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Some fun ones this week:

Another EDITH clash for the collection

Some rather prominent feeder finger scrapes

A lovely double ‘snow on roof’ Homested

Another spitter

A MD DDR (Wexler image for comparison)

FINALLY my first MN DDR (ditto)

A small batch of OK earlobe DDOs (ditto) all from the same from a bag of quarters that was ~50% AU+ states - a mix of P and D rolls being dumped yet again at the same source that’s been loaded with them many times before

A better PTM DDR (ditto)

And just for grins, one each of the relatively common Bessie DDRs (Yarp - ditto)

A slew of homestead, Harper’s Ferry, and WCTD DDRs await clean up and attribution - no small task - and a small number of others are all waiting for me to finish up an excel filter tool to make attribution work go faster.

Good luck and happy hunting!

70% skunk on the half boxes, as usual - 1x 40% in two boxes, all the 90% and 3x 40% all from a single box, the other 7 Ag stink badgers.

Karma: Sat morning on my way to hunt Boston (trying to find anything 2026) I 'deposited' 10 Ikes for a teller that told me she loves to give the ones she gets to her husband, and a bunch of business strike S quarters (from mint rolls) and some 2026 stuff (H,D,N) at another bank where tellers have told me a Dad/Son team come through once a month to hunt - quarters especially.

Last stop Sat afternoon? $105 in 2026 dimes, and $130 in CWR halves. $80 of that was clearly dump rolls, but the other $50 had 19x 40%.

CWR dimes continue to produce, and although my 1st box-o-dimes was a bust I did get 1 Ag from the rest of the MWR. Added a box of Dimes to my weekly pickup, going forward, I'll see how it goes after a few months.

Nickels were solid this week, and got some low-mintage stuff out of quarters/dollars/haves (W Q, 81-D SBA, beater proof Q, and a pair of clad proof halves)

The 'fun stuff' included a bunch of stickers ( I love the space theme ones ) and a classic gold-plated anniversary half.

Half errors were good - 3 more 83-P clashes (minor ) and a cud. Note the faded mark at 3:00 on the cud half? That's one of my frequent-flyer doodlers. These things can sell for $10-$20 each - I guess this artist had no idea what they were holding.

Best of the PMD was a cool-looking acid/environmental damaged nickel - the thing looks like a dried-up lakebed - and a counterstamped dime. I hardly ever see stamps on dimes - and that 'lakebed' look is a first.

Final image is just a die chip - so called 'Beehive' - I like to pull these and got 8-10+this week, figured I'd toss it in the mix.

Week ending 8/2 and Month of July stats and charts at the end - overall a *very* good July, even with a vacation week in the middle.

The 19x 40% will go toward August's finds, which is obviously already off to an awesome start.

Next: Overall results and things I wish I'd known when I started going 'all in' on CRH, scope work on this weeks quarters, and a tool to help me speed up minor Homestead DDR attribution.

Good luck and happy hunting!

There's a LOT going on here - I'm only going to hit on the high-points but feel free to ask questions.

When I started going all-in, I had some assumptions and 'gut' feelings about what might be out there, but wanted to keep tabs on things so I'd have some evidence to back up those beliefs. The idea was lets see what happens, and then concentrate on what seems to work best - hence the spreadsheets. I'm interested in far more that just silver, hence the many headings.

There's a lot more behind the scenes that's just not shown: Tracking individual locations for abundance and hit rate, segmenting by type of bank to see if it really matters, detailed info on the marks I'd find and what that could tell me about the inner workings of banks and armored car services, etc. and so on ad. nausea. The point is if you're intersted in something you don't see anything about it here, feel free to ask.

Sheet 1: TLD take away = loose and CWR are awesome for Ag, absolutely the best of ANY denomination - but scarce. Boxes give you volume, and simplify sourcing, but the yield rate is far lower.

Sheet 2: For all practical purposes, the two armored car services that dominate in my area have a silver yield rate that's essentially within the same order of magnitude (1 per box, give or take $150), but Loomis has the edge.

Locally, this makes sense when you know that Brinks has the Coinstar contract - and at least one major regional bank uses coinstar machines for their 'free' coin machines. Those CoinStar boxes are darn good at returning Ag to customers (see r/CoinstarFinds), while others (Magner, Glory, Cummins-Allison) aren't nearly as good at it.

