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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 17:27:01
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So far 4 Brinks Boxes ($500/each) of Halves sorted:
90% Silver - 0
40% Silver - 0
Latest box today, had only 3 of the halves marked. |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1035 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 18:47:28
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Decided to search the dates other than silver - per one of the previous threads, since I didn't get any silver.
Found a 2002-D in AU shape. Also found a 1982-P with the missing FG initials on reverse error. It's in F condition. The 1982-P is probably worth more than a silver one. |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 19:26:07
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$100 nickels: silver skunk, but got an AU '39p and a 71s proof.
$500 halves: Silver Santa visits again.
20 90% (11 walkers,5 Franklin, 4 '64 Kennedys)
5 40% kennedys |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 19:34:34
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50$ in halves - 6 forty percenters.
2 boxes of dimes - 4 roos.
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 02/18/2009 : 20:29:43
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One $500 box, one '68D
One CWR, SKUNK. |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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killerken53
Penny Pincher Member
172 Posts |
 Posted - 02/18/2009 : 21:16:26
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$98 CWR nickels, silver skunk
$355 CWR dimes, 1 silver roos |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2009 : 19:25:48
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2 boxes halves:
Box 1 - five 40% halves
Box 2 - skunk
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2009 : 20:03:14
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$500 halves:
1 90%
6 40%
1 78s proof
1 two-tailed kennedy. |
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Market Harmony
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1274 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2009 : 20:06:23
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| halfs- 380 wrapped skunks |
goto the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
64 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2009 : 21:16:27
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walked up to one of my bank's branches inside a local grocery store after dropping off a prescription and asked the tellers if they had any halves. $7.50 worth of loose halves yielded 4 40%'s, almost doubling my total score so far this year (after having gone through 3 boxes).
Note to self: make a point to randomly pop-in and ask tellers about halves when anywhere near banks for any reason. |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2009 : 21:57:28
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2 boxes halves:
Box 1 - skunk
Box 2 -
1 - 1776-1976s
1 - 1966
5 - 1967
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 00:38:15
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Drive bys yielded one '69D out of a tellers tray today.
$60 CWR = Skunkage |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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Computer Jones
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1112 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 14:11:32
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$500 box today;
2 '64
1 '69 |
There's profit if you melt things!!
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searching4silver
Penny Pincher Member
111 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 14:54:19
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So I went to 4 banks during lunch. The first 3 didn't have any halves. However, the fourth bank yeilded $90 in customer wrapped halves and $58 in Ikes! So I took the halves bak to the office and looked at the rolls. One of them said "silver" written on the roll! This is what they yeilded;
3 40%
2 90% 1964's
7 90% franklins
These are the first Franklins I have ever found! I will go through the Ikes latter tonight!
The best part is on the way home I am picking up an order of $500 in Halves from my bank! |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 17:47:43
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$500 halves
1 40% |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 18:49:02
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| Searching silver, congrats on the 7 Franklins. I have been collecting halves since sept of 2008, and I have 7 Franklins. Its really cool when you get a good score. My first good score was when I bought 9 rolls of halves and one of them was all BU 1964's. |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2009 : 18:50:31
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1 box of dimes.....4 roos.
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 02:03:36
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$475 CWR dimes - 3 silver.. much better than my usual 1 silver dime.
$140 CWR nickels - 1 silver WN. Also 2 dimes, 3 pennies, a 1949 50 Pfennig, and a 1 peso bimetallic.
$30 CWR halves - 1 40%er.  |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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Hirbonzig
Penny Collector Member
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 06:54:17
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| Checked 5 boxes of nickles and found 2 war nickles and a dateless buffalo. I'm going to be in the northern part of Wisconsin the next few days hitting small town banks up for their silver. I hope those "badger" banks do not turn out to be all skunks! |
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 07:23:33
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February 2009 RC Total
Nicks
$4912 Searched
33 WN
Dimes
$8115 Searched
53 US
3 Can
Quarters
$0 Searched
0
Halves
$36,114.00 Searched
316 40%
116 90%
18 Proofs
4 Ag Proofs
19 NIFCs |
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fb101
Administrator
USA
2856 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 09:14:49
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| $100 nickels = skunk |
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Market Harmony
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1274 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 13:35:12
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Great finds today...
Turned in $104.88 in zincolns + $153.50 in halfs at one bank.
Took that maoney to another bank and picked up $200 in pennies, and $40 in halfs:
very high ratio of copper/zinc, including 3 rolls of 100% wheats, plus many other dispersed throughout the lot
One roll of the halfs were all 40%... the other three were 100% skunks
This was only my second time buying half dollars... I think I'm hooked now
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goto the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org |
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oober
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1304 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 22:19:28
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Originally posted by Market Harmony
Great finds today...
Turned in $104.88 in zincolns + $153.50 in halfs at one bank.
Took that maoney to another bank and picked up $200 in pennies, and $40 in halfs:
very high ratio of copper/zinc, including 3 rolls of 100% wheats, plus many other dispersed throughout the lot
One roll of the halfs were all 40%... the other three were 100% skunks
This was only my second time buying half dollars... I think I'm hooked now
Ya yout toast!!!! |
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Posted - 02/23/2009 : 04:11:07
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New member.
Last Saturday as I walked around town I stopped in 4 banks and asked for halves. I came up with $19.50 total.
1 90%
1 40%
Between finding two halves and sorting through my normal everyday change after finding a Mercury last month, I am hooked, I'll be ordering rolls and boxes now. |
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mingusdew
Penny Sorter Member
64 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2009 : 15:08:06
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Wow, a lot of competition coming around in the half dollar market! Might explain why my returns have been so bad this year, any of you new comers sorting in the central PA area?
At any rate, welcome to the world of half dollars. Try not to let the skunks discourage you after the honeymoon ends. Luck tends to come and go. |
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Fortune favors the informed. |
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