Best Half Dollar Hunting Strategy???

[$ilver$urfer]

Hello Fellow CRHers,

I've been CRHing for well over a year now and I just starting thinking recently that my half dollar hunting strategy is all wrong. I get 2 boxes a week from one bank, another 2 boxes from another bank, and 1 box from another bank. They almost always have the same box codes but I feel sometimes that when I get a good box and I may be starting to hit a vein but the next branches boxes don't continue to yield. Is it a better strategy to get 4 boxes from one bank, and maybe 4 boxes from another? Do you think that would be a better strategy than my current method? I was doing 8 boxes a week earlier this year (2 boxes a week from 4 different branches) but when yields were low I tapered things off down to 5. I see that some epic runs are occurring with those folks who get 4 or more boxes from one source at a time and can't help but wonder if I might have similar results if I did the same!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

 

[Piledriver]

Get ALL the Boxes from ALL the banks you can !

New CRH'ers are coming right behind us to scoop up everything we leave.
I don't intend to leave much.

Keep on Rollin' !

 

[Bigheed]

Hey Surfer, I think you have the proper approach, multiple source banks, good volume, etc. Try to up your #'s from each bank to 4 or 6. Less chance for all skunks and more chance for finding the fat boxes on the pallets!

I know you have great success though....back when I started in March I loved reading your posts because you always had good scores!

Its just a game of chance and more boxes = more chances :-)

HH
Bigheed

 

[Generic_Lad]

Boxes are good and well, but for me I concentrate on getting as much loose and CWRs as possible. I seem to have higher averages dollar per dollar (although, you do get skunked often and it takes more in gas). If you can get banks to call you when they get unusual coins in, that is also a plus. I think the game is shifting from boxes, boxes, boxes, to going to a lot of banks and getting a lot of loose halves. Boxes will still produce very well for Dimes, Nickels and Pennies because few people are actively searching them. Most of the dime, nickel and penny boxes, along with quarter boxes that banks get are given to businesses who hand them out into change, which then get placed into a jar, which then goes to the sorter, which then goes to be rewrapped.

 

[$ilver$urfer]

Get ALL the Boxes from ALL the banks you can !

New CRH'ers are coming right behind us to scoop up everything we leave.
I don't intend to leave much.

Keep on Rollin' !

AMEN BROTHER!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

 

[$ilver$urfer]

Hey Surfer, I think you have the proper approach, multiple source banks, good volume, etc. Try to up your #'s from each bank to 4 or 6. Less chance for all skunks and more chance for finding the fat boxes on the pallets!

I know you have great success though....back when I started in March I loved reading your posts because you always had good scores!

Its just a game of chance and more boxes = more chances :-)

HH
Bigheed

Thanks for the advice and kind words Bigheed! I'll be posting much more in the winter as there is less to do outside! I'll bump my orders up to 4 or more over the coming months and hope and pray I hit the motherlode like CnC and db23!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

 

[$ilver$urfer]

Boxes are good and well, but for me I concentrate on getting as much loose and CWRs as possible. I seem to have higher averages dollar per dollar (although, you do get skunked often and it takes more in gas). If you can get banks to call you when they get unusual coins in, that is also a plus. I think the game is shifting from boxes, boxes, boxes, to going to a lot of banks and getting a lot of loose halves. Boxes will still produce very well for Dimes, Nickels and Pennies because few people are actively searching them. Most of the dime, nickel and penny boxes, along with quarter boxes that banks get are given to businesses who hand them out into change, which then get placed into a jar, which then goes to the sorter, which then goes to be rewrapped.

Hitting the silver off at the pass and before it gets to the boxes is always a good strategy, although in my area there is a decent amount of competition for loose halves, but not so much for boxes. Out of 50 or more area banks that I have traveled to over the last 15 months, I have only come across one other bank that orders half dollars for another customer on a week to week basis so I guess that is good. However, road trips are painful more often than not so most of my regular banks will save them for me, like what happened today at lunch!

HH,

$ilver$urfer

 

[byzanthia]

I guess it really depends on how much you can reasonably pick up and dump. I have no coin counters aroud here, and worse, I work during the banks' opening times to I have no real way to dump coins. So I'm limited to 2-3 boxes of dimes or halves a week. When those are usually skunk, it doesn't really motivate me to go out an figure out how to pick up and dump another 10 boxes. Now if I consistently pulled 5-10 silver per box like some of the posters with better luck - heck yeah... I'd be making time to pick up and dump stuff.

It's all luck if you ask me. I'm sure some posters have good strategies about what banks to hit that results in more silver, but I'm guessing most of it comes down to sheer luck and where you are geographically located.