First box of Half Dollars

I went through my first box of half dollars and did not find any silver. But I did find a lot of Bi-centennial halves. I did not find any "S" mint. I found about 125 bi-centennial's and another 112 bi-centennial's that are very shiny. Not sure if they are proofs? Or do proofs only come with the "S" mint mark on them? So I found about 237 bi-centennial's in one box. I think that is a lot for one box or not? In the first picture with the two halves, the bottom one is one of the shiny one.

 

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All bicentennial proofs were made in San Francisco.

 

Thats a lot of bicentennials from a box of 1000. Is that typical?

 

Unusual, but I have gotten whole boxes of 1995P and D before. It's strange, beautiful coins, almost mint state which makes me think it's a Mint dump to Loomis. All in Loomis rolls but something I would expect in opening a U.S. Mint roll.

Keep looking!

 

It depends on what they got from their bank. We once found 13 1987-D Washington Commemorative halves in a $1000 bag from our bank, all in gem-state. Those could very well have all ended up in one box.

 

Why is this a thing?!?!?!?
If it isn't 95s it's 94s.

 

I got a box of all 99D once. Usually get a lot of 99D all the time in the boxes I do.

 

That's what I thought. So these are almost mint state bi-centennial halves? I guess I should keep them. Not sure about the regular bi-centennials? I know some members of Coin Talk posted that they save them.

 

Not sure. This is my first box of halves. Hoping to see what other members think.

 

I just dumped almost three hundred bucks of bicentennial quarters back to a bank the other day when I was cleaning out my safe. I put them up on the BST for face value, and nobody responded. I had been dropping them into a bucket for years as I got them in my change and finally figured it was time to get rid of them. There is a little bit of a premium for rolls on eBay, I just didn't feel like shipping out one roll at a time for a few dollars profit.

 

Your bi-centennial find rate was 23.7%, or not quite 5 per $10 roll. I have not tracked how many bi-centennials I have found in over 60,000 halves searched since I started CRH in January. But if I had to guess, I would think somewhere around 15-20%. There are a lot of bi-centennials out there, collectively 522 million P&Ds were struck. I've kept several rolls of the best ones and now turn all the rest back. Still looking for a proof though.