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I enjoy coin hunting and finding treasure for face value in rolled coins and I buy junk silver coins for melt or heckle the sellers for less. I just think it is odd that people pay well over melt value for junk silver coins on ebay. I know this was kind of random but I was on ebay just casually looking while I was on here.

 

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I find 925 for under melt sometimes, but when you factor in you only get 90% out of it if you send off to a refiner your making $7.50 per hundred you spend. It's time consuming to find the deals and some you barely break even on. Roll searching is less risky but there is certainly more work involved. I like making making my money work for me by roll searching but if I come upon a good scrap silver deal I'll snap it up and use the proceeds to buy WL Halves. Free silver!
HOTN

 

I went to my 2-dime-box branch, Monday as usual, but they didn't have my regular 2 boxes to give me - come back tomorrow, they say! They did happened to have $340 in halves, which I picked up. Skunk.

I stopped at my 1-dime-box branch early and picked up my box. Solid 2012. Blah. I might stop at a small branch and try to trade them out for some rolls though.

 

Got $20 in CWR halves from two different banks and got nothing.

 

$220 BWR dimes - '46D, '52D
box dimes - '64

 

$140 BWR dimes: Just a 1997 UK 5p
$65 CWR dimes: Just a 2007 Canadian
$2 BWR nickels: Came in a Bullwhackers casino wrapper, but had nothing of interest
$2 CWR nickels: Two war nickels!
$220 CWR halves: Re-wrapped BWR's, nothing
$14.50 loose halves: Nothing
$45 loose Ikes: Nothing

 

Box of dimes = 6 roosies, earliest 1958.
Box of nickels = 3 War

 

Halves

Box #1 ($500) - skunk
Box #2 ($500) - skunk

 

Pennies

box of cents $25 - 10 Wheats

 

Good job, those are incredible boxes
HOTN

 

Box of dimes - skunk

 

4 boxes of halves gave up 1x40%.

Good Luck Everyone

 

Bank Teller only had $7.50 in Halves so I asked for them anyway and good thing I did. 1 more 40% for the month.

 

Dimes:
Box #1 - 1952 (x2)
Box #2 - skunked

Not sure if the pic will come through. If not, oh well...you all know what they look like...

 

Nickels:
Box #1 - 2 war Nickels (42' & 45')

I don't have the time or patience to spend much time on the pics, so the camera phone is as good as it get from me...Have fun everyone!

 

I'm back in it with a Box of Dimes - Skunk
HOTN

 

Back in the game after being out of the country to 2.5 weeks. 4 cwr of halves... one 40%.

 

$40.50 CWR halves - skunk
$175 CWR dimes - skunk

 

Box of Halves: 1969 and 1972 S.
The '72 S was a hole filler for me. Pretty cool.

 

Today's results:

$4 Pennies: 137 copper, 1 Canadian, 1947D, 1956D, 7 bonus/extra.

$14 Nickles: 2 X 1941P, 1946P, 1954D, 1957D, 1958D.

$20 Dimes, $380 Quarters, $150 Dollars, all skunk.

Out here in my neck of the woods, the banks always ask if I have an account if I want rolls. If it is One West or Chase, I do, and can get them at other branches. Otherwise pretty much no. Maybe one or two rolls, but that is about it. When I was a kid, I would get pennies, change them for nickles at another bank, change those for pennies, and so on. But being all grown up now, I can't get away with that.