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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2009 : 12:27:50
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| I have went through 8 successive skunks in halves now. I do 3 boxes per week. I don't have the good luck that I did when I started. I sort dimes as well and sometimes I get up to four-five boxes of dime skunks but that always changes. I don't have much of either silver dimes and halves but I did sell off 809 forty percenters not to long ago. I sold 70 forty percenters here on realcent just a couple of weeks ago. I keep the 90% stuff. My halves come from loomis. I wish my bank would start getting some brinks halves. The change might be lucky. |
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Gr33nday43
New Member
Uzbekistan
10 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2009 : 14:18:50
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| Nickelless, just because it didn't work for you doesn't mean that it won't work for other people. I have wanted to search halves but really don't find the time to do it. Maybe if you get a few more boxes your luck will turn around. |
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WIZARD1
Penny Sorter Member
USA
48 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2009 : 08:16:38
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| I have had decent sucess with with time spent searchin halves I have a job where I go to the bank daily so im not wasting gas. As far as drive bys i also have made over 50.00 an hour more than once or twice but I live in an area where there are sometimes 10 to 15 banks on one road in a five mile stretch I take an hour or two on my day off and just go up one side down the other in the last 6 months I hav acummulated about 17 rolls of 40% 6 rolls 90%. I used to pay 8 to 12x face on ebay this is well worth my time.I live in central florida maybe a good area for this anyone else have luck in florida |
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searching4silver
Penny Pincher Member
111 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2009 : 10:53:51
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I have been doing this off and on for the past 6 months to a year. I started out searching pennies by hand. The shear volume needed to make it worht my time is imense. Therefore I studied the results of other peoples searches and found the the best possiblity for finding silver was in halves. So now I try and have a continual stream of boxes ordered at banks. Also, I carry about $500 with me at all times, so that every time I pass a bank I ask if they have any half dollars. I work in a downtown of a major city. So I can hit 25 banks in just a couple blocks from my office. So far I have found about $100 face in silver. Not a ton, but I look at it this way, I could either be watching TV and killing time or having some fun and making a small profit in the process.
I have started hitting flea markets and antique shops. I have been picking up coins at less that spot (because spot is rising and these dealers are hurting for sales now).
The next plan is to start searching for sterling silver at garage sales and have it refined into bars of silver.
Again not a hobby that will get you rich, but fun with a slight profit.
It really amounts to how much value you put on your time. |
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Dan52
Penny Collector Member
USA
422 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2009 : 21:37:14
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I found the following in some loose halves.... (not recent)
1955 is the only key date in the Franklins.
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
441 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2009 : 22:06:48
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Nice 1955. Note that yours has the "bugs bunny" error, which is fairly common and due to a die clash.
I've only found 1 1955 Franklin ever. |
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
 Posted - 06/02/2009 : 00:05:36
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Originally posted by searching4silver
fun with a slight profit
I like that, well said.  We should put that on a t-shirt. |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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vrbsroma
Penny Collector Member
394 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 16:02:04
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Originally posted by Dan52
I have went through 8 successive skunks in halves now. I do 3 boxes per week. I don't have the good luck that I did when I started. I sort dimes as well and sometimes I get up to four-five boxes of dime skunks but that always changes. I don't have much of either silver dimes and halves but I did sell off 809 forty percenters not to long ago. I sold 70 forty percenters here on realcent just a couple of weeks ago. I keep the 90% stuff. My halves come from loomis. I wish my bank would start getting some brinks halves. The change might be lucky.
Damn! How long did it take you to get that many 40ers? |
As far as I know, it is stated "In God We Trust" on the US dollar. How can I trust this currency if I do not believe in God?
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
When I give my two cents, they're always copper! |
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Silver Surfer
Penny Pincher Member
USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2009 : 19:51:47
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Went through 2 rolls of halves today. Found one 1967 JFK 40% half. They are still out there.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of it's victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis |
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MRBONG411
Penny Sorter Member
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 14:35:02
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I have gotten 4 boxes of halves over about 4 months. First two boxes nothing, third box I found 1 - 40% half.
This last box however was a great box. Was lucky and found the following coins.
1 - 2000 Equador Centavos
1 - 1986-S Liberty Half
1 - 1961 Franklin Half
18 - 40% Halves
The 2000 Equador coin looks like silver but not sure it would be?
Also wanted to ask about the 1986 Liberty Half. I have never seen one of those before.
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 14:45:10
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Originally posted by MRBONG411
I have gotten 4 boxes of halves over about 4 months. First two boxes nothing, third box I found 1 - 40% half.
This last box however was a great box. Was lucky and found the following coins.
1 - 2000 Equador Centavos
1 - 1986-S Liberty Half
1 - 1961 Franklin Half
18 - 40% Halves
The 2000 Equador coin looks like silver but not sure it would be?
Also wanted to ask about the 1986 Liberty Half. I have never seen one of those before.
Ecuador 50c 2000 - steel composition.
Just found one of these in my last $1000 bag of halves.
1986D Statue of Liberty half - Clad composition (mintage=928,008)
1986S Statue of Liberty half - Proof, Clad composition (mintage=6,925,627
The BU 1986D is scarcer. I've found one of each of far this year.
