UGH - First two boxes of the month and I get the big SKUNKAROO!!!!!!!

Joliet Jake

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Just went through 2 boxes (yellow paper rolls, marked Jan-29-07 and Dec-17-06), and same result, NO SILVER! That makes FOUR silver halves in the last SIX BOXES (300 rolls, 6000 coins).
This is the Great Silver Drought of 2007!

I hope this is not an indication that the Fed has new coin counters that check for silver. Seems pretty easy to do either by weight or electrically.

Oh well, I also got an 1981-S, a 1987-D, and a couple 2002+ clads. Slim pickin's indeed.

"Good times are comin', but they sure comin' slow...."
 

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Joliet Jake said:
Just went through 2 boxes (yellow paper rolls, marked Jan-29-07 and Dec-17-06), and same result, NO SILVER! That makes FOUR silver halves in the last SIX BOXES (300 rolls, 6000 coins).
This is the Great Silver Drought of 2007!

I hope this is not an indication that the Fed has new coin counters that check for silver. Seems pretty easy to do either by weight or electrically.

Oh well, I also got an 1981-S, a 1987-D, and a couple 2002+ clads. Slim pickin's indeed.

"Good times are comin', but they sure comin' slow...."
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I kinda wondered the same thing on the coin counters, every new box of halves I have got had nothing at all (6) , all I picked up at bank that were already there I usually find something. I picked up 6 boxes of dimes in reserve boxes, only one had a date, got alot of silver, but nothing at all out of the dated box. Picked up four boxes today, all dated NOV 06 nothing at alll in them.
 

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Personally I don't think the Feds have much to do with it. There is a LOT more coin roll hunters out there than us, and with the large number of hunters out there, the quantity of silver in circulation is going to get scarce.
 

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Update on the other 2 boxes I got this week (my bank always orders 4 at a time).

Box 3 No Keepers, Nada, Nothin', Zip. And to top it off one of the half dollars had George Washingtons picture and said "quarter dollar". The Fed owes me 25 cents, lol.

Box 4 ended my silver drought, 1 1964 and 4 40% plus 3 2002+ coins. Not much, but I'll take it. This box was like all the rest, (5x10x1, yellow wrappers) EXCEPT it was not date stamped. I wonder if it was an older box from the bottom of the truck or vault. All the rest of the boxes had a date and inspector number stamped on them (box 3 was stamped Jan 1? 2007, couldn't read the second number).

I haven't found any silver in boxes stamped with 2007 dates!
 

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