Fishing for Silver- Fish On!s CRH Log

[beebs88]

Due to the continuing forgetfulness of my Wed pickup bank, I only had two half boxes to pick up today (both garda, one with the 6024 stamp and one with no stamp):

Box 1: 1x'68
Box 2: 1x'66 and 2 Buffalo Boy coins

Box 1 may have been the oddest box I have ever hunted. There were at least 15 clad proofs that someone apparently chrome plated. I have no idea why someone would do that. I don't think they were plated recently either since they were all brown and purple. I'm not even that into coin collecting, but it was such a shame to see all those ruined proofs.

I didn't set the world on fire, but I'm happy each box had silver in it. I hope the silver keeps flowing this week. 8 more half boxes to pick up between tomorrow and friday.

I get boxes with that 6024 too. What does that mean anyway? And how do you get away with 8 boxes a week? I was dumb last year and dumped $24k in a month at same credit union and they cut me off

 

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I get boxes with that 6024 too. What does that mean anyway? And how do you get away with 8 boxes a week? I was dumb last year and dumped $24k in a month at same credit union and they cut me off

I'll be honest, I have no idea what the codes mean. It may mean that they were all packed by the same machine or they were all packed at the same time. I really don't know. I mainly put that in there because one of the people I talk to on here has asked me if I have seen that code before on my boxes.

The way that I get away with picking up and dumping the volume that I do is by going to many different banks. I order two boxes from each branch. I have two separate chains that I pick up from and three chains of banks that I dump into. I'm always very considerate and up front with my banks both pickup and dump. I tell them that I collect coins. At almost every visit I ask if this is an inconvenience, if there is anything I can do to make it easier on them and always go overboard with telling them how much I appreciate them doing this for me. I am really polite to all bank tellers. In addition to my searching funds and my normal finance funds (bills, spending money, etc), I also strategically make sure that I have a certain amount of money in each of my dump and pickup bank accounts. The chain that I order the most from is actually my "real" bank, so that account has the most money in it. I'm not rich by a long shot, but I think there is enough in there that they would think twice before cutting me off for the minor inconvenience of ordering boxes for me.

Having multiple pickup and dump chains also guarantees that if any one bank chain cuts me off it is a minor inconvenience not detrimental to my CRH'ing. For dumping, I rotate branches as much as possible. I am lucky in that there is a local chain of banks near me that has a coin counter that never fills up and the tellers don't mind at all how much I dump, so I'm only limited at each branch by how much I can physically carry into the bank. When I first started I was dumping into the same armored car service that I pick up from. Since then, I've switched it up so that I am dumping the bulk of my weekly searches into a different armored car service.

In summary, I have put a lot of thought into my picking up and dumping. Even with all of this planning, it is still possible that I could get cut off by all my banks at any time. I'm plan to continue hunting for as long as I can, though. The one thing to remember is that there are a ton of banks out there. In my area, there must be at least 100 different chains of banks.

 

[beebs88]

Thanks. That helps me a lot. Looks like I need to start opening more accounts. For the last month I've been searching nickels, dimes and pennies just to make my dumps look "normal".

 

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Thanks. That helps me a lot. Looks like I need to start opening more accounts. For the last month I've been searching nickels, dimes and pennies just to make my dumps look "normal".

No problem. If you start searching high volume nothing you do will look normal to the tellers. For me, the hardest part about this hobby was getting used to having everyone in every bank I go into think I am a complete weirdo. Now that it doesn't bother me, the CRH'ing has gotten a lot easier.

 

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I dumped $1k in quarters this morning and ended up with a mountain of foreign coins from the counter. I stopped at two banks today looking for halves. The first had $64 in halves (must have been a sign). The lone silver was a '64 in one of those holders used as a necklace. The second bank had one roll of CWR and it had a '68 d in it.

 

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Here are the pictures of the '64 in the necklace holder thing:



I removed the holder since both the half and the holder were in rough shape. The holder was not silver (I was hoping for a bonus score).

 

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Picked up two half boxes today:

Box 1: 1x40%
Box 2: 6x40%

All the keepers were 66's and 67's and pretty close to uncirculated condition. 5 came in the last row of box 2 so I'm betting someone else is getting a sweet box. Both boxes were stamped 6026.

 

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I just dumped those two boxes and got a bonus: The coin counter magnet had a 43 steel wheat cent on it in addition to the usual foreign stuff.
Here are a couple pics from today:



P.S.- The second shot is a good reminder that you need to sound check. I caught them on the edge check, but they could have been missed.

