Fishing for Silver- Fish On!s CRH Log

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Thanks guys. Today's four boxes turned into two boxes since the one bank forgot to order:

Box 1: 2x40%
Box 2: Skunk

I should have two boxes coming in tomorrow. My 21 box week is going to end up being a 17 box week. I'm really happy with the results so far.

 

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[BuffaloBoy]

Hey, I would take 1 per box any day! congrats!

 

[fish on!]

Hey, I would take 1 per box any day! congrats!

I agree. I'm happy with one per box. Every little bit helps.

 

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I picked up my last two boxes of the week today.

Box 1: 1x40% (ender and only silver in the box)
Box 2: skunk

That puts my grand total for the 17 box week at: 20 silvers (9x90% and 11x40%) That's not including the 3 40%'ers I found in CWR earlier in the week. I had a good week for me. First walkers, first bender and all 17 boxes are already dumped with no tellers angry. I wish I had the time to keep my volume this high, but it doesn't seem feasible right now.

Oh yeah, I got another mountain of foreign coins and another steel wheatie while dumping today.

 

[Zero]

amazing volume...I did seven boxes last week and it pushed the limit on dump banks, teller smirks, family obligations, etc. You have truly arrived to the high volume elite.

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amazing volume...I did seven boxes last week and it pushed the limit on dump banks, teller smirks, family obligations, etc. You have truly arrived to the high volume elite.

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Thanks for the kind words, but I have to go back to work next week and back to 8 boxes. Maybe I will experiment with adding a couple extra boxes a week to see where my work week limit is.

 

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I ended up going back to that other bank from the other day that had boxes on hand. They would only sell me one and I didn't push the issue since I don't have an account there. I ended up with 1x40% out of it, so my final tally is 18 boxes searched for the week.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Nice! I am surprised they ordered half dollars for you even though you did not have an account, I have enough trouble ordering halves from banks I have accounts with LOL
Glad you had a good week, here's to a great week next week

I ended up going back to that other bank from the other day that had boxes on hand. They would only sell me one and I didn't push the issue since I don't have an account there. I ended up with 1x40% out of it, so my final tally is 18 boxes searched for the week.

 

[fish on!]

Nice! I am surprised they ordered half dollars for you even though you did not have an account, I have enough trouble ordering halves from banks I have accounts with LOL
Glad you had a good week, here's to a great week next week

Sorry for the confusion. That bank didn't order for me. I was there earlier in the week asking for halves from the teller tray and I didn't have a ton of money on me, but they said they had boxes. I just went back to buy the boxes they had on hand (not ordered for me). I was actually surprised they didn't ask for an account. I would have opened one, though, anyway because they order from garda and they would definitely order for me.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

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Sorry for the confusion. That bank didn't order for me. I was there earlier in the week asking for halves from the teller tray and I didn't have a ton of money on me, but they said they had boxes. I just went back to buy the boxes they had on hand (not ordered for me). I was actually surprised they didn't ask for an account. I would have opened one, though, anyway because they order from garda and they would definitely order for me.

Nice, are they a small local bank? I've found that those are the harder banks to get to order for you because they deal with generally a smaller volume of everything from customers to coins to ordering. Good luck this week!

 

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Nice, are they a small local bank? I've found that those are the harder banks to get to order for you because they deal with generally a smaller volume of everything from customers to coins to ordering. Good luck this week!

It was a well's fargo. I used to not even bother going into them because I never found anything in the teller trays and they were always crowded. After a few notable teller tray scores and CWR scores, I've been stopping in all the WF's that I originally skipped over.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Nice! I don't have an account with wells fargo either, out of the 6 or so I asked about ordering halves, only 2 said yes and then asked if I had an account, so 2/3 of them in my area said they wouldn't order halves so I figured it's not worth getting an account with them.

It was a well's fargo. I used to not even bother going into them because I never found anything in the teller trays and they were always crowded. After a few notable teller tray scores and CWR scores, I've been stopping in all the WF's that I originally skipped over.

 

[fish on!]

Nice! I don't have an account with wells fargo either, out of the 6 or so I asked about ordering halves, only 2 said yes and then asked if I had an account, so 2/3 of them in my area said they wouldn't order halves so I figured it's not worth getting an account with them.

I'm not going to go out of my way to open an account with them since I have plenty of order banks right now, but I would have if they insisted in order to get that box.

There was an unintended bonus to picking that box up yesterday. I just got back from dumping it and since I only had $500 in halves to dump I went to a branch that I usually don't dump halves at and I found a 1942S Washington quarter in the reject tube. I love unexpected silver. This is also the first silver I have ever found in a reject tube.

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Sweet! i've found a few washington quarters in the reject over the past 5 years, maybe 4 in all, it is neat indeed to find free silver

 

[fish on!]

Sweet! i've found a few washington quarters in the reject over the past 5 years, maybe 4 in all, it is neat indeed to find free silver

I was stoked to find it. It made my day.

 

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I had the day off work today and nothing on order. I planned a road trip and mapped out my route. As usual, my planned route was way more ambitious than I could actually accomplish. I did however make my way to approximately 40 banks over the course of the day. I found some silver, but it was not extremely successful. The third bank I stopped at had $700 MWR and I bought them all. Unfortunately, they were brinks and a complete skunk. Along my journey, I probably found another $100-$200 in CWR and teller trays all together. The only teller tray score came from one bank that only had $1.50 in halves in the tray. One of the halves was a '64 which made the whole day worth it. I also stopped at another branch of a bank that I have an account at and they had a full box of halves, and another $400 worth of another box. I bought both of those. The $400 was a skunk and the full box had 2x40%. I also dumped at a bunch of banks along the way and ended up with a bunch of foreign from the magnets including 2 more loonies and 3 more steel wheaties.

Today wasn't an incredibly successful day considering the amount of time I invested, but I ended up with some silver and more foreign, so it was a good day.

Here is a pic:

 

[BuffaloBoy]

Great finds, that funny money is neat I love getting handfuls of them
Good luck tomorrow!

 

[fish on!]

Great finds, that funny money is neat I love getting handfuls of them
Good luck tomorrow!

Thanks, good luck to you too. I actually found a website that will exchange foreign coins for U.S. cash. They take a %, but it may be worth it if I get enough of this stuff. I've started separating Canadian and Euros from the other bag that it everything else. I just found the magnets on the counters a couple weeks ago and I'm already up to like $15 in Canadian that I didn't have to pay anything for. The other thing I am thinking about is saving as much as I can for a year or so and then taking a free trip to Niagara Falls.

How much funny money do you have? You've been hunting a lot longer than me, so I bet you have tons.

 

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Back to reality. I have 8 boxes on order for this week. I picked up my first two today:

Box 1: Skunk (box was broken and taped. One roll was opened and missing a coin)
Box 2: Skunk

Hoping for better luck tomorrow.

 

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Slow Week

I haven't had any extra time for the last couple of days to ask at random banks, so I haven't been finding any "supplemental" silver. I picked up two more of my ordered half boxes today:

Box 1: Skunk
Box 2: 1x40% 2x NIFC Clad Proofs ('04, '05)

I have four boxes to pick up tomorrow. I'm thinking I may have to try supersizing my orders again next week. It really isn't manageable for me to do 17 or 18 boxes in a normal week, but I want to anyway