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Half dollar roll searchers be on the lookout for these....

kevinstangkevinstang Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭
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Just read the post over on the precious metals forum here.This guy says he took back $650 face in 40% to his local bank....image This is what his post said;


I agree! Just last week I went to the bank and traded $650.00 face worth of 40% halves for paper money. No one buys them so I figured what the heck. The bank took them in trade with no problem!

I wonder if he was kidding? If not someone is going to hit the jackpot!

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He yanketh.........
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...me thinketh you're right. image
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    But.....but..........but........He's in Wisconsin!
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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absurdly bogus, but makes for good goose chase bait.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Went through $500 in halves yesterday for the fun of it - nothing pre-1971. image
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  • don129don129 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭
    Two weeks ago the tellers at my local Chase branch told me some guy brought in $700 in Eisenhowers! His father had died and while going thru a storage bin they found them. Chase promptly shipped them out to wherever they go.

    Sure they're not loaded with silver, but I would have loved to take a look thru them and spend a few!
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  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I doubt it. People are getting over melt for them on eBay for lots of 1-10 and about spot for anything over that.

    I ordered another $3,000 from my bank last week, I will let you know if I find a motherload.

    I have found about $100 if face 40 and 90% in the past $10k I have looked through. About 70% of all that came from one $500 box.
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    very doubtful.
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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When I read the title of this thread, I was expecting the announcement of a new half dollar variety... image
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bogus bonus?
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Went through $500 in halves yesterday for the fun of it - nothing pre-1971. image >>




    Those were my returns image

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some are lucky...personally, I have never found a 40% or a 90% in all the rolls of halves I have searched. Cheers, RickO
  • PeacemanPeaceman Posts: 5,098
    I go through about 18,000 - 20,000 halves a month.... image
    image
  • djdilliodondjdilliodon Posts: 1,938 ✭✭


    << <i>I go through about 18,000 - 20,000 halves a month.... image
    image >>



    OMG your eyes must be shot after looking at all those coins lmao.
  • Eastwood4450Eastwood4450 Posts: 80
    Holly cow , thats alot of coins! image I've only been through 1 box with 2 40% and 1 90%
    3% Ebay
  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I go through about 18,000 - 20,000 halves a month.... image
    image >>



    Well, how do you make out? Does your bank charge you for ordering so many? What do you do with your returns? Do you order your second batch and get it in hand before returning your present batch to avoid your own returns?
  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 763 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think he is stretching the truth a little there. image
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  • jessewvujessewvu Posts: 5,065 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I order about $2-$4k a time, sometimes 2 times a month. I could order more but i don't have any cash lying around right now. The bank I order them from is surprisingly helpful, and the bank I return them to is surprisingly accepting. The ladies I talk to when I need bags replaced in the coin counter ask if I find anything good. I say I do and that I'm sorry for putting so many coins in, they say "no problem, that's why we are here."

    I think I could turn $10k in half dollars within a week between searching and then taking back to the bank. If I can get enough silver to cover the cash flow, I might just have my wife start looking through the rolls when we have our second child in May. However, there is about a .000000000001% chance she would even let me finish the sentence when I ask her.
  • NotSureNotSure Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I go through about 18,000 - 20,000 halves a month.... image
    image >>



    WAAAYYY to much time on your hands. image

    Was it a light month, the month that pic was taken? I only see $14,000.....image
    I'll come up with something.
  • toyz4geotoyz4geo Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My wife gladly helps me by taking all the clad stuff to the casino....they seem happy to get it.

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  • ebaybuyerebaybuyer Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭
    a few years ago i was on a weekend fishing vakay, stopped at a branch of my bank and asked for like $50 in rolled halves, as i walked out to the truck i popped one open, all 40% next roll same thing, so i ran back in the bank and asked how many more rolls they had, withdrew another $750 from the checking account and turned the fishing weekend into a silver mining weekend, over $800 face of 40% halves, unfortunately i sold them when silver was well under 30$
    regardless of how many posts I have, I don't consider myself an "expert" at anything
  • PeacemanPeaceman Posts: 5,098
    I order 2k a week. I pick them up at one bank and bring them back to another as each uses a different rolling company. Not sure if that makes a difference but it makes me feel better. If I only get 5-10 coins out of the bunch then I tend to pick up another $ 500 here and there at other bank outlets when I'm returning what I've already searched (on the same day). I'm charged $10 a week. Best week was about $ 435 in silver value. Worst was $ 20 in silver value. However, I also pull MS, no hairline, almost perfect halves out of them too. Keep errors as well. These sell for about $ 3 - $ 7 ea. on the Bay.
    I sort of look at it this way, I can entertain myself in front of the TV for an hour and a half and make no $ or I can open up 4 boxes and enjoy doing it, sometimes with my kids. I just keep the boxes for fun...
  • Lightrender3dLightrender3d Posts: 195
    I work as a bank teller and one day some dude brought in several hundred dollars in Eisenhower Dollars! Apparently it was his dead dads and he just wanted cash. I totally would have looked through it but my boss had shipped it out the following day when I was going to search it! haha.

    Anyways, from workin in banking I always pull out any silver coins I find. They're quite easy to spot due to the difference in color when they're all in clear plastic roles or layed out. Its funny because I get these people every month asking for every half dollar roll I have, and I always gladly give it to them knowing I already took all the silver out. hahaha.
  • PeacemanPeaceman Posts: 5,098
    Interestingly enough I pick up 10-15 ikes a week and the tellers all tell me the same thing....
  • Lightrender3dLightrender3d Posts: 195
    I normally find silver half dollars and only once found a silver dime that I let my coworker have. I was being nice that day. I have one client that deposits rolls of halfs he gets from the casino playing blackjack all the time. I often find many silver halves in his rolls.

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