Silver @ face and other keepers log

[Zero]

I'm glad you found something in these dry days of summer.

 

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[SilverFace]

Yeah my boxes sure seemed to have dried up lately. But I just started searching my boxes for this week and just found my 50th 90% and my 350th 40% half for the year in the same box. That gives me an exact 7/1 40%/90% half find ratio for the year. The box was from the same bank I got the box with the 4 x 40% (box 115) last week so Im glad my boxes from that bank are still producing a little silver for me.

H$H!

 

[Avago]

Those 40%ers are pretty though!

 

[SilverFace]

Well, I had a much better week last week. I was only able to get 4 boxes last week because of a busier than usual work schedule. But I found silver in all 4 boxes which sure was a nice surprise. I feel like Im on the road back to Silverville now. Hopefully my good luck will continue for a while but only time will tell.

8/11:
$3 loose Ikes: clad including a clad '73S (my first clad proof Ike and first '73 Ike from any mint)
$7 loose halves: '49 Ben (my first pre-'51 Ben), 2 x 40% ('67, '69D)

8/12:
$4.50 loose halves: clad
$4 loose halves: all clad including a clad '76S
$20 cwr halves: skunk
$500 half box #120: '64, '68D
$500 half box #121: '53D Ben

8/13:
$2.50 loose halves: clad

8/14:
$1 loose and $10 cwr halves: skunk
$2.50 loose halves: clad
$2 Ikes: clad
$500 half box #122: '64 Ken, '76 grease error, '82P no FG?
$500 half box #123: 7 x 40% (5 x '67, '68D ender, '69D), '75 Panama Balboa

H$H!

 

[Avago]

Great scores this week! That's a nice little silver vein you've hit there. Also, the bank you picked up the loose halves on 8/11 clearly doesn't have any silver sniping tellers if they let that Ben slip through the cracks!

 

[SilverFace]

Great scores this week! That's a nice little silver vein you've hit there. Also, the bank you picked up the loose halves on 8/11 clearly doesn't have any silver sniping tellers if they let that Ben slip through the cracks!

Yeah for the past 3 years I've had consistently good luck with customer halves from the bank I got the silver halves from on 8/11. And that's the same bank I got an '88 ASE from about a year a half ago which sure was quite a surprise. And it figures last week when I was at the bank picking up my last two boxes (boxes 122 & 123) I cancelled my two box weekly order from that bank. Those were the first silver producing boxes I got from that bank in about 2 months. So needless to say I called that bank this morning to resume from weekly two box order. I suppose I should of known better than to give up so soon because you just never know what you'll find from box to box with this hobby.

Well, finding 4 x 90% and 10 x 40% halves last week was the best week I've had in a while. Hopefully my good luck will continue the rest of the month. Hope you have continued success with your boxes too.

H$H!

 

[Zero]

Nice finds.

 

[Silverslug]

Sounds like tough luck on the halves. My average has been about one silver half per $500 box.

 

[Silverslug]

Great box. I've been doing halves for a while and I've never had a box anywhere near that good.

 

[Zomotion]

Excellent week silverface, glad to see much better boxes heading your way! Not sure if you've been asked before, but why no dimes?

 

[SilverFace]

Thanks. It was nice getting some decent boxes again last week. I decided to stop searching dimes a couple of years ago mainly because of the risks and costs of dimes being miscounted as cents in coin counters. And I thought I was going to be searching more nickels this year than I have but after I had a great month with half boxes in May I've been focusing primarily just on halves.

After that great month in May I thought about trying to increase my volume with half boxes but for now Im content with doing about 6 half boxes a week. I know that's small volume compared to a lot of others but if I search over 200 half boxes this year like I plan to that will be a record year for me in terms of volume. And I think I've found about 72 ozs of silver so far this year and I'm hoping to find at least 100 ozs by the end of the year. If I can avoid long skunk streaks I should hopefully reach my goal.

H$H!

 

[SilverFace]

Well, I only searched 3 boxes last week but I still managed to find a little silver. And strangely enough 2 of my 3 silver keepers for the week were enders.

