2018: The Silver Also Rises

TheMastermind · Jan 13, 2018

Picked up $990 in CWR of halves + $32 in loose halves yesterday evening.

Skunked on the CWR, but the loose halves gave up one 40%er: 1968D.

Ben Cartwright SASS · Oct 15, 2018

I am 12 boxes skunked so far but it has been a month since I got any boxes anyway. Checked with my two banks that will sell bags and they are both at about 650 and 700 coins out of 2,000 for the bag, so a ways to go. Will monitor them over the holiday season and then if they are not close come late Feb or early March I will fill and buy them

scottw · Oct 15, 2018

I've found some surprising coins in half dollar boxes over the years, but I was completely flummoxed last Friday when a 2017 NICKEL came tumbling out of a roll.
It was certainly not one I would be willing to pay 10x face for!

Before you start a Go Fund Me page to help absorb the loss, there were also 4 40%ers in the mix.

Dozer D · Oct 15, 2018

TheMastermind said:
My 30-something box skunk streak with halves was broken over the weekend when I pulled a lone 40%er from a box: 1966.

My 20-something box skunk streak with dimes is still going, however....

I too have been seeing some big SKUNKS show their ugly head in my dime boxes, hope they go away.

TheMastermind · Oct 24, 2018

Dumped a box of halves today and found these sitting in the teller's tray:

Ben Cartwright SASS · Oct 28, 2018

on a skunk streak, 1 40% in the last 10 boxes of halves. Also did two boxes of dimes skunked. Working a bag of dimes skunked so far half to go.

The bank that was at 650 halves in the counter is not at 760, a ways to go yet.

Dozer D · Oct 29, 2018

Ben Cartwright SASS said:
on a skunk streak, 1 40% in the last 10 boxes of halves. Also did two boxes of dimes skunked. Working a bag of dimes skunked so far half to go.

The bank that was at 650 halves in the counter is not at 760, a ways to go yet.

Ben: is the bank going to hold it for you? If not, top it off to the exact amount with your own halves this way you've got it for sure. I've lost a couple of bags that way that were promised to me, but tellers forgot OR somebody else beat me to it.

Ben Cartwright SASS · Oct 29, 2018

Dozer
That is why I keep checking back, there are about 1200 coins to go to a full bag, when it gets down to about 300 coins or $150 I will fill and buy both bags, I actually did that once when there was only $150 in the bag, it meant a lot of culling my own stuff.

I may decide to fill it when it gets to $400 to go that way I don't have to worry about it, also if it is before the Jan/Feb coin counting rush when people are trying to pay their bills I will simply continue watching as it fills again...k

Dozer D · Oct 29, 2018

Ben: good thinking, keep us posted of your bag findings. When it comes to bags, I prefer that they get filled nice & slow, this way there's no BIG DUMPERs drop to worry about.

Ben Cartwright SASS · Oct 30, 2018

They seem to be filling slow, although not super slow. Bank 1 was at 300 coins back in May and is not 760, bank 2 was about 250 coins back last April and is now 700 so that is 100 coins a month. So it is not BIG dumpers but still that is 10 rolls a month would like it slower except between November and February! As old lady's cash is their late husband's SEATED LIBERTY half collections

TheMastermind · Oct 30, 2018

Box of halves last night gave up three keepers, two 90%ers and a 40%er:

1951D Ben
1964
1968D

The box also gave up a 1986S Statue of Liberty Commemorative Proof, but I threw it back into the wild since I already have both a sealed one as well as a pretty darn good one pulled from circulation in my collection.

TheMastermind · Nov 1, 2018

Picked up a box of halves yesterday, but didn't get around to searching it until a couple of hours ago.

It turned out to be a pretty good box, my first good box in a month or two, with one reverse ender showing.

Several rolls contained two silvers, and one roll gave up three silvers. Was a pretty exciting box to go through, relatively speaking.

The box gave up a total of 18 keepers, ten 90%ers and eight 40%ers:

1942 Walker
1947 Walker
1956 Ben
1964 x 7
1965
1967 x 5
1968D x 2

Dozer D · Nov 1, 2018

All from1-box! You are soooooo lucky, but keep stacking,to make up for all those SKUNKS you had in the past. Congrats.

Ben Cartwright SASS · Nov 2, 2018

Wow!!!

baddbluff · Nov 3, 2018

That’s sweet
I’ve never found 10 90s in a box
Nice!

Ben Cartwright SASS · Nov 5, 2018

Got a bag from one of my banks ($1,000 in dimes) went through it over the last week.

Found 6 silver dimes including 1 Mercury! For dimes that is pretty good.

Dozer D · Nov 6, 2018

Stopped in at one of my branches that sells me the bags, should be another due to fill by Friday. I hope more than the 3 silvers that I got from the other bag, another branch just recently.

Ben Cartwright SASS · Nov 6, 2018

Finished the last $75 in the dime bag, found a plastic toy Roosevelt Dime, it went through!

Also luckily I use a magnifying headset when looking that edges of the coins, almost missed one, it was dark, like a worn clad, it was a 1957 with really nice rainbow toning!

so 7 keepers in the dime bag.

TheMastermind · Nov 7, 2018

Nice take, Ben!

I picked up a box of halves yesterday right after I voted, managed to snag a lone 40%er from it: 1968D.

Dozer D · Nov 7, 2018

Picked up the bag that I mentioned above. Will post results when bag is completely checked. Hope it is fair to good, would just DIE if it was a sizeable dump.