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MIhunter

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All of my half dollar veins are tapped out! I still pick up whatever loose and CWRs that I can find. I am finding 3-4 40%ers a month.

My new goal is 2-3 dime boxes a day, 6 days a week. Hopefully I will find 15-20 silver dimes a week.

So far:
Sunday
Box #1 - 2 FDRs
Box #2 - 3 FDRs
Monday
Box #1 skunk
Box #2 1 FDR
Tuesday
Box #1 4 FDRs and 1x1968 Canadian (50% Ag)
Box #2 1 FDR
Box #3 1 Merc (1944)
Wed
Box #1 skunk
Box #2 skunk
Thurs
Box #1 shunk
Box #2 2 FDRs
Box #3 shunk

Totals: 14 US silver dimes and one 50% Canadian dime
 

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Sunday
Loomis box dimes: 1947, 1964D
Loomis box pennies: 5 wheats (1940-58), Canadian: 1945,1956, 5x(1960-64), 9x(1965-1979)

Monday
Loomis box dimes: 1964D, Canadian: 1942, 1956, 1965 (1942, 1956 are going in my collection)
$10 CWR pennies: 3 wheats, 2 Canadians (1963, 1979)

Tuesday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: shunk
Loomis Box #2: 1948D, 1964
Loomis Box #3: shunk
Brinks Box: shunk
$50 CWR: shunk

Wednesday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1964, 1964D
Loomis Box #2: shunk
Nickel Loomis Box: 1943S, 1945P
 

Thursday
Loomis Dimes
Box #1 1948D
Box #2 1957 and 1968 Canadian 50% Ag
$150 CWR dimes: 1964D

$7 loose halves at pick up banks: 1968D x1
 

Friday
Dime Loomis Box: shunk
Loomis Half Dollar Box: 1976S (CuNi) 2009D x2$
$42 loose half dollars: 1964, 1964D, 1967

Lots of shunky dime boxes this week!
Loose halves helped out a lot!!
 

Monday
Dimes Loomis Box
#1: 1964x2, 1964D
#2: 1959, 1964D
Nickels Lomis Box: 1938 D :hello2:
1973S Proof, 2004 S Proof (Indian Peace), 1939, 1940s not war nickels x12
Mexican 1 peso 2002
Canadian 1965,1973,1979
Swiss 20 Rappen 1994
Bahamas 5 cents 1969
 

Tuesday
Half Dollars: $650 CWR: Skunk

Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1963D, 1964
Loomis Box #2: 1964D
$100 MWR: shunk
$250 CWR: skunk (31 Canadian Dimes (nickel/steel) UK 5 New Pence)

Nickels
Loomis Box #1 1945P, 1939, 11x1940s
Loomis Box #2 1937 Buff, 1938, 1939, 9x1940s

Pennies
$25 CWR
1945x2, 1945S, 1947S, 1957D, 1958
Canadian 1962, 1963x2, 1964x2
Canadian 1965-79 x 17
 

Wednesday
Dimes, Loomis Box
#1 1947, 1962D, 1964
#2 shunk
$38 CWR/loose half dollars, 11x90%ers, 9x40%ers see seperate topic, "Silver Score"

Thursday
Loomis Dime Box
#1: 1947, 1956D, 1964D, Canadian 1957
#2: 1959, 1964
 

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Friday
Loomis Nickel Box: 24x1940s, 1939, no war nickels
Dimes:
Brinks Box: 1963D, 1964D
Loomis Box: 1958, 1962D
$100 in Loomis MWR (that is all the cash I had left): 1946, 1959D, 1960, 1960D, 1961D, 1964

Big week, my best silver haul this year!
27 silver FDRs
1 Canadian 80% silver dime
2 war nickels
11 x 90%ers
9 x 40%ers

7.44 oz of silver!! for $12.90
 

am curious about your dime box totals and amount of silver you found? do you ask for the dime boxes to be ordered?
 

Skunk is no silver, shunk is a sign of my poor spelling.

