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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 4762, member: 655&quot;]Good advice overall, but one little quibble: half dollars.&nbsp; Periodically, I&#039;ll buy all the rolled half dollars a bank has on hand and sort them.&nbsp; This past week, when I had plenty of time, I went through 51 rolls and came up with 4 rolls (minus two coins) of 40% silver halves, dated 1965 through 69. The 1970 40% halves were struck in Denver as business strikes but went out in mint sets exclusively and I didn&#039;t find any of that year this time.&nbsp; One of the tellers at the bank came over with six halves while I was getting the rolls and offered them.&nbsp; Three of them were 40% silvers.&nbsp; It&#039;s rarer to find 90% silver halves in the rolls, but not unheard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There&#039;s a whole generation of adults out there who were born after the 90% coins were out of production and many haven&#039;t ever heard that our coinage was once real money.&nbsp; Some of them find their dad&#039;s change jar after he&#039;s passed on and roll the coins for deposit in their banks.&nbsp; When I have time, it&#039;s fun to get a big tray of rolls and go through them.&nbsp; One roll I opened had five sandwich metal halves and the rest were 40%.&nbsp; My six year old daughter is very good at finding the silver halves and enjoyed going through this most recent batch which was the first I&#039;ve sorted since she was big enough to help.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Counting rooms have fewer people handling more coins and so more old coin is finding its way back out into the stores and banks when it gets back into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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