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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;onecenter, post: 221443, member: 8703&quot;]What a wonderful find and a great picture!&nbsp; It is truly exciting to hit a little &quot;Comstock lode.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was in the banking industry almost 20 years ago, I once happened to obtain 72 Kennedy halves, six 1964s and 66 silver clads from 1965-1969 at the bank branch I was working in that day in Troy, NY.&nbsp; That is the best silver find I encountered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did have competitors when it came to searching for coins in the Capital District of upstate New York.&nbsp; I regularly had a customer who visited nearly all of the bank branches in the region for half dollars.&nbsp; In about a 4-year timespan, he found $8800 worth of silver, mostly halves, the profit from the sale was enough for him to buy a very good used car.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a report in ANA&#039;s The Numismatist back some 20 years ago about a man who slowly cleaned out a bank vault in a small town in Colorado.&nbsp; Over time he found more than 2200 90% silver halves literally gathering dust in the deepest regions of the coin storage.&nbsp; Kennedy, Franklin and Walking Liberty halves were aplenty, emphasis, if I remember correctly, on Franklins.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I started collecting coins at age 9, Canadian silver was still quite plentiful in the early 1970s and could found regularly in circulation in upstate New York.&nbsp; I received many Canadian 10-cent and 25-cent pieces in change, but only one 50-cent piece (1953) and one $1 coin (1963) in my first 25 years of collecting.&nbsp; A drug store in a VERY small town where I grew up kept a jar full of Canadian silver under the counter.&nbsp; My mother bought it for me (Can $52.00 face) as a Christmas gift back in 1973.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;good stuff&quot; is out there!</p><p><br /></p><p>Mark</p><p>Coral Springs, FL[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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