Pretty good half dollar hunt today....

coinkid855 · November 21, 2007 5:41AM

I went around to about 10 different banks looking for silver halves. overall it was a pretty good hunt.
I bought about $1200 in halves, and found 46 40% halves and 5 90%'ers.

Heres the break down...

1- 1960D Franklin....Nice!
3- 1964D Kennedy
2- 1965
3- 1966
16- 1967
12- 1968D
8- 1969D
1- 1976S

Not bad...about $125 in silver, or about a $100 profit....

coinkid855 · November 21, 2007 5:49AM

Oh! just found something else in my bank purchases today. I just found an AU (but cleaned, I think) 1971D FEP IKE!! This is my first one

Pictures later tonight.

lordmarcovan · November 21, 2007 6:10AM

Maybe I need to start calling around town. My bank never has halves.

Good work!

coinkid855 · November 21, 2007 6:14AM

Thanks! yeah, I just found an area with a lot of banks in the same general location and started calling all of those banks....There are still LOTS of banks that I have yet to go to, so there's a LOT more silver to be found in my area =p

hiijacker · November 21, 2007 10:34AM

DO you ask for customer rolls that the teller may have or for sealed rols from the Federal Reserve? Which yields more silver?

BlackLodge1 · November 21, 2007 10:40AM

<< <i>DO you ask for customer rolls that the teller may have or for sealed rols from the Federal Reserve? Which yields more silver? >>

Myself I always go for customer rolls. The few times that I've done otherwise, 90% of the coins were the same date.

Nice loot coinkid!!!

Batman23 · November 21, 2007 11:12AM

I just went to all two banks in my town today for half dollars. Bank #1 only had a couple rolls in the clerks drawer. Nothing worth picking up but I did get a 74 and 78 Ike! Bank #2 had $360 of halves. The teller seemed happy that I was wanting them until I told her I was going to just borrow them and give them back. Of the $360 of halves $270 was 1996-P. This is very odd since I am very far northwest, normally Denver is what we get. Of the remaining halves I only found two 40% silver and nothing newer than 1999.

DubbleDee · November 21, 2007 2:15PM

I just recently went through $500 in halves, and found zero 40 or 90% coins. The only odd one I found was a 2004-p half, wondering how it got in circulation. The teller told me they had $260 in halves left, and she was more than happy to let me get all of them. I think she said they were aggravating to handle/count, and they didn't want them back. And, I'm pretty sure I was 2 halves short of having a full 500 dollars. I doubt I mess with the rest of them, with my rotten luck.

BlackLodge1 · November 22, 2007 12:02AM

<< <i>I doubt I mess with the rest of them, with my rotten luck. >>

Don't do that. You might miss something. And if you don't look, you'll carry it around in the back of your mind that you didn't check them...

Pretty good half dollar hunt today....

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