Looking at sheet 3 this really jumps out - "monster' boxes are much more common with the one, and once I back-out these outliers the hit-rate for the two starts to close up closer to +/-$80.

The # of boxes with a give # of Ag coins visual drives home the highly variable nature of 'em - the overwhelming majority are going to be stink badgers, and sure, most others may have 1-2, but those 10+ coin boxes are super rare.

Roll weight ranges and total Oz found should help clear up the myth that you can reliably tell what rolls have Ag, just by weight. Sure - the odds of a given roll containing silver go way up over 227g, but there's silver even in the anemic rolls and if you're only checking 227+ you're missing about half.

Some 'best of' stuff follows, and the obligatory CRH porn. (Quite a bit has gone into albums, mulitple full PD sets, flips, 2x2s, error buckets, and the mutants graveyard... - I didn't bother digging all that out for these images (most of the 70-Ds are in sets, they're the limiting factor by far).

Next and final: Combined overall stats and a laundry list of stuff I learned that I wish I knew on day 1.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Everything since the half monster boxes that greeted my return from vacation:

The ‘old rolls’ hoard I got (after buying the wheaties bag, different bank that called me) ended up being ~$35 face, overwhelming copper and about $2-ish in common date wheaties. (Not shown).

2 clad Ike proofs mixed in with 8 business strikes were a nice surprise, small dollars were about par (a bunch of duplicate NIFC Sacs and Presidents)

8K in half boxes had 2 more monster boxes - one Brinks one Loomis: grand total 6x 90% and 22x 40% and the usual ~70% ‘skunk’ boxes.

5 clad proofs in the mix, mostly half decent shape - good enough to be place-holders in the S slot anyway.

1K quarter bag gave up a ‘64, a Tallgrass W, 2 S business strikes, and a mess of errors/variteties - including an awesome strike-through and a mess of minor DDRs and some chips/cracks.

800-ish CWR was mostly from a retiree cashing out decades-old change jars. Yeah, there were lots of better 80s - 90s upgrades for the albums, but zip for Ag - I admit I had really hoped for more!

One roosie from the coin machine, one from CWR, and two ‘bonus’ 90% from my soak-bucket of evil gross coins. I still had to scrape the crud off, but lurking within the wretched, almost-trash pile, were these 2 fine fellows. Yarp - ugly as sin but Ag is Ag!

Box of nickels and $105 in CWR had 2 war nickels, all the buffs were in the box. CWR included some more of the retiree dump - a few nice ones shown before they head into albums. (A lonely jefferson proof is with the Half proofs shot.)

Another Ecuador ‘half’, and a bedazzled Quaker for your enjoyment.

2026 stuff is making its appearance - 2 random Quakers, a few halves, a half box+ of nickels, and almost 2 boxes worth of dimes. All Philly so far, but it’s central MA so that tracks.

Any west coasters want to swap a 2026 D Jefferson or Dime for P?

Will finish up the half data dump post soon, almost the last of the year+ data post series.

After that will be ‘meta’ stuff - overall combined results and ‘things I learned’ (and how!) that have helped me immensely.

Good luck and happy hunting!

1K+ in quarters hunted last week, here are some of the fun ones :

Struck-through that's not a grease strike for a change - very low frequency find for me. Naked-eye findable

An EDITH clash - I have a few, nice to add another to the pile. I have to use magnification to find these.

A MA WDDR-001 - not too rare, too bad it's a bit beaten up. Another that needs scope work to find.

Some very minor DDRs - will have to soak em in acetone and do the attribution work, all are fairly common, but they make me happy. I definitely need magnification for these.

A die chip on the wing with some hub doubling Bessie Colman- very common for either, nice to find one with both. The chips are naked-eye, the doubling needs a scope to distingush from the other common-ish DDR

Some prominent feeder finger marks - another super common find, but these were more pronouced than usual. Naked-eye in this case.

2000-P NH with a common die crack. naked-eye findable.

Homestead with 'snow on roof' - reasonably common and naked-eye findable.

Trivial die chip on a 2017-P Indiana, but naked-eye findable

A bigger than usual die crack on an a 2023-P ER. I'm used to seeing minor cracks and chips - her hat is usually such a mess! Naked-eye findable in this case.

Good luck and happy huting y'all!

