Today's Half Dollar Bank Run

Rampage

Well, I was able to pick up $22.00 of half dollars. One roll was machine wrapped from some casino. I opened it up and they were all beat up and clad coinage. So, they will go back to the bank.

The other $12.00 were loose and yielded 2 40% silver Half Dollars, 1967 and 1968.

So, it was not as good as my last run, but I will take the two.

Richard.

Geoman

Better odds than I just had.

I stopped at a bank, and picked up $200 (ie: 20 rolls) of Kennedy Half Dollars. I searched through them, and only found 2 40% silver Kennedy's. But I still enjoy searching through rolls. It is fun, relaxing, and you may just find something nice.

Cocoinut

A couple of weeks at a casino is enough to turn a coin to trash. I see lots of later date halves ('99-'00) that are so heavily nicked that no collector would want them.

Jim

Rampage

Geoman......there have been many times when I found absolutely nothing. Other times it is like a gold mine. Some days are better than others. I always figure if I get at least one, then I am happy. If I get none, then I have fun spending them, i.e. leaving them as tips for servers, or at Wendy's etc.



Cocoinut............I have never been to a casino out west, but have heard that from quite a few folks.

DBSTrader2

There was a time when I had my credit union pick up $100 to $200 worth of halves at a pop to search through.

I found the same situation to be true with being beat up from casinos, as I'm from Philly, and Atlantic City is close enough.

I did make an interesting discovery, however..... Lots of those from the 70's & 80's were severely dinged-up from the casinos. But they stop being in that condition around the mid-90's, which coincides with about when the casinos started moving away from using half-dollar slots & towards their own token equivalents. So they started being used just for circulation (THAT's a laugh!) after then!

Anyway, I would search thru the rolls, and occasionally find either a date I needed (even a proof-only "s" mint) or a few 40% silvers. But nothing else like a Franklin or better! (I also understand that the coin rolling services and the casinos also have someone going thrugh the coins to pull silver anyway).

Once I finished going thru the rolls, I couldn't return the to the credit union, since they'd just sit in their vault (nobody else asking for them), and I wouldn't be able to request any more.

So I did the next best thing.... I turned around and took them to my other bank, where all the tellers are slow and surly, and cashed them in there!! Who CARES how long THEY got stuck with them? I just told them I hit it big at the casinos & "give me my money, please!". Then I'd take it back to my credit union to pay for the NEXT shipment I'd have them order!!