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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Robby Bee, post: 3101472, member: 36366&quot;]Part 2 of this came and passed.&nbsp; I retrieved over $1,100 in CWR halves from regular banks where all the tellers said they were &quot;around for a while&quot; and unsearched.&nbsp; No BWR box activities or anything.&nbsp; Once I go through them, I&#039;ll post the results.&nbsp; However, it could have been another $400, if it weren&#039;t for tellers at a FCU nearby.&nbsp; This is the story, and I&#039;d like the group&#039;s feedback because it&#039;s confusing to me (and I&#039;ve been a semi-active CRH&#039;er for over 6 years).</p><p><br /></p><p>I pick up my last batch of halves from the last bank, which were there for over a year, according to the teller.&nbsp; To be thorough and, on a hunch, I go to the neighboring (small) Federal Credit Union, and ask for halves;&nbsp; It was near closing time. The tellers uniformly say No - we don&#039;t get them often and we don&#039;t get much of them.&nbsp; Then, to the surprise of everyone there, one teller says, &quot; Oh yeah, I remember that Customer X just dropped off $400 in halves.&quot; I asked if they were searched and if there was a pattern of box ordering and returning.&nbsp; This middle aged teller said, &quot;No - anytime we get these they come from Granny&#039;s estate!&quot; Management then says I need to open an account and demonstrate residency.&nbsp; Because this find came as a surprise, I said I need to return in 2 days to get an address, which is when I would be passing through the area again.&nbsp; Management said fine.&nbsp; I then asked, &quot;Can you keep the halves for me until I return Wednesday?&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; Then another (twenty something) teller pipes in, &quot;We cannot hold them and We cannot guarantee that the half dollars will be here when you return.&nbsp; They have to be available for other customers.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Fast forward two days, I return to the FCU per their instructions.&nbsp; I have the local address needed and am ready to open the account and get the halves.&nbsp; Before I do, I ask management to confirm they are still there.&nbsp; Of course they are not.&nbsp; The same teller who said she couldn&#039;t hold on to them said a customer miraculously appeared for the the halves the previous day and took them.&nbsp; They are now gone.&nbsp; She added for emphasis, &quot;that&#039;s the thing with half dollars, we never hold onto them for long.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Frustration aside, in my CRH experience, I never had much luck with credit unions.&nbsp; &nbsp; Only one paid off, and that was from two older (i.e. 2011), unopened BWR boxes that were left over.&nbsp; The others were completely picked and some even came from historic collections with labeled rolls.&nbsp; For those out there, especially with Credit Union experience, I have these questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>Upon finding out of a new batch of halves, did the teller tip off someone on the inside to pick them before I could return?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What is the likelihood that there was silver in them (even though ultimately that is unknowable) - are CU&#039;s traditionally picked over like what my past experience tells me?&nbsp; Did this batch come from a picked over collection dump and the dumpers just say they liquidate estates?</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this an indication of overall ongoing CRH activity in the area - is the area hunted, and am I going to be greeted with a bunch of collector dumps and skunks with the remainder I was able to gather?</p><p><br /></p><p>Was Management part of this conspiracy?</p><p><br /></p><p>I look forward to your responses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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