"Pre-searched at Boxing, No silver"

You make me so sad all I can do is laugh.

 

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You probably hoard copper pennies, too!

Chris

 

You're getting heated over stuff that wasn't even mentioned in this thread. No one was complaining about the service or any aspect of it. The post was about a box with a stamp and wondering what people thought about it, even asked if it could be a deterrent for CRH's because we're aware of this. You just came in hot is all I'm saying.

 

Did not find any silvers btw. Found some NIFC's and one 1977 S. Also found one with a couple holes that makes it look like it was once used as a button.

 

I just opened my weekly box tonight and found a 64 & 65 Kennedy. So, not getting rich, but fun to find stuff, especially silver. It is the hunt for me.

 

Once again, I will repeat that I'm not getting angry, upset, discombobulated or any other form of irritation about this subject. I'm sorry that you don't like my answers, but you are the one who opened the door for people's opinions. If you don't like my comments, then you shouldn't ask the question.

FWIW, you haven't been around here long enough to know that this subject about roll searching has been a topic of conversation for years. Just because using a stamp on the box is a new "wrinkle" doesn't change anything.

Chris

 

The NIFC's are lower mintage. But dealers don't want them. There's no market for them. So people just hoard them. The survival rate is almost 100%, the rarity is an illusion. It's just 50 cents. If it is worth a dollar in 30 years, 50 cents today is worth more than a dollar in 30 years. It's a spender. Collectors buy bags of the NIFC's from the mint at a small premium hoping to pull out a couple of super high grades, and then dump the rest into circulation. I guess if you have a Kennedy half collection those dates are important. All of the people roll searching and saving NIFCs have spent their own money to hoard these face value coins.

 

I wait until I have a roll of twenty of them and then turn them into my bank .

 

I've never ordered a box, but my impression is that they generally arrive sealed and bearing the logo of the supplier. Are there really suppliers that re-use boxes turned in by customers? If so, is there really any chance that they'd pass the box through with its searched payload intact, instead of emptying it, counting/sorting everything, and then restocking it with re-rolled coins?

I think it's more likely that suppliers and/or banks all know that the only reason halves get ordered is for people to roll-hunt (or, as they apparently call it, "mine"), they realize they aren't making money shipping the things around, and they're applying some social engineering. I'm a bit surprised it isn't more widespread.

 

I picked up a couple of boxes that were stamped with a big, black NO AG.

The teller had no idea what it meant.

But it was correct. There was certainly no "AG".

 

Never said I didn't agree with your answers, you can say what you want I'm just saying you went about it in a hostile way. You keep mentioning my age which I don't see why it has any importance. I'm not some young dumb kid thinking I'm gonna get rich from this and move onto the next thing when this runs dry and I can't find any silver, I'll still be looking for stuff. Give people a little bit of room to think for themselves. I'm not angry or anything either, I respect your answer and do agree, just not with the way you went about it, which I guess doesn't really matter.

 

My teller asked about it today when i turned the change in, he thinks whoever processes their change caught on and started cycling through it themselves to deter people buying rolls do the bank doesn't have to order as many for regular people. Just a theory, but we'll see.

He also told me not to tell anyone else in the area what I'm doing as to keep people from doing the same thing. I like this guy ha!

 

I have not seen any half boxes that were stamped like the examples discussed. But, I am beginning to buy into the theory that some of the couriers are extracting silver, particularly Brinks. Yes, we've kicked this around the forum many times, I know. BUT, their MWRs haven't given up silver for me in months. And, my silver success rate from Brinks MWRs is approximately 10 times lower than Loomis MWRs. They are so worthless, I have quit ordering boxes from the banks that use Brinks.

 

A friend worth cultivating...

 

The couriers do not have time to be searching through rolls, and then repacking them with clads instead of doing the job they are paid to do.
They would probably be fired for opening sealed boxes even if the money count was correct. If there is no silver in the Brinks it's because people in your area have been searching and dumping the same million coins the last few years.
You get a box search it, dump it at another site. The coins are sent to Brinks and rerolled and reboxed. Even if you also have Loomis the same thing is happening across both companies.

 

You can go to NF String's ebay portal and purchase boxes of silver coinage. They absolutely have the ability to remove the silver during the sorting process.

 

That I believe. NF String boxes (yellow wrappers with holes in the bottom of the box) are worse than Brinks boxes if that's possible. I agree, I don't think the couriers have the time to search through the finished rolls/boxes. I think they snipe the silver beforehand during the sorting/counting process. My numbers don't support a level playing field, at least in my area. Just saying......

 

The same can be said for the Eisenhower Dollar. The design, especially President Eisenhower's bust in profile, to be charitable is not rendered in an artistic way, like a Morgan or a Peace. The coin itself is a huge, heavy slug that most people wouldn't even consider carrying it around to spend at say, The Dollar Store. Truthfully, I'd much prefer saving the copper for copper pennies again, than having dollars and half dollars.

 

I'll agree that half dollars are a bit strange, they may have once served a purpose but not now. On the aspect of dollar coins though I'm a fan of them. Maybe not in receiving them every time for dollar change but it's nice to be able to pay for something that's one or two dollars in a couple dollar coins you might have in your cup holder.

 

They only made them from 1971-1978. Part of the short run was prob the colossal failure of the coin.
They haven't made the Ike dollar for 40 years. And yes it's too large and heavy, with no way to use it in vending machines. And back in the day they didn't fit pay phones or parking meters. (Prob didn't work in tolls also, I don't remember.)
The Susan B's, Sacagawea's and Pres. dollars are just slightly larger than a quarter at 8.1 grams and vending machines (tolls, etc.) accept them.