I see a lot of you buying 10-50 rolls of half dollar coins and not too many of you buying silver dollar coins in rolls. Is there a reason behind this? I am thinking about beginning to do the same thing and am curious if the "good" half dollar coins tend to be rarer (more valuable or more in circulation) than the silver dollars? I spoke to my credit union and they told me if I gave them notice, they would order as many rolls of coins as I wanted. The teller, who I have dealt with for many years, is now holding coins for me from her tray and also said she can get coins ordered through a few places, to get some diversity. I am thinking of taking my paychecks in "cash" (coin rolls) searching them, re-rolling and taking to a different bank to deposit
If you're looking for silver, boxes of halves are by far your best bet. That being said, you can find cool old coins in other boxes as well. I've found Liberty and Buffalo nickels along with old wheats and Indian head cents. I love roll searching, and I search through all types of coin, but Halves are still my favorite.
Keep in mind that there are no more silver dollars in bank rolls. All of the dollar coins you will get from the bank are clad coins made from base metals. So if the goal is to find silver coins, half dollars are just about the only game in town.
Unless you specifically ask for - and get - "large dollars". If you are lucky enough to get them, they will almost certainly be clad Ikes, but who knows - you might luck into a roll some teenager stole from his dad to buy drugs with.
I too hit the banks for rolls of halves. The larger size dollars are usually only a few at a time at the banks around here. Everytime I ask I am usually told that they go out just as fast as they come in. Some tellers and officers of several banks I know of are putting them aside for relatives and friends. By being really nice and begging like a baby I've already received a few real silver dollars and not the clad ones. But that is rare as this coin collecting boom grows. I get nickels and pennies by the bag. Used to get lots of great stuff from them but also that source is drying up. One thing I noticed is the older the bank, the older the coins in the bags. If they will get you rolls or bags of coins and you have an easy way to get rid of them, by all means do it. If you don't, someone else will.
Now that's something interesting to try! I have trouble finding halves so I don't expect this to work, but it's going to bother me until I ask for them and see what happens.
Well, since we're talking about silver content... wouldn't war nickels hold some silver value or would silver have to increase more in price? After all, it would probably not be easy to seperate the materials in war nickels. I have LOTS of war nickels laying around from roll searching.
War nickels currently have a melt value of 52 cents each. They are easy to sell, but I don't think anyone melts them. Charlie
The war nickel content of silver depends on which war you are talking about. When you say war, remember we've had a few so the coins made during each war had a different content of silver. Jefferson Nickels for instance contained 35% silver. Now guess the content of Silver in Nickels made during the Civil War or War of 1812. What amount of Silver was in Nickels with dates such as 1237BC?
My bank never seems to carry any... they don't order them at least, the only ones they have are from customer deposits until they get rid of them. So far the best source of Sacagawea and SBA dollars for me has been US Post Office vending machines. I've onften intentionally used a $20 bill to buy stamps just to have some to look through, lol.
