Half $ search

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I've been searching halves for about 2 years now and Finding Franklins and Walkers is definitely possible. I had my best 3 box total ever last Thursday.

Here are the results


These results are not typical in my area but I have read on other forums of people finding much more than this in a single box. It is really hit-or-miss and different parts of the country produce better than others.

 

John:
Welcome to the forum.

 

In the bottom row you have a 74. DDO?

 

Thats a 74-S Proof. I have found a total of 9 74-D DDO halves so far. I always check for those and the 82-P, 83-P, and 90-P missing initial varieties.

 

9!?!? As in "Nine?!?!? Dang! How many boxes have you searched? I have found zero, so far. But I've only searched like 8 boxes. So far.

 

Thank you for the welcome. How much is a BOX ? Do you order them from your bank? JOHN

 

A box is $500 (1000 coins) and only once did I find a bank with a box in stock. I usually have to ask a teller to order a box (they look at me like I have 3 eyes) then wait a week or so til it comes in.

Oh, and I still consider myself somewhat new here, but "welcome to coin talk!"

 

I search between 1-3 boxes a week on average for the last 2 years. I have one bank that orders me 1 box a week. I just found another bank that will order me 2 boxes a week. Neither of them charge a fee to order the boxes. Some banks have offered to order boxes for me but it would cost $3-$5 per box. I'll stick with the free ones for now.

I also make road trips to ask banks/credit unions for halves. I've been able to get between a few hundred dollars worth to as much as $2,600 dollars worth in a single trip I always go into the bank and don't go to the drive-up window. Just ask the teller if they have any half dollars. Always ask if they have any in the vault or coin counting machine also. Sometimes the tellers don't think about them because they don't get many people asking about halves. I've had better luck with the road trips in the last 6-8 months or so because my boxes have been really bad until last week. I've had as many as 16 boxes in a row with no keepers but keep searching because you never know when the boxes like the ones I got last week will show up.

 

went to 3 banks over the weekend only was able to get $6 worth of halves. there was a 65 and a 69 kennedy out of the 12 of them so it was worth it

 

Just picked up another box -
So far NOTHING 6 rolls down - no silver, no proofs, no uncircs, no rare dates. Well - I'll keep going I hope it gets better.

 

Whole box - 1000 halves and NOTHING - no silver, no proofs no uncircs, no post 2000's - squat!
What a waste of time. Every roll contained only what I could call "Kennedy Culls" common dates, well worn, painted, even a couple with holes drilled in them - junk. Almost looked like they were picked through already - even though they were in bank shotgun rolls. I'll never go to that bank again.
Well they will get all of them back tomorrow.

 

looks like someone is having fun will you be getting another box?

 

Yes - but I am going back to the bank that I was using before. This box must have been picked thru - Its had to believe that there were NO keepers out of 1000 :headbang:

 

It's really not that hard to believe -- happens to me all the time. For me, it seems to be an average of about one out of every three boxes that's completely bare..

How did you return them to the bank? In rolls? A bag?

 

When someone searches thousands of dollars worth of halves and cashes them in, they have to go somewhere. The best case scenario is that you return the coins to a bank that uses a service that rolls their own coins, but pick your boxes up from a bank that uses a DIFFERENT service that rolls their own coins. This means that your rejects have to go through the actual Federal Reserve Bank before they get back to you. But keep in mind, anybody who returns their rejects to a bank that uses the same service that your bank does, you will be getting searched coins. The only way to combat that, is to search more coins that the other person (or people) searches.

 

I don't return my coins to the bank. I spend them. When or where I can along with 2 dollar bills, the new dollars, the SBA dollars, and along with the occasional less then BU Ike dollar. It gets these coins and notes that sit and do nothing back in circulation.

And yes I have payed for $50 things with nothing but 2s, Dollar Coins, and halves. Often times I get WOW expressions, or I have to do a mini educational lecture on what these coins are. Never once have I gotten any problem with spending them. These denominations make great tips too. (Ikes make awesome tip dollars)

The upside is that the bank tellers are often VERY willing to trade me the coins for $20s and even help me pick thru what they have. Even if I do not have an account. They -know- they won't be seeing the coins again and won't need to hassle with them or count them at the end of the day.

 

i have serched 2 boxes havent found silver in either

 

I put them back in the roll from which they came, and deposited the whole box in my account - $500 worth.
(I unroll one end of the shotgun roll - push the coins out - look thru them and put back in the roll and re-crimp the end.)

 

$500 is alot of cash to have sitting around - esp. in half $