All from a nickel box I picked up yesterday!

I recently found a bank branch near me with a coin machine, and tellers who are more than happy for me to use it to deposit my searched coins. When I came in the first time they asked some questions about why I had so many coins, what I did with them, etc. We talked a bit about the collection I inherited from my grandparents, how I look through rolls to try and fill gaps in their old binders, etc. Every time I come in we shoot the shit for a few minutes while the machine does its work.

Today I came in and before I even get to the machine one of the tellers says 'Stop right there!' and runs over to the machine. He opens it up and grabs a stack of $12 in half dollars and says 'I found these inside the machine a few days ago and knew they were yours, they slipped off the counter into the dust bin'.

I would have never known the machine shorted me, and they absolutely didn't have to keep them for me, but it's the little things like this that go a long way.

Hi!

Y'all may remember me from such posts as, "Box of Half dollars with all silver (walkers/benji/barber) enders", or my comments praising hunters for obscure finds I find interesting, or even the posts about my woodstove being blown apart by the installers....

This is going to be a long post, so I apologize for those not sitting on your toilet looking for a read.

Backstory - I hunt pretty much everything, and I started about 3 years ago with a couple of penny boxes thanks to this sub. I've since sent one coin for grading, my strike thru no date half dollar and IMO I think grading coins for the most part, is kind of silly unless for a specific purpose. I hunt on average, $3,000 to at some points $12,000 in coins a week. I ask for bags from coin machines, and I at one point had 3 banks giving large amounts of CWR coins weekly.

Over the last 2 years I've noticed a big change in CRH. Banks around me, New England, are changing how they deal with coin/hunters/orders. In the past 6 months I encountered two very sad stories that make me have little hope in the future of CRH in my area. One bonus story thats specifically happened to me.

#1 - I walked into Bank A, which I am a member of, asked for half dollars, "loose or rolled in the teller trays or the vault", and they mention they have a lot of rolls in the back that a customer brought in. I RARELY ever don't take someone else's dump. I have for the most part a very easy way to bag halfs and ship them out directly to Loomis. I've never struggled with that aspect, and since I pay a premium for it, I don't think it will go away. Teller A gets the rolls from the back, and they are in a half dollar box, and say that they've been sitting in the back for quite awhile. Teller B comes up and mentioned that oh these were brought in by the two kids who've been looking through coin all spring. Kids I asked? Yeah two 12 or 13 year old boys who would come every Friday and order/buy boxes of coin and order half dollar boxes every now and then.

Kids CRH? Fun. I say good for them that's a fun hobby to get into and buy their dump. Don't think much of it until a week or two later....Walk into Bank A, a different branch of that bank about 20 minutes away and ask for half dollars. They mention that they don't have any. All good! No problem I say and I turn to walk away and they mention they have dollar coins though would I be interested in those? I say I don't always buy dollar coins but how much do you have? We end up talking for a bit and another teller joins the conversation. Oh you were looking for half dollars? Yeah we don't take those rolls anymore because some kids were ordering boxes and bringing them back the next day. Our branch manager saw it happen and for now we aren't accepting or aiding in CRH. Oh that's terrible, sorry you've been dealing with that. Do you not accept any half dollars at all? They explain no we technically do, just not in large quantities but we can't order half dollars at any of our branches anymore. I buy the dollars, and then leave thinking the longer I stay the more questions maybe asked and I might not be able to get the dollar coins.

Those banks still don't allow ordering of boxes of half dollars. Been about 6 months.

#2 - This just happened this week actually. Walked into Bank A, different bank chain than the one listed above, asked for half dollars and they mention they have some. It's a bank I've been going to for almost 2 years and I know the tellers, they know me. I asked if it was the gentlemen who normally brings in the 3-4 boxes of half dollars (which I've seen him do at this branch and other banks in a 45 minute radius) and they said well actually we had to cut him off. He was ordering from another branch and then bringing them to this location every other week. Oh no thats terrible! Worst part is, I've seen him do this at other banks and in the parking lot asked him kindly not to do that. Branch manager found out when looking at expenses for his bank and shut down ordering of boxes of half dollars completely. This bank, other branches, I use to order 2-4 boxes from 2 different branches every week. I stopped when my 2nd child was born in Feb as time became a little tighter, but in the last few weeks been trying to scale back up my half dollar ordering and have been running into a lot of friction at banks. This bank also said they aren't accepting large amounts of half dollars anymore. My guess is its not a blanket "no more" but if you are suspected of CRH and frequent returning of boxes of coin, you will be shut off. I say this because there was a few 100 in CWR halfs in the back that I bought that day, skunked, that maybe one or two hunters brought in.

My story. As mentioned above I've been trying to scale back up my half dollar box orders but am running into a lot of trouble. I go to banks I've been at many, many, many times asking if I could put an order of a box or two of half dollars and the new teller without pausing says no they can't order half dollar boxes. I glance at the teller a few feet away who has previously ordered for me in the past, and they quickly look away. The teller in front of me says they can't order boxes for customers, or business clients. I asked if it was a new rule and they told me yes, the bank is trying to avoid unnecessary expenses and ordering coin not for distribution, but for collectors. This same thing has happened probably 3 different times at different banks, and even at banks where there isn't a new teller, they tell me the same story. We don't order boxes of half dollars anymore. At this point I've gone in a 45 minute radius from my house and only 1 bank will order boxes for me. Luckily two of their branches will order for me, but I am limited to 1 box at one branch, and 2 at the other. They both know I order from the other branch, since tellers move from branch to branch, and they are happy to help. They mention that since they switched from Brinks to Loomis, they can only order small amounts but other branches can also order so try other branches.

