Gone skunkin

323GTX · Mar 16, 2013

Gone skunkin'

After a pretty decent start of the year, things have gotten ridiculously skunky around here. The last 42 boxes have produced a TOTAL of only 2 silvers, both of which were 40%. The numbers are indeed telling. Hope things improve soon, otherwise I may have to go out metal detecting in the mudpits that were once supposed to be cornfields!

Half Hunter · Mar 16, 2013

Bad week for me to, 24 boxes and (1) 40%, 18 brinks, 6 garda, so you did 16 boxes this week??

323GTX · Mar 16, 2013

Half Hunter said:
Bad week for me to, 24 boxes and (1) 40%, 18 brinks, 6 garda, so you did 16 boxes this week??

Yeah, did 16 boxes this week. Next week I have 18 boxes on order. I'm working my way up to 30/week by the beginning of April. Something has to give, eventually... either the silver starts showing up in the boxes, or I'll be digging out the Etrac and getting reacquainted with the smell of cow dung.

smokeythecat · Mar 16, 2013

Ummmm...that smell stays in your nose for days and in your memory forever!

Half Hunter · Mar 16, 2013

323GTX said:
Yeah, did 16 boxes this week. Next week I have 18 boxes on order. I'm working my way up to 30/week by the beginning of April. Something has to give, eventually... either the silver starts showing up in the boxes, or I'll be digging out the Etrac and getting reacquainted with the smell of cow dung.

Good luck with doing 30. How many of my "purple stripe" coins you see this week

My boxes were loaded with my february dumps.

Infowarrior · Mar 16, 2013

Nice spreadsheet... I need to get into one... is Excel free at all?

Bad run of boxes!! Dang that stinks, are they all from the same coin carrier? or do you have it mixed

323GTX · Mar 17, 2013

Half Hunter said:
Good luck with doing 30. How many of my "purple stripe" coins you see this week My boxes were loaded with my february dumps.

HH-- I came across several with stripes, but haven't paid much attention to color... I'm a bit colorblind, and have a hard time distinguishing between blues and purples. I'll pay attention on the next week's boxes, have my wife take a look at the color, and let you know.

If anyone comes across halves marked with a Chinese character on the reverse (in black Sharpie), those are mine. I've only marked about 100 of them, so there aren't many.

323GTX · Mar 17, 2013

Infowarrior said:
Nice spreadsheet... I need to get into one... is Excel free at all?

Bad run of boxes!! Dang that stinks, are they all from the same coin carrier? or do you have it mixed

Thanks, Infowarrior. I'm a bit of a Luddite, and still use a Windows XP machine with Office 2003 Professional. So, I guess Excel is free that way. You couldn't pay me to use anything newer from Microsoft (...or Apple, or anyone else for that matter).

As for the coin carriers, I'm not 100% who they are. My source banks are all Chase, 2 branches in Columbus and 1 Chase branch in a small town 60 miles away. I'm guessing they are all supplied by Brinks. Next week I'll be adding one new source bank (Huntington), so hopefully that helps.

jambone · Mar 17, 2013

@Infowarrior: try LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice. They're free and they are very similar to Microsoft Office - they have Word, Excel, and PowerPoint equivalents, and they are completely compatible with Microsoft Office file formats.

FloridaFinder · Mar 17, 2013

323GTX said:
As for the coin carriers, I'm not 100% who they are. My source banks are all Chase, 2 branches in Columbus and 1 Chase branch in a small town 60 miles away. I'm guessing they are all supplied by Brinks. Next week I'll be adding one new source bank (Huntington), so hopefully that helps.

Are they square boxes, or the long flat boxes? The square boxes say Brinks on them.

323GTX · Mar 17, 2013

FloridaFinder said:
Are they square boxes, or the long flat boxes? The square boxes say Brinks on them.

FF-- The boxes are almost always the little perfectly square ones where the rolls are stacked. The wrappers have varied from ones that actually say "Brinks" (yellowish writing, I believe) to black/dark brown writing that only say "$10 Halves".

A couple of times they've given me a mix of the square boxes with 2 or 3 of the long flat boxes. So, that kind of confuses the issue.

A while back I did ask them what carrier they use, they said that it's policy not to provide that information.

Half Hunter · Mar 17, 2013

I dont know about the bank 60 miles away with the boxes but around central ohio chase is both brinks and garda, depending on the branch. The garda are the flat yellow boxes with the black and white wrappers. Huntington will be all brinks cubes.

Im hoping for some fresh coins flowing through this week. Iv still got 3-4 branches I can hit for lose rolls that dont seem educated or hammered by other hunters, gonna try them monday or tuesday. Im also guarding a bank with a machine with the bags for 2 monthes now, nothing has filled yet, I really want that half bag, but dont have an account, I just pop in every 2 weeks, they are suppossed to call me when the dime,quarter,half bag fills.

TimZim · Mar 17, 2013

We all are having bad weeks right now it will turn around soon. I only found 7.8oz with 46 boxes. This week is low for me. I ordered more boxes to make up for the bad week.