My welcome home from vacation? One bank called about a ‘bag of wheaties’ some they had, and 3 branches had my half orders ready to go 🎉

Bag of wheaties turned out to be a new teller who heard I’m a ‘coin guy’ from the regulars - he was going to dump ‘em in the machine! 4 tubes and a whole mess of loose ones in an old canvas bank bag. We did a quick hand count and I offered 3¢ each - all were dirty and the bag had gotten damp/wet at some point, so there was a bunch of verdigris, but acetone eventually did a fair job on that and wheaties is wheaties - so I figured 3x face is fair.

It turns out all were common date worn browns with the exception of a tube and a 1/3 of 58-D reds with some mint luster, and about 2 dozen steelies, 4 of which were somewhat better shape.

Happy with the buy, even though I thought it was going to be a $50 bag with some wheats showing - so over face but we both made out well. I’ve now another teller ally in that bank, and best of all - he’s going to be a ‘floater’ and will be moving between branches all the time and has my number.

The 6 half boxes were amazing - one box was a skunk, but mixed in the other 5 were a walker, a benji, 4x 64, and 40x 40% - including a 1970-S (!!!!!). Also 18 other clad proofs - many in excellent shape. Someone’s collection has clearly been washed through Loomis this week!

Scope work remains to be done on the cents, but the halves yielded 2x 1971 (P) DDO-001 and a moderately clashed early 80s that needs a good acetone soak.

Next: see what comes in at 4 other places for halves in the next 2 days, hunt a box of nickels or two, and get back to yet *another* bank that called about some ‘old penny rolls’ a L.O.L. dropped off. The story is her husband was a collector, she knew the rolls marked ‘wheat cents’ were worth more than face, and dumped em off anyway - so they called me! (She had two rolls of ‘old nickels’ too, but they’ve already been given out 😭)

Building those teller relationships - clearing out small dollars that they all seem to loathe, and generally being friendly and pleasant - has clearly paid off again for me. Donuts all around this weekend!

I seriously need to go away on vacation more often - even though FL only netted me a single silver quarter and 10 rolls of the wrong 2026 quarters, the awesome ‘welcome back’ gifts from the CRH gods are more than making up for the downtime.

Will post half dollar year+ data soon - but clearly I have some major updates to do first 🤣😂🤪

Good luck and happy hunting y’all!

Quarters are rough for silver, but they're definitely out there.

I have more fun with quarters in the myraid of die cracks/chips and very minor DDRs lurking in the 1999+ stuff (separate post to r/errorquarters will come after vacation).

Early on I noticed a profound difference in the yeild rate for MWR vs. CWR and leaned heavily into CWR. 1 Ag in $2,500 for MWR vs. 1 per $1,200 in CWR was compelling.

Another early 'win' was 4 (four) W's in a small batch of MWR - that definitely skews my hit-rate for them toward MWR, but if you remove that one-off from the data it's much closer to a tie. I'd say 1 per $1,800 MWR vs. 1 per $2,400 CWR is much more representative of 'typical' odds.

Cuds have been been another perk of quarters - they're more common in quarters than other denominations, and much more interesting (half dollar cuds are almost alwas rim-restricted, while quarters have almost always impinged onto the field to some extent). They're naked-eye findable and about as valuable as a good condition W, I always smile when I get one.

Bags have been skewed, so take the hit-rate info with a grain of salt. The CU I buy most of my quarters from has a regular who's slowly been clearing out thousands of dollars worth of AU/BU state quarters, sometimes as much as $500 worth of the same date/mintmark per bag. The Ag hit rate is good, even without adjustments, but likly would be even better without all the shiny clad stuff I get in bags.

That said, I don't begrudge these dumps - I've upgraded a number of the ones in my albums, and one of those state dumps was absolutely riddled with 3 different varilies of 'shi**ing horse' die chips - $180 worth, roughly.

Like many folks here, the quest for 2026 privy quarters has been a major focus over the last 2 weeks, and frustrating for the near complete lack of *any* 2026 designs in central MA. I have laid hands on some of the non-privy bearing 2026 ones in central FL this week, and have a box or two on order for when I get home - so there's still some hope - but from what we've all seen (RFT finding 800+ in 2 boxes, for example) the 'random' distribution by the mint appears to have been a botched rush job with highly inconsistent seeding of the ballistic bags. Meh.

