Can anyone out there give me a little advise? I recently started coin roll hunting. I bought 1150 worth of halves at a local bank and 75% were just garbage someone left behind. There was however 32 rolls of NIFC Half Dollars, a variety of dates.(2x 2001P, 2x 2001D, 1x 2003D, 2x 2008P, 2x 2008D, 2x 2009P, 2x 2009D 2x 2010P, 2x 2010D, 1x 2011P, 2x 2011D, 2x 2012P, 2x 2012D, 1x 2014P, 1x 2014D, 2x 2015D, 1x 2016P, 1x 2017P and 1x 2017D) I opened one roll of the 2009's not really knowing what I had. There are 31 unopened rolls left. I have no idea what to do with them. Any suggestions. I think the bank has another $250 of these.
Does the packaging look like this? https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Dollar-Wrapped-Brilliant-Uncirculated/dp/B06XF3PMWN
While the NIFC's are low mintage (a lot of them in the 3 million range) the survival rate is close to 100%, there's no real market for them unless you find a collector that needs those holes filled. They used to be able to get mint bags of 100 coins for $65. 2 or 3 very high grades and the rest dumped at face value. IDK what the mint bags cost now, more than $65 I imagine. Edit. I didn't realize that these have never been unwrapped. That does make them worth more. I assumed ( before I looked at the photos) that you just got a box of halves and there were a bunch of NIFC's in there from what I described above. This is MUCH better than that.
Yeah -- the U.S. Mint. Several months ago, we bought a couple of rolls of 2018 JFK halves (P/D). The blurbbage on the Mint's order page said these could only be obtained by purchasing directly from the Mint (with a premium), would not be found in circulation, blah blah blah (I paraphrase). About a month ago, a Youtube coin roll hunter was pissing and moaning over having gone to the bank to pick up a couple of boxes of halves, which lo and behold, were filled with... guess what. After some well-earned pissing and moaning of my own, I was informed that the Mint was disappointed at the sales, so, they just went and put 'em into circulation.
PS: WRT the OP's hoard, I'd suggest checking for known varieties/errors for those dates. You never know. (I bought a single roll of halves at the bank a few weeks ago. It was customer rolled, which meant either a collection dump or a picked-through dump. The odds being what they are, it was of course the latter. But, the picker-througher was only looking for those wonderfully (ahem) valuable 40% silver coins, so, I assume like all of his ilk, he carefully removed the paper, looked at the edges, and dumped everything back to the bank (we never return our coins to the bank; edited. So, I took out my loupe, and found the 1974-D DDO (WDDR-101? I forget) that's in the photo to the left of this post. His loss, my gain. The point being, you really do "just never know."
The mint doesn't put ANYTHING into circulation. They ship coin to the Federal Reserve when they order them and the Fed hasn't ordered half dollars from the mint for decades.
Either dumped at the bank by a family member after the coin collector passed away, or stolen then dumped at the bank. That would be my guess.
