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:whistle: *reach in and walk away* hahaha nice find Jeff!!!

 

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So, after a couple rolls of Nicks: a few "D"s and a '52. That was all for those.

After about 7 rolls of pennies: 1 '45 wheaty and a few 60's/lots of 70's and 80's. Nothing too special. Don't know about you guys...but I like to try and collect ALL mints and ALL years. With that said, I found a lot of really nice color, clean looking years that I can use.

If anyone else is looking for nice, bright '89 or '05 pennies (all "P"s)...I was thinking of maybe offering up some kinds of contest.
Would anyone be interested??

 

Got two more rolls of halves and found 1 40%. Not too bad, but I was hoping for a repeat of yesterday's find. lol

 

Yes they can really be worth it. I picked up 39 Ikes today and found 6 1971 D RDV-006 Friendly Eagle Varities. Check out www.ikegroup.org

 

What what!!
My Teller sweetie just called.. Old guy just dropped off 2 rolls 1968 Halves.. come and get them!!
I did.. They all look NICE.. 38 total 40%

 

hi evryone
just went to my bank with two boxes of halves and I want to trade them on two boxes of quarters but they told me I have to pay 10c fee for a roll they never told me this before
please help me wy do I have to pay if I have an accaunt in that bank

 

Close your account and find another bank.. They want your business

 

I am starting my collection with my son and we decided to go with lincoln pennies. I just got some rolls but we are both going to plug holes as well. I would be glad to take some good looking ones off your hands. Let me know and I appreciate the offer

 

if your starting a lincoln collection with your son, i would suggest you find all the ones possible by roll searching. especially if you just started doing it. I think it would be a great bonding experience by searching for them. plus alot of the modern ones are easy to find. I love searching lincolns because i always fill at least one hole per box.

 

Finished a $500 bag of halves and struck out. Anyone know which PA banks will let you order halves?

 

Susquehanna will order them for me. Where at in PA are you.

 

WOW amazing =)

 

322 Frankies found?

Did you wet yourself? I about did when I read that. Wow, simply incredible. Congrats!

 

Searched my 100th box today as well as 33 bucks in loose halves. The box was a shutout although I found 5 AU-BU 2005. The loose haves produced 3 40%ers.

 

We are. We ordered 2 boxes of cents today but they will not be in until next weak. I was just going to take them if he was willing.

 

Statistics for my first 100 boxes of halves searched

I promised you I'd bore you with Stats......well here goes:

On June 1, 2009, I started searching for silver in half dollar boxes and loose halves and rolls at banks because of this thread on this site. Though I haven't had the best of luck (like 100+ walkers for Gypsy or 322 Frankies by Inquisitive), I have had very good luck and never DREAMED that I would find this much silver. I've had loads of fun.

Total take from partial boxes, customer wrapped rolls, and loose halves at banks:
191 total
67 or 35.08% of these were 90% silver (1 walker, 2 Franklins, 64 1964)
124 were 40% silver

This came from searching $4269 worth of halves or approximately 8.5 boxes. If these actually came in boxes, it would work out to be 22.4 silver coins per box.


From the 100 boxes, I found 340 silver halves or 3.4 per box.
Of these, 73 (or 21.47%) were 90% silver including 7 walkers, 14 Frankies, and 52 64 Kennedys. 267 were 40%. Best take: One bank had 2 rolls and all 40 coins were UNC 1964d Kennedys.

I divided my boxes into 6 different catagories (percentages to the left):
50% Shutouts
16% Poor (1 silver coin)
15% Fair (2-4)
10% Good (5-9)
4% Excellent (10-24)
5% Outstanding (25+)

Meaning 66% or 2 out of every 3 boxes I was either shutout or had only one....wow....that doesn't seem so good, but when you find those outstanding boxes....it is quite sweet!

Longest consecutive string of shutouts: 9 boxes
Longest consecutive string of non-shutouts: 6 boxes (twice)
Most in one box: 42

GRAND TOTALS since June 1, 2009:
531 silver halves including
140 90% (26.37% of the total)

• 8 WL
• 16 Franklins
• 116 1964 Kennedys
• 25 1965
• 50 1966
• 132 1967
• 120 1968
• 60 1969
• 3 1970
• 1 1976 silver clad

Other finds

• 69 Proofs including 14 1979 Type II (clear s)
• 3 Media Balboa including one of them silver
• 12 1974 DDO
• 6 1982 'no FG' errors
• 1 1983 'no FG' error
• 3 1987
• bunches of 2002 - 2009 coins

:loud: Have I bored you yet?

I've had a lot of fun, and again, never dreamed I would find so much silver. I never would have thought of it without this thread on this site. THANKS Coin Talk!

Bob

 

Bob,
Thanks for the stats - I love that kind of stuff. It also gives me some inspiration. I'm at 10 boxes and I'm behind your pace - 8 shut-out boxes, 1 Franklin and 18 40% in the other 2 boxes. I've found 1 Walker, 2 64's and 13 40% loose. It's no fun going through a shut-out box, but numbers like yours at 100 boxes keep me going! Thanks again...Jeff.

 

Bob and Jeff,
Are any of the halves you found worth TPG'ing? How do you guys store so many big coins? LMC's are easy but halves, Whew!:thumb:

 

I captured a similar sense of sadness with this one. Maybe the donor/bank customer was lacking someone to pass them on too. Again - that would be a sad one too.

 

need definition: TPG'ing

What does TPG'ing mean?