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HoardCopperByTheTon
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USA
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Posted - 03/16/2008 : 02:24:21
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| Got 8 rolls of halves today at one of my drive bys. Found 3 40% Halves in them! Much better than average.. 1 in the first roll and 2 in the last roll. Just the way I like to start and finish a half dollar sort. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
777 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2008 : 18:59:44
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| One box of halves searched today. Skunkage. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
3212 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2008 : 19:23:17
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| 3 Rolls of halves.. skunked. It could have been worse.. I could have gotten more halves. These may have been 3 rolls I deposited a month ago. I gotta start keeping track of where I dump these things. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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Hirbonzig
Penny Pincher Member
USA
186 Posts |
 Posted - 04/25/2008 : 22:28:05
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| Went thru $740 in halves and found 3 40% silvers. |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
167 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2008 : 23:36:46
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$50 in halves, 1 40% 1968 kennedy
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Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 20:40:30
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Picked up 3 rolls of halves today. Found 4 90%ers  and 4 40%ers. Best luck I've had in a while. |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1344 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2008 : 21:26:29
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Nice results fiatboy. I searched $86.50 today. Found one '67. I also keep the bicentennials. There was $9 worth of those.
Deal
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I'm so sick over pennies....I frequently trade a dime or two for the whole "take-a-penny" container if sufficient coppers exist. That will get you some odd looks.
Steady looking for the elusive Indian head.... |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
167 Posts |
Posted - 04/27/2008 : 00:14:35
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Originally posted by NotABigDeal
Nice results fiatboy. I searched $86.50 today. Found one '67. I also keep the bicentennials. There was $9 worth of those.
Deal
In my area up to 50% of some rolls are bicentennials. Do they carry a premium to some collectors or do you just enjoy the look of the coin? |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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paroy1224
Member
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2008 : 21:03:01
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| I have gone through 2 boxes of $500 halves and found nothing, so back to pennies...I know I will at least get a thrill in finding wheats for my efforts...Might try another shot again... |
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
777 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2008 : 21:27:08
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Originally posted by paroy1224
I have gone through 2 boxes of $500 halves and found nothing, so back to pennies...I know I will at least get a thrill in finding wheats for my efforts...Might try another shot again...
Don't give up. If you read back through this thread, you will see that many of us take regular skunkings on halves. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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knibloe
Penny Collector Member
USA
447 Posts |
Posted - 04/28/2008 : 21:43:48
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| I got skunked on my last 8 boxes of halves. Not because I didn't find any, but because the bank hasn't ordered any for me in two weeks. I dropped 5 figures into a new account on the condition that they would order $2k each week for me. I better get my halves this week. I'm going through withdrawl. |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
167 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2008 : 03:17:05
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got $100 from my penny dump bank (they are the cooles and think I am "just the cutest" (@ 20 yrs. old??))
anyway.....skunkage.
but I like the hunt and as stated before spending them is the most fun.
I went to a popular chicken eatery known for cows in their advertizing. I gave the lady a $1 FRN and $2 in kennedys. She said "do you have nine cents?" I didn't look at the total and said ah ok. I gave her my bank card as it was all I had. A few seconds later I was like,....wait. Looking at my reciept she only credited my $2.50 when I gave her $3. Long story short she was ignorant and the manager made up the difference.
I will keep spending them despite the trouble. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Pincher Member
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - 04/29/2008 : 06:24:35
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| $200 in halves and got skunked. I need to get up north to my small town banks that have old rolls of halves sitting in the vaults. It seems that around the bigger cities where the turnover on halves is higher all the silver has been picked out. |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
167 Posts |
Posted - 04/30/2008 : 01:52:18
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$100 in halves
1-40% kennedy
keeping the hunt alive tomorrow at the same bank. They have given me $20 so far....let's see what is left.
I also need to try getting out into the country side and hitting rural banks and CUs that seems fun. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Pincher Member
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2008 : 12:20:04
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| Another $200 in halves searched and was skunked again. The only interesting one was a 1979 half that seems to be gold plated. With gold at $850 is there enough in a plating to be worth anything? Any way to easily check to see if it is gold? |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
167 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2008 : 00:53:12
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I believe there were some gold plated and counter stamped to commemorate his inauguration. I saw an article about it in another thread on a forum @ the treasure hunters web site.
$20 halves on wednesday skunked
$20 in CWR halves, 1 40% half. Not sure if they were CWR or bank rolled in paper. Seems odd that a sorter would leave a 40% in a roll. |
Freedom is popular
That's why I voted
Ron Paul! |
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fiatboy
Administrator
912 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2008 : 03:08:12
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Found four 40%ers today---out of $200 searched. Not great, but more silver than I had yesterday.  |
"Bart, it's not about how many stocks you have, it's about how much copper wire you can get out of the building." --- Homer Simpson |
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
777 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2008 : 09:40:13
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| $20 in two CWRs yesterday. One 40%er. I think CWRs are the way to go if you can find them. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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knibloe
Penny Collector Member
USA
447 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2008 : 22:05:42
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| 4 fed boxes this week. 22- 40% and 2 90%. One 2003 Proof, 2 1987 and some assorted 2003 to 2006's. Still have half a box to sort. |
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
777 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2008 : 22:19:23
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| Good finds on the 87s. I have found Walkers, and even a commemorative, but never an 87. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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PennehChaos.
Penny Pincher Member
USA
176 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2008 : 09:38:18
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| i was eyeballing the coin tray at my bank this morning while waiting for the teller to get my pennies out of the vault, and i thought the Kennedy closest to me looked like a silver... Bought the $5 worth she had, and sure enough, that first one was a '68D :) |
Nothing of value is an investment unless you possess it. If all you've got are paper, pixels, or promises, you're gambling. |
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TXTim
Penny Pincher Member
214 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2008 : 15:32:27
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Originally posted by texcattlerancher
Good finds on the 87s. I have found Walkers, and even a commemorative, but never an 87.
87's are tougher to come by than Walkers. I got lucky and found 61 in one box. I have no idea why there were so many in that box. I had a couple rolls from years past but they were one or two here and there, not in bunches.
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Beer is my currency. |
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knibloe
Penny Collector Member
USA
447 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2008 : 22:40:51
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I have found 6-1987's that I know of. When I was a newbe, I got three rolls of halves from one bank. No silver. I had $80 in my pocket, when I walked into the second bank. bought 8 rolls and every one was silver. Lost of franklins. They had one roll left. I went out to the car and got one of the three rolls that I had bought earlier and traded it in.
When I got home, I looked at the first two rolls and one of them had 4-87's. The other roll had some good clad coins in it, can't remember what. I would love to know what I traded in that last roll.
TXtim, great find on the 87's just like silver except that I woudld trade them for silver. |
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knibloe
Penny Collector Member
USA
447 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2008 : 22:42:33
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| Three rolls today. One 40% in a roll that someone had marked with an X |
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scott71578
Penny Pincher Member
USA
135 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2008 : 08:12:28
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asked for some halves at a local bank and the lady gave me 3 sacagawea dollars.
she said" thats actually all we have"
i said "they are actually NOT halves, but ill take them"
what an idiot....she works at a bank!! |
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