Do companies sort for silver?

I have just started roll hunting.

I have gone through 20 hand rolls without luck.

I have gone through 30 bank rolls with one 40% silver find.

Who supplies coins?

is there a way to find out who supplies which banks? And if they sort at the factory?

 

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Searching for silver is hit or miss. You may have a great find one day and the. The next week or so finding nothing. The key is to search high volume.

 

Define high volume.

i just got 30 rolls today on a chance visit.

Do I need to order $500 or $1,000

 

Yes I believe Brinks does sort out silver halves. I average 1 silver in 10 rolls, but I ordered $1000 that came in a Brinks box and got zero silver.

 

Texas.... are you looking for anything else ? like varieties, proofs, off rotations.... low mintages like 1987...2002 and up ??

you might get disappointed with no silver in rolls with all the effort ...try these I mentioned unless your strictly a silver hunter

 

Banks, or those companies that supply the coins would be foolish not to.

 

I've only done 3 boxes of halves so far, but they're Brinks boxes and they've all been skunks so far. Not a large enough sample to determine if they're pre-scanned or not.

We need to hear from a Brinks employee.

 

Brinks doesn't sort out the silver. I have found several silver in their boxes and I know people on another forum who do. Just because you had 2 skunk boxes doesn't mean they do. Some people have over 20 box skunk streaks.

 

The more that's found the less there will be. At some point no one will be having big, moderate and eventually; even small silver finds. That's why you should include and look for other items in your search.

 

glad to hear this...makes me want to keep searching.

 

Keep looking, I just did 2 boxes on friday and they were the First boxes without any felt pin marks on any coin and I did really well & thats not to say marked boxes are skunks but they were the best boxes I have had. Just don't let skunk boxes get you down keep hunting and you will find something sooner or later.

 

So for those who are not just hunting silver, but collecting JFK halves, isn't marking the coins inconsiderate to those set collecting?

Just asking, not accusing.

 

Marking the coins is a window into the over all person....selfish jerk. This is the same dude that walks up to three urinals and takes the middle one. I agree with searching all. I just got 20 bank rolled that had been searched and put back in same roll (one end crimped and one open) and found one 40% silver

 

I ordered a $500 box of halves. They are the yellow String & Sons wrapped rolls; never had much luck with those. Found a 2009-D and a few 2001-D halves. Other than that nothing much worth mentioning. There was one 1968-D in very bad shape. If they do pick out silver [and I think String & Sons does] they probably didn't want to touch this 1968-D it is so crummy!
For me it's a pain returning almost 1,000 halves. I put them in the coin counter machine and I think the machine cheats me and undercounts. One coin kept getting rejected to the hopper. After the machine was done I put that coin on the still moving belt. The balance was $133.07. I heard the coin fall into the bag but the balance still read $133.07.

 

Something no one thinks about, but when I asked my cashiers at the bank for rolls, they flat out told me that when they get coins in, they take a glance through them looking for silver themselves. They have caught on to what most of us have been doing, and have kept them for themselves. Finding Silver is almost impossible and almost not worth the effort for the time it takes to search all the rolls. The banks turn in the silver to the govt. when they do recalls, so if the tellers are not getting them, the govt. is.

 

A dealer friend told me he marks coins with a black magic marker. He also has a dealer friend who does the same thing. The reason for this is when they get a new box of coins to search they can tell if it's just the same coins they already looked at that have been repackaged. I notice alot of 1974-D half dollars with a mark on them. Someone local must be marking them so they know the coin has been checked for the DDO.
I get alot of the same coins again when I open a new box.

 

This whole statement is untrue. My wife works at a bank and they don't turn the silver into the government. Also I, along with others here, get calls from banks when they get halves brought in. Turning them into the government doesn't even make sense. And roll hunting is worth the effort. There are people that find well over 20 oz in a month.

 

I think you missed the part where I said that the tellers pull the silver for themselves. Also the time it takes to look through all the coins and the process just to get the coins is almost like having a job, so in one small way, you are paying yourself if your actually finding 20 Ozs of silver a month, question is are you finding that much silver?

 

I haven't been searching high volume lately because I don't have the time. There are plenty of others who are still finding that much.

 

I think in smaller towns you have a better shot of maybe finding silver, I live in a big city on the east coast. Finding silver is like finding a good driver on the streets, not realistic where I live.