Do you think?

[n8dagr8345]

So, I have been fascinated with trying to figure out the workings of the coin distributes. Anyone have any idea on how often they may box up halves? Do you feel like every time they pick up halves they are boxed up? Do you feel like its one giant sorting/boxing machine that does all denominations at once?

My thought is that all denominations are separated by a mega-sorter. Then a boxing machine does whichever denomination its loaded to do. So I think that they do halves once they reach a certain point.... like lets say after they collect 25k. I have no facts to back this, just my guess and an attempt to explain why I get great boxes for 30-40 boxes. Then I get 10 boxes from the same distributor that are all skunks since most the circulated coins I would assume are dumps from some larger volume hunter(like myself). However, once I clear out the newest batch of halves I am back into the silver rich boxes of before?. .

Maybe I am just trying to validate the skunks? Maybe I am accurate...
Chime in with your thoughts...
N8

 

[Gareb]

I used to think there was this huge hopper that coins from all the same branches were dumped into. The they boxed up a supply and bagged others. Here I can buy boxes of 500 and canvas bags of 1k. I know the bags were done at similar times (even across branches) as not only were the coins similar (numbers, types, foreign, but the kicker was several in a row contained car wash tokens, baseball pitching machine tokens, 2 different presidential tokens, and even multiple plastic copy halves separated across the bags).
The boxes I was not sure about.
I did have a curve ball thrown at me recently though. One of the banks I usually order a 1k bag from did not come in on the regular monday. The vault teller tells me that the deliver called and said they could not get the order until Thursday (next delivery day). When it came, it was 2 boxes marked in marker Fed Rez 1 of 2 instead of the regular bag.
This really threw off my theory because another bank (same branch) has since still delivered me 2 canvas bags. This past week same bank same thing happened on both. Now I think their vault warehouse (I know where this is located) has different pallets(?) of coin separated in different areas for different branches ofthe same bank. I may have actually emptied one of their pallets.
I got curious and spoke with one vault teller I have a good relationship with, she said she has no idea. In fact curve balls are thrown at them also. Every time a new process has been implemented and things are on a regular time, the process is changed up to keep even the tellers in the dark as to how things actually work. So I guess we are not alone in our thoughts. Maybe it is really all housed in area 51 or something.

 

[$nack-Money]

i too have thought about this alot and would love to know. Someone reading this forum does know and probably gets a good laugh every time its brought up. I can't imagine that some brinks/ loomis etc employee hasn't read this forum yet. They simply, for one reason or another, don't share their knowledge. In the end, as most will agree, it doesn't matter.

The overall majority on here will agree that a bank's coin is still owned by the bank as brinks (or whoever services the bank's coin needs) only serves the bank by processing their coin. This cannot be the case with halves, as there is no reason for a bank in 2012 to have that many halves on hand or circulating in its coin reserves (since they really havent been well used in circulation for decades). What I would like to know, along the same lines as the OP, is where the halves come from once a particular bank's (relatively low I assume) supply of bank-owned halves is exhausted. This has to be the case with the majority of banks today. The bank employees have no clue that is for sure. Federal Reserve? lol thats a good answer

 

[bblair]

N8 - you must be seeing what I'm seeing now. About 2 weeks ago my boxes were great, last week and so far this week it's been bad. I don't come close to the volume you do, but my small sample size can pick up the trends.

Also does anyone know what the 4 digit codes on String boxes mean?

 

[n8dagr8345]

N8 - you must be seeing what I'm seeing now. About 2 weeks ago my boxes were great, last week and so far this week it's been bad. I don't come close to the volume you do, but my small sample size can pick up the trends.

Also does anyone know what the 4 digit codes on String boxes mean?

Those box numbers are the biggest tease in the world. I have had numbers that have produced 20+ keepers / box for 16 boxes. Then produce 16 boxes of skunk...

 

[TimZim]

I talk to the truck drivers all the time. I will ask them? It can't hirt to try. I talked to them about 5 times.