Fridays Boxes O Halves

[coincrawlin]

Picked up my weekly 2 boxes on Friday and got through them last night. Starting to get better.

Box 1: skunk
Box 2: (1) 1964, (2) 1967, (1) 1968, (1) 1969

I was half way through the second box and still hadn't found anything. Was expecting a double skunk and starting to get disappointed with the boxes out here. Then hit a few rolls that saved the day. Hope I can build on this next week.

On a side note, here's some differences I've noticed between the boxes I used to get and the ones I get now (different area/suppliers).

Old boxes: Chock full of '94's, '95's, '96's/rolls often contained garbage or foreign coins/rolls often short one coin/coins very dirt/very consistent for silver.
New boxes: Very few coins from the mid '90's/no garbage or foreign coins so far/rolls always spot on for count/mostly clean coins/very spotty for silver.

My theory is that a lot of the differences are due to the fact that there are no coin machines in my area now, where as my previous pick up bank had coin machines, so I'm guessing a lot of their supply came from the machines which also allowed some junk, foreign, and silver to go through without getting snapped up by tellers and others. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

 

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[jethro1469]

On a side note, here's some differences I've noticed between the boxes I used to get and the ones I get now (different area/suppliers).

Old boxes: Chock full of '94's, '95's, '96's/rolls often contained garbage or foreign coins/rolls often short one coin/coins very dirt/very consistent for silver.
New boxes: Very few coins from the mid '90's/no garbage or foreign coins so far/rolls always spot on for count/mostly clean coins/very spotty for silver.

My theory is that a lot of the differences are due to the fact that there are no coin machines in my area now, where as my previous pick up bank had coin machines, so I'm guessing a lot of their supply came from the machines which also allowed some junk, foreign, and silver to go through without getting snapped up by tellers and others. Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
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Having used my main supply bank for several years, I've noticed the same thing box wise but have a different theory. Their supplier has not changed, however I believe that the volume of boxes going through the system has risen dramatically. It seemed that whenever I got a box that looked really shopworn, it usually contained more silver than a nice new looking box. I thought the nasty boxes were on the bottom of the pile and probably got newer ones placed on top of them several times before they finally went back to a bank. Most of the coins in them were filthy dirty, few if any had been marked and there were often rolls with an off count. I now search 4x the volume of a couple of years ago and haven't seen a 'nasty' box for over a year. Most of the 'old stock' boxes have probably gone out by now as the turn over is so much higher.
It would be great to get a few of them again.

 

[coincrawlin]

Jethro...I would certainly agree with what you are saying. Due to volumes being done now the number of boxes that sit at the bottom of the pile are much less. In my case, I just recently moved so the boxes I'm getting now are from a different supplier. The other difference I've noticed is before I was getting coins with many different types of markings on them, now it's predominantly one mark. Not sure if that's good or bad yet.

 

[MentalUnrest]

Always great when the other box canels out the skunk! Nice finds.

Best to you -

MU