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MRBONG411
Penny Sorter Member
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 14:55:48
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| Oh thanks country |
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RyanAKL
Penny Pincher Member
USA
224 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 14:57:01
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| I must have good luck i just went thru my fist box and pulled 14 40's out, some had two in one roll. I called my bank and orderd two more boxes, i hope im just as lucky with the next two. but it goes to show that they are still out there, alot of them. |
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daviscfad
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1664 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2009 : 21:44:35
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| a guy on another forum i am on found 30 rolls of 90%. |
Inquiring minds want to know |
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buyingsilvers
Penny Collector Member
441 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2009 : 22:01:36
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That's an incredible find.
On a sidenote. I just found out that I depleted a second bank vault. :(
Only 3 vaults left in my area, and one of them used to be my dump
bank (will have lots of skunk rolls mixed in). The one I'm working
on now is the lucrative one that had 60 90% and 35 40% in a batch of
10 rolls. |
Edited by - buyingsilvers on 06/09/2009 22:33:20 |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2009 : 22:33:34
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| I think that it is still worth the time to go through halves. But I that is not my main focus now. I am going though pennies now but when I find halves I will look over them. |
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MRBONG411
Penny Sorter Member
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 16:05:24
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Box five of halves.
Nothing.
But there will be a box six next week because you never know.
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searching4silver
Penny Pincher Member
111 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 16:26:47
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I was having a few bad weeks with searching, but today I got a $500 box and i hit the jackpot;
1 1944 walker
2 Franklins 1963, 1960
6 1964's
45 40%
that is according to coinflation $150.15 !!! Awesome! |
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MRBONG411
Penny Sorter Member
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 19:37:16
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 06/10/2009 : 20:27:04
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| That why we get doing boxes because the next one might be the one that will worth it. |
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rainsonme
Penny Pincher Member
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 02:22:32
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| Mr. Country, do I understand from your spreadsheet that you have personally sorted 707k of half dollars year to date? That is impressive. Very interesting data. I think I find about 0.3% silver in halves; but you are finding 0.6%. I am in Oregon. For sheer volume, I have to order boxes/bags from the larger banks. The small banks don't have much volume, and even tho they may occasionally have a high %, it is on a low number of halfs. |
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Country
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3121 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 08:20:16
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Originally posted by rainsonme
Mr. Country, do I understand from your spreadsheet that you have personally sorted 707k of half dollars year to date? That is impressive. Very interesting data. I think I find about 0.3% silver in halves; but you are finding 0.6%. I am in Oregon. For sheer volume, I have to order boxes/bags from the larger banks. The small banks don't have much volume, and even tho they may occasionally have a high %, it is on a low number of halfs.
I maintain the spreadsheet for the Realcent silver searchers. The data represents the total amount of coins found and searched through by everyone that has made posts in the "Official 2009 Half Dollars and Other Coins" within the "Silver Coins, Gold, and other Bullion Metals" section of Realcent.
Personally, I have searched through $21323.50 (42647 coins) of halves finding 43-90%ers and 344-40%ers of silver so far this year. |
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rainsonme
Penny Pincher Member
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2009 : 12:46:49
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OK, I feel better. I search between 5,000 and 8,000 halfs each week, so YTD that would be about 160,000. I don't think I can do more than that. Your data shows a pretty steady saturation of silver. My experience is that the concentration of silver is diminishing some. I have regular orders with 5 bank branches, and then I pick up whatever I can from about 20 other banks I visit thru the week. This Saturday I visited 11 banks on my normal saturday morning search, sorted over 1500 halfs, and got only 1 40% for all my effort. WellsFargo is one of my regular weekly orders, but I have NEVER found ANYthing in their bags.
A question: I am going to start rolling and putting away my 40% halfs. Is there any reason to separate any of them? Other than the one and only 1970 that I found, are all the other 40%'s of equal value? Are there any special mint marks, or known die flaws in the 65-69 coins? |
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 00:41:39
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Originally posted by rainsonme
OK, I feel better. I search between 5,000 and 8,000 halfs each week, so YTD that would be about 160,000. I don't think I can do more than that. Your data shows a pretty steady saturation of silver. My experience is that the concentration of silver is diminishing some. I have regular orders with 5 bank branches, and then I pick up whatever I can from about 20 other banks I visit thru the week. This Saturday I visited 11 banks on my normal saturday morning search, sorted over 1500 halfs, and got only 1 40% for all my effort. WellsFargo is one of my regular weekly orders, but I have NEVER found ANYthing in their bags.
A question: I am going to start rolling and putting away my 40% halfs. Is there any reason to separate any of them? Other than the one and only 1970 that I found, are all the other 40%'s of equal value? Are there any special mint marks, or known die flaws in the 65-69 coins?
What state are you in?
No, there is no reason to seperate any 40% from other 40%, except the 1970. |
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rainsonme
Penny Pincher Member
USA
183 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2009 : 21:27:37
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I am in Oregon. Seems like the concentration of silver is dropping a bit. I went to 5 banks today, and got nothing for the effort. I get bags and boxs Tue-Sat. Just stop at other local branches on Mondays.
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