Went to the bank today to cash a check, and after cashing the check I asked if they had half dollars. There were $100 in hand-wrapped, so I got those. Out of 200 half dollars, I got 99 40% halves, with at least 6 in every roll, and 2 1964 halves. At the current silver price, these combined are worth almost $1,000! I'd consider it a pretty good Monday.
Congratulations! That's a really great find! It always feels amazing when that happens. It's why we endure the many loosing searches, for the next "big one". It can become addicting, kinda like lottery scratchers, except loosing still breaks even! That being said...long ago, I calculated my time, effort and rate of return for getting, searching, and disposing of bulk coins to search. Usually it doesn't even beat minimum wage. It never stopped me though, every once in a while there's a bigger win. I'm usually not 'that guy' that has a bigger or better (fill-in-the blank-here), but the thread title "This is the biggest silver score I've ever had!" has reeled me in, I've got a story to tell: Several years ago I spent a lot of time trying to find a connection to get bags of Ike Dollars. One day this came up in conversation with a friendly teller, and she told me she knew somebody that could, infrequently, get them for me. My Ike searching began with a Peace Dollar find in my first $1000 bag. I soon realized, I think because of the lack of availability preventing a lot of searchers, that searching Ikes whenever I was able to get them had a much higher find rate. Morgans, Peace, Mexican silver, Casino tokens, and even Silver Eagles. I once found a clearly fake Seated dollar... it was a rare bag that contained pure Ikes. For a couple of years I searched a bag or 2 every 4-6 weeks, as often as I could. One day I got this, one of 2 $500 bags: I saw bright silver edges the second I laid eyes on these bags and I remember thinking "how does something like this go entirely though the system unnoticed?" Final tally: 5 Morgans 2 Peace 83 Silver Eagles I never again thought about sub-minimum wage returns. Unfortunately, shortly after this my Teller got married and moved out of state, but I had a great run while it lasted!
