hombre_de_plata_flaco
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I recently decided to give CRH a whirl. Let me begin by thanking all you CRHer's for all the excellent info. I have yet to buy a box of rolls, but I am planning on doing so soon.
I started looking in reject trays about 10 days ago, and today I bopped around town running errands and stopped in a few banks to ask the tellers to check out their halves and "old/weird" coins.
I had already found one silver 1964 dime thrown into a potted plant next to the Coinstar machine at this specific location a few days ago. Well, I went back today and immediately saw a silver 1963 Roosevelt sitting on top where you dump your coins. Someone had tried to run their silver back through, I guess.
I then checked the reject tray. At first I thought it had to be an Ike judging by the size, but when I pulled it out it turned out to be a 2006 American Silver Eagle. I was very surprised to say the least, as these are one troy ounce of pure silver. I couldn't believe it. I am getting ready to buy a metal detector and that coin will more than likely surpass my one year silver total after I start MD'ing. I usually don't clean coins, but this thing was REALLY nasty for such a young coin. It was so black and ugly the thought that this was a coin from the 1940's actually crossed my mind briefly before I saw the date. I cleaned it with baking soda after I got it home. Bullion coins usually don't carry too much numismatic value anyway, only intrinsic.
This is the second ASE I have scored since I have been posting here. I bought the first one (1999) off a convenience store clerk for $7.00 after one of his customers paid for a lotto ticket with it (lol).
After that reject tray bonanza, I picked up two 40% Kennedy's from teller trays at two different locations, a 1967 and a 1969-D.
I passed on about 20 clad Ikes - 15 at one place and 5 at another.
The tellers were split. About half were really nice and would look through their trays for me, while the other half acted too busy and just said "No. We don't have any" without even opening their drawers. Found out one bank has a counter free for customers - the head teller said they REALLY wanted a Coinstar so they didn't have to fool with the coins any longer. I asked about buying halves, but most places said they didn't mess with them. I am going to try to buy the counter machine rolls from that one place that wants the Coinstar so bad.
I'm looking for a bank with really mean tellers so I can open up an account there strictly for dumping purposes.
Anyway, here is my total after about 10 days of sporadic teller/reject tray searching:
I will post some updates when I buy a box or two.
HH guys and thanks for all the info.
Hombre
I started looking in reject trays about 10 days ago, and today I bopped around town running errands and stopped in a few banks to ask the tellers to check out their halves and "old/weird" coins.
I had already found one silver 1964 dime thrown into a potted plant next to the Coinstar machine at this specific location a few days ago. Well, I went back today and immediately saw a silver 1963 Roosevelt sitting on top where you dump your coins. Someone had tried to run their silver back through, I guess.
I then checked the reject tray. At first I thought it had to be an Ike judging by the size, but when I pulled it out it turned out to be a 2006 American Silver Eagle. I was very surprised to say the least, as these are one troy ounce of pure silver. I couldn't believe it. I am getting ready to buy a metal detector and that coin will more than likely surpass my one year silver total after I start MD'ing. I usually don't clean coins, but this thing was REALLY nasty for such a young coin. It was so black and ugly the thought that this was a coin from the 1940's actually crossed my mind briefly before I saw the date. I cleaned it with baking soda after I got it home. Bullion coins usually don't carry too much numismatic value anyway, only intrinsic.
This is the second ASE I have scored since I have been posting here. I bought the first one (1999) off a convenience store clerk for $7.00 after one of his customers paid for a lotto ticket with it (lol).
After that reject tray bonanza, I picked up two 40% Kennedy's from teller trays at two different locations, a 1967 and a 1969-D.
I passed on about 20 clad Ikes - 15 at one place and 5 at another.
The tellers were split. About half were really nice and would look through their trays for me, while the other half acted too busy and just said "No. We don't have any" without even opening their drawers. Found out one bank has a counter free for customers - the head teller said they REALLY wanted a Coinstar so they didn't have to fool with the coins any longer. I asked about buying halves, but most places said they didn't mess with them. I am going to try to buy the counter machine rolls from that one place that wants the Coinstar so bad.
I'm looking for a bank with really mean tellers so I can open up an account there strictly for dumping purposes.
Anyway, here is my total after about 10 days of sporadic teller/reject tray searching:
I will post some updates when I buy a box or two.
HH guys and thanks for all the info.
Hombre
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