8/18:
$100 mwr halves: skunk
$500 half box #124: skunk ('81S)

8/19:
$4 Ikes: clad
$18.50 loose halves: skunk
$500 half box #125: '67 ender, '87P, '87D
$500 half box #126: 2 x 40% ('67, '68D ender - both in the same roll)

8/21:
$5.50 loose halves: skunk ('87P)
$340 cwr & $2.50 loose halves: skunk

8/22:
Free: '43 steel wheat cent in coin counter

I've only searched 7 boxes in the past two weeks but I may have as many as 8 boxes to p/u this week so Im hoping to finish the month with some good boxes. Btw, I've now found a total of 73.5475 ozs of silver for the year and I'm still hoping to find 100 oz by the end of the year.

H$H!

 

[Zero]

The silver keeps tricking-in. Good luck with your boxes next week. I'm hoping for a big score next week.

 

[Alchemist]

I know this your CRH log but -- nice snap on the steel wheatie!

 

[Silverslug]

Very impressive numbers on the halves. "It's all about the volume," I have heard someone say. Consistent nickel numbers too. You probably get either a war nickel or Buffalo on almost every box. I scored my first Franklin last week and can't wait to score a Walker. Your number prove that if you search enough volume, you are going to find Walkers.

 

[SilverFace]

Well, I was able to finish the month with my best box of the month on Friday. And I finished the last box by finding a '70D in the 49th roll which is a first for me. I always like saving the best for last.

8/26:
$1 loose halves: clad
$500 half box #127: skunk ('73S, '74S, 2 x clad '76S, '77S)
$500 half box #128: skunk (4 x clad '76S, '87D)

8/28:
$500 half box #129: '68D
$500 half box #130: '67
$500 half box #131: skunk

8/29:
$7.50 loose halves: skunk
$500 half box #132: '62 Ben, 8 x 40% (3 x '67, 3 x '68D, '69D, '70D) - two rolls had a quarter in them and two other rolls were a coin short so I was $1.50 short for the box but fortunately this was my best silver box of the month

8/30:
$10 loose halves: skunk

I've now found 75.3882 ozs of silver in the first 8 months of the year and I'm still hoping to find another 25 ozs of silver or more by the end of the year.

H$H!

 

[Silverslug]

Nice box of halves. I assume it was machine wrapped rolls. Just goes to show the machines make mistakes. Are the 1970's 40%? How rare are they?
You seem to find tons of s mint proof clads. I find a few. Are they worth anything?

 

[Silverslug]

75 ozT for the year. Truly amazing. Good luck reaching your 100 ozT for the year. I like your chances.

 

[SilverFace]

Thanks. Yes 1970 was the last year of the regular strike 40% silver halves (other than the 3-coin sets released in '76) but they weren't released into circulation that year so they were/are NIFC and difficult to find in circulation and considered a key date Kennedy half dollar (mintage is 2,150,000). Yeah I suppose I find a fair amount of clad proofs and the ones I found last week are in really nice condition and look like they've just recently been broken out of proof sets. If they are still in nice condition they should have a little value above fv but not too much.

With 4 full months still left this year Im hopeful too about reaching my 100 oz silver goal by the end of the year. Only time will tell but if I can avoid double digit skunk streaks I think I should have a pretty good chance. Good luck to everyone else too.

H$H!

 

[SilverFace]

Well this month is sure starting off good so far. September has usually been a really good month for me in the past. It was 5 years ago in September of 2009 that I scored my first solid roll - a solid roll of Bens ('59-'63). And it was 3 years ago today on September 3rd 2011 that I had my best score ever - 3 solid rolls of Walkers and Bens + a few 40% from 8 cwrs and $11 loose (the details are still fresh in my mind lol). I hope this September will be a lucky month for me as well but only time will tell.

9/2:
.50 loose half: clad
$500 half box #133: skunk
$500 half box #134: 13 x 40% ('66, 4 x '67, 6 x '68D, 2 x '69D), '72S, '87D ender

9/3:
$4 loose halves: '68D

Three of the rolls in box 134 had three 40%ers each including the '87D ender roll. No 90% in that box but that was still my best box in a couple of months.

H$H!