Just bought $200 in halves at the bank, and I found...

MadMarty

Noda, Zilch, nothing, time to find another source for Kennedy's..

nwcs

Yeah, but at least you can always return the change. Although the bank won't like you anymore. :-)

Endocrinologist

What were you looking for?

MadMarty

<< <i>What were you looking for? >>




40% silvers

richbeat

In addition to the silver and silver clads, you can also look for the 1974D DDO variety. The doubling is most pronounced on the RUS of TRUST.

goyankeez

Hopefully you'll have fun spending them!!

CharlieB

The tellers must have thought you were having one heck of a poker game.
They will ask me a lot of times what I am going to do with all the rolls.
I always mention to the teller that I need the halves and some Sac's for
a card game coming up and that the coins make good chips. They seem to
try and help me more when I tell them that instead of telling them
I am searching for silver coins. I don't like to draw suspicion
to my real intentions. Don't give up looking, just try different
banks and branches. You will hit pay dirt at some point. I
spend the coins, I never return them to the banks.

In case you missed my post last week, I got 3 rolls of halves
while out of town in a small bank and got 21 40% out of the 60 coins.
That is not a typo, I said 21 coins. I look all the time for the 1974-D ddo too.

Help PLEASE on the 1974-D DDO:

Any other distinguishing characteristics we can look for on
that coin besides the doubling? I haven't seen one up close so
I don't know the intensity of the doubling but it
looks pretty faint. Any one have one? Please comment if
you have the coin - thanks.

MadMarty

Actually one of the tellers told me that one of the other branches has 2 ($1000) bags of halves that came from the coin counter. Going today to pick one up and try that...

coinlover

Another newbie question. I know nothing about Kennedy halves and can't find an answer in my reference books. What do you look for in determining the composition of a coin (ie. is it silver, clad, or other)? Thanks.
Karen

tjkillian

Easy one that is in the RED book.

1964 90% Silver
1964-1969 40% silver


Tom

CharlieB

I just bought $200 worth of half dols 15 minutes ago from a
bank branch that is closing. Coins have been in their vault
for a while. I am checking them tonight. So does anyone
have a 1974-D DDO half?

RalphP13

Don't own it, but here's a pic:



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