starkizzle
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Hello, first off im new here,
I started CRHing November of 2013, and just went to every bank in my town and the next town and bought every halve they had... brought them home and tried to explain to my wife the point of me having like 350 $ in change... i told her my grandfather had done it, and that pre 70 was silver so worth more...
my grandfather first taught me about the silver halves when i was a kid and i remember noticing the white edges in a teller tray at a fleet bank when i was 10-11 years old and telling my grandfather what i saw and he bought them all, 8-9 $ i think and like all but 1 were silver, dont remember the dates but he told me he would "hang on" to them for me, but would share because i spotted them... never happened lol but hes done allot more for me then to be worried about something like that, and when i told him i got into it he told me he sold his whole collections for over 2k, i have no idea if that was silver/books/etc.. but i knew he was a smart guy so it would be worth it .
not long into some MWR my wife found a 40 % and it finally became worth the hassle lol. more of hobby, and will be more fun when my son is alittle older, or if silver went up to 50$ a oz...
OK so the first few months were basically just buying from every bank i could when the had them, i think i did get someone elses dumps... learned the ropes, and and now i just get 2 boxs a week from my bank...
So prior to the last few weeks of actually keeping score i had found in circulation 2 90% JFK 7 40% JFK 1 rosi and 1 merc ( box of dimes when i couldnt find halves, then tryed again after that box and got skunked, vowed never again after unrolling and rerolling 250$ in dimes lol) 15-20 wheats, (not sure, got tired of the pennys to quick, very dirty...) and last but not least a 1900 morgan i picked up while doing a dump at a out of town bank... marked as "big dollar coin" on a bank envelope.... i will add the avg age of teller at that branch was maybe 20....
i also pulled 3$ face of "s" mint halves (clad) from a tray, and with a bi-cen "s" i found in a box i was able to sell on ebay for 7$ that i used to buy a 1909 quarter and a piece to fix my cell phone lol.
along with a box of 22lr i traded to a pawn shop for a 1 oz silver round and a morgan, (he valued the ammo at 37 $, i paid 17!) and a also had gotten a quarter halve and a couple morgans for trade with a guy, traded him ammo for silver, he had been buying ammo of me because i get it off the internet and he couldnt find any.. so he want to go shooting and asked if i had any cheap ammo ( i wish!) and i told him i would be will to trade if he had old coins/ currancy, and he did!
and on to good record keeping
week one of buying 2 boxes of halves.
1st box 4 40%
2nd box SKUNK!! funny how that works
week 2
box 1 and 2 skunk
week 3, "oops" we ordered quarters by mistake... i got it anyway!
box 1, 1964 !
box 2, SKUNK
week 4, this last week!!
box 1, 28 40%ers!!!!!!!
box 2, 3 40% lol before we started i told my wife id like to be able to finish a roll of 40 %, 30 minutes later i had a roll from that bo
I started CRHing November of 2013, and just went to every bank in my town and the next town and bought every halve they had... brought them home and tried to explain to my wife the point of me having like 350 $ in change... i told her my grandfather had done it, and that pre 70 was silver so worth more...
my grandfather first taught me about the silver halves when i was a kid and i remember noticing the white edges in a teller tray at a fleet bank when i was 10-11 years old and telling my grandfather what i saw and he bought them all, 8-9 $ i think and like all but 1 were silver, dont remember the dates but he told me he would "hang on" to them for me, but would share because i spotted them... never happened lol but hes done allot more for me then to be worried about something like that, and when i told him i got into it he told me he sold his whole collections for over 2k, i have no idea if that was silver/books/etc.. but i knew he was a smart guy so it would be worth it .
not long into some MWR my wife found a 40 % and it finally became worth the hassle lol. more of hobby, and will be more fun when my son is alittle older, or if silver went up to 50$ a oz...
OK so the first few months were basically just buying from every bank i could when the had them, i think i did get someone elses dumps... learned the ropes, and and now i just get 2 boxs a week from my bank...
So prior to the last few weeks of actually keeping score i had found in circulation 2 90% JFK 7 40% JFK 1 rosi and 1 merc ( box of dimes when i couldnt find halves, then tryed again after that box and got skunked, vowed never again after unrolling and rerolling 250$ in dimes lol) 15-20 wheats, (not sure, got tired of the pennys to quick, very dirty...) and last but not least a 1900 morgan i picked up while doing a dump at a out of town bank... marked as "big dollar coin" on a bank envelope.... i will add the avg age of teller at that branch was maybe 20....
i also pulled 3$ face of "s" mint halves (clad) from a tray, and with a bi-cen "s" i found in a box i was able to sell on ebay for 7$ that i used to buy a 1909 quarter and a piece to fix my cell phone lol.
along with a box of 22lr i traded to a pawn shop for a 1 oz silver round and a morgan, (he valued the ammo at 37 $, i paid 17!) and a also had gotten a quarter halve and a couple morgans for trade with a guy, traded him ammo for silver, he had been buying ammo of me because i get it off the internet and he couldnt find any.. so he want to go shooting and asked if i had any cheap ammo ( i wish!) and i told him i would be will to trade if he had old coins/ currancy, and he did!
and on to good record keeping
week one of buying 2 boxes of halves.
1st box 4 40%
2nd box SKUNK!! funny how that works
week 2
box 1 and 2 skunk
week 3, "oops" we ordered quarters by mistake... i got it anyway!
box 1, 1964 !
box 2, SKUNK
week 4, this last week!!
box 1, 28 40%ers!!!!!!!
box 2, 3 40% lol before we started i told my wife id like to be able to finish a roll of 40 %, 30 minutes later i had a roll from that bo
il take that.. good day, no dumping ahahaha
