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I guess CWR's can pay off (Updated w/ pic)

I have been doing this game for about a year and to my knowledge I have never pulled any silver from CWR's of halves. Best I have found was a clad proof. In fact, I pretty much gave up on asking for halves and just focused on boxes because tellers would always say they don't have any or if they did have a few they were all clad. Well, yesterday I picked up my weekly boxes of halves and the teller says she has $390 in halves that someone brought it and would I like those too. My first thought was, "Great, someone is using my pickup bank as a dump bank now". But remembering what others on this forum say about always taking all halves the bank has as you just never know, I said "Sure, I will take them all!". Got home and started searching the CWR's, and third roll I found a '68. Now I'm thinking either a dumper doesn't know about 40%'s, or somebody really did just bring in that many halves they had sitting around.

So I've gone through $260 of the CWR's and have found 9 40%'s. I saved the rest for the wife to open and she hasn't gotten around to it yet, so I will update when she does. The boxes were pretty weak...Box 1 contained (1) '69 and a 2003 clad proof, Box 2 contained (1) '67 and (2) '68's.

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The remaining cwr's contained 5 more 40%'s. Total for this week: (18) 40%'s. A little disappointed I didn't find any 90%'s this week, but still much better than a skunk.
 

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Re: I guess CWR's can pay off

nice finds :thumbsup:

I've found nearly all my silver halves from loose and cwr's but I rarely have any luck with them if I get more than $100 or more @ a time from a bank - those are nearly always someone's dump.

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Funny -- I was starting to think the opposite. I haven't been doing a high volume of boxes like some of y'all here, but it was just not feeling like it was worth my time to order boxes. Sure, I might find one silver in a box if I'm lucky; usually nothing. Compare that to a couple of CWR experiences I've had where I might get 20 or 40 keepers in a single score.

So I've stopped ordering my weekly box, and focusing only on CWRs by going to my local branches once a month or so, and taking advantage of opportunities to go to banks in nearby towns.

Then again, I have not had much luck with that approach either - at least, lately. October felt like the well had run dry. I'll keep trying, of course.... you can't really stop once you've gotten in to CRH!

Maybe I'll try ordering boxes from another bank!
 
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kennedyfan said:
Funny -- I was starting to think the opposite. I haven't been doing a high volume of boxes like some of y'all here, but it was just not feeling like it was worth my time to order boxes. Sure, I might find one silver in a box if I'm lucky; usually nothing. Compare that to a couple of CWR experiences I've had where I might get 20 or 40 keepers in a single score.

So I've stopped ordering my weekly box, and focusing only on CWRs by going to my local branches once a month or so, and taking advantage of opportunities to go to banks in nearby towns.

Then again, I have not had much luck with that approach either - at least, lately. October felt like the well had run dry. I'll keep trying, of course.... you can't really stop once you've gotten in to CRH!

Maybe I'll try ordering boxes from another bank!

I do both. I find MUCH more silver-per-dollar searched in loose/CWRs, but there aren't always halves to be found and/or I can't find enough time to get out and make some cold calls. While I don't usually find much in boxes, I do "add to the pile" from them. I pretty much consider silver from boxes "bonus" silver.
 
Re: I guess CWR's can pay off (Updated w/ pic)

All of my silver halves have come from CWRs. I don't even do boxes any more. Although I do think about it once in a while. :tongue3:
 
Re: I guess CWR's can pay off (Updated w/ pic)

I guess I am just used to the majority of my boxes containing something. Sometimes it's only one and sometimes it's ten. The costs to just drive around to banks are too much. Now if I'm on vacation in an area I haven't been to before, I will certainly make the effort to hit up some banks along the way for whatever they have.
 

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