jewelerdave
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- Location
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Detector(s) used
- I just follow my nose!...where the silver and gold goes!
Minelab 5000, Goldmaster, and a few others
XRF spectrometer, Common sense.
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
Well I decided to pick up where I left off the other day and hit the bank that I got a couple rolls of near solid 40s from, and had to leave behind $70 worth as I ran out of cash!
Well the last 70 didnt have squat...oh well. Maybe I will have better luck in the next town.
Well I did ok, First bank said they didnt have any but the north branch had $1000 of halves that they had ordered for someone...hmm, intersting.
Next bank I went too was a nice score. Total crappy bank, they barely spoke English! I was able to communicate with them and they had $1 up front and said then had $500 in back. Good thing I know some Spanish!
Anyway they said they had been back there for a long time and seemed happy to be rid of it! It was a nasty looking box, frayed around the corners, a nasty grease stain on the top, and when I looked down through the holes I saw yellow, Oh a plated one I though.
As I am carrying it out too the car I flip it over and its dated. Sep 30 2004.
WOW, silver was cheaper then. Maybe this will be a pretty good box.
So I get to the car and pop the top and I see bens staring at me! Sweet! I work though the box and find a nice amount of 64s, a few 40s, and bens. I saved the ben rolls for last. Ended up pulling 8 bens and some weirdness. I got a half that had been cut down to have one face copper, the other a half dollar, But it had been milled down a ways, I put a pic up. the copper side had a Mexican stamping on it. Here is the weird part, its not an imprint because its not a negative, a double imprint maybe
Anyway, its weird. Oddly enough I did not find any NIFC in there, I usually always get an 05 or 06 LOL
I also found a 2000 Sac Dollar stuck in the end, No doubt the gold color I saw, So I got an extra $1
So I was pretty fired up, I decided to go check out that $1000 in the north end of town. I got there and walked in and said, hi, I ordered $1000 in halves and would like to pick them up.
Ok, no problem, and got me the halves.
THATS RIGHT, I POACHED THEM!
Reason being, there is some CRH up here that was ordering from this branch and searching then taking them back, and this created a policy that no one can get more than $100 in halves from this bank anymore, who knows how many months of years this policy will be in force for. But other branches where he was not a problem does not do this yet...So being that he has made my life a pain, he can lose a bit and deal with the frustration of his own mistakes. I hope he reads this so he knows what he lost. I got a few more bens and 90s, and a few 40s too. Oh yeah, and I got a walker out of one too.
I also found this guys dump bank as I dumped there today, the filled a bag when I turned in and I asked them how long it took to fill,
"Oh, we have a guy who bring in halves all the time so several thousand a week."
I can see why, its a fast coin counter...but not accurate....sort of, It counted all the halves I pulled out with accuracy but it have me $10 in $1 coins and $2 in quarters.
The teller asked me if I had any dollars or quarters in there and I said I maybe did. So i got an extra $12
beats the extra 30 cents I got the last time at the other one! LOL
So anyway not a bad day at all.
8 Ken 64s
29 ken 40s
10 bens
1 walker.
Well the last 70 didnt have squat...oh well. Maybe I will have better luck in the next town.
Well I did ok, First bank said they didnt have any but the north branch had $1000 of halves that they had ordered for someone...hmm, intersting.
Next bank I went too was a nice score. Total crappy bank, they barely spoke English! I was able to communicate with them and they had $1 up front and said then had $500 in back. Good thing I know some Spanish!
Anyway they said they had been back there for a long time and seemed happy to be rid of it! It was a nasty looking box, frayed around the corners, a nasty grease stain on the top, and when I looked down through the holes I saw yellow, Oh a plated one I though.
As I am carrying it out too the car I flip it over and its dated. Sep 30 2004.
WOW, silver was cheaper then. Maybe this will be a pretty good box.
So I get to the car and pop the top and I see bens staring at me! Sweet! I work though the box and find a nice amount of 64s, a few 40s, and bens. I saved the ben rolls for last. Ended up pulling 8 bens and some weirdness. I got a half that had been cut down to have one face copper, the other a half dollar, But it had been milled down a ways, I put a pic up. the copper side had a Mexican stamping on it. Here is the weird part, its not an imprint because its not a negative, a double imprint maybe
Anyway, its weird. Oddly enough I did not find any NIFC in there, I usually always get an 05 or 06 LOL
I also found a 2000 Sac Dollar stuck in the end, No doubt the gold color I saw, So I got an extra $1
So I was pretty fired up, I decided to go check out that $1000 in the north end of town. I got there and walked in and said, hi, I ordered $1000 in halves and would like to pick them up.
Ok, no problem, and got me the halves.
THATS RIGHT, I POACHED THEM!
Reason being, there is some CRH up here that was ordering from this branch and searching then taking them back, and this created a policy that no one can get more than $100 in halves from this bank anymore, who knows how many months of years this policy will be in force for. But other branches where he was not a problem does not do this yet...So being that he has made my life a pain, he can lose a bit and deal with the frustration of his own mistakes. I hope he reads this so he knows what he lost. I got a few more bens and 90s, and a few 40s too. Oh yeah, and I got a walker out of one too.
I also found this guys dump bank as I dumped there today, the filled a bag when I turned in and I asked them how long it took to fill,
"Oh, we have a guy who bring in halves all the time so several thousand a week."
I can see why, its a fast coin counter...but not accurate....sort of, It counted all the halves I pulled out with accuracy but it have me $10 in $1 coins and $2 in quarters.
The teller asked me if I had any dollars or quarters in there and I said I maybe did. So i got an extra $12
beats the extra 30 cents I got the last time at the other one! LOL
So anyway not a bad day at all.
8 Ken 64s
29 ken 40s
10 bens
1 walker.
2007 CRH Total: 11 28 07
War Nickels – 6
Buffalo Nicks - 1
V Nickel 1 (1899)
proof Nickel - 1
Sil Dimes - 25
Sil Wash Qtrs - 0
90% Kennedy - 116
40% Kennedy - 1036
Franklins - 74
Walkers - 17
Barber – 2 (1904, 1910s)
Comm. Sil Halves – 1 1992 columbus
Prf Halves – 37
of witch are Silver Proofs 12
Ikes - 83
War Nickels – 6
Buffalo Nicks - 1
V Nickel 1 (1899)
proof Nickel - 1
Sil Dimes - 25
Sil Wash Qtrs - 0
90% Kennedy - 116
40% Kennedy - 1036
Franklins - 74
Walkers - 17
Barber – 2 (1904, 1910s)
Comm. Sil Halves – 1 1992 columbus
Prf Halves – 37
of witch are Silver Proofs 12
Ikes - 83
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