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I think what they mean is that a minimum order of halves is $1000. 2 x $500 boxes. That is what all my banks tell me. I could do more if they could order one at a time. Such is life.
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Did another box of Halves last night - Skunk.

 

Ace,
Your half boxes have been pretty skunky lately, no? Just a general question for anyone....How long does it take for coins dumped in the TD Penny Arcade to get back into boxes in to circulation. It seems like they must not be rotating their stock.
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Two boxes of halves produced a single '68.

 

HOTN - Yup...November was awesome and December has been pretty weak. I got two more boxes for tonight...hoping for some silver! This hobby goes in waves. I just try to not to get to worried when you go through a dry spell cause it always improves eventually!

As far as your question, I have no clue?

 

I can answer it... Turnover from machine to box seems to be around 3-5 weeks depending on what time of year it is.

 

[HR][/HR]Dropped of $248.61 in dimes at Bank 1 - no halves
Bank 2 - No Halves $60 in dimes - skunk
$50 of the dimes were clear wrapped - still never scored from the clear wrapped
Strange thing is they say they are from Dunbar, who services all of the other banks on that strip, but all the other banks get paper wrapped Strings? Still trying to solve that mystery.
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With the amount of skunk boxes and how heavily they are marked, I'm searching through someones dumps for sure and when I turn them back in they got rolled and put right back on top of the pile. That's what I think anyway. I don't have enough bank roll to hold onto several boxes to try and work farther down into the pile and hope for better results. I like searching halves but it's not worth having all that money tied up searching other people dumps. I guess I have to really focus on getting a new supply bank maybe not in my area and pick up on the weekends or something when I have the time. Any suggestions? Just keep plowing through the skunks?
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Good luck on the boxes tonight. I have been doing well with loose and CWR the past couple weeks but the boxes are DRY DRY DRY. My December is turning out better than November and I'm going to hit it HARD the week between X-mas and New Years since I have it off.
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Yeah, that's all you really can do... I mean, several times over the past month, I've seen silver int he bags when cashing in my halves... I wish I could get my own dumps, but I don't seem to get the ones with silver in them, lol.

 

It just seems like no one here knows how it all really works. I dump at TD and buy from Chase. I have my fair share of skunks...sometimes 2-3 boxes consecutively. I know the Chase that I buy from uses Garda but I'm not 100% sure about all of the TD's in my area but I know at least one of them uses Brinks. So I am dumping to one company and buying from another.

I imagine it like this: Brinks comes and picks up loose bagged coinage from multiple banks. They take it back to a facility and dump each denomination into it's own vat of coins. The coins are rolled and boxed then shipped out to fulfill bank's orders. Brinks may be picking up your dumps from TD for instance but they are also picking up coins from other banks such as BOA, WF, etc. (just examples). Someone cashes in 5 rolls of all silver coins. No customers asks for the coins at the bank so they bag them up and send them back to Brinks and into the vat they go mixing in with the other coins. Also consider the banks with coin counters that don't reject silver. Those bags with silver in them get sent back too. I can't imagine that it works that much differently.

 

I'd love to be able to track my dumps with pinpoint accuracy, but the banks and change companies are naturally very protective of how change circulates through the system, for security reasons. Shame.

Funny thing is that we are probably some of the largest individual revenue drivers for those companies that sell boxed coin... at $2.50 a box, times however many boxes I've done... I'm sure banks have spent well north of $1k this year financing my hobby.

 

Check out that machine on page 5: http://journal.brinksinc.com/?id=journalissue11&page=5
Sort of how I envisioned it but I'm not sure if that's it.

 

I would love to run into a box that was coins that had not already been searched. Just stuff cashed in by regular people, even if that was still a skunk it would not bother me as much. But when you see marked coins in every roll with different markings black edges, dates written on them, RWB flag painted on them, black sharpie on the ear I'm never surprised when the box ends up skunk. I think one time I saw silver in the bag at TD.
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From what I have been told is that Dunbar services every bank in Connecticut. I googled the Dunbar locations and there is one 20 miles away max. I would have to imagine that this is where my coins come from. So any time I dump coins they are picked up by Dunbar and sent to a facility in Hartford, CT to be counted and rolled back up. Then I would think they are re-distributed amongst all of the other Dunbar coin facilities in the state. Back in 09' and 10' I know for a fact that this state was searched very heavily (Hartford & Bridgeport area) and there was a ton of silver pulled from the system. The skunks got turned back in and this I feel is what I'm searching through. Back then 10 - 20 silvers were coming from boxes on average. As Merc suggested the only real thing to do is keep on plugging away. If I get sick of it I'll quit and search something else.
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So they must love us, since we make them money and keep their people employeed. We are all doing a good thing here...keep on searching until it's all gone
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Have you asked at different banks who they get their coins from?

 

For all other denominations (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters) I think the current system of circulation is fine, because they are all used on a daily basis, and people are constantly getting them in change and then turning them back in. I just wish they had a separate system for halves. I think everybody realizes that the only people who want/order them are going through them for silver. (and the occasional error or proof I guess) I wish you could order a box, look through it for silver, and then take it somewhere that they would store them permanently. It just seems like a waste to go through halves over and over again. The last time I was going through a box I was thinking "I wonder how many times these halves had been looked through for silver." Since they have no daily use, you can't get them in change, there should be a system to get them out of circulation, it would save everybody alot of time and money.

 

That thing looks beastly. Nothing like what I was imagining they used.

Yeah, CT was yielding fantastic results a couple years back, go check out the treasnet roll searching forum and find some posts by Rich H, I think his name was. Passed away, but man, was he ever raking in the silver before passing away... CT was absolutely littered with silver.

I've seen people post stories about virgin, unsearched turf... I'd give anything to find an area like that. Heck, I'd probably call my boss and call out of work for as long as I reasonably could, get me a hotel room, and hunt the crap out of it.

 

The lions share of the banks around here get coin from Dunbar from what they tell me and I see the Dunbar trucks there. There is one bank that gets coin from Loomis. I got a dime box the other week which was a skunk. I don't have an account there but I know them well so there might be a possibility that they will order some halves for me. I'll ask them tomorrow when I cash my paycheck.
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