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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 2859691, member: 89569&quot;]So I&#039;ve gotten into the fun of box/roll searching.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got accounts at two different banks and the bank from which I order the boxes gets their coins from Loomis so every box is MWR.&nbsp; I&#039;ve had some decent luck with cents and nickels but not so much for halves.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I will buy from the one bank, go through the boxes, and deposit at the other bank so that the first bank doesn&#039;t get mad at me for recycling.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve noticed that my &quot;deposit&quot; bank also uses Loomis.&nbsp; The last time I dropped some coins off there, there was a Loomis truck parked out front making a transaction.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So this led me to start thinking about something.&nbsp; I would assume that there is only a single Loomis facility for the metro area in which I live which services all the surrounding area.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how much of an inventory they keep on hand but I would have to think that the number of half dollars they have available at any one time is a very small percentage of their overall coin inventory simply based on the fact that no one wants them for commerce.&nbsp; Given that this &quot;pool&quot; of half dollars at Loomis is finite, if I am buying from one bank and depositing at another yet they both use the same source, I am in effect pulling and putting from the same pool.&nbsp; How many boxes of Halves does Loomis keep on hand at any one facility?&nbsp; 5 or 500?&nbsp; I would imagine closer to the former.&nbsp; So how long will it be before I am truly recycling coins I&#039;ve already looked through.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that led me to the next rabbit down the mental trail I was following.&nbsp; I know that Brinks also services this metro area as I&#039;ve seen their trucks around.&nbsp; if I could &quot;buy&quot; from Loomis and &quot;deposit&quot; into Brinks, that would seem to limit the possibility of recycling.&nbsp; But how can one easily determine which banks use a particular service?&nbsp; I went to Brinks&#039; website but they obviously don&#039;t post a list of their &quot;customers&quot;, which I didn&#039;t find surprising.&nbsp; But it also seems weird to me to start calling around to different banks and asking &quot;where do you get your coins from?&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, just thinking out loud.&nbsp; Perhaps I&#039;ll see a Brinks truck parked outside a bank at some point and I&#039;ll open an account there and see if I start to have better luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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