 

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I picked up 4 ordered half dollar boxes today (2x 6024 and 2x6026). I also stopped at a random bank asking for halves and ended up with another rerolled dump box.
All 5 boxes were a skunk.

I may or may not have 2 more boxes to pick up tomorrow. Next week is my experiment with high volume. So far I have ten boxes on order and I'll be running around tomorrow ordering more. My goal is to have at least 20 on order for next week.

I've been avoiding saying it, but now that it is over there is no harm: I had a pretty good streak of crh'ing at least some silver every day. I think I had at least a week straight of finding silver every day.

 

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I haven't had much time to post over the last few days. There isn't much to report anyway. I didn't get my ordered half boxes this past Friday. I ended up picking up two random garda half boxes at a different bank, I stopped at about 20 banks in my neighboring state asking for halves, I bought $200 MWR dimes and $400 MWR quarters (neither bank could spare a full box). All of the above resulted in skunks.

I didn't hunt over the weekend because I was busy.

Today, on the way home from a fishing trip, I stopped at 4 banks along the route and one of them had $97.50 in a bag that looked like various people deposits. The bag turned out having 3x40% in it, so this week is off to a good start.

I have some spare time this week, so I super-sized my volume. I should have 21 boxes of halves coming in this week. I hope I find some silver.

 

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Day 1 of my high volume week. I had 9 boxes to pick up today, but only picked up 4 because the others were coming in late in the day. Not great results, but at least my skunk streak on half boxes ended at 9 (a new record):

Box 1: skunk
Box 2: skunk
Box 3: 3x40%
Box 4: skunk

I have 7 boxes to pick up tomorrow. I also stopped in a random bank asking for halves on a whim. I actually wasn't going to because I didn't have a ton of cash on me and it totally burned me. It's a bank I don't have an account at and they had at least one box, but I didn't have enough to buy the box. Now if I go back in and buy it, they are almost definitely going to ask if I have an account.

 

[Zero]

I applaud your foray into high volume. I would love to do it as well but I just haven't figured out my dump situation. Great job!

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I applaud your foray into high volume. I would love to do it as well but I just haven't figured out my dump situation. Great job!

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Thanks. The dump situation was actually my biggest concern. Honestly, though, I went into one branch of my dump chain today and dumped $2100 in halves with no bag change and the tellers (who never have to change bags) were completely unphased as usual.

 

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Good day! My seven box day turned into a 9 box day. I had a couple of firsts today: My first bender and my first walkers.

Here are the results and pictures:

Box 1: 1x40%
Box 2: 2x90%('64, '53) 1x40%
Box 3: 1x90%('54) Reverse Bender
Box 4: 2x90%('64's) 2x40%
Box 5: skunk
Box 6: 1x40%
Box 7: 2x90%('49, '34) 1x40%
Box 8: 2x90%('64, '34)
Box 9: Skunk



After how my boxes have been recently, I was elated to only get two skunks. I was also really happy with the amount of 90%'ers. So far my high volume week is going good. Today's totals were: 9x90% and 5x40%.
I have 4 more boxes to pick up tomorrow, I hope the trend continues.

 

[Ag_Forager]

Awesome finds fish on! Looking forward to the day I pull a Ben or Walker out of a roll (or a tray!)...

 

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Awesome finds fish on! Looking forward to the day I pull a Ben or Walker out of a roll (or a tray!)...

Thanks. I was psyched about the walkers. I actually just posted on someone else's thread the other day that I gave up and bought a walker because I felt like I was never going to find one. Keep searching and you will get yours. I've now found kennedy's, franklins, walkers, and a barber. Now I need a seated half.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Nice job fish on!, I have not found a walker in such a long time, congrats on an awesome day.. I hope your luck continues and that this batch is a sign of what is to come in our boxes in the near future.

Good luck tomorrow and thanks for sharing!
p.s. SWEET BENDER!! I've only gotten 2 90% enders ever, both being 1964 kennedies.

 

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Nice job fish on!, I have not found a walker in such a long time, congrats on an awesome day.. I hope your luck continues and that this batch is a sign of what is to come in our boxes in the near future.

Good luck tomorrow and thanks for sharing!
p.s. SWEET BENDER!! I've only gotten 2 90% enders ever, both being 1964 kennedies.

I hope it's a sign of good things to come, too. I was really happy to see all those different kinds of 90%'ers.

 

[Zero]

Well deserved!

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[beebs88]

That's an awesome streak of boxes there. Wish I could get away with dumping that much at a time. Keep it up.