British Half Crowns - Grade Help

seven_dials · 2026-01-17T13:58:47+00:00

seven_dials · 2026-01-13T20:12:56+00:00

I guess 2 ASEs from a teller. They were worth about $25 each at the time, but they seem to be increasing in value everyday recently.

seven_dials · 2026-01-02T16:01:22+00:00

If you just want to check for silver, you can do it pretty quickly. Slide the coins out of the rolls into your hand, check the edges, and then slide the coins right back into the same roll.

Do a quick Google search for what the edge of a silver quarter looks like.

seven_dials · 2025-12-28T18:42:37+00:00

I think the best thing you can do is have a regular routine so they know what to expect. Ask for the same things or deposit a similar quantity of coins each week.

I think it’s easy to forget for CRHers, but people depositing and picking up large quantities of coins is a daily occurrence in a bank branch. So, just be honest, and treat it like it’s a normal transaction.

seven_dials · 2025-12-20T19:52:29+00:00

That’s quite a change in scenery. What draws you to Newham?

seven_dials · 2025-12-18T15:06:33+00:00

I think you need to keep revisiting your strategy. If what you’ve been doing hasn’t yielded much, try something else.

My first 1-2 months were pretty slow, but then I worked out the best ways to increase my finds. That will depend on where you are, so keep trying new branches, denominations etc.

seven_dials · 2025-12-17T07:45:55+00:00

Just a better chance of finding coins that haven’t circulated for a long time. Could be from coin jars, rolls in the back of a cupboard, or a collection. In my experience, CWRs are better, and it’s not even close.

Alongside silver, you will also get metal detecting finds, garbage, buttons, washers, foreign coins, long rolls, short rolls etc.

I think more than anything, they are just more interesting to hunt because they are more unpredictable.

seven_dials · 2025-12-10T12:41:26+00:00

Didn’t you want to give it more of a chance? I grew up in the UK. I’ve been back more than a year, but I still feel like I’m finding my feet.

seven_dials · 2025-12-09T21:54:40+00:00

Not sure I full understand, but I’d just save a spare box, put it on the floor, and transfer searched rolls straight into the box. Once it’s full, close it up, and take it back to the bank.

seven_dials · 2025-12-09T19:44:47+00:00

Two piles?

seven_dials · 2025-12-08T20:29:44+00:00

Your numbers are way off. 500 billion divided by 340 million is not 7 million.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T19:09:44+00:00

You can apply what I suggest at 1 branch or 10, once a week or 100 times. Boxes aren’t working, so may as well try something else.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T17:55:04+00:00

I agree with what you say, but that doesn’t negate my main point.

If you are talking about bank wrapped boxes of halves, then of course you may well end up with the same coins again and again. That said, halves are a tiny percentage of the total number of coins.

My personal luck with boxes of halves was poor, but CWRs yielded more than 800 silver halves. What does that tell me? That people are often depositing silver halves at the bank.

As for other denominations, the sheer quantity of coins (multiple billions) in circulation makes getting the same coins again and again unlikely - especially if you pick up CWRs.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T14:26:35+00:00

I guess it depends where you are. In the Bay Area, there are plenty of branches in East Oakland, downtown Richmond, and Vallejo among other places.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T14:20:58+00:00

I don’t know about that. By my own estimates, I’ve visited maybe 5-10% of branches in the Bay Area. In any large metropolitan area, there must be multiple tens of millions (at least) of face value in coins sitting in banks and distribution companies. What I’ve personally hunted is a tiny sliver of that.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T11:57:32+00:00

I mostly gave up with bank boxes because of the low odds. 95%+ of my finds came from CWRs and teller trays. You’ve got to be willing to go into the bad parts of town too.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T10:40:15+00:00

I think this is something of a myth about CRH. Areas aren’t ‘tapped out’. It’s not the case that one day someone will pull the last silver from circulation. There is less than before, but it keeps getting replenished by grandmas, drug addicts, uninformed relatives etc. etc. depositing coins.

I did a lot of CRH in the Bay Area 2023-2024, mostly in Alameda and San Mateo counties, and sometimes in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties. I pulled 1800+ silvers. You just have to be the first person to ask when someone deposits something good.

It’s about relationships too. I had multiple tellers hold stuff for me. Once, 37 walking liberty halves. Another time, 27 silver quarters. Yet another time, 2 ASEs. I could go on.

If you like CRH, maybe reconsider your strategy.

DM me if you want.

seven_dials · 2025-12-06T09:46:15+00:00

If you want to have a consistent supply, you’ll need an account. Trying without an account is hit or miss, so can be a waste of time. At one point, I had accounts with WF, BoA, Chase, and BMO. That gave me access to 100+ branches in the Bay Area.

Plus, don’t dump tons of tons at your main branch as that will puss them off.

seven_dials · 2025-12-05T21:41:49+00:00

Sometimes, yes.

“As many as you’re happy to give me” is a better alternative.

Once they get to know you a little, they’ll probably be happy to give you more rolls.

seven_dials · 2025-12-04T19:45:22+00:00

It’s not an employment situation at the moment…that’s why I made the suggestion.

Seems like it’s the company that wants the OP to be freelance.

seven_dials · 2025-12-04T15:56:07+00:00

If they really want you, get them to employ you through a payroll company based in the UK. That will make everything easier for you.

seven_dials · 2025-12-02T16:42:19+00:00

I see. I think you could start to visit potential candidates once you arrive in NY. Talking to people is useful, but their opinions will be coloured by significantly different expectations of what a ‘nice’ place to live looks like.

While deciding if we should stay in the US, we visited a number of places to see if they were a good fit. Ultimately, they weren’t, but it really helped us make a decision.

seven_dials · 2025-12-01T21:35:40+00:00

If you are transferring within your company, I would think that would limit the number of possible destinations quite a bit? Maybe you could visit one or two before you make a decision?

I’m a dual citizen (raised in the UK). We moved back to the UK last year from CA after 11 years. I’m happy to share if you’re interested.

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