Silver coin roll hunting

After watching a few Youtube videos showing how easy it is to go to a bank and buy a few hundred dollars in coins and find a few silver pieces, I decided to give it a shot.
Took out $250 in half dollar coins. Searched every one and not a single silver coin! Not even a 40%. Re-checked some of those videos, most are a minimum of a year old, a few from 2009.
Do any of you still find silver on occasion or is this the norm now in 2015? Or is silver hunting for complete newbies and experienced numismatics don't waste their time? (If I knew more I'd have searched for errors and varieties, but I have much to learn before that.)
It was actually a fun time and didn't cost anything, since I just deposited them back a few days later.
I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something.
-Mitch Hedberg
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All of my collection is in a safe deposit box!
step it up !!!
I've found a few 64's and some 40% ones so they are out there.
<< <i>You only searched $250.
Couple weeks ago, I hit up some banks and walked away with 15 40% and a '64. It's out there. You just gotta work for it.
I have hit some absolutely monster boxes of halves, though...
Or sometimes just a bunch of customer wrapped rolls somebody cashed in...
Happy hunting... it's out there somewhere.
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These days I stick to dimes.
I'll give it another shot and order $1000 in half dollars and maybe another $1000 in quarters and dimes in order to say I gave it a true shot.
Plus, my little boy will have fun throwing the coins all over for me to pick up after him! Daddy/son fun day!
-Mitch Hedberg
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out, I would usually find a LOT of 90% and 40% silver halves. This would have been when silver had dropped back below $10
an ounce, so no major score, and since I kept them all this time I probably could have done better with a traditional investment.
No such thing as a slot machine that takes coins anymore, though. That time has passed.
Oh well...
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No such thing as a slot machine that takes coins anymore, though. That time has passed.
Oh well...
Actually in some small Native American casinos in otherwise very rural areas you can still find coin slots - I know for a fact because I was out in the middle of absolute nowhere in the E. USA and found such a place just last summer.
<< <i> the success rate seemed to plummet about the time of the recession >>
Yeah, I think you're right. For a while there a decade ago when silver was $7 or $10 an ounce there were lots of 40% clad coins around, and I found '64's, Frankies, and even Walking Liberties with enough regularity to be sort of amazed by it. Anymore, though, not so much. I think when the economy tanked and metals went way up there were probably plenty of people with time on their hands who actually needed the money, and there was enough out there to make it worthwhile. I was always sort of surprised that the armored car companies didn't invest in machinery to pull out the silver.
I get silver in singles now
Since I am in the Dallas area, all the rolled coins come from the Fed. My understanding is their counting machines are accurate enough to cull out any silver / 40% coins so nothing but clad is coming to the banks.
I have wondered what happens to the silver that comes into the Fed?