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nelson
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 03/10/2010 : 03:56:36
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is any one still finding sliver? I live in st louis and i have got no sliver in a long time.
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Nickelless
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USA
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nelson
New Member
USA
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Posted - 03/10/2010 : 05:06:49
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| I have picked up a $100 in halfs like 5 times and never any thing good. its just makes me sad. |
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Nickelless
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USA
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knibloe
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1066 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 07:48:30
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Find a bank that will order them for you. You will go through a lot of skunks and then you will hit a nice stash.
Persistance and perspective are the keys. I don't do it to get rich I do it because it is a fun hobby. |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 08:09:07
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| Have your local bank order boxes of halves for you. Work on getting a good relationship with the vault teller starting with one or two boxes at first and then more later. The key to finding SILVERs is luck and the quantity of coins you search. Think in terms of a $1000 to get started searching halves. Remember when it's time to bring the dump coins back, find another bank that would be suitable and that has a free counting machine. |
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wolvesdad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 08:24:18
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| yeah, if you've gotten those $100 all from one bank, each time, and they are Customer Wrapped halves, could mean you are getting someone else's dumps that they've already searched through. |
"May your percentages ever increase!" |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 10:11:03
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| Welcome and keep on looking because there are times I look over 1000 dollars in halves before I find silver. |
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rainsonme
Penny Pincher Member
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 14:22:11
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| I was in St Louis last summer for a Cardnial game. I visited the banks within 4 blocks of the stadium, and got about 6 silver halfs. $100 is not very much to search. I have gone through much more than $1000 in skunks before getting lucky. |
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AGCoinHunter
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
685 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 15:09:02
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| Silver? What silver? There's no silver??? |
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Beau
Penny Pincher Member
216 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2010 : 23:37:19
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I searched 500 rolls of pennies and all were copper 1960 to 1982
some were brand new. I inherited them and was told they were all wheat cents, but they were not.
I went to the bank today and asked for half dollars.
I got 1 1966, 2 1967,and a 1954, out of $14. dollars worth of halves.
BEGINERS LUCK |
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TXTim
Penny Hoarding Member
629 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2010 : 06:53:51
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quote:
Originally posted by nelson
I have picked up a $100 in halfs like 5 times and never any thing good. its just makes me sad.
$3K a week should produce.
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Beer is my currency. |
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Slapshot
Penny Sorter Member
USA
63 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2010 : 08:30:24
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Originally posted by Beau
I searched 500 rolls of pennies and all were copper 1960 to 1982
some were brand new. I inherited them and was told they were all wheat cents, but they were not.
I went to the bank today and asked for half dollars.
I got 1 1966, 2 1967,and a 1954, out of $14. dollars worth of halves.
BEGINERS LUCK
Sweet find. I remember about a year ago my fist trip to the bank to ask for halves I got a 64 and a 40% and thought that I could do this every time. I did get 3 40% this weekend! But that's it so far this year. Keep trying I am still waiting for a few solid rolls of silv
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JustSayNoToFiat
Penny Pincher Member
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Posted - 03/11/2010 : 13:16:11
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Originally posted by nelson
I have picked up a $100 in halfs like 5 times and never any thing good. its just makes me sad.
Try bringing $3,000 home only to get skunked and have to bag up like 140 lbs. of CuNi. 
It can be a pain but if you stick with it, you can do ok. You just appear to be in a lean run.
Be sure to check out the silver tracking thread as well, it will give you an idea about the averages you can expect. |
It's Half Time...all the time. |
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penny bubba
Penny Sorter Member
50 Posts |
Posted - 03/19/2010 : 23:47:14
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| Had to take wife to doctor about 2 hours away yesterday stoped at a convience store there was a bank next door thought what the heck so I ask what the heck walk thur the store they had a door to the bank asked do you happen to have any half she said $2.00 worth as she walked to the other teller she said I have $210.00 in the valut she ask how many I wanted I said Ill take um all ended up with 21 40% halfs and 3 90% hit a few more banks today got 1 90% And 3 40% I think thats good for $300.00 in halfs to do that well my wife is pumped which is great now she loves it only thing is she wont let me open the rolls but oh well. I have only been thur about $400.00 in halfs and have 5 90% and 45 40% I am pumped picking up my first $500 box monday. |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 03/20/2010 : 08:00:02
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| You just never know where you will find silver anymore. |
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JobIII
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1507 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 13:21:36
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Just for perspective Nelson, This past week i looked through $4000 in halves. I found only a handful of 40%. But i'm not one of the lucky posters here for silver finds. Unless it's through Craiglist  . |
Selling Copper cents. $0 FV available at 1.4xFV. Also interested in trading for wheat pennies and other coins Please pm me for requests or inquiries.
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Jason
Penny Pincher Member
USA
138 Posts |
Posted - 03/22/2010 : 15:47:20
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| Sadly I moved away from the town that had my silver bank. They actually still order and stock halves in the vault and would also routinely get customer rolls of "grandpa's coin collection" as I call it. Those rolls yeilded unbelieveable results. About the only thing good that came out of this economic mess is older coins flooding into circulation. Now days im mostly searching bank tellers' drawers and not having much luck. Gotta make a trip back to "silver city," or maybe i'll just order a box from here and hope for the best. |
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marine70
Penny Pincher Member
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 03/23/2010 : 08:59:00
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| Here in Southern Illinois all I get is the ones that have a mark on them. |
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BOHICA
Penny Sorter Member
USA
41 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2010 : 01:27:48
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| I picked up $920 today in a casino in Nevada and got 3 90% (2 Franklins and 1 Walker) and 10 40%. I'm happy. |
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drew
New Member
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Posted - 03/24/2010 : 20:31:49
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I collect old coins I find in circulation (the occasional silver nickel, 90% dime or quarter, and wheat pennies.) As a cashier I get to poke through a lot of change and find interesting stuff pretty frequently.
Last week I asked if they had any halves at the bank, they had four and 3 of them were 40%. On Mon. I went back and asked again, and got another 40% and 2 regular cupronickels. They offered to order rolls of half dollars for me, but I don't really want to tie up a lot of money in hard-to-spend coins. |
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garnede
Penny Collector Member
USA
386 Posts |
Posted - 03/24/2010 : 22:18:25
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| Drew, Tie up the money! you can return them to another bank if you don't find anything. But the only way to find lots is to search lots. good luck! |
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