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DanArgentDanArgent Posts: 53
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After reading the post about "when going to the bank" I decided to get out $300 of halves from the vault and look through them, what should I be looking for? 1964's are silver right? with the 65-70 coins how much silver do they have?

Dan

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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    40%
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    The 1964's are 90% silver, or about .3620 ounces each coin. The 1965 through 1970 are 40% silver, or about .14792 ounces each coin.

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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
  • DanArgentDanArgent Posts: 53
    golly! I just found a whole roll with halve from before 1970. even two franklin halves. What are the chances of that!
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Just don't expect to find any 70s or more exactly 70-Ds, since they only came in mint sets.
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  • DanArgentDanArgent Posts: 53
    so far I've found 3 franklin halves, 2 64's and about $10 (face value) in 40% halves and 15 bicentenials. That is all from $300 of halves. unfortunatly about 2/3's of them were rolls of 1995 p rolls straight from the mint.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome aboard.
    Tempus fugit.
  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535 ✭
    Circulated Bicentennial halves aren't worth saving - I haven't found anyone paying a premium for them.

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  • Sphinx357Sphinx357 Posts: 1,279


    << <i>Just don't expect to find any 70s or more exactly 70-Ds, since they only came in mint sets. >>

    Funny you should mention that. While I haven't found a 70.. yet! We've pulled out several proofs, a 76S silver clad, some of the '87's that are mint set only, plus alot of other stuff.
  • cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭


    << <i>Circulated Bicentennial halves aren't worth saving - I haven't found anyone paying a premium for them. >>




    Unless they are silver Bicentennial halves. image

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  • TWQGTWQG Posts: 3,145 ✭✭
    Argent is another name for silver.
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  • SemperFISemperFI Posts: 802 ✭✭✭
    I did the same thing one year. I got some JFK rolls from the bank and looked thru them. I found a few 40% and a couple nice ones. I still have the roll that is now uneven and the rest I took to the bank to cash in.
  • cdwegnercdwegner Posts: 449 ✭
    Did you bring in a dolly to carry those halves out?

    Those must have weighed a bit.

    Or, did you just pull up a chair and sort them right at the New Account desk? image
    The Wegner ARRC Bingle Set

    Looking for 1967 PCGS/NGC slabbed coins.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Overall, you've done well!
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Always cool finding silverimage
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    Unfortunate? Those MS 1995's were more valuable than the 40% silver rolls.

  • LUCKOFTHEIRISHLUCKOFTHEIRISH Posts: 586 ✭
    Don't spend any that look like this double broadstruck coin.

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  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025
    Back in the 1980s when I was a go-fer for my brother-in-law, once a year he would get together with his college buddies and play poker for the weekend. He would send me to a bank to exchange cash for rolls of halves. Once I got them he would let me open the rolls and pick out the silver ones. I would then compensate him, for face value, for the number of silver Kennedys I extracted. I found lots of silvers, including several 1964s.
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  • DanArgentDanArgent Posts: 53
    A couple of things...

    first, I chose the name argent a long time ago before I got into silver smithing. Mostly because silver smithing has been a significant hobby of mine for some years.

    Second, are the franklin halves made of silver or not? I couldn't find any documentation on their comosition.

    Third, $300 in halves did not way more than I could lift. The bank that I work at has these plastic trays that they line up roles in, some are multiple layers. For instance, in my drawer right now I have atray with ten quarter rolls on it, at the end of the try it says $100-Quarters. This makes counting and transporting to and from the vault easier. We happened to have a $300-Halves tray on hand and I just carried that over to my desk and went through them between customers (it was a slow day yesterday).

    I actualy started coin collecting after I started working for my grandfathers bank. I did not start working here in order to collect coins. I started collecting becuase it filled in time between customers when I am otherwise bored out of my mind. I ussualy almost fill an entire whitman folder (The lastest types of coins) in one day if I try. The next step is to upgrade.

    Fourth, can anyone give me an estamate price on my 1963, 1961 and 1957 Franklin halves. All are arounf VF-20. Also, can someone pointme tword the location of the mint mark on these coins.

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    << <i>Unfortunate? Those MS 1995's were more valuable than the 40% silver rolls. >>



    sorry to double post but I wanted to respond to this.

    Realy? my whitman coin guide tells me that an MS-60 95-P Kennedy goes for 50 cents. While the silver in the other half at a kitco spot price of $6.31 an oz. a few moments ago would make the 40% silver coins worth 93 cents if I melted them down and separated the copper (and I do have the equipment to do so, so I dont need to factor in the costs of having this done).

    Don't wory coin collectors I have no intention of melting my coins, I'm just sasying that that is the lowest value that I could get for them.

    Dan Argent
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most collectors love the old silver coins and find these the driving force to look
    through rolls of coins from the bank. All the silver in circulation has been removed
    at least once and found it's way back in. It is most unusual to find anything like
    this which has a significant numismatic value since these coins were well gone
    over starting way back in the 1940's. Only less valuable coins generally get back into
    circulation. Few later date silver coins have much value except in higher grades be-
    cause they were saved in substantial numbers and still exist.

    Don't trust any price guides on the moderns and this goes double for clads. Whitman
    prices are among the worst. They list rare gems for half the wholesale price of typ-
    ical unc examples. A typical '91-D will wholesale at more than $4 but an MS-65 pro-
    bably lists for far less. (and this is a tough coin in gem).

    Figure the best dates of Franklins will go for three or four dollars in VF wholesale and
    the '49-S might retail as high as $10.
    Tempus fugit.
  • JRJR Posts: 476
    Per The Official Red Book – A Guide Book of United States Coins, 2002 edition,
    Silver content:
    Kennedy Half 1964 – 0.36169 oz. Silver per coin. 1 oz. Silver = 2.77 coins to 1 oz. Silver
    Kennedy Half 1965 to 1970 – 0.1479 oz. Silver per coin. 1 oz. Silver = 6.76 coins to 1 oz. Silver
    Franklin Half 1948 to 1963 - 0.36169 oz. Silver per coin. 1 oz. Silver = 2.77 coins to 1 oz. Silver

    JR
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    Dan, if Mr Whitman offered $10 for a roll of my MS 1995 rolls I'd laugh in his face, because they bring $14 to 16 per roll on Ebay. And oddly enough, 40% rolls bring less.

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