I do order dime boxes from 2 banks, but mostly I get 1-2 boxes at a times. I have a list of banks and their phone numbers. I call them to check if they have any dime boxes to sell. During a normal day, I pass 10-20 banks to and from work. These are banks that I have accounts with, sometimes just $100-$200 in a savings account. I dump nearly ever day using a lobby coin counter. I dump Canadian dimes in Canada every 1-2 months it also gives me a chance to work on my Canadian coin collection. I get 5-15 Canadian dimes per box (my record is 53). I live 20 minutes from the border.

Sunday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1959, 1962D
Loomis Box #2: 1952, 1962D

Pennies, Loomis Box:
Wheats, 1919, 1934, 3x1940s, 5x1950s
Canadian, 1945x1, 1960-4x7, 1965-79x23

Good start to the week!
 

MIhunter said:
Skunk is no silver, shunk is a sign of my poor spelling.

I do order dime boxes from 2 banks, but mostly I get 1-2 boxes at a times. I have a list of banks and their phone numbers. I call them to check if they have any dime boxes to sell. During a normal day, I pass 10-20 banks to and from work. These are banks that I have accounts with, sometimes just $100-$200 in a savings account. I dump nearly ever day using a lobby coin counter. I dump Canadian dimes in Canada every 1-2 months it also gives me a chance to work on my Canadian coin collection. I get 5-15 Canadian dimes per box (my record is 53). I live 20 minutes from the border.

Sunday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1959, 1962D
Loomis Box #2: 1952, 1962D

Pennies, Loomis Box:
Wheats, 1919, 1934, 3x1940s, 5x1950s
Canadian, 1945x1, 1960-4x7, 1965-79x23

Good start to the week!
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I am curious...since you live so close to the border...if you try to spend Canadian dimes at retail, or deposit them, are they accepted as US currency, or do they tell you that they can't accept them?

I live in Indiana, and many years ago, Canadian change was accepted as payment as if it were US, but this is no longer true for my area.
 

I have only tried it a few times, but Canadian change is accepted by most merchants. However I find a lot of Canadian dimes and I spend very little cash.

My job is to earn money, my wife handles most of the rest.

I could dump Canadian dimes and other foreign coins I don't want (British 5 Pence) by hands rolling with mostly US dimes and dumping at banks that accepts rolls. They do weigh them but the right mix of coins is all you need to fool them. Or maybe I will go and visit London, UK and spend them!
 

Tuesday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1963
Loomis Box #2: 1962, 1964D
Loomis Box #3: 1958D, 1962, 1964Dx2

$129 in CWR and loose half dollars: 1966x2
Full story in "We check all the half dollars for silver and keep them"
 

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MIhunter said:
Tuesday
Dimes
Loomis Box #1: 1963
Loomis Box #2: 1962, 1964D
Loomis Box #3: 1958D, 1962, 1964Dx2

$129 in CWR and loose half dollars: 1966x2
Full story in "We check all the half dollars for silver and keep them"
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To our advantage, many tellers don't know about the 40%.
 

Wednesday
Busy with work went to pick up coin after most bank were closed, had to go to a bank in a grocery store that was open late.
Dimes $75 CWR: 1964D
One loose half: 1964D!

Thursday
Loomis Box #1: 1964Dx2
Loomis Box #2: 1952, 1957
Loomis Box #3: 1960D
$450 CWR: 1950
 

Totals for last week:
20 Silver FDRs
Half dollars, 40% x2, 90%x1
2.1 oz silver for $3.50

Sunday
Dimes: (Loomis Box) 1962D, 1964D
Garbage next to coin counter: 1930 wheat penny, Canadian Qtr 2005, Nickel 2008, penny 2006, 1999
 

Monday
Dimes
Loomis Box: 1964
Brinks Box #1:1963D, 1964, 1964D
Brinks Box #2: Skunk
$50 CWR: skunk
$120 CWR Brinks Half dollars: skunk
 

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