Obligatory CRH Porn shots of the 90% that hasn't gone into albums (finally filled the first tube!), W's obverse and reverse, and a few of the small tubs full of 2009-2012 and '76 that I've held back just because they amuse me. Most of the proofs and major errors have gone into albums or 2x2s along with the cuds I haven't sold off - some of those I'll eventually re-post as a group at r/errorquarters.

Next up: Halves

Good luck and happy hunting!

A pair of excellent boxes gave up the 90% halves

Later boxes the 2 40%

$330 in CWR dimes a triplet of Ag

Box of nickels had the two war nickels and 1920 buffalo, some horribly damaged Vs were lurking in this week’s CWR, as was the lone W

Proofs were a mix of beaters and meh - but I’ll take em!

Only 1 clashed half this week - some of the wing visible in front of the face and the usual pick-up rays under the chin

A matched pair of 1980 cuds was a fun get - marginally further into the devices that I usually see on halves.

Zero 2026 quarters, of any design, despite haunting all of my usual spots asking if any DoI ones had shown up this week - meh.

I’ll have to hunt ‘em on vacation this week - wish you all best of luck on the privy hunt!

A nice bunch of silver halves - better than usual hit-rate on the boxes but nothing insane (yes, I’m looking at you Mr. 150+ Ag from a bag!)

1x 64 and 1x 40% from CWR - the repack box was a miss, but some good stuff came from the rest of the CWR this last week.

A nice ‘87 and a pair of 86 commems, both of great shape were in the boxes too.

A buncha nice proofs (NIFC years too!) with a few beaters from the boxes

A double clip and cud checked a few boxes in my hit-list bingo card - all in all very nice for halves.

A buncha fun PMD in dimes and halves, and my 1st box of 2026 (nickels).

So far this week no luck finding *any* 2026 quarters. I guess the July 4 treasure hunt will be delayed around here for me, all my favorite tellers know I’m super interested if any ‘26 Qs come in, finger’s crossed. Hope one of y’all pull one and post it here!

Part 4: Dimes

Early on I tracked hit-rates, and since Customer Wrapped Rolls ("CR" in the charts) were very much better I decided I'm better off only asking for them. I'll probably do a bunch of boxes for the 2nd half of 2026 to build up a better sample size - some folks out there have been having excellent luck with them!

Chart one is total searched and finds, with breakdown by container type.

Nearly all the Barbers came from one hunt - a typical hit-rate is probably closer to the Seated Liberty rate (1 in 20K face). Many of those barbers were sold far beyond melt, I've included a few stand-ins in the final image, but for the orginals see https://www.reddit.com/r/CRH/s/AjdyBlneSt

Seated Libs went into holders and in the safe and are not shown in the final image - see https://www.reddit.com/r/CRH/s/CdhkWvNOxB and https://www.reddit.com/r/CRH/s/Ut7BZBUvkJ

Many of the better Roosies have gone into albums, also not shown in the final image.

Most of the Other/Loose Ag are from coin machine return trays.

All of the Other Silver are Canadian

I hunted for 69/70 with Proof reverse for a short time, and the hit rate was pretty high - I got more than enough for my hoard within a few weeks and stopped - the acutal hit-rate is going to be much better than shown.

Major/Minor E are errors - and in truth they're all very minor. Slightly offset, grease strikes, larger die chips and cracks, etc. I checked for a while for the minor DDR stuff, but the hit rate was low and they're difficult to handle, and I've had much better luck with other denominations, so I'll probabably get back to scoping some later in 2026 but haven't been at all systematic about checking these guys.

Overall they're my 2nd favorite denominiation to hunt for silver - after a quick edge check I'll flip through them to check for proofs and silver that I may have missed. If I see a 2009 I'll pull it, and check the face-up 96 for a W and 82 for a mint mark, but otherwise these guys get a fast peek and into the dump bin they go and off to one of the area banks that has a machine that doesn't take halves.

Next: Quarters

Good luck and happy hunting!

Some times Loomis smiles on me …. This box, not so much.

I guess the CRH gods are extra fickle today 🤷‍♂️

Sealed box

All re-rolls

Carefully packed opened end down

Polluted with over half marked coins - 510 from the same two jokers (who I now believe may, in fact, be the same person)

All part of the hunt I guess, but good thing I just re-upped on a gallon-o-acetone

Two weeks of hunting results:

Halves: $13,412 (23 boxes, 20 MWR, 167 CWR, $42 in loose):

Boxes - 78% Ag skunk rate, 1x90%, 6x40%

CWR and MWR were skunks, but the loosies produced 1x90% and 2x40%.

