Silver half hunting FINAL

secondrepublic · October 16, 2011 5:35AM

how about some pictures of your new finds?

fastrudy · October 17, 2011 3:15AM

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fastrudy · October 17, 2011 3:18AM

halves

fastrudy · October 17, 2011 3:20AM

The half in the flip has a gold-colored plating on it. It has 2 counterstamps (at 8 o'clock and 4 o'clock) that say "1960" and "1985"

fastrudy · October 21, 2011 7:04AM

Results from 10/21:

2003 searched

4 40% found

Meltdown · October 21, 2011 9:01AM

I suppose I better jump in here... I need to recycle these boxes in my garage.

Last week I found this pile in searching 4 - $500 boxes.
Edited to add: $21.50 in 40% and $5 in 90%

fastrudy · October 21, 2011 8:12PM

Wow! ?That's great

fastrudy · October 22, 2011 8:28AM

Oct 22

2000 halves searched

found 27 40%
and 4 90%

fastrudy · October 28, 2011 6:25AM

1000 coins today

found:
4 40%
1 90% Franklin

also 1 gold(?) plated Obama 2008 half

fastrudy · October 29, 2011 4:13AM

3000 halves today

found
3 40%
1 90%
2 Proofs

Yukoncornelius1 · October 30, 2011 1:32PM

I got 2-1967's, a 1964 and a 90% proof 2009 along with ten 2003-2010 dated coins out of the last $500 group.

fastrudy · November 4, 2011 5:38AM

1000 halves searched today,

found 42 40%!!

renman95 · November 4, 2011 5:47AM

@fastrudy, it's like a part time job for you. Congrats!

fastrudy · November 4, 2011 6:31AM

I am retired and it is my only job. I refer to the bank where I get the boxes as "My silver mine". Went through more than a half ton of half dollars since I started in May and made
$1700. This last box was phenomenal! I have three more boxes to look through this weekend and, as always, will keep you up-to-date.

fastrudy · November 4, 2011 3:02PM

1000 halves searched

found 23 40% and
1 90%

Yukoncornelius1 · November 5, 2011 2:32AM

<< <i>1000 halves searched today,

found 42 40%!! >>

Nothing like mining Silver and not even getting your hands dirty!

Yukoncornelius1 · November 5, 2011 2:34AM

I've been doing this for 8-9 years now and have found over $150 face in 90% and over $700 face in 40%, lately my finds haven't been so good but I still go mining once a month.

fastrudy · November 5, 2011 2:59AM

My hands get dirty.
Another 1000 searched
found 33 40%

I search 4000 coins weekly, and am upping it to 8000 coins because of the recent results.

fastrudy · November 5, 2011 5:01AM

yet another 1000 searched

23 40%
1 90%
1 impaired proof

57loaded · November 5, 2011 9:57AM

<< <i>I am retired and it is my only job. I refer to the bank where I get the boxes as "My silver mine". Went through more than a half ton of half dollars since I started in May and made
$1700. This last box was phenomenal! I have three more boxes to look through this weekend and, as always, will keep you up-to-date. >>

i do look at your updates and congratulate your success!

fastrudy · November 11, 2011 3:23AM

This weeks 4000 halves searched

found:
5 40% and
7 90%.

Summary of only boxes searched since April:
# of boxes=59
# of boxes containg no silver=11
Probability of any one box containg silver=81%
Average silver value per box= $34.51 {based on today's silver spot}
found 309 40% and 36 90%

obleft · November 12, 2011 2:39AM

WOW. You definitely suck.
I searched 10 rolls a few months ago...nothing.
I am going to give it another shot Monday!

fastrudy · November 14, 2011 8:17AM

4000 halves searched

found 11 40% and
2 90% and 2 impaired proofs.

Found a gold-colored-plated half that had 'Obama 2008' on the obverse {aynbody know if it is real gold plate?}

The only thing I got out of two of the boxes was dirty hands(zero silver).

Taking a week off to check out retirement homes in Las Vegas. If I move there, then I will probably never search through halves again. The casinos use halves in Blackjack, and every dealer I have seen knows about the silver ones. Oh well, no more savage winters.

obleft · November 15, 2011 12:06AM

metal detecting would be better option in vegas...alot buried somewhere.

aj2525r · November 16, 2011 12:08PM

Hello,

The last box of $500 I went through had 2 40% silver halves in it. I sort them and look for doubled dies. So far this year I have found three.

Cheers

AuAgPt · November 16, 2011 1:10PM

all of these rants and raves caused me to go searching thru a large jug of change last night. 3hrs later, I dug out a 1942 quarter, 1942 nickel, 1938 nickel and several more old nickels from the 1950's and early 1960's. At least $8 in silver. Must of searched several thousand coins. I can't believe how many old nickels are still in circulation. I think I might try the half searching, I'm sure I'm not located near any you guys so we'll all be ok

. I wouldn't stake a claim on your claim! --aap

fastrudy · December 8, 2011 6:55AM

Back from Vegas 'vacation'. Searched 2000 today, found:
3 90% ('64 Kennedy, '53 Frankie and '42 Walker)
12 40 % and
4 proofs.

