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jtlee321
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/06/2010 : 00:04:29
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Hey everybody.. I just found this forum a couple of days ago and WOW!! I am addicted already. I have always checked my change for silver and even bought a few rolls here and there hoping for something. But I really just started searching in earnest. I am on a road trip and am visiting a small town for the weekend. I went and hit all the banks. The first bank I hit I bought two rolls and opened them in the car. I found 2 40% in those two rolls. I went back in to buy more and the teller told me she could only sell me 2 more rolls because I did not have an account with them. So I bought the other 2 and the first was a skunk and the other had 2 40% for a total 4 40% in 4 rolls. Then I searched another $200 from a couple of other banks and nothing. My first big score happened tonight when I visited a grocery store bank branch. I asked the teller if she had any rolls of halves I could buy and she replied "I don't have any rolls but I have about $15.00 worth in my drawer do you want those?" I hesitated but said sure. She opened her til and started stacking them on the counter and as soon as she set them down I knew.. I could see the edges, all silver. The other teller came over and said I meant to buy some of those from you for myself, they are silver. But they gave them to me.. I got and entire roll of 40% halves. The average was every other coin was silver a total of $20.00 between the two tellers and $10.00 solid silver. I am hooked like a heroin junky now!!
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garnede
Penny Collector Member
USA
386 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 01:32:15
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| That will do it. I got hooked by buy a zip lock bag with $34 worth of halves from a bank teller I got 9 40% and 1 90%. |
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NDFARMER
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1197 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 07:16:22
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| Congratulations on finding the silver Jtlee, I am increasing my silver searching and decreasing my copper searching. My copper pile is big enough. I would like to increase my silver pile. I can't seem to sell any copper so I will just search less copper. Welcome to the forum. |
COPPER - the "poormans" precious metal!!!
SELLING - $100.00 face copper shipped to you for $189.00 machine rolled or bagged - PM me if your interested. |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 03/06/2010 : 08:24:24
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| Welcome and I'm sorry that you are hooked like the rest of us. |
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jtlee321
Penny Pincher Member
USA
136 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2010 : 11:36:53
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| Thanks everyone. I would much rather be addicted to this than to cigarettes or alcohol. At least will have a financial gain in the end.. Anyone in here go to Casino's to pick up halves? I am not talking about the one's in Vegas, I mean Indian Casino's.. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 03/06/2010 : 12:01:38
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| Welcome to Realcent! I stop at an Indian casino in northern Wisconsin to search halves. I ask for rolls of halves at the cashier and also sit down at a 50 cent slot machine and put $100 in and then hit the cash out button. I've found quite a few silver halves this way, but it has been drying up lately. It is also getting harder to find to old coin machines, as most are now TITO (ticket in/ticket out) machines. Good luck in your searching!! |
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cuneo187
New Member
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Posted - 03/08/2010 : 15:00:54
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You're lucky!!
I just got into searching some silver myself.
I used to do pennies by hand but that got very cumbersome. One time though at a bank I bought some loose rolls and got 3 entire rolls of wheaties! I have been saving nickels by the box, and have some loose rolls of nickels as well. I found a war nick in the 20 or so rolls I've gone through so far. I'm keeping the boxes intact and sealed for now.
As for the silver, I went to the bank today and picked up $486 in halfs. Found absolutely nothing. This was mostly rolled, with about $50 in loose halfs from various tellers. I hit up 7 or 8 banks. Then I went to the coin counter at my dump bank and dumped them all. I went next door to a bank, and they said they only had $4.50 in halfs loose. I sighed and took them, and lo and behold one of them was a 40% silver half! I then went to about 6-7 more banks and acquired $300 more in loose and rolled halfs, and found nothing worth keeping. I do have a sealed box coming in tomorrow, hopefully I can find something there! I feel like I'm addicted as well! The good thing with halfs vs nickels or dimes is that I can zoom through $500 in halfs easily within a half hour. I'm just looking for 40% or 90% coins, or anything really old (pre-1970). I can mostly tell by looking at each roll for silver edges. I comb through everything quickly just in case I miss something. I went through all the coins today within a few hours. I love it. Easy on the eyes too.
Good luck to everyone!!
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