Interesting half dollar roll find.....and then there were 3...

Peaceman

My son and I have gone through about $8000 in half dollar rolls looking for silver and ran into this.....

LanLord

Open it!

renman95

Very nice and in a bank roll, not a self roll.

mbogoman

Cool!!!

Come on now, open it! We want to know if there are any more hiding in there!!!

crypto79

whats on the other side?

mkman123

open it and let us know what you find.

Peaceman

Normal Kennedy....

I suggested to my son that he keep it like this and try to find a few other rolls with silver on either end and then sell them together. I would think nothing else in in there but the $ 500 box we got it out of didn't have a sharpy in it and had about 7, MS 40%ers... a huge find in the Chicago Land area...

crypto79

Weigh it against a roll of all clads, there should be an incremental increase per silver substitute. It would be a good math problem for your son if you two were to approximate the content before opening..

edix2001

<< <i>Weigh it against a roll of all clads, there should be an incremental increase per silver substitute. It would be a good math problem for your son if you two were to approximate the content before opening.. >>



Elementary, my dear Watson!

tightbudget

Cool! As a former half dollar roll searchers, those rolls are always the most exciting.

ricko

After a long hiatus, I got three rolls of halves at the bank last week. I had stopped since I NEVER have found anything worthwhile in those rolls - and I have searched MANY!!! So, I opened the three rolls... and....... (drum roll please)...........
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NOTHING.... no 40%, no silver, no specials.... NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers, RickO

Bochiman

<< <i>Normal Kennedy....

I suggested to my son that he keep it like this and try to find a few other rolls with silver on either end and then sell them together. >>



Sell them by opening them and selling the silver ones or by selling as a "pig in the poke", like on ebay?

nutmeg

I would open the roll and save any Walkers and 90 percent coins.
A few years ago I went to a small bank in MA looking for rolls. The teller said they only have two rolls in the safe. I said ok and paid $20. These I have not opened. Here is what I got for $10 per roll:

RebelRon

<< <i>I would open the roll and save any Walkers and 90 percent coins.
A few years ago I went to a small bank in MA looking for rolls. The teller said they only have two rolls in the safe. I said ok and paid $20. These I have not opened. Here is what I got for $10 per roll:
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Geez! I had to pay Mint prices!

drddm

That roll is obviously not a good one, send it to me for proper disposal

ricko

Both rolls have tampered ends... likely nothing great inside. Interesting, likely a collector turned them in after carefully opening and searching them. Cheers, RickO

Peaceman

Now 3.... Found some 2010's and a 96' with a huge die break. Is that common for this series?

tahoe98

...nice find! now all you have to do is open them up, just make sure the rest of the roll isn't stuffed with fender

washers!!

DNADave

looks like an ebay auction.

BLee23

Are the majority of you able to find these readily available at your local banks? I have tried several local banks at different points in the past 2-3 years and have never had a bank tell me they had any half dollar rolls available.

57loaded

and you flaunted the 40%....

Peaceman

You have to order them. Me and my son order $ 2000 at a time (4 boxes) using his $. Any profit goes to him. We've been pretty lucky as of late, maybe 1 90% and 3 40% per box. You can tell if you have a good box almost right away or after you open the first roll. If the dates only go up to 1985ish then chances are it will be good. Funny thing with one roll was that there was a 2010's in with a Franklin....

FredF

How do you order them? I've walked up to counters and asked if they had rolls of 50c pieces, they go get me the paper rolls, empty. I said no, I mean the coins. They said no. End of that. I was gonna get some to sit down with the kids to try to put together a clad Kennedy set.

coindeuce

<< <i>You have to order them. Me and my son order $ 2000 at a time (4 boxes) using his $. Any profit goes to him. We've been pretty lucky as of late, maybe 1 90% and 3 40% per box. You can tell if you have a good box almost right away or after you open the first roll. If the dates only go up to 1985ish then chances are it will be good. Funny thing with one roll was that there was a 2010's in with a Franklin.... >>



Treasure hunting is a great adventure, but I'd rather place a classified ad in the local newspapers or on the internet to buy old half dollars. It certainly is a much more productive method of aquiring silver half dollars since profit is your/his motive.

fishcooker

Interesting to see 4 keepers per box being called pretty lucky. Oh how it was in the old days!

johnny9434

coool, every once and a while you do get lucky