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Mercfan
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Wow! I thought that I'd had the roll-searching luck of my life back in January when I picked up eight rolls of halves from a local bank branch and found these:
Today I returned to the same branch, figuring that five months might have been enough time for someone to need to cash in additional rolls of saved silver. The bank had 18 rolls in the place.
Five of the eighteen rolls were solid clad. Some others had a richer than average mix, and still others were solid 90% silver WITH NO KENNEDYS. When the searching and counting was done, I found myself the deliriously happy owner of an additional twenty-nine 90% Kennedys; seventy-seven 40% Kennedys; twenty-nine Frankies; thirty-two Liberty Walkers; one 1907-O Barber; and one silver 1959 Canadian half.
I don't think I'll go back and complain about the one roll that contained 19 halves and a 2006 quarter.
Have a look at the entire batch, with each date/mm in its own pile:
It cost me three hours and $84.50.
Oh, and the head teller was so happy to have me take the halves off her hands that she's going to call me whenever she gets more.
Today I returned to the same branch, figuring that five months might have been enough time for someone to need to cash in additional rolls of saved silver. The bank had 18 rolls in the place.
Five of the eighteen rolls were solid clad. Some others had a richer than average mix, and still others were solid 90% silver WITH NO KENNEDYS. When the searching and counting was done, I found myself the deliriously happy owner of an additional twenty-nine 90% Kennedys; seventy-seven 40% Kennedys; twenty-nine Frankies; thirty-two Liberty Walkers; one 1907-O Barber; and one silver 1959 Canadian half.
I don't think I'll go back and complain about the one roll that contained 19 halves and a 2006 quarter.
Have a look at the entire batch, with each date/mm in its own pile:
It cost me three hours and $84.50.
Oh, and the head teller was so happy to have me take the halves off her hands that she's going to call me whenever she gets more.
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I think that someone (a widow or other heir) is occasionally cashing in rolls set aside by someone in the mid-seventies (and/or earlier). The rolls with the most silver this time are the same color and printing as the rolls with the most silver in January. The solid clad rolls this time were entirely different wrappers, and probably not from the hoard that's getting cashed in.
I've been dreaming the dream of finding solid rolls of pre-Kennedys since January, when a head teller at another bank that I visited told me that they had (a couple weeks before I was there) had someone exchange for cash several rolls of halves "from the 1800s." This head teller said that her husband collects coins and was very happy to purchase those rolls at face.
I say: Keep dreaming the dream. (And remember that if you never buy any rolls and look through them, it's never going to happen for you.)
That is a dream come true for a circulation collector. And you made her happy and get to look through any future rolls??? You do suck.
Last December I got 4 rolls, which had 16x 90%, 46x 40%, and only 18x clad halves.
Just bought all my bank had again Monday, but out of 12 rolls, only found 4x 40% halves this time.
I have much better results before Christmas when everyone is rolling change to buy presents.
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Those are great finds Merc! What a lot of fun that must have been to discover all of that.
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<< <i>What a lot of fun that must have been to discover all of that. >>
This is what it's all about for me, Crispy! It's nice to pick up almost $600 worth of stuff for $84.50, but that pales in comparison to the sheer fun of the find.
You open the roll, dump it into the palm of your hand, and see twenty out of twenty edges are all white. Nice! Then you start taking the coins off the pile one at a time and get Walker, after Frankie, after Walker, and even a Barber. Amazing!
I kept telling myself to go slowly and savor the experience, because I will surely never have it again. Forty years from now I'll have a hard time believing the luck of it.
The "junk" silver will help me purchase some really nice PCGS-certified Mercs, which I'll certainly enjoy.
But the experience of the rare big strike? Priceless.