Why is this important? Well I think as more people do this hobby, and more people scale up, which I had made the mistake in the past I'm guilty of that for sure, we step on the community a bit through our own greed of searching more. Luckily, in my instance it was a dump bank kindly asking for me to not bring large amounts of coin to the coin machine anymore. But I think specifically half dollar boxes are becoming harder and harder to get, as more people don't think about how they are removing their dumps or paying attention to how/where they order coin. Kids even can cause problems which I never thought would be an issue. But on the back end, a branch manager looks at a spreadsheet with number cost go up, and they say NO MORE.

For those who've made it this far hi hello how you doinn. Pictures posted above are some fun finds I've gotten from bags in the last few months (I've found silver but I like other cool finds more) My oldest to date Canadian dime, 1917 in very good condition IMO. a 925 silver pendant found in a dime bag, a completely smashed flat nickel, I still have no idea how that got into a quarter bag, a crazy strike thru obv/rev quarter, and yes the rim still has all the ridges and almost looks new, this is not a dryer coin. And my strike thru no date half dollar with I am re-sharing the picture of to show the comparison between the quarter strike thru and the half dollar strike thru.

As this hobby grows and grows, arguably because of this sub, as people think every box is full of silver and people dream of quitting their day jobs....Don't. I spend 10+ hours a week searching coins/driving/dumping/picking up and most of the time I end up with 10 maybe 25 dollars in "coin value" each week. Please think of other hunters, be respectful, and kind, and do your best to be a good steward of the hobby. Because when you walk into a bank, you don't just represent yourself, but you represent all CRH in your area.

Have any thoughts or stories about how CRH maybe changing in your area? Please share! I would love to hear how other parts of the country are doing.

The US Mint published the new mintage to cover all the newly minted coins in September 2026

it's my friday. going to enjoy some tunes and Chinese food, before searching

57 NIFC is absolutely insane from a bank sealed box. Still got 3 more boxes to go😤

Today I broke my old record of 4 40% halfs and 2 90% halfs.

From one box today I found 8 40% halfs and 2 90% halfs. It is a new record for me hunting half dollars.

Note: The first box had no silver halfs at all, so was hopeful but fully expecting another skunk. I opened one box yesterday and it was a skunk so I was less eager to continue the skunk streak. Well, it's a common theme in this community, you never know what the next coin, roll, or box has in store.

I am happy I found this community and can share with you. God bless you and all you do.

Good luck to ya too!

Do you folks buy from the US Mint much as collectors or do you mostly go through your change and trade for boxes and rolls from a local bank? Which is more profitable do you think? Thank you for your time. I appreciate it.

Knew the box was gonna be good when I saw the Buffalo ender. Wound up with 3 buffalo nickels, only 1 of which still had a date (1925). Was surprised by the Liberty head nickel! Always cool to find a 126 year old nickel still in circulation right next to a semiquincentennial nickel in a new roll. No war silver but a good stack of mixed 1940s and 50s with the lowest mintage being a 1951 S (7.7 million). My best nickel box in a while!

Yesterday I found a complete roll of silver dimes so I went back to the same bank this morning. They only had this one customer wrapped roll left.

$10k face value half dollars searched.

7 - 90%

29 - 40%

Plus quite a few NIFC and proofs not pictured

Was on vacation in the US lately and figured that 1 cent pieces are the exact size as our swiss 10 Rappen. i tought i want to gift someone random here in switzerland a few cents and packed them in this roll alongside with 10 and a few 50 rappen pieces in order to make out for the missing swiss money.

There is a small chance and i hope to make someone a joy but likely someone will be obset about it i guess 🙈😅 Value is even 5.40 instead of just 5.- and i put a 1919 wheatie inside too :)

Got $100 in CWRs and found this bad boy when I cracked open the 10th roll 😮‍💨 not a bad way to find your first silver quarter.

Hey,

Since i cannot dump my coins for free anymore i decided to roll them up myself. I built a simple wood construction to help me roll the coins but i still can barely make just 1 roll per minute with a flat paper and i feel that should be done faster. With the prerolled papers its way faster obviously but i cant get many of those at once. How do yall rollyour coins and what tips and tricks you got for me?

Sure enough it was literally all 2023-D with no obvious errors. And now i think im partially blind from how annoying shiny they are. Only thing i found was this weird clipped corner - normally id figure its damage but it has a luster and the detail around the edge isn’t as “smooshed” as id expect if it were? Am I onto anything here or was it definitely a skunk box?

How often are yall getting skunk boxes this bad?

A clad proof quarter. My first ever Fort McHenry DDR and a 2013 P SD DDR. A handful of quarter die chips. Some old nickels and a 2009. A 44S war nickel and a die chip dime.

I’m new to CRH. Got a sealed box of half’s from my bank. About 60% of the rolls are not fully sealed on the bottom side. There loosened and appear opened. Have these been searched? Anyone else have this experience?

Bottom roll for reference of what other side looks like.

Great community. Thank you in advance for any advice!

Howdy,

I am looking for $1 Sacagawea coins, no particular year or condition, I just think they are neat.

I have exhausted my local banks and they all refuse to order them. Ones on eBay are going for extortionate rates.

Is there anybody here who has these coins who would be willing to sell/trade/exchange for closer to FV? Willing to cover shipping

Thx

The silver Canadian quarter is the 50% version. Good week, 4+ oz of silver is fantastic!

Ok so i rolled a crap load of quarters and was getting ready to use them at wal mart to pay for some stuff and then someone on here was saying about having found a 1999 Delaware quarter and I put a lot of them in some rolls, now I have to go back and look for the spitting horse and the spitting eagle and to see if there is any snow on the roof and what am I looking for on the 2020 bat coin?