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Silver at local bank.........you won't believe it. ...... Pictures added

2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
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100 miles from home in semi rural NC

Go to PO to mail some stuff and bank is right next door.

Ask if they have any rolls of halves......They have 21 rolls......420 coins.

19 rolls are solid 40% silver...........380 coins.

All were solid 40% rolls that appear to have been set back around 1968.

Interestingly they all had big X and word 'No' written on old bank wrappers.

I'd guess it was 1969 or so and they were pulling the 90% and not bothering with the 40% stuff.

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Holy crap!
  • CoinZipCoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭
    Awesome.....gongrats

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  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great haul!
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Happy Dance Time!!!
    Congrats on the start of a great weekend.
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  • pennyanniepennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭
    Cool, no one at the bank was smart enough to see the profit in that 210 dollar transaction.! Snooze you lose. Congrats!!!
    Mark
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  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭
    Must have pictures.
  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
    Best part is I was with a friend who used to raze me about asking for half dollars and spending them for small purchases, tips, etc..

    He had to sit and watch me in the car opening solid roll after roll.

    He will never raze me again.
  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Must have pictures. >>


    .......................................
    I'll try to get one in AM
  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    Now that sounds like a mini "saddle ridge" that the common man can pick up out of a forgotten stash of smaller dreams.

    Cool find.
  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,353 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is your new "handle" 280CoinsTooManyFunds? Congrats on the score!!!
  • RaufusRaufus Posts: 6,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats! Fantastic.
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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeowza!

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  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535 ✭
    Coin-grats!

    That's the sort of thing that used to happen back in the late-90s when silver was so cheap that 90% would only fetch 2x-3x face and no one (around here at least) would pay a premium for 40%!

    I used to love going to out-of-the-way banks back then!


    Did they have to go back in the vault to get them?

    Did you have the feeling that they'd been sitting in the bank for a long time?

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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations...
    Urban mining at its finest!
    Love stories like this.

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  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You didn't happen to be traveling in a 1981 DeLorean DMC while topping 88 MPH on your way to this bank did you??? That's what it sounds like to me image

    Congrats!!! Nice Score!!!

    Erik
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Score! Congrats.
  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,981 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You didn't happen to be traveling in a 1981 DeLorean DMC while topping 88 MPH on your way to this bank did you??? That's what it sounds like to me image

    Congrats!!! Nice Score!!!

    Erik >>



    Is that 40% enough to pay for the plutonium to produce the 1.21 gigawatts needed to power the Flux Capacitor (1 pellet, 1 trip, need 2 pellets to get it and bring it back to present day!...lol)?

    Kidding aside, congrats on a nice score!

    I'll come up with something.
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Really?

    I'm not buying your story until we have images. image

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  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 763 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice - that will put a smile on your face! Congrats!

    Jim
  • OldIndianNutKaseOldIndianNutKase Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great to know that the Coin God still lives........
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    woohoo! congrats!
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  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess there's no real urgency to head back to that bank. I would have been back in there asking for all roll dimes and quarters. To think, this could be some kind of Omaha bank hoard. There would have to be some MS67 material in there for NGC. image

    My dad, while traveling the great USA in early 1990's received a full silver roll of Mercs with some Roosies for the pay phones.

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  • CuKevinCuKevin Posts: 1,741 ✭✭✭✭
    Congrats on the score! Glad to know they still exist for us roll hunters.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Where in NC? I used to live in the Asheville area.

    That's a big WOW, fer sure! image

    Better than the bunch I got from my credit union several years back. I think I got about four rolls that were solid 40%, with only two coins being exceptions (one clad and one 90% Kennedy).

    I seldom get half dollar rolls, and with that one exception, I never get silver. Have never gotten Frankies or Walkers like some folks occasionally do.

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It was funny, one of the credit unions I usually buy cents and nickels at called and said they had halves come in on Thursday. They are one of my "obligatory" institutions - meaning I just take whatever coin they offer up as a courtesy for letting me search it all - even if I don't really want them - like halves are usually a bust. But out of the $120 in halves I actually found two 40% halves - 1965 and 1968 in rolls that had been X'ed out!
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,282 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice haul image
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Goodness!

    Do you have any images?


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  • csdotcsdot Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
    Founds a few myself recently, but nothing like that. Congratulations. Whenever I find silver in the bank I just assume that the person who traded them in to the bank for paper money was either a relative of a coin collector, a thief, or both.

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  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,596 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats! Let's see 380 x 0.209 Silver = 79 oz. x $21 = $1659
    Cheers!
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  • KISHU1KISHU1 Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭
    Wow what a haul

    Let me know if you are selling them

    Frank D.
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Really?

    I'm not buying your story until we have images. image

    image >>



    +1
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ok, I think this qualifies for an official "YOU SUCK". image
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  • CubbyCubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Jackpot! Congrats to you


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  • CubbyCubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Can someone tell me what 40% halves are going for nowadays?


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  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
    Pictures in AM
    I'm really old school and my old Nikon needs a card reader to upload pictures.

    P.S. Yes I still use a flip phone.............really

    I want to get the pictures up because all the coins must have been stored where it was damp as the edges of all coins were tarnished......not toned and some of the BU coins actually had significant greenish discoloration on edges.
  • 2manycoins2fewfunds2manycoins2fewfunds Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭
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  • nwcoastnwcoast Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭✭✭
    'Pitchers' came through...
    I'm a believer!
    Though i had faith from the start on this one.
    What a great score!!!

    Happy, humble, honored and proud recipient of the “You Suck” award 10/22/2014

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  • don129don129 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭
    I believe it 100%. Back in the 90's (exactly when I can't remember) I needed space and got fed up with looking at all the 40% halves I had pulled out of circulation. I brought probably $250-$300 face worth of solid 40% rolls to the bank. Been regretting it ever since........
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  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭
    Congrats on a great score! Is this your best ever for bank finds?
  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,811 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow what a super find - congrats! Can't believe that stuff was sitting there all this time. Way to go.
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Anyone got an estimate on the silver value of this find?


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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,143 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyone got an estimate on the silver value of this find? >>



    corrected to show a more reasonable figure: $1,200 imageimage
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Put short sets together and sell them on eBay to collectors. That's the way to do this, unless your looking to "stack", which doesn't make sense from the perspective of it being 40% silver and 60% copper, which took a big hit lately. Guys buying up copper at the market levels probably didn't like that drop recently.

    So, as coins go, I would imagine you could check Pop. reports and maybe submit a few and "score" that way, too. It's a matter of how "in depth" one looks at coins. (my humble opinion, as always) Incidentally, "you suck".

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