Other: 2x 87, 6 Clad proofs including a 87-S, a lovely 86-S clad SOL commem, 3x 2026, some neat world stuff, 3 minor clips (one a double), a very cool lamintation error, a 'maybe' clad layer error, 3 No FG, 8 clashes, and some fun counterstamps - excellent work whoever did the Pacman r/CRH!!!

(not shown: 137 NIFC and 1,423 marked, a half dozen 1971 DDO-001, and 8 US Mint rolls of NIFC from the same bank that had all the Innovation rolls )

Quarters: $60 CR - zip

Dimes: $655 CR - 1 Proof, 2 Ag, 3x 2009

(not show: 4 CAD, 1 each Honduras, UK, Bermuda, Barbados, 14 'extra' dimes from overstuffed rolls)

Nickels: 2x $200 bag, 2x $100 box, $84 in CWR

2 war nickels (1 each from a bag and a box), 6 Buffs (3 each from the same bag and box)

(not shown: 4 Philly '30s, 56x 40's, 62x 50's, 2x 2009, 4x 2024, 16x CAD, 1 Bermuda)

(Not shown) $1 - $1,544 face

Got a call about some rolls I might like - ended up being mostly US mint rolls of Innovations and yes, I took 'em all. Total tally: 45 Ikes and NIFC Sacs x 52, Presidents x 103, Innovations x 701 from $800 MR, $625 CR, $119 loose. The called me is the best part, and mixed in were the 8 NIFC Kennedy rolls mentioned above)

Penny: $23 CWR - 1x 30's, 10x 40's, 6x 50's, 5x 2009, 21% CU ($4.86), 6 CAD

Part three of data dump, for those as like to geek out on the stats: Nickels

Silver seems about as common, regardless of packaging, with the exception of bags. Not sure what's happening there, but I suspect this is the one denomination that my main bag source's coin machine can reliably reject silver.

For a time I was actively hunting DDR and was able to get 2 new listings on Wexler's site to my credit (thanks Brian!) but haven't done much with them since. I'll probaby get back into it at some point, but for now I really only pull the naked-eye stuff - mostly larger die-chips east or west of Monticello ('Bee Hives').

A month into going 'all in' on CRH I got a *very* nice collection dump - loaded with better date Buffaloes and V Nickels, and that remains the single best hunt to date even though their condition was generally bad to terrible.

Hennings are elusive! I do a quick check for the looped-R, and at some point I'll probably go back through the pile of potential candidates and do a more meticulous scope search, but for now I'm 0 for 155K+. (I'm not holding my breath, but if I *did* it would be while taking a dip in the Cooper or Schuylkill.)

I'm close to a full set of CRH-only Jeffersons - just need to bag '38 & '39 Denvers.

I haven't quite gotten to critical mass to justify it, but will probably spring for a nicer Buffalo album for CRH finds soon.

Next up - results from almost $40K in dimes...

They’re still out there, I found a CU source for bags shortly after the announcement that production ceased because at the time armored car services weren’t delivering or picking up any - and they had dozens of $50 bags in the back and were *thrilled* to be rid of them.

More the a few were sold at face to fellow CRH locals during the dry spell - just my way of giving back to the community.

Many 2025 boxes went up on eBay for a tidy sum, figured I’d cash-in while the hype was out of control. One of the few times I was excited for boxes of all new coins 🤪

A few massive hoards of wheaties skewed the overall data a bit - so I’ve given raw data and data that backs out those outliers. The figures without these are more representative of ‘typical’ results IMHO, as two of the bags had 700+ in them (!!!).

All of the CAM/WAM are lumped together here, but the details are zero 92 CAM, and the bulk of the WAM are 2000, although I have at least 2 of each 98 and 99.

I live in New England, so Canadian cents are pretty common finds - I imagine this will vary regionally as you get further from the border.

Chalked up no less than 5 new DDR listings so far, all memorial reverses 01 onward. This is very minor stuff - class VIII tilted hub stuff needing a scope - but it’s been fun claiming a few new ones on 20+ year old circulating coins. The folks at doubleddie.com have been a pleasure to work with, even for the junk that ended up being worthless doubling.

