I searched $460.00 dollars worth of halves today, and found 12 silvers. 1951-D, 1954, 1966(2), 1967(4), 1969-D(4). I have now found a total of 3 franklins in circulation. Charlie
Cool finds, will you have trouble returning the other halves to the bank? I got 10 rolls once and they gave me a bunch of crap about how they didn't need them when I returned them after checked. Couple of days later, same bank. Bone
The bank I got them from was glad to get rid of them. I get rid of them at a bank where the tellers are always giving me a hard time about cashing checks. :goofer: :goofer: :goofer: Charlie
I dump my reject half dollars into the Coinstar. Sure there's an 8.9% fee, but it's worth it... hard to find banks willing to take back the rejects (at least in the quanitites that I generate them, lol). The slot-machine abused half dollars that the Coinstar machines reject, I just spend.
For me, pain is losing 8.9% of everything I search right off the top. But halves are pretty convenient for buying things like coffee and lottery tickets and leaving tips. Instead of throwing away $8.90 out of every $100 you search, at least get something to drink and a few chances to win a million $$. I never have much of a problem spending them. Maybe cashiers don't like receiving them, but that isn't my problem.
When I'm given a hard time about returning halves, which isn't often, I just say, "Well, this is a bank isn't it?" I agree. I wouldn't dump them in a coin machine. I'd spend them. Besides, that should make you feel good that you are doing your little bit to aid circulation of half dollars!
One thing I forgot to add... Most of the people I run into don't like receiving $1 coins, but many of them like the Kennedy halves. Maybe it's the larger size, maybe the better design, maybe the nostalgia. I think the Kennedy halves are the nicest looking of the clad coins.
I bring nearly a 1000 dollars in halves into my bank and deposit them into my checking account or just add a bit and ask for 10 more hundred dollar bills and go get some more halves at a different bank. I've turned in as much as 8000 dollars in halves in a two day period. They told me one day that they didn't have any more room in their little safe because I had returned so many halves in such a short time. They still took another 1000 dollars in halves that I deposited. They are glad to do it and they even save old silver quarters and dimes for me. If your bank is charging you a service fee, they owe you any banking service they provide and had better do it with a smile or I'd find a different bank and let them know why you are leaving.
Last year I returned my rolls and used it to pay my mortage with them. Anyone else ever use rolls of coins to make a mortage payment?
Yea, but paying for $30 in gas with halves, is a riot!! I opened an account at a bank that advertises that you don't have to roll your coins. They have a counting machine. In fact, the first time, I rerolled all of my halves and took them there. They made me unroll $495 in halves before they would take them!! I order my halves from a different bank, so I think (so far) I've not gotten any of my own back. I actually have a third bank that Ive ordered halves from. These arn't just different branches, they are different banks. Its amazing the difference between the two banks that I order halves from. From one bank, I rarely get silvers. From the other, I get them frequently. The boxes are different, so I know they arn't coming out of the same place.
It is entirely possible that the boxes are coming from different places. The one bank may order directly from the FED, while the other just rerolls the same halves that customers have turned in. Needless to say, boxes that come from the FED usually have more silver in them.
Does anyone know how the halves that come from the Fed are packaged? The two ways I have seen them is in a long flat box that is 5 x 10 rolls. There are 50 holes on the back so you can check and make sure all the rolls are there. They are all machine rolled and if I remember correctly the paper wrappers are yellow printed and say "Brinks" The other style of box I have gotten is a cube. It has 2 layers of 5x5 rolls. In one of these boxes once, I got about 5 rolls that were hand rolled, the rest are machine rolled. How are halves from the fed packaged? Are there any identifying marks printed on the box.
The Fed does use rolls, but if your wrappers do say Brinks on them, than they didn't come from the Fed. The boxes that come directly form the Fed are the long 10x5 rolls. This does not, however, mean that all of the "long" boxes are shipped direct from the Fed. If your rolls have the name of a bank or armored car company on them than they have just been rerolled by that company. As for the "cube" boxes, none of them are form the Fed. I hope that this was somewhat helpful. Best of luck!
