Research: on Is Brinks culling Silver

[coinmojo]

Check out some of these links and find the service center nearest you ans see if you think that they are culling silver based on there web site / Buisness plan.

Federal Reserve link

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs.htm

Armored Carrier links

http://www.dunbararmored.com/html/air/default.asp?file=locations

http://www.brinksinc.com/

"Supersorters: Brink's proprietary coin sorting and counting equipment with one of the highest throughput speed in the industry."


http://www.loomisfargo.com/locations_1.htm

http://www.totalarmoredcar.com/about.htm

Mojo

 

[coinmojo]

No method to the madness.

Last week I got a Box with a Walker showing......... It was the only keeper in the entire box (1943S)

Last month in a fed box went through 46 rolls and "bam"! I get a roll with 4 keepers 1 being a 64. the only keepers in that box.

Many times it comes down to the last roll...... or only the first roll for that matter..

After 3 years and thousands of boxes I've seen it all .......... I think.

Mojo

 

[Scalper]

it sure is strange that on some weeks i find 60-100 keepers doing 4 brinks boxes a week and other weeks i find ZERO. seems to me that if a brinks box contains silver it will show up pretty fast, and if you are half way through a brinks box and you have not found anything it is most likely a skunk...

Usually that is the case, however, in some of my Brinks boxes (the kind they use here are 25 rolls on top of 25 rolls, square box) I have seen where the top 25 will be great and none in the bottom 25, and vice versa.

I wonder if sometimes as they fill the boxes rolls from two different batches wind up in the same box, one batch on top and one on bottom. That is the only way I can explain when I get that.

I have also had a couple of boxes that had one or two rolls that were almost all keepers, and the rest of the box was a skunk. How could all the keepers wind up in just one or two rolls and the rest be rejects?

Kind of strange how it all works I guess.

Jim

Yeah Jim I have found most of my Bens and Walkers on the bottom of the box ... I call it a level change ...crap in the top and loaded in the bottom.. it is kinda strange like 10 keepers or whatever out of 2 rolls then nothing etc. etc. I miss Brinks boxes the only thing I can get at the moment is CWI ... the last Brinks boxes I was getting in Nov and Dec were kicking a%% ... I guess it is hit or miss with any boxes and the area that you are pickng in, Ed

 

[Mentone Grizz]

Just as a note, I use a Coin Star machine as my primary dump method (no fee w/ account). This machine is respectably fast, and it DOES reject silver halves, both 40% and 90%. Even though I am very thorough in going through my boxes and rolls, I have somehow missed a few on occasion, and danged if that machine doesn't kick them right back out the reject bin. Once I kept putting the coin back through several times before I stopped to look at it more carefully and realized that it was a 1964. The machine refused to accept it! Just today, the same machine gave me back a 40%er that I had missed. I was amazed that I had missed the coin in the first place, and then I was amazed that the machine corrected my mistake. I have had a teller at this bank sell me silver coins that she had found in the reject bin. I have noticed that the Coin Star machines at supermarkets sometimes do the same thing. I think they have adjustable sensitivities.
- Grizz