EE is going to try to scare up some silver in October

[The_EE]

Hopefully October will be better than the last few months. Its been rather dry around here as of late. I get a few drops here and there but not much.

28 boxes due for October, maybe more. I might have one bank order me an extra box every two weeks, not sure on that right now.

 

[Wickaboag]

Best of luck EE!!! Was really hoping it would be a "september to remember" like you thought it would be!!
October is when the 'holiday silver' starts to come out right?
Happy hunting
Wicka

 

[Local_coins]

Best of luck EE!!! Was really hoping it would be a "september to remember" like you thought it would be!!
October is when the 'holiday silver' starts to come out right?
Happy hunting
Wicka

I always focus on CWR during the holidays.

 

[The_EE]

String and Sons is officially Skunk and Sons to me.

2 boxes, nothing to speak of. I guess maybe my local pick up still doesnt have a new pallet in yet.

 

[namster]

The flat boxes you are getting, do they have a date and inspection number stamped on them?

 

[alligator69]

Speaking of being dry... nothing in 20 half dollar boxes.

 

[Novapax]

I just did 4 boxes. All were skunks! 4 more to go, so we will see.

 

[The_EE]

The flat boxes you are getting, do they have a date and inspection number stamped on them?

Let me check... as soon as my movie is done.

I have 3 boxes that look the same, the 4th was a different style of flat box.

 

[The_EE]

I checked the 4 boxes I have, not a single date stamped on them. As for the two styles of flat boxes...

 

[The_EE]

Picked up 2 boxes of Halves from one bank, both Brinks.

Box 1: 1/40%
Box 2: Skunk

Picked up 3 boxes from my other pick up bank, all Skunk and sons.

Box 1: Skunk
Box 2: Skunk
Box 3: Skunk

Picked up from the coin shop with my spare change

1 - Roosevelt dime
1 - Washington Quarter
1 - Standing Quarter


Picked up 2 rolls of CW Quarters and 1 Nickel, both Skunks

My dump bank had no nickels or Dimes for me.

I will do my next update next Saturday. 6 Boxes incoming.

 

[The_EE]

6 Boxes due tomorrow, unknown number of CRW's as well on Saturday.

I did find a source for copper though. Went by the coin shop to do my weekly pickup of junk silver ( 2 standing quarters and a roisie ) with my left over spare change and mentioned that I still had not found a single steel penny out of the $450 worth of pennies I have search to date. They mentioned that they had a bucket of copper pennies that customers bring in with their wheats that they sell to them. I picked up $12.30 worth of copper pennies for $12.

I have searched only about $4-$5 worth of it so far, pulled out 2 Zinc pennies mixed in but I did manage to pull out 2 clipped wheats 1944 and 1958. I know they are not worth much of anything since the coin shop didnt keep them but Ill hold them all the same, someone might find value in them during a future auction.

Yeah.. its been slow in the silver dept as of late...

 

[namster]

Boxes are totally dry here, for the last three weeks. I have netted 2x90% and 2x40% out of 40 plus boxes. All my finds of late have been bags from coin counters or CWRs.

 

[hotrod]

nice

 

[sagittarius98]

nice

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/search.php?searchid=606408

Why are almost all your posts "nice" or "cool?" That's just not good for maintaining a good forum conversation, you don't provide any good to the forum by always putting 4 letter words in your posts.

 

[The_EE]

So.. October is nearly half way over.

Its been slow going with the CRH, not in volume but in finds, its pretty dry out there.


On 10-3 I got 2 Skunk and Sons boxes and they lived up to their names

On 10 - 5 I got 3 more Skunk and sons and again, all 3 were empty
On 10 - 5 I received 2 Brinks boxes which netted me a single 40%

On Friday, Bank 1 gave me 3 Brinks boxes

Box 1: 6/40%
Box 2: Skunked
Box 3: 1/40%

Bank 2 had a new delivery guy who stacked the halves on top of everything else. When he set his cart down, the stack of coin was felled like a might oak tree and out of my 3 boxes of halves I only got to take home 90 loose rolls which didnt explode upon impact.

Box 1 of 45 rolls : 1/40%
Box 2 of 45 rolls : 1/40%

Went to my dump bank to drop off my $900 in halves from bank 2 and as they are counting my coin, a old lady walks in with a large jar of coin to be counted. I help he with her jar as it was 'heavy' and the teller asks if I want to buy those as well, I say yes.

