Silver Hunter — The value is in circulation

01 · The Hunt

Silver is still in circulation

A tray of half dollars sat in front of a teller. Three of the five were genuine silver — pre-1965, a 1964 Franklin among them. She had no idea. Neither did the bank, the machine that sorted it, or the delivery network that shipped it. Silver was sitting in plain sight, and the entire system had trained itself not to look.

That single moment holds the whole thesis: US coins stay in the loop because too many hands are moving them and no one is checking. Silver Hunter is the first organization engineered to look — at the bag first, then coin-by-coin, at sorter speed.

The Gap

Coin counters don't hunt silver

Scan-by-weight machines log the average weight of every bag — then dump it straight back to the banks. The overweight bag in their own logs is literally silver being ignored. That's our edge.

The Catalyst

Silver's value keeps climbing

Every 90% silver dime, quarter, and half is now worth many times face value. Rising spot prices make the "waste they're throwing away" bigger every single week.

The Edge

Hardware that already works

The Coin Analyzer — a real silver tester we're testing right now — reads the metal signature before any coin moves. The goal is to reach the speed of a Ryedale-class sorter and bolt it into a durable, portable machine.

silver vs clad stacks · Wikimedia

02 · The Machine

Weigh the bag. Then hunt it.

Two cheap, dumb, adjacent steps replace trying to identify every coin in every bag by hand. This is the whole machine.

Stage 1 · The Bag Line — weighs in bulk

Weigh the whole bag. Not the coins.

A $1,000 bag of half dollars = 2,000 coins. All clad, it weighs 22,680 g (50.0 lb) — to the gram. Every 1964-or-earlier 90% silver half pushes it +1.16 g; every 1965–70 40% silver half adds +0.16 g. With 2,000 coins, the 1/√N law of averages collapses bag-to-bag noise to a few grams — a bag that's 5 g, 10 g, or 50 g over is almost certainly carrying 3, 5, 10, or more silvers. We use a durable, accurate scale and get the fancy, heavy bag.

22,680 g1,000 · all-clad half-dollar bag

+5.8 gfive 90% halves · visible

+58 gfifty 90% halves · unmissable

+0.16 gone 40% half · faint

THEN

Stage 2 · The Hunt — coin by coin

Flagged bags go through the Analyzer

The bag that comes in statistically over its expected weight gets the coin-level treatment: a tester the reads silver by metal signature (we're testing the Coin Analyzer now), heading toward the 300/min speed of a Ryedale-class sorter with a silver kick. The clean 98% of bags you never open — the scale already cleared them in three seconds on the loading bay.

3 sper bag · stage 1 weigh

300 / minstage 2 hunt target

~2%of bags ever reach stage 2

American Silver Eagle × Walking Liberty · Wikimedia

03 · What We're Hunting For

The silver that pays for itself

Pure silver focus. These are the coins that still circulate at face value — found in bags, rolls, and till drops every single day because they look like ordinary change.

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1964 & earlier Half

90% silver · ~20× face

$22 – $50melt → collector · easy daily find

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1965–70 Kennedy Half

40% silver · the quiet middle tier

$8 – $12+0.16 g over clad · stacks up in bags

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90% Silver Coinage

dimes, quarters, halves, every pre-1965

$4 – $50melt-per-coin · daily finds

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War Nickel

1942–45 · 35% silver

$3 – $5the silver nickel in every till

Back to the machine

04 · What We're Building

A Silver Hunter Solution a small business can own

We're not hauling bags forever — we build and sell the machine that hunts. Durable, portable, and fast enough to ride next to a coin counter or laundry route. And it's fun.

CORE

The Solution

Pays for itself

in days to 1–2 weeks

A durable, portable machine we can sell many of
Weigh the bag → hunt the silver → the unit earns its keep
73% of purchasers get their investment back in 8 weeks
…and it's fun.

See economics

The Retrofit Kit

Onto what they own

quarter & dime chutes

Find a solid, durable, already-fast coin sorter
Bolt our silver detection onto their quarter/dime chutes
Or tap their existing mechanics — we add only the sensor
"We hunt silver in machines that already move coins"

See the retrofit

The Service

Free to start

let them keep the silver found

Offer the fast bag-weigh service to a few locals
They keep every silver they find — we keep the proof
Real results that sell the machine on its own
"We hunt it so they don't have to think about it."

Talk to us

Interactive · What's in your bag?

Weigh a roll. Find the silver.

Slide to build a roll — the calculator reads it like our scanner would. Base weights are US Mint specs.

Denomination

Silver coins inside3

Estimated roll weight

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Silver melt value @ $30/oz

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05 · The Data Empire

Where the silver sleeps

Every bag we weigh and every coin we hunt reports to a central database — tagged by zip code, coin type, and time. That aggregate map is worth more than the silver itself.

SILVER CIRCULATION TELEMETRYLIVE

AZ · 142 silvers / 3 bag flags NE · silver spike Fridays (farm payday) FL · Monday, retirees' stashes WA · coastal drift

The telemetry loop

From whisper to atlas

Coin counters already log the weight of every bag they move — they just ignore the over-expected ones. We intercept that signal, over time learning where silver sleeps (Iowa's co-op fall payday every third Tuesday). We sell it back as loss analytics to finders who want to hunt smarter.

"We know where the money sleeps."

Daily delivery

The CSV that never lies

machine_id,coin,count,total_weight_g,avg_weight_g,timestamp
WAL-002,DIME,6245,15500,2.48,2025-11-17 05:14
↑ avg 2.48 vs 2.41 clad = silver city → flag the bag

"They're not hoarding treasure — they're logging their own silver and calling it weather."

06 · The Ask

A machine that pays for itself

A fast, low-capital path from a $15 scale and a Coin Analyzer to a fleet of Silver Hunter Solutions washing through laundromats, vending routes, and bank counters.

Phase	Action	Revenue
Y1 · Test & Prove	Test the Analyzer, bag-weigh for locals, prove the 5–20 silver coins every bag	$0 → proof
Y2 · The Solution	Sell the portable unit to laundromats, vending ops, grocery banks	$2.5M
Y3 · Fleet	Rizen the bag-weigh → hunt service; sell telemetry as loss analytics	$10M

Unit economics

Builds on a $209 sorter + $60 sensor + servo
Sells for: $1,500–$2,500
73% of buyers are back in the black in 8 weeks
300 solutions × per-week silver = paid-for machines

The Round

Help us build the hunter

$10,000

Seed to fund the Analyzer pilot, the first machine, and a Winona, MN route trial. Low burn, real hardware, real silver from day one.

→ Machine pays for itself in days–weeks
→ 73% back in black within 8 weeks
→ And it's fun — the best sell we have

📩 For a demo or the full 8-week payback deck, contact us.