Roll-searchers, post your results!

My two major finds [1.) 5 90%ers and a roll of 40%ers 2.) The Franklin this past weekend] have been at banks in pretty large suburban areas. I live out in the country and check my 4 banks within 15 miles weekly but usually some old fellow has already been by to get the halves. I think so much has been said about the rural banks being the place to go that people have quit hitting up the suburban banks. To me it makes sense anyway: country folks don't have a whole lot to do so they hear about silver skyrocketing and start searching the banks, city folks are too busy to want to go hit up banks for rolls of change to look for silver. I'm from a suburban area and my wife is as well so I hit up the banks whenever we go to see either of our parents. This is just my 2 cents of course. Being relatively new to this thing I don't have much foundation to lay it on but after reading a lot of other posts it seems like a pretty good theory.

 

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I think as far as boxes go, the key in finding silver is to get the coins from a source that few really do. For example, I know mine come from the fed. I dump at a bank that uses brinks. So until brinks runs out then they won't get boxes from the fed.. Food chain type thing. There is no middle man

 

Two boxes of dimes, 2 silvers. One box was dry, the other had the silvers. One was also an ender. Both Roosies.

Gonna pick up some halves on my way to work, and maybe another box of dimes somewhere along the way.

 

Went to a different bank today and got 10 rolls of halves. SCORE! Finally found a 1966! Then I got some dime rolls and found a 2004 S in perfect condition. So today was a good roll searching day.

 

$250 in halves, skunk. Did find and pull an MS64-65 1972-D. Really nice coin, probably the nicest clad half I've ever pulled, sans proofs.

 

600 Quarters:
Nothing at all.

It seems that around here dimes are the way to go. Though it is harder to explain away why you are buying 1k in dimes rather than with "Oh, I am trying to complete state quarter sets"

Oh, also, I am on the Monterey Bay in Ca.

I have a feeling that there is a good amount of silver around here. We have a lot of people who have no interest in these sort of things, as you often get in towns with a very high college student population, and we also have a lot of older folks who may be selling.

 

My husband stopped by the bank on the way home and asked for a box of dimes. They didn't have any bank rolls but plenty of CWRs, so they filled a box with those. I was a little disappointed because my luck with CWRs really sucks but boy was I wrong. Three silvers! One nasty 1964 and two really nice dimes, a 63 and a 64. So my total day's haul was 3 silver dimes, a pristine 2004 S, and 1 Kennedy 40%er. Not too shabby!

 

$13 in halves today, one cwr and the rest loose... one 48d in the roll Also picked up 4 ikes.

 

a box of halves: Nothing 11th skunk box fml

 

My (bad) luck continues....lol

OK, it's a new week, the recent run of bad luck has got to change, right?

Well, check this out.....

I go to our coin club and Erin (AggieCollector) is there with his two kiddos. Then, Incarnate comes for the first time as a visitor. We all sit down at a table and chat (it was good to finally meet you Ryan!). Door prizes start. Erin's daughter wins one. Then Erin's son wins. Then Erin wins (gives it to his daughter). Then Incarnate wins. Yep, everyone at my table won a door prize but me. LOL. It that too funny or what.

Then I get home to finish opening the two boxes of halves I picked up today:

Box 1: Skunk
Box 2: (Drum roll please) 1 40%er. (A sarcastic cheer rises from the crowd)

LOL.

Of course, I had been having great luck a couple weeks ago and I know it will all even out, but man, I'm ready for the change of luck right now.

bob

 

LOL!! It isn't Inquisitive, but Incarnate.. I'm sure Inquisitive will be like WTF?!?!

And CHEERS for the 40%er!!!

 

Wish there was a good coin club around here.

 

There was an 1807 Half up for auction. I left before the temptation got a hold of me!

 

I just wrapped up going through the last of my "loose" copper hoard. It's all in bags now, still a few bags (Probably another $150) to be counted.

My god, I have a lot of copper cents. 8 bags with $50 each, 4 boxes with $20 each, 3 boxes with $10 each. $510 in copper cents, hand-sorted, not including what hasn't been counted. I pulled a ton of RD BU's from there I didn't pick out back when I started doing cents, including some absolutely gemmy and PL 1981's I think came from an original roll.

 

$100 in nickels: 1 dateless buffalo and many 1938-1950s

 

box of halves... 4 40%'s, 4 nifc's, and a clad 2003s.

 

What is nifcs? just nice finds?

 

NIFC=Not Intended for Circulation. 1970, 1987, 2001-P, and every year since 2002 had halves that were either put in mint sets or sold in collector's rolls and bags, and they weren't meant to be put into circulation.

 

Well yesterday I popped into the local bank by my home and not only did I nab a Silver Certificate for 4 clad quarters, I saw that they had two rolls of halves! I didn't have $20 on me to nab them at that time (I was just there to see what they had so I can swing by today!), but the rolls looked different than the standard CWR you see around here. Normaly, they are a cardboard color with red/orange striped and it says "$10 Halves.". The wrappers for these rolls are a lighter cardboard color, not white, but not the normal color for cardboard. No stripes, and just says "$10 Halves" in black. I have a good feeling about these ones. The teller said he would be there all day today and they are mine if I want 'em. I told him I would be in after work! Wish me luck my friends!

 

Did good with dimes yesterday. Picked up $50 worth when I got my box of halves in the AM and got 1 silver Rosie. Picked up $100 on my way home and got 2 silver Rosies. The box of halves yielded a 1964.