Copper I didn’t bother tracking until I started getting bags - pretty consistent across roll types, and also sold many bulk lots for a nice net profit after fees and shipping costs. Nothing earth shattering, but covers gas money and snacks while hunting so there’s that.

Hit rates for CAM/WAM/extra V per candidate searched (the ‘any’ entries for 92, 98-00, and 23) are left as an exercise for the reader, but 2000 WAM are the most common for sure.

Back in March, a subset of carriers resumed shipping and collecting em - see https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/cash/faq/penny-order-deposit-information - you can find your Fed District at the bottom to see what’s happening in your area.

Yes, I’m aware of both 82-D small date copper and 83 copper - and figured the odds of finding are so infinitesimal it’s just not worth my time to bother tracking or systematically hunting given the volume I search.

The infinite list of DDO/DDR also not tracked separately - with 200+ listings for some years it’s just too much to exhaustively hunt so I really only bother with Best Of and Cherry Picker’s Guide stuff, other than and 01-08 memorial DDRs.

Up next: Nickels

Happy hunting and good luck!

I’ve always hunted coins, but early last year decided to go all-in. I also wanted to discover for myself what could be found and in what abundance, so I tracked a ton of data along the way - here’s the results for dollar coins.

I always ask for Ikes, and have a beater ‘76 to flash as many tellers don’t have any idea what a ‘big dollar’ coin is. They’ll almost always offer small dollars instead - and I often take them as a way to build some goodwill (bankers seem to hate them).

This trick works so well that more than one bank I’m not an account holder with treats me like a customer 🤣 - no hassles about account number, multiple tellers greeting me as I walk in, will gladly rummage through the coin vault for me and poll everyone on shift to see if they have what I’m looking for (only halves and big dollars, I don’t push my luck tooooo far).

Places I am a customer at ditto - got another call yesterday about dollar coins that are at a branch I don’t visit regularly- I’ll be picking up today.

My albums are all nearly complete from CRH finds (other than proofs) - except innovations (my favorites after Ikes)

What the hell do I do with 1000 Ikes? I’ll use em as something extra for tips, little gifts for friends and family, sell in lots on eBay around 2x face, use as tooth fairy gelt, and so on.

Excess small dollars finds get returned to the wild.

Yeah, the Cheerios small dollar is a thing - and I do check as I’m scanning for wounded eagle - but the odds of pulling one in the wild approach zero so I don’t bother tracking. Ditto missing edge lettering / lettering glitches - I check, especially AU+ presidents (they wear off easy, so I don’t get too worked up about circulated ones) - zip so far. Yes - I have Morgan and Peace on my hit list - more ‘wishful thinking’ than any real expectation of ever finding any 🤣

DDRs on presidentials exist - and I have a dozen or so - but it’s tiny class VIII very minor stuff, nothing too exciting so not tracked. (Tiny stuff needing a scope - check where the ray meets the arm).

Happiest finds: one epic Ike hoard find of 180+ (opened an account on the spot just to get em)

and

two Washington extended ray (yes, I’ll dig them out of the giant error coin pile soon - I owe someone a favor 😉)

TLDR: Ikes are out there but very random and infrequent, but worth asking for every time. Take the small dollars as that can endear you to the tellers. The NIFC hit-rate is very good for Sacagaweas and presidents.

Up next: cents

Good luck and happy hunting!

Whelp, the 1970-D was the high point for silver halves, but was joined by 2x 40%.

Also in the mix were 2x 2026 and a pair of ‘87s - may have forgotten to post these last time, I lost track and may have mentions but not shown 🤷‍♂️

CWR dimes had 3x silver

Nickel box had a lone war nickel (an ender - got my hopes up for more!) and two buffaloes 1935 and 1936 - both Philly.

Proofs included 4 halves - a lovely ‘72-S and ‘97-S among them - and a nice 1980-S dime.

Three counterstamped halves (2 ICE and wolf?) and 2 engraved (HOPE 1972 & DM)

Errors and varieties were plentiful: halves gave up a pair of cuds, a collar chip, a *No* FG, a ‘Ghost FG’ (not really a thing, but shown for comparison anyway), my first 1973-D DDO-001, another awesome clash, a couple 2024-P VDDR-002 and a whole mess of 2025-P VDDR-001 (um… like 100 all like the image).

