ArkieBassMan
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Road trip 12-14-10 NIFC mania!!! & a couple of minor "firsts"
Hit the road again. I hit a very rural area where the banks are few and far in-between. It certainly wasn't my most productive trip, but I enjoyed it. Also, I am learning valuable info for future trips - which banks have tellers that search, which banks will sell bags off their machine, etc.
Town 1 (7 banks): #1 - $6 loose (skunk). #2 - none, but the nice teller told me to go to their main branch where they had a coin counter and that I could buy the bag off the machine. (It was my next stop anyway). The teller said she had bought a bag there once and scored about $20 face value in silver. #3 - bag containing $708.50. As the vault teller brought the bag out and sat it on the counter, I immediately spotted a Liberty Bell. As I sat the bag in my truck, I peeked in the top and saw a 40%er and a '98-S clad proof. I thought I had scored a great bag, but it was not to be. It held the 1 lone Ben, 5 40%ers, and the 1 clad proof...and 338 NIFCs (all 2002-2006). Also, the bag was $1.50 short. #4 - $13 clad Ikes (although one chrome/silver plated one nearly gave me a heart attack when rim searching) and $30 in handrolls (skunk). #5 - none. #6 - 1 clad half. #7 - 2 clad halves.
Town 2 (1 bank): $60 handrolled (1 40%)
Town 3 (1 bank): none - someone bought them all the day before
Town 4: (1 bank): none
Town 5: (3 banks): #1 - $1140 in handrolls, $8.50 loose (5 40%) All but 1 roll were someone's dumps - same name and phone number and all were re-rolled/taped in the Brinks wrappers from the boxes they came out of. All 5 40%ers came from the 1 roll that bore someone else's name. #2 - $800 handrolls (4 40%). #3 - $200 handrolls (2 40%)
Town 6: (1 bank): $600 handrolls in those same brinks wrappers with the same name/phone number. Did find my first 1987-D, but no silver as expected. Did also find another 40 NIFC all 2003.
Town 7: (1 bank): $20 handrolled, $15 loose (skunk)
Town 8: (3 banks): #1 - none. #2 - none. #3 - none
Town 9: (2 banks): #1 - none. #2 - $18 loose (skunk)
Town 10: (3 banks): #1 none. #2 - 2 clad halves. #3 - none (missed $300+ in 'big' dollars by 1 day)
Town 11: (1 bank): This is a bank I had been to a couple of months ago. The teller sold me 1 roll from the vault, but I for some reason I suspected there were more. That 1 roll a couple of months ago held 2 90% and 9 40%. This time there was a different teller. She said she had 1 roll. I asked her nicely if she minded checking the vault. She returned with 2 more rolls. The first roll (the one NOT from the vault) looked like a skunk from the rim check. I did the sound check and heard "clink". Found a blackened 40% Bicentennial proof, my first silver proof of any kind. The 2 rolls from the vault were obviously from the same batch when I was there before. Total was 5 '64 Kens and 9 40% including the proof.
Final totals: 11 towns, 250 miles driven, $3637 searched. 1 Ben ('63), 5 '64 Kens, 26 40% & 378 NIFC. I will dump the NIFC all together so hopefully someone that collects them will end up with them.
Hit the road again. I hit a very rural area where the banks are few and far in-between. It certainly wasn't my most productive trip, but I enjoyed it. Also, I am learning valuable info for future trips - which banks have tellers that search, which banks will sell bags off their machine, etc.
Town 1 (7 banks): #1 - $6 loose (skunk). #2 - none, but the nice teller told me to go to their main branch where they had a coin counter and that I could buy the bag off the machine. (It was my next stop anyway). The teller said she had bought a bag there once and scored about $20 face value in silver. #3 - bag containing $708.50. As the vault teller brought the bag out and sat it on the counter, I immediately spotted a Liberty Bell. As I sat the bag in my truck, I peeked in the top and saw a 40%er and a '98-S clad proof. I thought I had scored a great bag, but it was not to be. It held the 1 lone Ben, 5 40%ers, and the 1 clad proof...and 338 NIFCs (all 2002-2006). Also, the bag was $1.50 short. #4 - $13 clad Ikes (although one chrome/silver plated one nearly gave me a heart attack when rim searching) and $30 in handrolls (skunk). #5 - none. #6 - 1 clad half. #7 - 2 clad halves.
Town 2 (1 bank): $60 handrolled (1 40%)
Town 3 (1 bank): none - someone bought them all the day before
Town 4: (1 bank): none
Town 5: (3 banks): #1 - $1140 in handrolls, $8.50 loose (5 40%) All but 1 roll were someone's dumps - same name and phone number and all were re-rolled/taped in the Brinks wrappers from the boxes they came out of. All 5 40%ers came from the 1 roll that bore someone else's name. #2 - $800 handrolls (4 40%). #3 - $200 handrolls (2 40%)
Town 6: (1 bank): $600 handrolls in those same brinks wrappers with the same name/phone number. Did find my first 1987-D, but no silver as expected. Did also find another 40 NIFC all 2003.
Town 7: (1 bank): $20 handrolled, $15 loose (skunk)
Town 8: (3 banks): #1 - none. #2 - none. #3 - none
Town 9: (2 banks): #1 - none. #2 - $18 loose (skunk)
Town 10: (3 banks): #1 none. #2 - 2 clad halves. #3 - none (missed $300+ in 'big' dollars by 1 day)
Town 11: (1 bank): This is a bank I had been to a couple of months ago. The teller sold me 1 roll from the vault, but I for some reason I suspected there were more. That 1 roll a couple of months ago held 2 90% and 9 40%. This time there was a different teller. She said she had 1 roll. I asked her nicely if she minded checking the vault. She returned with 2 more rolls. The first roll (the one NOT from the vault) looked like a skunk from the rim check. I did the sound check and heard "clink". Found a blackened 40% Bicentennial proof, my first silver proof of any kind. The 2 rolls from the vault were obviously from the same batch when I was there before. Total was 5 '64 Kens and 9 40% including the proof.
Final totals: 11 towns, 250 miles driven, $3637 searched. 1 Ben ('63), 5 '64 Kens, 26 40% & 378 NIFC. I will dump the NIFC all together so hopefully someone that collects them will end up with them.
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