i have been having some fun searching halves from the bank and its preaty anoying that sometimes i have to go to 5 before i can get 50$ worth so i have heard about ordering boxes thru a bank from the federal reserve is that a good idea or do you not find silver in those or less times or more times the problem is 500$ of coins is a decent amount of money also to you recomend a certain bank to get rolls or boxes from? thanks in advance
Alot of banks wont give non-acct holding members rolls of coins unless you open an acct., which is what I did at one bank with the minimum acct balance, they ordered $1000.00 fed rolls and I found 1 90% and 22 40%, sometimes you can go to small towns and they will give rolls, which I had good finds out of 40 rolls I found 26 40%, another bank I got $100.00 and averaged 2 per roll = 20 40%. imo fed rolls are hit and miss, I hear that they try to get the silver out before rolling, although I'm trying a bag shortly, maybe I'll have better luck. John
I ask my bank for $500 in halves and sometimes get loose rolls if they have them at the main branch office and sometimes I get FED boxes. Both ways are hit or miss, but I've only been blanked on silver once. With hand rolled halves you take the risk that your getting another searchers rejects, or you may get lucky and pick-up a bunch of silver someone finally decided to cash in. Either way it's the fun of the search that counts.
Lots depends on the banks, your area, if your a customer, etc. I live in an area where there are so many banks around they are more common that Starbucks. I open accounts in about 10 of them so I can get rolls, boxes, bags of coins all the time. By now many know me and when I ask for rolls of halves I can get as many as I want. Usually almost more than I can carry. The main thing is get accounts in many of them so you can get coins from one and return to another easily.
