Silver stream has become a trickle this month

KingTotsalot

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But it still is flowing, tho not as much as His Majesty wishes....but who does not wish for the super box?? HA HA

This week was interesting. Picked up the halves with no problem at the bank, other than having to deal with a teller-in-training, but she is learning and KT was in no rush.

Ripped the boxes and finished the hunt before the end of the first quarter of Thursday night football...Hate to admit it but KT was pulling for Houston and as typical for His Favorite teams, they fell flat on their collective faces! LOL

Anywho, here is the hunt:
Box 1 - 1 40%er Ken and 4 NIFCs.
Box 2 - zip, de nada, el bombo
Box 3 - 1 40%er Ken and 2 NIFCs
Box 4 - 2 NIFCs
Box 5 - 8 NIFCs, including 2 nice clean 2015 Kens!

Total - 2 40%er Kens, and 16 NIFCs....not very impressive but it kept the silver streak alive! :laughing::laughing:

What was interesting was the dump of the coins this morning. Arrived at the bank around 9:30 and started the dump. About $600 into the dump the machine stops and says, ask for the attendant on the digital screen. So KT goes to the jr. Bank Manager and he says, So, you broke the machine again?? Alluding to problems with the machine that KT had 2 weeks ago. KT replied, no, I did not break it, but it did stop working and is asking for YOU! HA HA

Well, this particular machine does not dump the coins into individual sacks but into a giant square steel box, and as in the previous situation, the box was full. So there was a minor back up in the coin chute feeding the machine, because it did not shut off quickly...KT understands it supposedly has a weight trigger point, but it often does this type of jam up and then says its full! HA HA

Well, as the guard and the jr. Bank Manager roll the full box away, KT looks down at the reject chute and LO! It is full of a variety of coins! So KT scoops them up and puts them in His Royal Pocket. KT has seen in the past, these two bank people take coins from the reject chute and toss them in a nearby trash can, so this did not happen today. Anyway, they bring the new box, install it and everything runs fine for the rest of KT's dump. KT cashes in His Royal Receipts and heads back to the Castle. After arriving at the Royal Abode, KT empties His Pocket and finds: 7 Rosies (two were bent), 13 pennies (and 4 corroded zincolns, and 7 Canadian dimes (two were bent), 2 Cayman Island 5 cent pieces and a single 1960 10 Centavo Philippines coin...looked like silver but just a composite coin...anyway, there was 83 cents US overage, as KT tossed the rotten zincolns, and coins to add to the Canadian collection..as well as some additional new country coins for KT's foreign collection. Always fun to see something different.

Enjoy the pics...only 2 pics this week.
 

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Don't want to jinx you *knock on wood* but I'm shocked that your banks especially your dump banks are ok with you doing that every week lol
 
Don't want to jinx you *knock on wood* but I'm shocked that your banks especially your dump banks are ok with you doing that every week lol

KT has alternate dump banks, but prefer to go to the closest one...KT also understands that this hobby could end at any time, so each week is a new adventure...

And this weeks hunt will mark $100,000 in halves hunted this year! KT keeps statistical info on each weeks hunt with running totals on total purchases, total hunted, total 90%ers and 40%ers recovered, along with other data, proofs, 87 kens, even machine overages...ha ha
 
And this weeks hunt will mark $100,000 in halves hunted this year! KT keeps statistical info on each weeks hunt with running totals on total purchases, total hunted, total 90%ers and 40%ers recovered, along with other data, proofs, 87 kens, even machine overages...ha ha


Holy Vesuvius! $100,000 in Halves! Your Majesty must really like silver! Heck, you could make a coat of armor out of all those finds! For a horse! (Amazed here with good reason):laughing:
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Amazing how you keep finding silver halves. I did a little (very little) CRH back in '07. You would think with probably thousands searching half rolls, the silver supply would have dried up by now.
 
Amazing how you keep finding silver halves. I did a little (very little) CRH back in '07. You would think with probably thousands searching half rolls, the silver supply would have dried up by now.

KT has nothing to back his assumptions below, other than a Kingly gut feeling....

He doubts that there are 1000s CRHing halves, perhaps more in the order of a few hundred...maybe near 1000 CRHers. Also, even fewer are heavily dedicated to the hobby. Casual yes, but heavy into it...no. KT sees many comments from forum members like yours Doug...I used to. So if you used to, you are not any competition to KT now. And just like totlots, coin rolls are renewable resources! Folks will continue to dump accumulations of coins at banks, never bothering to look through what has been accumulated, sometimes over years. That is how silver coins get back into circulation, in KT's opinion. By searching only halves, KT believes He has very reduced competion from other active CRHers, who continue to search other denomination coins. Granted, KT understands that not everyone can afford to buy $2500 in coins per week, and what success KT does have is due to volume of coins searched. When someone hunts 5000 dimes a week, and finds say 6 silver dimes, they get very excited! But what they have is 6 dimes for their efforts. When KT hunts 5000 halves, and finds 3 halves, even 40%ers, He has recovered more silver by weight than the 6 dimes. If He recovers a couple of 90%ers, then He is way ahead.

Sorry to be so lengthy but thought some might want to understand KT's thought process.
 
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