Anyone ever see a halves box like this?

Discussion in 'Coin Roll Hunting' started by Mark webster, Feb 27, 2020.

  1. Mark webster

    Mark webster New Member

    I just hunted a full box of halves and spread throughout in various rolls I found these. Does this mean this entire box came from one person? How does that happen?
     

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  3. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Looks like potentially a few different searchers.
     
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  4. Wizank

    Wizank Well-Known Member

    Why would somebody do that? What is the purpose for defacing a coin?
     
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  5. Mark webster

    Mark webster New Member

    Well I’m assuming to mark it but I’m just wondering how I ended it up with a whole box of em I though they would be more spread out when they roll em at the fed or what ever. Needless to say there was no silver. They have one more box for me at the bank ordered at the same time now I’m hesitant to get it.
     
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  6. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    To know if you are getting your dumps back. Searchers use their marks to track coins through the system to see if they come back/how long it takes/etc.
     
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  7. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    I would get the box. You ordered it. If you don't pick it up just because it may have been searched, you run the risk of burning that bridge and them not ordering for you any more.
     
  8. Mark webster

    Mark webster New Member

    Well yeah I’m going to get it, however I only ordered one they only told me afterwards that they have to order a minimum of two boxes so I said I’d grab the other one.
     
  9. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Good deal.
     
  10. QuintupleSovereign

    QuintupleSovereign Well-Known Member

    I've seen it before but with quarters, not with halves.
     
  11. fretboard

    fretboard Defender of Old Coinage!

    Obviously they're a wanker who developed a system that only they know about! That said, when going through boxes looking for silver you gotta take the bad with the good! Hopefully next time, we see the good! laughhard.gif
     
  12. Matthew Kruse

    Matthew Kruse Young Numismatist

    They are marking their coins to see if they will circulate back to them. I don’t do it but it does make sense. If they are getting their own marked coins, that means they are searching coins they already searched.
     
  13. Matthew Kruse

    Matthew Kruse Young Numismatist

    Never leave a bank with a box of coins! You don’t want them to hold onto it for nothing! Always be nice to the tellers. :)
     
  14. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    I’ve marked several thousand dollars in halves to see if any of mine returned home. Not once in 6 years have I seen one. I wonder where they have ended up. If anyone ever sees one marked “FF” let me know :p
     
  15. Matthew Kruse

    Matthew Kruse Young Numismatist

    I’ll look out for an FF coin!
     
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  16. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Do you use BoA? In my area of Florida, BoA has their own repository for filling orders for the branch banks. All change goes through the repository and the only time that they rely on the Fed is when their supply runs low. This would be understandable for pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters but half dollars are practically never distributed to commercial businesses. I learned this about 15 years ago when I was ordering two boxes of half dollars every week. ~ Chris
     
  17. Islander80-83

    Islander80-83 Well-Known Member

    icon_smile_agree.gif with FF and the others. This whole CRH thing is completely random. Your next box could be a major winner!
     
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  18. White Ger. Shep. Lover

    White Ger. Shep. Lover Well-Known Member

    Black marker, Furryfrog? I've had 2 FF's here in the great State of Wisconsin over the past year. I figured it was some Fred Flintstone fan. I've had a handful of "TA"'s too.
     
  19. furryfrog02

    furryfrog02 Well-Known Member

    Either black or green. I haven’t done any in a couple years. I am in MD so that is a good little travel.
     
  20. White Ger. Shep. Lover

    White Ger. Shep. Lover Well-Known Member

    Wish I still had them, Furryfrog. It would be kind of neat to have your autograph on a coin. Who knows.......it might fetch quite a price one day.
     
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  21. myownprivy

    myownprivy Well-Known Member

    If I were you when I rewrap the coins to take back to the bank, I'd write 1964 on one wrapper, maybe 1962 on another. Get the guy's hopes up when he asks for customer rolls.
     
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