volume hunt halves at this time. When I first started hunting they provided me with C.W.I. boxes that were stamped 2015, then 2017 CWI boxes shortly after. And every other denomination box I've picked up has been CWI boxes. So BND gets their supply from CWI, and when I first started CRH I asked BND what they do with the bags of coins they receive off coin counting machines and at that time they told me that the bags get sent off to "the fed". But after BND started receiving my dumps of half dollars they started re-rolling my dumps to send back out for my orders, these re-rolled halves are machine wrapped and come in a BND canvas bag.
So I adapted to that situation and made accounts at multiple banks in order to spread my dumps out as thin as possible and create a higher chance of getting back halves that other customers might have deposited. While the courier(BND) is looking at the situation as sending out the same coins over and over, I'm looking at the situation of being this is just how the CRH game goes. I might be getting the same coins back for the most part, but there might be a handful that aren't the same and you never know when that one person will deposit a collection. And with it being only me doing volume halves in the area, I'm willing to play that game until I'm not finding anything at all. And that isn't happening yet. In my last 9 BND supplied $500 canvas bag of rolled halves I've found 16 silver. I'll also add that every bank I've been to so far has coin counting machines and most require coins brought in to be ran through the machine, then when the bag on the machine fills it's sealed then sent to BND. For the most part anyway. So that adds to the chance of making finds from BND supply.
I guess it's just somewhat frustrating that I have banks that are willing to order half dollars for me, but a courier that seems to want to get in the way. I look at it as they've taken on that role as money courier for the area, so they should do their job and supply the banks with what they ask for without making a stink about it. Even if the money being ordered is only being used by a CRH. All I'm wanting to do is have fun and enjoy the hobby.
I think I need to talk to management at BND and see what the issue is. This is a hobby I would like to do long term, and hope that they can work with me and not against me.
Sorry about the length, I just wanted to share the situation. Any thoughts?
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