Question for Half Dollar Roll Searchers

I would be money that I've called 150 banks with coin machines that are within a 2 hour drive of me and I have been turned down at every location but 1 for buying the bags. Apparently Dunbar has contracts with every freaking bank and they don't track the coin machine money the same way as they do the bank money. I'd jump all over any bag I can get.

 

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nice, maybe i should dump some of my rejects in their bag so that it fills up faster lol. they told me last week they had something like 300+ halves in the bag, but it holds 1000. I promised them I wouldnt dump there, but it is just to fill up the bag I am buying anyway which will eventually be dumped elsewhere lol. Or is that just bad form?

 

Ask them if they're cool with it. I bet they wouldn't have a problem. I also bet it holds 2k, or $1k face value, as most do... so just be prepared to have a lot of halves to dump if you wanna fill the bag.

The bank I get mine from doesn't mind just letting me take them regardless of how much is in there.

 

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very interesting thread. can anyone update. I'm just starting and considering buying $500. boxes to go thru in a medium size town, ( 50,000).

 

Best is customer wrapped rolls (CWR) or bags off a coin machine at a branch. The big modern machines (downtown, so to speak) sort out the silver, and therefore are a waste of time.

 

To make the answer a tad more complete:

1965-1970 - ALL Kennedys issued were 40% silver clad
1971, 1976 (also produced in 1975) & 1977 - SOME were 40% silver clad

1807-1836 - .892
1838-1964 - .900
1992-2009 Kennedy Silver Proof or Silver Prestige - .900
Various Commemorative silver coins - .900

It's extremely unlikely that you'll find anything pre-Walking Liberty (1916) or post-1964 Kennedy in bank rolls, though. My friend once found a 1920 Maine in a roll, and I've found a Liberty Commemorative, though... so it happens. Not sure WHY it happens, but it does. Maybe people in Hawaii are just more forgetful than elsewhere...

 

On the other hand, you can find all kinds of stuff in bags of halves. I found a circa 1740 farthing, and two USA large cents circa 1845 in bags, plus the usual foreign trash. More recently I found a 64 Canadian silver half, Walkers, Franklins, Kennedy proofs, Canadian two dollar coins (toonies). All make for fun.

 

In my state - good luck getting a bank to sell you a bag. Dunbar owns 99% of the machines and the banks can't do squat. I envy those of you getting bags

 

Is anyone keeping track of the % copper they are getting?

 

um?

 

Sorry NewCoinGuy,

I was asking a general question about cents, and shouldn't have replied to your thread. They don't tag us junior members for nothing.

 

$280 of halves, I got 79 40% and 1 90%

 

80 silver / 560 total coins. About 14%. I usually get 2.5% to 2.0 % silver. Good for you, that's terrific.

 

Been picking up halves from same bank for a while now but was not finding anything. Today when I went in the teller said "we just got some more in." She went back to the vault and returned this time with a bag of loose coins versus the normal rolls I've been getting. Face value was $103. Upon getting back in my vehicle I noticed a very gray looking coin inside the clear plastic bag. Sure enough it was a 40% silver. Then I saw another and another. I was so excited I went through the rest of the bag right then and there...LOL. Found a total of 42 (40%) and 2 (90%)!!!!!!!!

 

Jeez wish I could find boxes and rolls like you guys are getting

 

I am fortunate, indeed. The company I work for (I am CFO) has six or eight accounts, and we deposit five or six million dollars a month. That gives me an edge.

On the other hand, I am liberal with candy, and I drop off Starbucks cards from time to time... Even if you don't have a big business, there are ways. We bank with a major national bank - so it's not that it is some small one-branch bank. Get to know the branch manager, if you can. They are poorly paid, and a Starbucks card goes a long way, even with them.

 

relatively new at this

Just moved to CT and started getting boxes for first time ever. Bak in July got about 6 boxes and got absolutely nothing. So quit. Then in December got a couple boxes and got about 10 total. Now, in April, got total of maybe 9 boxes. The first was average, about 5. The next 2 was already picked thru by some guy who scratched every third coin across JFK's head. The next box got me about 40. Man, that was nice. I was giggling like a human pig and even slept with them in bed, although they were kinda cold to the touch at first. The one after that got me about 12. That was also acceptable. Then the last two got me absolutely nothing again! What a drag, man. That irritates the **** out of me! Uncool. I mean both boxes? WTF? So ordered 2 more boxes. And guess what? Same thing! Man, I hate this. Ugh. I feel like breaking a window or slamming a door against a wall. Man, I hate this. I don't get it. I know that the warehouse is in Harrisburg and that all the banks in the northeast have to get their Halves there. I keep ordering from the same bank because I'm figuring that each bank might have its own pile at the warehouse. I'm using the logic that the deeper they get into their pile, the older the boxes, and hence, the more silver in 'em. Right? But maybe that's all bs. The 2 boxes I got with those slashed-across-the-heads halves were from another bank altogether which I stopped going to because I didn't want anymore of those.

 

What banks have coin counting machines?

 

Varies from branch to branch. Wells Fargo does at many full-service branches in the Portland, OR area. Smaller branches don't. Large credit unions do, but our CU won't sell the bags.

 

just about every single bank has a coin counting machine. they are free to use if you bank there but if you dont they will charge for coin counting anywhere from 8-15%