I felt the mean streak within me today

[SFBayArea]

Well, I was at one of my dump banks today and I heard this guy behind me asking tellers for half dollars and trying to order a box. I was at the time, packaging my dumps off to the side. I heard the man asking and I did not want to conversate with him at all. THen I heard him talking over my shoulder to me about me collecting half dollars. He saw my load of halves to dump. He honestly seemed like a nice guy and as much as I'm a nice guy, my mean streak showed. I really gave him a cold shoulder. I gave minimum answers as he was complaining about how bad boxes were. Yeah, I told him boxes weren't great either which is true however he saw that I had 4 boxes worth in bags to dump. I think he was in awe about it. He asked me how much I did a week, I said 4. He asked all these bothersome newbie type questions. Then he asked if I sell my finds or keep them. I said I keep them. What a pain. I can't stand competition in my area. The truth is if we are in the same area (at the same bank), there's no way I want to help my competition with this. Hopefully, he didn't get any ideas but he probably did. Just the 21 questions was annoying as hell. I honestly wanted to tell him to F#ck off but I did answer them in short form. Unfortunately.

I felt like the old gold prospector seeing some other prospector on my turf. Hands off my turf. If you want to prospect for silver, go east. Don't come round these here parts.

I'm actually a nice guy in real life. I'd probably help that guy out too with other stuff if he needed it but when it comes to getting halves at my bank that I go to, you're on your own. I felt the primal nasty streak in myself today. Like, I'm gonna help some random CRHer at one of my banks. If it was a bank out of my area, I wouldn't care but one of my banks that I frequent, good luck. Maybe if you want info, you give me info.. fair exchange and we can talk but seeing how he seems sort of new, he'd have little info to exchange.

The truth is that he is right, finds are slim. Half the boxes are skunks with others having a couple sprinkles. It's not like the dime boxes or penny boxes at all. Finds have been less and less. I now have to get 4 boxes a week to get a keeper while half to 3/4ths are skunks.

Anyone else bump into competition in your area? Ever feel the mean streak? It's just the 21 questions that was killing me. It's kinda like "hey, dude where can I get the gold at?" I think if there was enough for everyone like copper pennies and there was silver in every box, I would be fine with helping him but being that competition is high and the finds are less.. sorry dude you're on your own at this point in time.

 

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[legend76]

On a lighter note, i went to the silver coin calculator on coinflation.com and with Ag at $4/oz, a 40% half was worth 59 cents and a 90%er $1.45...........

Yeah, but the dealer would only offer me $0.55 at the time (dealers have to get their cut). LOL I thought about putting them back in the wild at the time but fortunetly I did keep the majority of them. I did remember selling a few rolls back then for $13.50 per $10 roll of 40%ers. I had someone ask me to give him a full roll with the year with the lowest mintage. Not that those mintages were low. LOL

I bought several rolls of 40%ers just a couple yrs ago for $30-40/roll
and within the last yr bought rolls of UNC Franklins for ~$160

 

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[RoyHalladay]

I know I am new here but, wow, why is everybody so angry? Systems, FNG, education levels...? Aren't we all just trying to have fun with our hobby? Since someone mentioned the higher education levels here I will tell you that I have a Master's in English (don't laugh) and I believe it was Plato who said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." So, please children, enough with the playground antics and the immature name calling. Plus, there is no need to respond to such Kindergarten-level game playing. Ignore the insults and enjoy the thrill of the search. Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who gives the fool everything he wants by responding to him?

 

[db23]

I bumped into a fellow hunter yesterday while dumping at a TD. I generally try not to converse much in front of the bank employees, but the employees at this particular branch are well aware of silver as a couple of them are collectors themselves – which is why I NEVER find any silver rejects in the reject tube/tray of this branch. The bank employee looked at me and started to laugh when the other hunter asked me if there were any older than 1970 in my bag. Had this been at a dump bank where I regularly score free reject silver I'd have been a little unhappy.

This is my 3rd encounter with another hunter. The first time I was buying at a bank that another hunter was dumping at, quickly learned not to buy at that bank anymore. The second time wasn’t really a hunter as much as an interested ‘collector’ / gas station owner. He overheard me asking for halves and stopped me to ask why I was asking for them. He smiled at the teller, and said that he sees quite a few of them at his gas station. I didn’t tell him I was looking for silver or even old ones, just that I collect them for my books (that I don’t own). This is what angers me, asking me stuff in front of a teller and making the tellers more aware of silver – thus producing more cherry pickers.

The more I think about any possible future encounters, I think I’ll start directing them to my dump banks, letting it ‘accidently slip’ that that’s where I get my best finds…

 

[SFBayArea]

I know I am new here but, wow, why is everybody so angry? Systems, FNG, education levels...? Aren't we all just trying to have fun with our hobby? Since someone mentioned the higher education levels here I will tell you that I have a Master's in English (don't laugh) and I believe it was Plato who said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." So, please children, enough with the playground antics and the immature name calling. Plus, there is no need to respond to such Kindergarten-level game playing. Ignore the insults and enjoy the thrill of the search. Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who gives the fool everything he wants by responding to him?

If you look at the thread.. it was brewboss who started the insults here with calling people here pathetic and calling me an "AH".. gee I didn't think it stood for American Hero.. LOL.. wasn't gonna feel all warm and fuzzy after that.

People just don't realize that they shoot themselves in the foot. Just like how people don't like it when others post Youtube videos on how to CRH. If everyone did this hobby, it would be over real quick.

 

[SFBayArea]

On a lighter note, i went to the silver coin calculator on coinflation.com and with Ag at $4/oz, a 40% half was worth 59 cents and a 90%er $1.45...........

Yeah, but the dealer would only offer me $0.55 at the time (dealers have to get their cut). LOL I thought about putting them back in the wild at the time but fortunetly I did keep the majority of them. I did remember selling a few rolls back then for $13.50 per $10 roll of 40%ers. I had someone ask me to give him a full roll with the year with the lowest mintage. Not that those mintages were low. LOL

I bought several rolls of 40%ers just a couple yrs ago for $30-40/roll
and within the last yr bought rolls of UNC Franklins for ~$160

Those were good buys.. remember the Littleton coin company? They had an offer a while back in the Sunday ads for two silver classics (a walker and a merc) for $3.00 each. I remember buying as many as I could even though I was limited to 3 sets at a time. I remember I cut out the ad again and was going to buy more but I got busy with other things and never took advantage of the last ad. Nice sets.. in blue cardboard inserts.

Of course if silver goes back down in pricing then there could be more finds out there.

 

[kb4iqm]

CRHers tend to be pretty cutthroat, but game theory suggest there are some circumstances where cooperation or collusion among some players may get them better results. Certain collusion strategies (e.g. price fixing) have been outlawed for businesses, but coin roll hunting is still the wild west.

For example, if two hunters share information, they may get an advantage over other hunters who are operating solo. Or two hunters could cooperate to avoid each others' dumps, and dump at the favorite pick-up banks of a third hunter to reduce the amount of keepers the third guy pulls out of the area (or even drive him out of hunting altogether, reducing competition.)

I met up with one other CRH'er that hunts in my area and we get along great. He does extremely low volume and looks for loose or rolls of halves only, no boxes. We coordinated where we dump our halves so we don't end up dumping at each others buy banks. If I come across dates he's needing for his collection, I'll trade with him on an even basis. A like half in trade for what I trade to him, ie a 40% in trade for one of my 40% of a specific date, or a generic clad for a spare NIFC that he may need. I'm glad to help out if I can.

Bob