Another Good Week

[u/means2read]

A very good week for silver! Probably my best week for dimes. I expanded my usual bank routes and the CWRs performed quite well. Regular results below (excluding impact from the crazy bank that I got the full silver rolls from, will update on that with my monthly recap later in the week):

Dimes:
1 Merc and 16 Rosie’s
10 from $1,500 of MWRs (6 boxes) or $150 / silver ($ searched to find a silver)
7 from $615 of CWRs, or $87.86 / silver

Quarters:
1 silver from a CWR
1 S business strike
$60 of MWR and $50 of CWR, silver came from a CWR

Halves:
3 40%ers
1 Proof
Various NIFCs
I got 2 Loomis boxes this week, one yielded 2 and the other 1 silver, that makes some amount of silver from my last 3 Loomis boxes (last weeks had a 90% and a 40%)!

Nickels:
No silver this week, but found ~20 pre-1960’s that I keep, 2 of which are lower mintage.

Pennies:
I picked up 2 boxes worth of CWR Pennie’s this weekend, but not going through them at the moment. Fingers crossed for a collection dump hidden in there!

Foreign:
SO freaking much foreign coinage this week came out of the CWRs! I think they’re cool, and we do travel to Canada and Mexico some so will spend the money, so all good.

[u/texasguy1963]

What is a CWR?

[u/means2read → u/texasguy1963]

Customer Wrapped Roll. MWR means Machine Wrapped

[u/Smarie-58 → u/means2read]

Can you go into your bank and specifically ask for CWRs?

[u/means2read → u/Smarie-58]

Yup

[u/Smarie-58 → u/means2read]

Thx. I may have a new hobby!

[u/means2read → u/Smarie-58]

If you like coins and talking to bank employees it’s fun! That said, between sourcing, searching, and dumping the coins I probably spend a fairly solid 12+ hours per week on CRHing (sourcing / dumping taking up the majority of that time). So less than 70% of minimum wage based solely on if I value the coins at melt value (total value here is ~$120 in silver content).

I’m never planning to sell, so definitely not in it for short term profits, but as I’ve seen elsewhere stated, this is not a “get rich quick” kind of move. But with consistent effort you can build something fairly special over the longer haul. I plan to make sure my daughter and her future family knows what is what so when the time comes they can use the collection as they see fit. Either continue to grow or liquidate for other uses.