Someone robbed daddy's piggy bank

Had some spare time today, so I figured I'd hit some banks looking for dollar and half dollar coins. They never have half dollars. Hit about six banks and came up dry for all but one - and she said "yes I have $9.50 in half dollars. Obviously I took them all. Went about my chores and came home - figured I'd look at the halves. Well blow me down, the first one was a bi-centennial half - from San Francisco. Weighed in at 11.7 oz - looks like a proof to me. When I got over the shock I looked at the rest, a couple of 1972 - D's in real nice shape. The rest were 1-'64, 1-65', 2-66's, 4-67's, 6-68's, and 2-69's After I changed my pants I realized what had happened. Someone robbed daddy's piggy bank. I'll enclose pictures. Sadly I know what I have to do. I know which bank it was because I went thru the drive thru and they put the coins in one of their little deposit envelopes, actually they had to use two. So tomorrow I'll call them to see if anyone came in looking for the coins. Of course I'll return them - if someone claims them, I'd be pissed if someone had taken mine.
Thanks: Lou Looks like I have to create another thread to show the remaining pics

 

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I admire your ethics, but I've heard of lots and lots of silver strikes at banks (and had a few myself), and I've never heard of anyone coming to a bank looking for silver coins. I think it's a lot more likely that someone was cleaning out a deceased (or not deceased) parent's cabinets and found some halves tucked away.

 

Not necessarily..

I wouldn't.

 

What -Jeff and Paddyman said.
folks find silver all the time at the bank.
Over the years I have probably pulled $20 to $30 dollars face value or more from the tellers at numerous different banks.

 

Understood, however for a teller to have $9.50 in halves and $8.50 were silver seems a bit to pat for me. A couple of weeks ago i found a 1924 mercury dime and two Rosies from the 40's in a couple of rolls but they were so worn you could hardly read the dates. Think I'll call the bank just in case.

 

There's nothing wrong with being honest, I wouldn't feel guilty or second guess the transaction though.

 

And then what? Return them? Then they'll end up in someone else's possession

Let us know the outcome.

 

That 68D has their fingerprints. Go gettum Sherlock

 

The odds are against you for finding the owner I'll take face silver anytime you think that much would cause suspicion, member @Amberlarry22 found 100 silver quarters once.

 

I once got three rolls of halves that were mostly silver, with a lot of 90%. The teller said an old guy had been bringing them in. I never caught them at the right time again, though.

Another teller told me of an elderly woman who brought in a bunch of Morgan dollars. The teller told her a coin shop would pay her a lot more than face value, but the woman said she "didn't trust coin shops".

Not everyone views coins the same way we do.

 

Many people have coin jars. At some point, for many reasons, those coin jars get turned in.

 

Some people get Desperate and use the cash they have lying around to pay for outrageous food costs and Utilities. Hell, I can't even afford this internet.

 

If they are stolen and I find the rightful owner, then yes - I'll return them.

 

Maybe not. it could be that someone got hard up for cash and decided to cash in a few of their lower value coins. In the old days when I worked in a convenience store, I used to see that a lot, particularly around the holidays.

 

An alcoholic in need of a drink would turn them in. Some liquor stores won't take change.

 

yeah, I get silver dimes quite a bit from the discount cigarette trailer near the trailer park. You'd be surprised just how many people really don't care or don't know about silver coins.

heck, I told everyone I know, family, friends, co-workers, about the W quarters released in 2019-2020. NOBODY I know even bothered to look for them, Nobody. even knowing it was worth at least a $5 bill or more each.

Most folks just don't care and don't want to put in any effort to look at things.

 

Very ethical but not necessary. The teller would most likely not know or remember the customer, could be more than one customer, perhaps the person or persons had to use the coins for personal reason, so on and so on. "Don't worry be happy."

 

Don't do that. You're just going to cause more problems. Keep the coins.

 

Sometimes a vindictive spouse turns in silver out of spite. just saying...

 

I want to applaud your use of "lying around." So many people nowadays say "laying around."