My thanks to the king..may his jesters remain merry..yes Loomis is better than String and son..but I have read that Loomis is also culling silver. We will wait and see..my only tip back to his majesty is that I just opened a commercial account with a local bank..which means in this case up to $25,000 a month in free boxes.. Loomis.. but there is a Brinks in my town..So I will call them Monday to get a list of banks they service.. I will try them both..but definitely I had better luck with Loomis in the past..long live the king!
If you manage to consistently CRH $25 k a month then more power to you..you must be a young man with a good pair of eyes....KT manages $10 k a month with a sore back and a cararact!
KT has never seen a Brinks truck in His Royal Realm! Thank goodness!
and the Royal Jesters thank you for your well wishes!
Congrats on the addition to the Royal Horde! I'd like to see your process. That's a lot of coins to pilfer through each week.
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Well, come visit the Castle some Thursday afternoon, and KT will not only show you, but let you assist...but of course you will have to leave your findings with His Majesty, or be cast into the Royal Dungeon!
Seriously, here is the Royal CRHing Process...spelled out:
After the boxes are transported to the Royal Counting Room and placed on the Royal ripping table, KT slices the lid from the first box with a jeweled razor sharp knife, then pulls out and stacks 10 rolls on the top of the rolls in the box. Then KT used a trusty pair of needle nose pliers to rip the first roll, letting the coins drop into an oversized plastic sandwich box. Does the next 9 rolls the same way, tossing the wrappers with each rip into a small trash can on the table. This is all done whilst His Majesty is standing, then KT takes the coin box and its empty mate to a Royal Recliner a few feet away, where He sits down, the two boxes resting in His Royal Lap. Since KT is right handed the full box on the right and the empty on the left. The Royal Recliner has two lamps, one on each side on end tables. Then KT starts the hunt, taking whatever coins are lined up in the full box, and placing them in His Left Hand. Using the right hand, if the coins are not date side up, the right hand is used to flip them over, generally spreading them, this action allows the viewing of the coin underneath so that if they both need to be flipped, it can be done in one motion. If neither coin is worth keeping they are readily dropped into the empty container. If a coin is worth keeping..silver, proof, foreign, NIFC, or oddities, like counter stamped or gold plated, they are set on the left table as He is seated. When the full box is empty and the empty box filled, KT rises, taking the now full box back over to the ripping table, and dumps the searched coins into a one gallon ziplock bag...each ziplock holding 2 dumped batches of searched coins. Process is repeated for the rest of the box! Upon completing each box, KT dumps the former wrappers into,the now empty box and pushes the cut lid down tightly, compressing the wrappers in the box. Each box will later be transported to the basement and fed into the Dungeon wood heater, to keeo the prisoners and their jailers warm! Meanwhile, upstairs in the Castle Keeper coins are then placed on the top of a short bookcase for later counting, and sorted into 90%ers, 40%ers, NIFCs, and others. This process is repeated for the second box. It results in 5 1-gallon ziplock bags, which are then transferred to a stout satchel and set on a chair out of the way. The entire process is repeated until all boxes are completed. It results in two 50 pound satchels and 3 ziplock bags weighing ~20 pounds, which are carried out and locked in the Royal Chariot for a trip the following date to the dump bank.
That's the basic procedure for handling 5000 coins over 4.5 hours in an afternoon. KT does NOT edge hunt! Simply because He would miss out on proofs and would still have to search all shiny copper edged coins for the NIFCs He collects. Too time consuming, besides KT thus only needs to examine the obverse side of each coin one time! Concerning bicentennial halves, because the reverse is also different, KT only has to glance at them to eliminate them, no flipping required, and because KT can through experience recognize even a worn Proof with just a glance, He can quickly set them aside.
Keep it up KT!
As far as the coin suppliers picking out the silver, it just doesn’t seem cost effective.
Who knows, maybe large scale it is.
Why weren’t they doing that years ago when silver was a lot more valuable?
Maybe they were.
After several years of CRHing Loomis boxes, it is obvious from KT's results that Loomis is not picking any silver from their counting and rolling machines at this time!
Thank you for the encouragement, amc rulz!