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What @enamel17 said. Also, you have to be persistent and polite. Showing them some love and appreciation with cookies helps to grease the skids. Ordering coins costs the banks courier fees and the boxes weigh 25 Lbs each ($500 in halves), so the tellers aren't always happy about having to deal with them. Try to get them to order them for you on a weekly basis automatically. It may take them awhile, but once they know you are going to show up every week, they might agree to do that for you. Then, find out which day they are delivered and go that afternoon or the next day and pick them up. That way you are not pestering them any more than need be and they aren't storing them for you in the vault and wondering when you will come get them. Good luck, and let us know how you do!

 

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I got this Franklin the other day in a Loomis box. I think it’s a proof (impaired - it has a lot of tiny scratches in the fields). Or maybe polished. It has a lot of luster. Opinions?

 

Great find!

 

Certainly looks like an impaired proof to me, especially that last reverse shot.

In the big 2011-2012 silver blowoff, I saw lots of 1960s proof Franklins in junk-silver bins at shows. A lot of people don't seem to have much respect for them. Glad this one finally found a good home!

 

Did 4 rolls of nickels and 2 rolls of pennies tonight. Found a 1948 wheat. A 1962 D penny in great shape and a 1970 S nickel. Had 2 more rolls of pennies but were both all 2019. Opened one......rolled it right back up. Didn’t even open the. 2nd one.



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Over the weekend I finished searching the 30 or so rolls of MWR halves I had laying around...Found nothing. Next I will search the ~400 74Ds I have set aside for DDOs, then it will be dump time again. Although I do not condone marking coins, I admit I make a small sharpie mark on the 74Ds I have checked for DDOs so I won't waste my time checking them when they come around to me again, which they do.

 

Asked the teller today if she had any halves. She’d had $5.50 worth. 3 were 90 percenters!

 

Nice!

 

I found a bank that had a box and 30 loose rolls. They were all machine wrapped (Loomis). Not a single keeper. No silver, nothing after 2001, and no proofs.

I now have $800 worth of halves to dump into the coin machine at the credit union

 

Eh, you won’t get much sympathy around these parts for having to dump coin. I’ve got 2,050 worth of halves quarters and cents to dump this (and every) week. Lol.
Sucks you didn't find anything though.

 

I'm not bummed about having to dump the coins, I'm bummed that I didn't find anything.

 

There was a half dollar CRHer on CT that had a skunk streak of 72 boxes. My longest was 6-7 skunk boxes and that was bad enough! Not finding silver makes the dumping part suck even more, lol.

 

I just consider it my weekly weight lifting session

 

No matter how I do it, I have yet to figure out how to make my coin dump day enjoyable...I am open to ideas

 

You know,,.......after reading about everybody's skunk boxes , and maybe finding 4 or 5 40 percenters in a whole box. I think the whole boxes consist of other peoples dumps. I seem to do much better getting 6 or 7 loose one from a teller or cashier. If I go to the bank and the teller says I have $270 in customer rolled halves, I can pretty much figure it is somebody's dump, and there will be no silver to be found. I would buy it anyway because I'm putting together a complete set of Kennedy's and I upgrade some and look for non silver ones to fill in my set. Now if a teller has less then 10 rolls I'm more encouraged , that somebody wrapped up grandpa's coins and turned them in.

I guess I'll continue to ask The convenience store cashiers and bank tellers for their halves..(which they are glad to get rid of) instead of finding a bank that I would have to open an account in for them to order me halves. Slow and steady wins the race!

 

1 bank tonight had $7 loose halves...1, ‘18D NIFC.

I also searched the 480 ‘74Ds I had set aside for DDOs...nada. I kept one of them that looks MS under my scope, and another with beautiful toning, so my effort wasn’t completely wasted.

 

You’re absolutely correct. I look through boxes because I find it relaxing. Also, drinking an adult beverage while searching helps me unwind after a long day.

As I’ve said before I have kept track of my silver finds the last 5 years and I’ve calculated I’ve earned about $1.50/hour. This is before accounting for gasoline and wear and tear on my car.

For me searching coins for collectibles is a hobby, and nothing more.

To each their own. Happy hunting.

 

I know you do something like this @berto, but taking my wife’s home made cookies to my dump banks on occasion can brighten the tellers’ day, which makes me smile.

 

Got 10 rolls of customer wrapped halves from Chase today. Also picked up a bunch of loose halves and Ikes from a TD.

In the 10 rolls of customer wrapped halves, no silver, but I did find a NIFC (2011D). Were there any non-S proofs? Every now and then I'll encounter a shiny coin. I have a 1995P that looks almost as shiny as a proof. It does not look like it was cleaned or polished.

Do Ikes carry any sort of premium over face? I've kept every Ike I've ever found.

 

No Kennedy halves proof without an S. Ike dollars carry a small premium when sold in multiples. There are varieties to be found with better value.