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$ilver$urfer

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Hello Fellow CRHers,

Many of you have been able to keep track of my finds by my signature and have watched my numbers grow throughout the year, slowly but surely! :thumbsup: I've had lots of great CRHing memories this year but the top three would have to be:

1.) [2] Morgan dollars from a teller's tray (in addition to [12] Bens, [11] WLs and [3] '64s) :thumbsup:
2.) 150 keepers from a bunch of CWRs about a month ago ([43] 90%ers and [107] 40%ers) :thumbsup:
3.) [6] solid rolls earlier this year ([20] '64s and [100] 40%ers) :thumbsup:

I searched every denomination and a lot of it to find...

2011 Finds
[2] IH Cent: '99 & '02
[2248] Wheats & 750lbs of Copper Cents
[1] 1905 V Nickel
[23] Buffalos
[42] War Nickels
[197] Mercs
[1152] Roosies
[110] Silver Canadian Dimes
[5] Washington Quarters
[25] Walkers
[45] Bens
[181] '64 Kens
[1239] 40%ers ([24] '68S and '69S proofs, [2] '70S and [1] '76S)
[2] 40% Ike & [2] Morgans

:icon_sunny:

Silver is currently much lower than I ever plan to sell at but calculated today at $27.80/ounce:

[42] War Nickels = $65.69
[1349] Mercs/Roosies = $2,712.84
[110] Silver Canadian Dimes (80% & 50%) = $165.96
[5] Washington Quarters = $25.14
[251] WL/Ben/'64s = $2,523.83
[1239] 40%ers = $5,094.02
[2] 40% Ikes = $17.58
[2] Morgans = $43.00

Grand Total of: 383 ounces of silver valued at $10,648.06 at $27.80/oz. That means I averaged finding more than one ounce of the good stuff per day this year! At $40 an ounce, that is $15,333 in melt value! :icon_sunny:

I also found dozens of clad S proof halves, a clad 1989 Congress Commemorative Half, numerous magician's coins, dozens of gold-plated and counter-stamped halves, a double-headed half dollar, a few clad S proof dimes, a few foreign silver coins (dime-sized), about 5 lbs worth of cool foreign coins and tokens, about a hundred bucks in free Canadian coins, two gold rings and one sterling silver ring as well! ;D

HH & HNY!!!

$ilver$urfer :hello:
 
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You really are a Silver Surfer! You scored well on the dimes, very impressive. Looking forward to seeing more good scores from you in the coming year.
 
Woo! Hoo! SilverSurfer your Da Man. Awesome :thumbsup:
 
Excellent return on your searches. I hope for similar returns in 2012 for halves. I am going to be more disciplined and focus on halves and nothing else in 2012
 
amazing finds... i wonder how much dimes you searched, crazy nice finds
 
You have found more canadian silver dimes than I have, and I live in Canada. And am I reading this right? You have found 1349 silver american dimes!?! Would you mind telling me the amount of dimes you have searched to get those.
 
That Canadian Guy said:
You have found more canadian silver dimes than I have, and I live in Canada. And am I reading this right? You have found 1349 silver american dimes!?! Would you mind telling me the amount of dimes you have searched to get those.

LOL, yes, that is correct, I search about 2-2.5K a week in customer wrapped rolls of dimes...I steer clear of machine wrapped rolls. :thumbsup:

HH,

$ilver$urfer :hello:
 
Silver$urfer,

Wow, that is an excellent year by almost any measure. Your dime totals and half totals are impressive! The copper cent poundage (creeping up on tonnage :thumbsup:) is also impressive I seem to recollect you focus on CWR's?...you are doing a helluva job of intercepting the silver before it gets into the distribution system.

Kudos to you sir!

Best wishes for continued success in 2012.

HH,
CD
 
Great job $$, that's a really impressive list of finds and a heck of a lot of silver! :thumbsup:

I'd sure love to have such a good year as you've had but I know it takes a lot of dedication & a larger budget than I've been using so far. But I hope to be increasing my CRHing budget & volume some next year so if I could come close to doing as good as you did this year I'd sure be a happy hunter. :)

HH & HNY! :occasion18:

BTW $$, how do you manage to get so many cwr's of dimes every week? I guess that's part of the key to your great success with dimes. I can't believe how hard it is for me to try and explain to tellers what cwr's are but the banks where I live usually have very few if any.
 
D^mn...I just noticed 24 combined 68 and 69 proofs??? There's got to be a story there?
 
WOW, Amazing year, I did not know you did that much volume. I give you so much credit for doing the dime volume you do, staying clear of MWR's.

Hope 2012 is an even better year for you!!!

HH and happy new year! :occasion18:
 
Captaindoodle said:
D^mn...I just noticed 24 combined 68 and 69 proofs??? There's got to be a story there?

LOL, yup - back in April or May I believe I stopped at one of my credit unions and asked for halves (same branch that gave me 6 solid rolls of silver a month earlier). They had 9 rolls, one complete roll was solid '69S 40%ers in perfect condition and wouldn't you know I put a thumbprint on the top one! :tongue3: There was also a solid roll of 2005S and I believe a a handful of 40%ers as well :tongue3:

That was a fun score! :icon_sunny:

HH,

$ilver$urfer :hello:
 
Amazing year!!!! I will keep working to try and get numbers like you someday! Inspiration.
 
truely amazing finds. Top 5 of 2011 for sure!
 
truely amazing finds. Top 5 of 2011 for sure! How much dollar amount did you go thru for the year?
 
Great scores there, $ilver$urfer. May the silver Gods keep
shining down on you in 2012. All the best to you.
rileybou
 
ahsq said:
truely amazing finds. Top 5 of 2011 for sure! How much dollar amount did you go thru for the year?

I would say about 350 boxes of halves and as many CWRs as I could find. I started hitting dimes heavy back in March/April and searched about 2-2.5K a week in CWRs so maybe 100K in dimes. :icon_sunny:

HH and HNY!

$ilver$urfer :hello:
 
Great year SS, and 110 silver Canadian dimes is an amazing total. :icon_thumleft:

No slacking in 2012.

HH

Nick
 
saweet numbers, congrats :thumbsup:
 

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