@Owassokie (and others)---Many thanks for your thoughtful sympathy and condolences!
I'm in the Albany, NY region and I've been hunting Brinks and Loomis bank boxes from two large regional banks. Since it's the NYS capital, we have a LARGE
population of retired state workers in the area. I suspect we also have an unusually large population of retired CRHers who've sucked the silver out of the area
pool of halves over the years. Taking it a step further, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if we have a number of Ryedales cranking away in the area.
I've already done
more than my fair share of whining and crying about my CRH experiences with halves in other posts. I still mention it on occasion, but only to
impart a little bit of a "reality check" to CRHers who've hit it BIG in the opening few seconds of the game. Those happy big hits right at the start are incredibly lucky
aberrations that I think have no statistical probability of continuing. I don't mean to rain on anybody else's happy parade, but I was just trying to suggest it won't be
totally sunny forever. Well --- that's that. Enough of my pessimistic whining!
@WVB&G---Here's hoping your (at least to me) amazingly lucky hot streak lasts longer than my 50+ skunk box run with the halves!
On an odd (and maybe related?) note... I just did a LCS pickup this morning and one of the things I got was a wooden presentation case of a dozen "colorized" ASEs.
I get these for $1.50 over spot, acetone them back into being nice clean-looking ASEs and gradually fill my
ASE monster box with them. Cheapest ASEs I've run into!
Anyhow, today's haul of painted birds included one Morgan and one
Peace dollar! That never happened to me before. Since ASEs, Morgans and Peace $s all cost in
the same zone, I doubt it makes any real difference---but nonetheless, it was a different and happy find. Who knows? It might be an omen and I may be about to hit the
mother lode of something! Maybe I should run out quick and grab a couple boxes of halves (ha,ha)!
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