On the whole, the 73-D is my favorite - that ones a first and has been on my hit list for ages!

A mess of common chips, cracks, and minor DDR quarters too - not shown.

Learned the manager at one of my favorite CUs is retiring soon - I hope they keep on with their standing order of 2-3K in half boxes!

Teller I trade my currency finds (Star notes mostly) at another place let me know they get a kid in often hunting for quarters - gave her my card and said give it to his parents next time - I’ll happily sell hole-fillers at face value!

Next: massive data dump in several parts, a bit over a years of all-in CRH results for every denomination.

Good luck and happy hunting!

Today’s Loomis boxes had one ender that just grabbed my eye and I couldn’t resist checking, and damned if it wasn’t a 70-D.

No idea what’s in the rest of the rolls, but this bad boy deserved its own post IMHO.

From the bank that sold me the monster box 2 weeks back - I’ll be bringing treats for the tellers … again 🤪

Good luck and happy hunting!

Whelp, the boxes reverted to the norm - a single 40% among an ocean of 25-P and clad beaters - and hardly any NIFC or errors to balance things out - meh

2 bags of quarters were half shiny state (IL and AL) - I guess the guy who inherited a bazillion rolls is still dumping em in $400-$500 batches lol

Among the bags was a ‘59 and one *something* so corroded and crusted with crud I almost tossed it - but it had a hint of that ‘ping’ so into the soak for a few days it went…

Nickel box was kind with a 35% and two dated buffalos, and a typical amount of 38/39, non-Ag 40s and some 50s.

$350 or so in CWR dimes gave up 2x 90%, the other two - I kid you not - were in the damn trash can next to the coin machine along with some world junk and zinc rot 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Finally pulled the oddball quarter-sized mess out of the soak and whooohoo! It’s a Barber! Too dang beat up to get a date, but has just enough detail peeking through to ID it - a first in the wild for me, so into the junk stack it goes.

Couple of proofs and a beater S business strike round out the haul.

Can’t complain - along the way hit a major milestone so woot!

Scope work on the DDR/DDO half and quarter candidates is next.

Good luck and happy hunting y’all!

The monster box aside, here’s the rest of this weekend finds:

$190 in dollar coins: 1 beater proof (shown) 14 NIFC Sacs, 2 NIFC presidents, 17 Innovations, 9 Ikes

12 boxes of halves: 1x 90%, 1x 40%, 2 clad proofs, 2x 1987, 1 Cud, 1 magic, 127 NIFC, 419 marked

$330 in CWR halves: 1 magic, 6 NIFC, 0 marked

$49 in loose: 1 Franklin (I only have one half dollar coin to sell … yes!) 2x 40%, 0 NIFC, 0 marked

1K bag of dimes: 3x 90% and a CAD 80%

$75 CWR dimes: 2x 2009

$200 Bag-o-nickles: one no-date buff, 15x 50s, 16x 40s non-ag

$100 box of nickels: 1x 35%, 1x dated buff, 17x 50s, 10x 40s non-ag, 2x 2024

$10 CWR penny: 2x 1940s, 1x 2009

I stocked up for the holiday weekend big time this week - and Thursday’s haul included a box with no less than eight silver enders - including two walkers.

14 other rolls weighed in from 227g to a whopping 228.5+. I’ll open every roll every time, but have an ongoing side project on weights vs. silver content. 227+ is the inflection point where the odds of finding silver go up dramatically (although even anemic rolls can and do sometimes have Ag!).

Many were in very nice condition - reflective reeding, minimal to no wear, free of tarnish. Nothing spectacular, but clearly well stored. Someone’s collection dump, poor sod clearly had no idea what they were dealing with!

The final tally was absolutely epic:

11 Walkers

3 Benjamins

5 ‘64 Kennedy (including one partially melted)

6.8 oz in 90%…

12 ‘66

12 ‘67

24 ‘68

2 ‘69

~7.4 oz in 40%

More rolls than not had silver, many with multiples, as many as 5 in one especially amazing roll.

The source is a small area CU, vault manager is super CRH friendly and keeps a standing order for 4-6 boxes weekly. I usually grab 4 (can’t carry more lol!) but went back early Friday to grab the other 2. No silver in the other 5, but I certainly can’t complain!

Happy Memorial Day weekend folks - hope there’s some monster hits out there for y’all too!!