I bought $200 in halves from the bank last night and already got through the first $100 worth. This is the first roll searching I've done since I was a kid. I found a beautiful '67 and a kinda rough '69, so I'm already pretty happy with silver being so high. Another thing I found were two halves that had a totally smooth edge...but the obverse/reverse weren't that worn. It's like they came from the mint that way. How common is this on halves? Are they worth anything extra as errors? Thanks.
Without a pic to better judge from? I'd say they were used in a casino. What year? Later years are flatter (less relief) and they seem more fragile to me -- like they are softer.
Yep... the way most slot machines work, the coins are usually rolled along the edge on its way to be dropped out of the machine. Since most coins get recyceld back into the machines as people cash them in, a given coin in a casino can make this trip several times, until eventually the reeded edge is worn smooth. A lot of times the obverse and reverse get a lot of dents as other coins fall on top of them. Coins that get dumped out of the machines, cashed in, loaded back into the machine, dumped out again, and so on, will start looking severely beat up after a while.
