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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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 Posted - 11/14/2006 : 21:34:28
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Having doen some reading on the treasure forum board posted to the sorting percentages thread, I've noticed a lot of people getting good results searching boxes of halves for silver. Canada changed the size of its half dollars when it changed the composition from silver to nickel. But if I were in the united states, I would totally spend the $500 required to order a box of halves, because the ratios people are reporting seem to be pretty good, and free silver is better than free nickel or copper. Anyway, just my advice. Fell free to thank me by sending me any silver coins you find, lucky american bastards with your fashionable shoes and your minty fresh new lame-duck executive ;p
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2209 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2006 : 17:52:52
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Cheer up, Canadian Nickle, at least your dollar isn't going to go down the tubes WTSHTF. Is the Canadian Dollar as eff'd up as the US Dollar?
Not likely. |
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
938 Posts |
Posted - 11/15/2006 : 22:22:13
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| Same sh!t, different pile. Central bank. Unbacked currency. Fractional reserve requirements for comercial banks. |
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Posted - 11/16/2006 : 15:59:52
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Great tip Canada, I think I'll order a box and give it a try!
A billiard ball dropped from 1,362 feet (height of the South Tower) in a
vacuum would require 9.22 seconds to hit the ground. How then did the
towers collapse in 10 seconds and 11.4 seconds, and why has not one
member of the mainstream media insisted on honest answers from the
government in this regard?
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy
so monstrous [that] he cannot believe it exists."
- J. Edgar Hoover |
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 08:52:35
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If your luck is like mine, your bank will require a minimum order of $1000 for halves since they don't normally stock them. Then when I did place my order they were all 1997 uncirculated rolls! Anyway I started spending them like mad, and after about two months I had only spent $200 of them. So I deposited $800 in halves back to the bank. Then a month later I asked them if they had any halves, and the teller's eyes light up, "How many do you want?" I reply "How many do you have?" Then she pulls out the big $500 box plus a pile of rolls that I had deposited the month before! Needless to say, I didn't want any of those again. They'll never get rid of those!
Anyway, maybe it's time for me to try again, but I'll have to go to a different branch of my bank.
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2209 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 17:20:48
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I do not know if any forum members live near the state of New Jersey, but I recall that there are half dollar slot machines in Atlantic City's casinos.
All one would have to do is put in a twenty dollar bill in a slot machine and then press the cash out button, provided you can resist the urge to play.
Pennsylvania is getting in on the slot machine game, so getting halves from PA slots might be possible, provided PA slot parlors install Half dollar machines. |
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 20:52:26
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| A question to anyone who may own or use a metal detector. You can set those for silver, correct? Would it be possible to just take a roll out of the box and go over it with the detector rather than opening every roll and looking at the dates? That would sure speed up the process if it worked. |
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Canadian_Nickle
Penny Hoarding Member
Canada
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Posted - 11/17/2006 : 21:52:21
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| But sorting is the FUN part - especially with a box that cos you $500 - what a fun journey of discovery to waste on some damn droid. |
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2209 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2006 : 22:37:31
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Originally posted by eccentric
A question to anyone who may own or use a metal detector. You can set those for silver, correct? Would it be possible to just take a roll out of the box and go over it with the detector rather than opening every roll and looking at the dates? That would sure speed up the process if it worked.
Technically and theoretically speaking, you Should be able to cancel out or “discriminate” any metal you don’t want, but technically and theoretically is not always what happens in the real world.
Metal detectors, even those with the best computer brains, do not always ‘think’ the way we want them to.
To try to make a metal detector pick up a silver nickel in a roll of regular nickels is one tough job, since the detector was designed to find ‘good’ metals, i.e. gold silver, copper, nickel, etc. most likely, it will pick up the whole roll.
The canceling out process or ‘discrimination’ was really designed to cancel out pull tabs, nails and bottle caps as one looks for coins. Even the detectors with microprocessors that can be programmed to find just one specific target (gold or silver) are not always 100% accurate in their operations I have learned this the hard way, just because the gauge reads silver doesn’t mean it is silver. Believe it or not, even detectors can be fooled.
Like everything else in life, if finding gold and silver with a metal detector was easy, every one with such a machine would have retired as a millionaire long ago.
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
320 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 10:07:10
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There are a bunch of casinos in Tunica Co., MS, not far from Memphis, TN. I went through a period of unemployment for about 6 months about 12 years ago. My parents used to like to go the casinos, and I went along sometimes. Not having any income, I didn't gamble much, but I did occasionally get $100 face in half dollars and go through them while at the casino. I only found a few 40% after a few tries and decided it wasn't worth my time.
What I'm hoping for in getting halves at the bank is that someone turns some silver halves in without knowing what they are. There are a few anecdotal reports out there of people finding whole rolls of silver halves!
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2209 Posts |
Posted - 11/18/2006 : 18:40:16
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Here is an idea Metalophile,
even if you get the halves and you don't find any silver in the rolls,
just turn around and sell them on e-bay.
I can't remember the last time I recieved a half dollar in my change when I bought something, and there are those who wouldn't object to just buying the halves from you for, say, five cents over face value. Many collect half dollars since they are the largest coins still minted for circulation.
Giving out halves as Christmas gifts makes for a memorable gift, especially to coin collectors, proof or not.
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Posted - 11/18/2006 : 21:12:09
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| The movie theater near where my parents live charges $X.50 for a ticket (X is eith 5, 6, or 7, I can't remember). As long as you pay in cash and don't buy an even number of tickets they give you a 50 cent piece as change, always a 1990's or more recent coin but it's the only place I can think of that actually uses the coin. |
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Metalophile
Penny Collector Member
USA
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Posted - 11/19/2006 : 00:10:41
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I did a quick check on E-bay for closed auctions of rolls of 1997 halves, and they were only fetching a slight premium. After e-bay fees and such, not worth my time, and I doubt I'd be able to sell more than a fraction of the 100 rolls I had. I did acquaint a lot of cashiers with the silly things, though. Several asked me, "Why are you spending those? I'm going to buy them from the cash register." I never had any refused, though, although some cashiers gave me dubious looks as if to say they suspected I had stolen them from some coin collector.
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Cerulean
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
993 Posts |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 10:04:59
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The hardest part I've had is finding a bank with half dollars on hand in the first place. Nobody has them in stock, and I'll be hit with fees if I order a box.
Being in a credit-heavy city sucks. Nobody else is using cash anymore, so the banks don't handle it. It makes it hard to hunt for coins around here. |
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Posted - 11/28/2006 : 10:33:55
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Originally posted by pencilvanian
[quote]Originally posted by eccentric
Technically and theoretically speaking, you Should be able to cancel out or “discriminate” any metal you don’t want, but technically and theoretically is not always what happens in the real world.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice,
But in practice, there is a huge difference.
A billiard ball dropped from 1,362 feet (height of the South Tower) in a
vacuum would require 9.22 seconds to hit the ground. How then did the
towers collapse in 10 seconds and 11.4 seconds, and why has not one
member of the mainstream media insisted on honest answers from the
government in this regard?
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy
so monstrous [that] he cannot believe it exists."
- J. Edgar Hoover |
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