120 Silver halves for face value!
buddygray
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I bought 120 half dollars from my Bank today! Yes "The bank".
A girl there has been my usual teller for about 1 year. She's become a buddy so to say because she's SLIGHTLY into coins too. Today she pops out about $500 worth of halves someone brought in and she wants to sell some of them. I was happy to oblige. The earliest were 1941 with various mintmarks up to 1954 Franklins. ALL are circulated, grade from G/VG to a select few AU50's probably. I got a great deal on them. This Bank's policy is they cannot sell money for more than face value, so I got all 120 for $60 !
The teller still has another $380 worth left, many are Franklins and Kennedys. I wanted sivler and got a few. I'm going back in a few days for more silver up until 1964. I'll probably end up with another 100 coins I guess.
Point of this post is to express my happiness, and ask if some Half dollar collectors can tell me any double dies, overdates, etc. errors that might make a coin more valuable, while going thru these? I have a loupe and microscope.
Before anyone says I ripped her off, I did not. I offered more money for them, but she said since they were the property of the Bank she could not sell them over their face value. I asked why she had not just bought them, and let me buy them from her at a profit for her time and trouble? She knew how much I liked coins and thought this would be a good deal for me. Shame she's married already!
A girl there has been my usual teller for about 1 year. She's become a buddy so to say because she's SLIGHTLY into coins too. Today she pops out about $500 worth of halves someone brought in and she wants to sell some of them. I was happy to oblige. The earliest were 1941 with various mintmarks up to 1954 Franklins. ALL are circulated, grade from G/VG to a select few AU50's probably. I got a great deal on them. This Bank's policy is they cannot sell money for more than face value, so I got all 120 for $60 !
The teller still has another $380 worth left, many are Franklins and Kennedys. I wanted sivler and got a few. I'm going back in a few days for more silver up until 1964. I'll probably end up with another 100 coins I guess.
Point of this post is to express my happiness, and ask if some Half dollar collectors can tell me any double dies, overdates, etc. errors that might make a coin more valuable, while going thru these? I have a loupe and microscope.
Before anyone says I ripped her off, I did not. I offered more money for them, but she said since they were the property of the Bank she could not sell them over their face value. I asked why she had not just bought them, and let me buy them from her at a profit for her time and trouble? She knew how much I liked coins and thought this would be a good deal for me. Shame she's married already!
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Check out the Southern Gold Society
Someone got a great deal there too.
W.C. Fields
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
<< <i>A girl there has been my usual teller for about 1 year. She's become a buddy so to say because she's SLIGHTLY into coins too. >>
Besides bring her flowers, you mentioned that she has been the teller that usually waits on you. After you get the halfs that you want, I would wait a few weeks and write a letter to the bank. I assume she is always helpful with your banking needs, deposits, withdrawals, tranfers, straighting out checking account problems (general banking concerns). Letters usually get put into personnel files and are sometimes used at preformance appraisals for merit raises. Just a thought.
Tim
Whatever you do definately follow TAClough's advice. That will help her the most in her current job...
Hey, at these prices and with her being so busy, she is a teller as stated so I was not the only person in the Bank needing help, I'll play by her rules.
Now that I read it, I think a nice letter praising her would be a good thing to do in a few short weeks.
She's going to call me when she's gone thru the remainder and picked out what she wants...Like I said, its her ballgame, her rules, and I'm just playing in it.
<< <i>The woman likes coins too, so I'd thought about taking her a nice MS64-65 common date Morgan. I know she likes them and I think she'd appreciate it. I believe her husband would not mind a Morgan, but would not like flowers given his wfe. >>
Try a diamond... I bet her husband wouldn't mind
I'm not that brave...
I have got old silver certifactes,rolls of silver dimes,QUARTERS, HALVES ETC...I trained her VERY GOOD
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