In total, between the ladies coin and the dimes that they had on hand, I picked up..

Nickels 18 Rolls: Skunked
Dimes 132 rolls : Skunked
Quarters 36 Rolls : Skunked

I did do another pick up at the local coin shop, grabbed another $15 worth of junk silver.

2 Standing Quarters and a Rosie.

So.. Octobers Totals are as follows.

October Totals

Found

10 - 40% (1.479)

Total found 1.479 oz for $5.00 or $5.41 an oz

Auction/Coin Shop

2 - Roosevelt Dime ( $4.86/0.1446 )
1 - Washington Quarters ( $6.06/0.3616 )
3 - Standing Quarters($18.18/0.3616)

Total purchased 0.8678 oz for $29.10 or $33.63 oz

October totals 2.3468 oz for $34.10 or $14.53 an oz

12.3581 oz away from end of October goal.

Also missed the round of layoffs at my work last Friday while I was out doing my CRH'ing.. not that I am worried. Only 3 people can do my job and only 2 can program the machine I work on and I am one of them.

This coming up week I have 7 boxes of halves due, 2 boxes of pennies and unknown number of CWR's. I will start doing my Saturday runs to other banks since I have Sat off and start picking up all the CRW's I can. I am currently planning out my routes for the slow season.

 

[Eldar11]

I hope you keep your job, it's a hard market out there! Good luck with those 7 boxes!

 

[red89]

String and Sons is officially Skunk and Sons to me.

2 boxes, nothing to speak of. I guess maybe my local pick up still doesnt have a new pallet in yet.

I like to call string and sons "string of skunks"

 

[sagthegreat]

1) Maybe the silver is scared of us this month
2) Why would holiday season make it better for us to get some keepers

 

[red89]

1) Maybe the silver is scared of us this month
2) Why would holiday season make it better for us to get some keepers

answer to 2:
people who arent silver/coin savy cash in their coin collections (or maybe a collection that has been given to them) for money to buy presents without knowing the collection's true value.

at least thats what I think happens.

 

[The_EE]

Ok so this week was not too bad.

I did two boxes on Wednesday and both were a Brinks skunk.

On Friday I got 5 more boxes and some CWRS

Box 1: 8/40% - 2/90%
Box 2: 2/40%
Box 3: Skunk
Box 4: 2/40%
Box 5: Skunk, a second interesting skunk

One of the 40% Halves was a bicentennial in very good condition. Looked like it was just popped out of the case and lightly scratched from sorting and rolling, its my third.

I dont think I have mentioned this before but previous to this last Friday, I recieved a box once that had almost all 1977 and 1980 coins in brinks wrap. All the coins were sort of ashy in color, they were all hard packed into the rolls. I do mean, 1000 coins all 1977 and 1980 and nothing but. This last batch was pretty much the same thing with a few random rolls thrown in, all brinks. The Brinks rolls I can pop the top with a pocket knife and dump the coins out by hand, the 77/80 rolls I cant. Anyways, I am wondering if anyone has bumped into those before or not?

As for the CWR's.

Quarters 1: Skunked
Dimes 1: Sunked
Nickels 1: Skunked

I got no bags of dimes or nickels from my dump bank as they had none for me this week.

October Totals

Found

22 - 40% (3.2538)
2 - 90% Kennedy (0.7234)

Total found 3.9772 oz for $12.00 or $3.02 an oz

Auction/Coin Shop

2 - Roosevelt Dime ( $4.86/0.1446 )
1 - Washington Quarters ( $6.06/0.1808 )
3 - Standing Quarters($18.18/0.5424)

Total purchased 0.8678 oz for $29.10 or $33.63 oz

October totals 4.8450 oz for $41.10 or $8.48 an oz

No coin shop run this week, will do that next week. I was too busy.

Auction tomorrow to go to, doubt I will get anything but I will try if I can make the standard minimum of 20% profit I aim to make when buying from auctions.

9.8599 oz away from end of October goal. 8 boxes of halves left to go this month, its going to be epic if I can hit my goal with so few boxes. Might make a road trip next week and try my luck with that.