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I tried there once, the entire box was marked. Good luck, you will need it.

 

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I forgot to mention, in my last box, I found a really nice 1982 no FG half.

I suggest we just start calling Aggiecollector "King Erin," lol, because, there is no doubt, he is the king of silver treasure hunting.

Incarnate, I missed your text, did you pick up some morgans somewhere?

 

Haha..All hail king Erin...hehe

 

I did 2 boxes of nickels over the weekend. They may have been the best ones yet, yeilding:

5 War Nickels
1 1938 Jefferson
2 Buffalos (1 1930 and one with the date worn off)

And this guy below:



This is only my 3rd V Nickel, and the first one from the 19th Century! I was breathless for a second when I found it. It isn't in great shape, but it is the oldest coin I have found roll searching. I couldn't believe I found something that old in a Brinks box.

This coin was struck when William McKinley was president!

I love roll searching...

 

AWESOME pickup!!!!!!! And a great overall couple of boxes as well. 5 War Nickels in 2 boxes is killer. Congrats.

 

I have just spent 2 hours reading posts in this thread.. WOW some of you folks have amazing luck I will say. I think the next trip I take to the good ole USA I am going to grab some coinage and try my luck.

 

So here's a question. Those of you that have sold some 40% halves recently for upwards of $90 a roll, where are you selling them? Just your local coin shop? I went to my local coin shop and they offered me $3.80 per coin, which would be $76/roll. I called around and the best offer I could find was $4.00/coin, or $80/roll. I mean, spot prices haven't fluctuated more than a buck or two over the past week or so. I may just ebay them I guess.

 

Coin SHOW

 

Wha do people do wit the halfs once they find them?Melt them to cubes

 

Woo, neither of you are in my area, Newark and Jersey City are about 45mn-1hour north of me

 

Went to the bank. Asked for halves, they didn't have any. Asked for $100 in dimes, they looked at me like I was crazy, but gave them to me. The other teller was looking at my $100 bill the whole time thinking it was counterfeit, holding it up in the light and all that... Didn't feel like trying to order a box of halves from that bank after that. I don't have an account there anyway, so whatever. No silver in the dimes. A 5 pence snuck in there though, so a loss of 10 cents.

 

Bob-King Solomon has a nice ring to it. What sayeth you AggieCollector???

 

I know Erin sold some 40%ers to a coin shop down here in Houston a few days ago for $97 a roll. I'm going to be selling 10-12 rolls as soon as I can get $100 for them.

Long lunch break. 7 banks. $95 of halves. I found 2 40%ers......it more than paid for the gas.

Erin and Ryan: One of these finds was a bank with $1800 worth of halves.....I figured it to be a dump bank so I only bought $50. Sure enough, brinks rolls split with a razor blad and taped back up. So, avoid Sterling Bank at 45 and 1960 (that is 3 dump banks in that general area I've found in last 2+ weeks).

Ryan.....King Solomon for Erin.....LOL

 

Nothing so far with the 2011 D cents. I bought 1400 cents from a friend of my daughters. Some of the copper looks OK, hope there will be something in that batch.

gary

 

All right after last weeks skunking I took off the weekend to decide if I was going to move forward of course I would who gets the jones and not keep at it? I think even with all the skunks I think 1 decent and box and I'll be even and above in cost. Yes 16 boxes cost money in gas and time from picking them up and dropping them off. Anyhow I order 2 boxes again this week all from the same banks I got them last week and if I get skunked again I will have to try ne banks then I guess. I also open another new account at a bank I had never heard of but I'm new to my area and they have several branches so why not all they charged was $25 to open the account with no fees. Man I love this it is like when I collected baseball cards but now when I get crap or should I say clad I can return it to the bank and play again. :devil:

 

that's 2 boxes each at a toltal of 8 banks for a grand total of 16 boxes. Will let you know how it goes.

 

I got $90/per on the BST of the PCGS forums.

 

Lol Iowa must be like in a coin collector recession. I just went to the bank and got 2 Kennedy half dollars, and a roll of dimes.

I just checked the half dollars and it turns out that the 1967 and 1968 half dollars i got are 40% silver. According to http://www.coinflation.com/silver_coin_values.html there five dollars melt value.

Oh and the roll of dimes? I got a 1964 dime which is 90% silver according to the same site.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/shadaw_c/SilverDimeError.jpg

^ not only that but am i the only one seeing just a W and not a E on this coin?

 

In the Houston area, several shops are paying between $90 and $97. One is paying $80. A couple of jewelry stores are paying $60 and $70 and the pawn shops are paying $40-$50. I called a bunch of places last Saturday before I sold some. These prices are with spot around $36.

Erin

 

I searched my 5th box of halves from Friday's orders. 1 lonely 1967 Kennedy. Out of 5 boxes I got 5 - 40%ers. At least it wasn't a skunk. I sure cooled off from the previous week when I was on fire.

Dimes have been pretty decent. I got a box from Wells Fargo thay yielded 2 Rosies (1950 and 1956).

No more half boxes till Friday. I might hit a few banks if I have time to search for loose at lunch the next few days, but work is very busy. So, I may just try doing 2 boxes of dimes a day till Friday and see what happens.