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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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 Posted - 10/15/2008 : 06:11:35
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Today is perhaps one of my luckiest days when it comes to searching for silver coins. I went to the bank today and asked the lady if they happened to have half dollar rolls and she replied that she had 3 ten dollar rolls. I thought about getting just 1 but something told me hey why not get all 3 of them. So I got all 3 rolls and went to my car and opened each roll. The first roll yielded no silver whatsoever, second roll was the same thing but when I opened the 3rd roll lo and behold there was $10 worth of brand new uncirculated and shiny 1964 Keneddy Halves. My eyes couldnt believe how lucky I was...Ill post pics of the roll tonight.What amazes me is that the roll was generic and had a stamp of the bank on it, but Im wondering if this was a roll sent in by a bigger bank or one rolled by a customer.
So what are your lucky finds
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wagsthadog
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 08:31:21
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Hi there-
My best day was when I found 25 40% and 11 90% halves in a single box. Since then it's been considerably LESS!
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pennypincher
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 08:36:34
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Awesome find rodzm! About 17 years ago, I worked at this restaurant, and got change from the bartender to make a phone call. The quarters made a thud thud thud sound when they fell into my hand........... I came away with a couple of full rolls of silver quarters for face. I wonder how many they gave out as change that day?
My other big silver find was a freebie! I was cleaning out my garage, vacuuming out 50 years of cobwebs from the rafters, and found an old metal Band-Aid tin full of primo hardly circulated condition silver coins. The newest being 1958 and the oldest was a standing liberty quarter. Some kid must have stashed his coins up there in the 50's and forgot about them. It felt like finding buried treasure! There were Franklin halves, silver quarters and Mercury dimes, over $10 face altogether. |
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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2008 : 08:41:31
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| Wow pennypincher neat story...it still puzzles me how a full roll of uncirculated halves can be found all from the same year. Is it possible that the bank gets their bulk coins from the same place because if so Ill be placing many orders with my bank, hell I may stumble upon many silver rolls. Theyre all really nice and shiny, almost off the press |
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eharrison
Penny Pincher Member
USA
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 13:25:46
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| That was most likely from part of the U.S. GDP (generally dumb public) who didn't realize or care what they were chashing in. Most banks get their coins from the same place but they also get coins from customers, witch is where your coins most likely came from. |
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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2008 : 13:35:14
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Originally posted by eharrison
That was most likely from part of the U.S. GDP (generally dumb public) who didn't realize or care what they were chashing in. Most banks get their coins from the same place but they also get coins from customers, witch is where your coins most likely came from.
If the coins were found in the states that would be a different stroy but these were found at a bank inside my military base in Germany. I cant really fathom any customers dropping off a near uncirculated roll of 64 Kennedy's, the amount of people here on post is a few thousand so it makes my find rather unique I think |
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pennypincher
Penny Sorter Member
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 13:44:56
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Maybe they've been sitting there untouched since the 60's. ?
How many people in a military base use and circulate half dollars? |
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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2008 : 13:53:41
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Originally posted by pennypincher
Maybe they've been sitting there untouched since the 60's. ?
How many people in a military base use and circulate half dollars?
The roll looks fairly new and even had a stamp of August 8 2008. There's only 15,000 people assigned to the local military community of which only a fraction of the 15,000 live and work where the bank is. Its a rather small community and with lots of people leaving yearly I cant possibly see too many halves circulating, especially when they look brand new |
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moboman
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 14:02:08
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Originally posted by rodzm
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Originally posted by pennypincher
Maybe they've been sitting there untouched since the 60's. ?
How many people in a military base use and circulate half dollars?
The roll looks fairly new and even had a stamp of August 8 2008. There's only 15,000 people assigned to the local military community of which only a fraction of the 15,000 live and work where the bank is. Its a rather small community and with lots of people leaving yearly I cant possibly see too many halves circulating, especially when they look brand new
Did the other rolls look brand new too? Maybe someone stashed away a roll when they first came out in 64, and the others are just from circulation. You have to remember "everyone" liked JFK and wanted the halves. Now its 2008, the original hoarder either died or just needed the money for gas. |
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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2008 : 14:10:11
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| The other rolls were identical but contained circulated coins from various years...I think the newest one was a 2001. They all seemed to have come from the same place, the question is from where. If this place yielded an entire roll of 64's it could very well yield more silver |
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jadedragon
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 14:26:01
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I'd ask the bank to get you more 1/2s if they can. Tell them you are a coin collector (true).
Second, I'd not return the 1/2s you don't want to the bank because that will not help you get more. Stack them up and run a marker down the side, then spend them. Some will be saved by people as a novelty, and some will eventually make thier way back to the only bank. If you keep buying 1/2s there you will likely see them again. If you want to collect silver halfs you will want to know the impact you are having. In a community that small you could actually personally create a culture where 1/2s regularly curculate.
Alternately, maybe there is a local market for the coins you don't want to keep with coin collectors in Germany. You might just get over face for the clad by selling them on ebay or to a coin shop.
I read somewhere that banks in military bases and remote locations using US money get regularly supplied with coin and bills. So they should be able to source more. I've often wondered about collecting in some isolated communities - there could be coins that are very old just sitting around if no one is looking for them.
The Mint stopped making 1/2s for circulation in 2001 - so it is very hard to find 2002+ 1/2s that have been broken out of a collector set. |
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rodzm
Penny Pincher Member
USA
143 Posts |
Posted - 10/15/2008 : 14:35:07
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| Legacypac...thank you for all the information. I think I will spend the rest of them in the local establishments and use the only 2 banks I have as my buying sources. I never gave it any thoughts in selling the rolls in Germany which could very well give me more than face value for the coins. Im going to be doing this every 2 weeks or so and hopefully I can get more rolls like this |
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