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Going to pick up 1k In halves next week... Last time only got 1 40% and a gold plated one.

 

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Stopped at about 20 banks on my way to meet someone to purchase some coins.

1 bank had all the silver - 8 40s and 1 '64

My highlight was getting to see a collection that was accumulated by a small buisness owner some 50-60 years ago - insane. He had 10 times more than my local coinshops have easily.

 

I bet Yacorie. If a guy knew what he was doing he could have seriously pocketed quite a bit of expensive coin for face value throughout the past 50-60 years running a small business especially in the earlier years.

Also Yacorie, any good metal detecting finds as of late for you? Nothing much for me, but was able to find my first Rosie last week in a park. The guy I was hunting with found a 1856 flying eagle cent earlier this year at a different location!

 

Hey guys, one quick question, for CAMs and WAMs, are they more from Philadelphia than Denver? I've seen mostly Philly, but I was just curious.

 

I went to PNC to pick up the box of dimes that they're supposed to order weekly for me and yet again they forgot to order it. It's been a month since they ordered one. So I stopped at my other PNC bank and they just straight up refused to give me any coins. Which is really annoying because I have an account with them. But after all this crap I went to Huntington and got $250 in quarter. Nothing important besides a D.C. and a Puerto Rico that I needed for my collection.
Later I got $250 in one's and no surprise but I found nothing. This has been a long day.

 

I haven't been able to get out swinging lately. I took the MD to the beach when we were on vacation buty found nothing but trash and clad. I did get a lead on a property that I hunt deer on though. The original house (no longer there) was built in the 1780s. Maybe I'll swing on days when I'm not hunting. Congrats on the rosie

 

How did you tune you MD on the beach? Most MD on the beach, you must place the coil on the sand and tune it then. When not on a beach, air tune the unit. It works better then, and you find more. Good hunting. -O)

 

Looking forward to my first weekday off in like a month tomorrow. Road tripping in super-hot heat, it'll suck... better find some silver. Oh, and I don't wanna hear you Westerners and whatnot tell me about heat... Philly in the summer is typically 80%+ humidity to go along with your super-hot temperatures. I walked outside on my lunch break for work today, and instantly, I could feel the moisture clinging to my body. It's nuts.

I know there will be at least one box of halves waiting for me at a PNC near my home, but the rest? Only god knows...

 

Hey, out here we have cloudless skies with 100+ degree temperatures. You bake. Cookies can be made on a dashboard...I $hit you not.

Also, picked up 6 Canadian silver dimes today! What luck! 5 pre-67 and a 68 50/50! I did a "bounce test" to check the 1968er. I compared it to a dime in my pocket...had the *ting* of silver. Not like our 80-90%ers, but a ting none the less.

 

'68 is prob 50% silver, IIRC.

And dude, dry heat is so much better than humid heat. Tomorrow is gonna be what? 101 and 90% humidity? I'm going to die if banks take more than 5 minutes to get the halves. I'm pretty sure anybody will back me up on that.... dry heat is so much easier to deal with.

 

I second that motion. I was in Las Vegas a few years ago, and it was like 107 degrees, but I thought it was kind of nice. Hot, but manageable. 90-95 degrees here and super humid, it's terrible. I feel like I'm swimming. I take a 5 minute smoke break at work and when I'm done I have to run into the bathroom and wipe sweat off my head and hair with paper towels.

 

I joked with a couple people today that I swam from my house to the car, then from the car to work. The reason why dry heat is better is explained by simple science... in low humidity, the body can sweat to lose heat, and that sweat is quickly absorbed by the air and the evaporation cools the body down. With high humidity, the body sweats, but the sweat evaporates far, far slower, and therefore, your body will overheat much faster. Come east in the dead of summer sometime, Kan, and you'll see what I mean.

 

What does IIRC mean? Also, I think we can both agree that our respective types of heat both suck.

 

Stopped at one of my dump banks today to drop a few rolls. The one teller was telling me that someone had dumped 6 grand of halves on them the other day and then wanted to order 3 grand more. She is thinking of cutting his orders down. Sound like he dumps were he eats. Makes the box or two a month I dump look like nothing. Picked up two rolls of quarters... nothing special. Did get my first 2011 cent the other day in change.

 

Yeah this heat is annoying that's why I leave for my banks at 9.

 

If I recall correctly.

Yeah, I left for work at 8:45 this morning... stepped outside to 85 degrees and 75% humidity. Not much better.

Figure I'll leave around 9:30 tomorrow, should be able to get several hours of searching in before the day is out. Then, I work Sat-Sun, and my friend was telling me it's so dead on the weekends that you can actually search coins while you kill time, haha.

 

There is the little screw on the front.. turn it about half a turn. Put a 64 dime in there and put a silver dime in with 20 or so dimes. Run them through. Keep making minor adjustments until your silver pops out. That thing doesn't take much to tune. It is pretty sensetive though.

 

What machine are we talking about and how much is it?

 

Coinalyzer.com

I think it was around 80 bucks or so. You have to manually feed this and it can be a big PITA!

 

Just do what the ryedale dude did and develop a feeding mechanism, then undercut him and sell me one for $350.

Thinking about selling off all the silver I've found in rolls and whatnot to buy an engagement ring... or at least a part of an engagement ring. Good way to get one cheap, in a relative sense, no? haha... maybe if I get a huge score tomorrow.