2000 more to go this weekend.

fastrudy · December 8, 2011 8:26AM

2000 more searched...found

zero, nothing, nada...

fastrudy · December 9, 2011 6:49AM

2000 searched today, found:

21 40%
1 90%
2 Proofs

fastrudy · December 10, 2011 4:08AM

2000 searched, found:

18 40% and
5 90%.

Another 8000 on order for Monday

fastrudy · December 16, 2011 5:33AM

2000 searched today, found:

9 40% and
1 90%

I also found a lusterous 1971 with a silver colored edge. Weighed in at slightly more than a normal 1971. I supposed it was amalgamated at one point.

LukeMarshall · December 16, 2011 6:13AM

I asked for halves for the first time since I was a kid this week.

The teller said she had $500 loose in the back.

I think that it was someone elses dumpings though as there was no silver

I did find a gold plated 1983 with two counter stamps on it 1960 1980.... Guessed they missed that one?

Edited for grammer

secondrepublic · December 16, 2011 6:21AM

Sorry to hijack your thread,,,, but I asked for some at the bank today. Teller says she has $10 worth which another customer brought in. She leans down to open up a lower drawer and couple of seconds emerges with an envelope. Tears it open and counts them out, $10 in halves.

Every one of them clad. No silver.

Oh well, at least I had a few seconds of free excitement.

fastrudy · December 20, 2011 1:15PM

AAArrrrggghhhh! looked through 2000 halves,

found nothing!!!

fastrudy · December 22, 2011 4:28AM

Searched through 2000 halves, found

3 40%
13 90% (Walkers, frankies and '64 Kennedys)
6 Proofs

After 81000 halves, the probability of finding silver in any one box is 77%...so I guess I will keep doing this until I move to Las Vegas.
8000 per week until Feb15th=56000 halves.

fastrudy · December 22, 2011 7:51AM

Searched 2000 more, found

19 40% and
1 90%.

fastrudy · December 29, 2011 1:48AM

4000 more searched, found

11 40% and
1 90%.

57loaded · December 29, 2011 2:09AM

awesome, keep it up!

and

fastrudy · December 31, 2011 3:01AM

6000 more searched,found

5 40% and
5 90%.

All of the silver was found in one of the 6 boxes. The other 5 boxes contained no silver and no proofs. I have a feeling that those last five boxes (all with the same inventory number), consisted of half dollars that I had already searched through. I think it is the end of the goose that laid the silver egg for me. Maybe the pick-up bank's armored car company ran out of their stockpile of halves (because of me) and ordered some more from the drop-off bank's armored car company. I have eight thousand more on order from the bank, but I fear that this is over for me.

After I look through these eight boxes, I will deliver the FINAL report of my silver mining operation, probably by Jan 7th. By then I will have searched through 103,000 halves!!

Happy New Year to everybody!! I am off to Panama for vacation and in February I move to Las Vegas!!

66Tbird · January 2, 2012 11:07AM

Quite the endeavor, good work. I gave up on the sport because I started to get a metallic taste going on any time I did a search. Both copper and clad searches. Now, even today years later I get that taste when I handle metals for a few minutes. Hopefully you did not acquire that annoyance.

fastrudy · January 2, 2012 2:55PM

mettalic taste from touch?

joefro · January 2, 2012 3:05PM

fastrudy: where are you ordering these halves from? Online or a bank? I've asked my bank and they don't take orders for coins, they only have what they order for themselves. I can't even get $25 boxes of the new cents there, they just have circulated mix.

fastrudy · January 2, 2012 7:09PM

When I funded my new account at this bank, I specifically asked them if they could order halves for me. They said "yes" and so did I. You must find a new bank.

fastrudy · January 6, 2012 5:29AM

Just looked through the last 8000 coins, found

11 40% and
1 90%, and a couple of proofs.

Now the totals: Since April 2011, I have looked through 103 boxes of halves (that's 103,000 half dollars). 24 of those 103 boxes had no silver in them. The probability of finding silver in any one box is 77%. The average amount of silver found per box is $25.82 (at todays price). I have found 462 40% and 70 90% silver halves for a total value of $2660 (at todays price). In the last month, the pickings went from slim to poor. I think I wiped out an armored car companies inventory of halves.

These totals only reflect the halves found in the boxes I had ordered. It does not include the 160 90% silver halves that the teller told me about and for which I recieved my second "You Suck" award (thank you). But if I was not ordering and having interest in halves, those eight YOUSUCK rolls would be placed in a dark corner of the vault for a long, long time. I am finished with my quest. Next month I move to Las Vegas, where the halves are thoroughly picked through by Blackjack dealers. In four days, I leave for eleven days in Panama to enjoy a much needed vacation away from half dollars (I will be looking for Medio Balboas instead).

Julio · January 6, 2012 6:48AM

I'm happy for you but will miss this thread. Take care. jws

Silver half hunting FINAL

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