small town= better crh?

[IAmAGuitarAddict]

I live in a small town in new mexico. Does this increase my chance of getting good finds or no? I recently went through 70$ of dimes and found 3 silver rosies( this was my first dime hunt) and on the rolls it said pennsylvania. did the dimes come from pennsylvainia or were they just rolled there?

 

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[Generic_Lad]

Small towns are a double edged sword. For initial hunts, they are great because there are fewer CRHers who stop in meaning they might have half dollars which have been there for months or years just accumulating. But for sustained hunts, they are generally pretty poor because of a few reasons:

Smaller banks have less space in their vaults for coin. Smaller banks also have fewer business customers. In general, more business centric banks are better order banks because they already have a lot of coin coming in and a few thousand extra doesn't make much of a difference when they are already going through boxes like crazy.

Smaller banks have fewer times their orders come through. While a larger bank may get coin in every week or twice every week. Smaller banks might get coin in once a month or so.

Larger banks generally have heavy-duty coin counters because businesses which deal in large volumes of coins (vending machines, laundromats, car washes, etc.) bank there. Smaller banks are used to getting $20 in someone's change jar and so a few thousand in loose coin, while not unusual for the larger bank, is very intimidating for the smaller banks.

 

[apush]

Yep, it is a flip of the coin. I go to one small town that always has a few silvers, whereas anothers are all cherrypickers. Roll of the dice, but it really helps to be very nice and polite--regardless of the outcome. Folks always remember the nice people. At one small town bank (which was a no-go after no-go, a teller remembered me and kept 3-40% for me--that was 3 months after I had stopped by!). You never know. Being kind is always good--even if there is no reward. Just my wooden nickel,

HSH,
apush

 

[Argentium]

This is an interesting question ! because most of us have the romantic idea of small towns
as being these forgotten time capsules that modernity has somehow bypassed , I would say
from my experiences -that if anything can be predicted in the world of CRHing , it is that
random- is the order of the day ! whether we are talking about the size of the town/ city ,
the brand of bank ,or the name on the boxes , (brinks ,loomis etc.) or whether we are
opening customer wrapped rolls or machine . Mix any of these variables , and i believe that
over time, you will be regularly skunked , and occasionally pleasantly surprised -and....
those who stay in the CRH game , will gradually accumulate the finds they seek . Argentium.

 

[fistfulladirt]

It's all a matter of getting there first. Most of my banks are small town, and customers ask for halves practically every day.