Going "All In" On Halves, Thoughts/Strategy?

I have tried this but this definitely could work! Remember that a lot of people are silver mining too so pickings could be slim!

I wonder, if someone really has the money to get 100 boxes ($50,000) and search the 100,000 coins, wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy some silver on ebay? I am lucky to be able to get 3 boxes of halves this month (no dump bank, must use or keep them). It just isn't profitable from a silver standpoint to go through that many coins for what few you might find. It isn't like anyone with that much moeny really needs much more anyway, and other things are better investments.

The only real ay to catch all the silver is to be able to take ALL the halves from circulation, and not have to dump any or spend any. then you just pull out all the silver, and dump the rest back, or corner the market on halves and set your own price for them since you would control them all.

Also it depends on those places like Brinks/Loomis/etc as to whether they allow people working there to buy the coins they see that they want. No silver for me in any of 3 Brinks boxes, so it might be my area Brinks people DO take coins out from the process. If you end up with that situation and got 100 boxes that were already checked by other people before being sealed up, you have wasted all your time doing it.

Now those not for circulation coins might yield better results in buying larger numbers and them selling them to people for cheaper than the mint sold them, or when the mint runs out. I have found 7 silver halves, none in boxes, and about 20-30 NIFC halves.

I would honestly think if I had that much money, I would get the $50,000 worth in dimes.

@ $21/oz
dime = $1.52 silver (1530% of face value)
half 90% = $7.60 silver (1530% of face value)
half 40% = $3.11 silver (620% of face value)

Everyone is saying you can get more silver in dimes, and you can get twice as many dimes boxes than halves, and it ties up 1/5th the amount to use to keep hunting for the same amount of silver per coin size. But that is just me.

Who am I kidding. If I had $50,000 to spare I would probably get all cents in order to have a literal ton of wheats or Canadian or something like that and never be bored for the rest of my life and probably never finish them either.

IF, you could clean out a distributor in one area like Brinks or Loomis, then you would obviously have a 100% chance of getting all the silver they have, that isn't in question. it is jsut a matter of the amount of time and money it would take to do so. It just makes me see Auric Goldfinger walking into a bank asking for that many boxes, and the tellers having heart attacks form laughing so hard. You would have to get some from every bank in your area, which some require a business account in many places to even get boxes.

Also I think they are not boxed until ordered, so they sit around in bags like the ones shown on TV that weigh about a ton and take a forklift to move. Are halves even sold in bags also? They could have boxes you buy out, then still ahve bags to sell. I recall a bank one time getting bags of rolls of coins before the days of boxed coins and after rolls became popular enough that the banks wanted them pre-rolled and couldn't do it themselves.

Statistics proves positive results would be there, but logistics says it would take so much so much (yes said it twice because it would be that much) work to sort through. If you found a single 90% each hour, you would basically be making mini wage just sorting looking for silver.

But it is not my time or money to invest, so if someone wants to, more power to them. Just hope they don't get 71 boxes of '71s, carpel tunnel, or anything else.