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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 473466, member: 5233"]Half dollars are en excellent place to start because there is still quite a bit of silver in them...as they don't circulate as much and people haven't picked out all the silver coins yet. Most people know that dimes, quarters and half dollars 1964 and older are 90% silver. For that reason, you will very rarely find them in circulation. However, with half dollars...for some reason most people don't know that from 1965-1970 they are 40% silver and as a result worth well over face value. You won't find a ton of them...but silver half dollars are a lot more common in circulation than other silver coins. When I worked at a bank, a couple times I bought $500 bags of rolled half dollars. When I went through them I would always find a couple silver halves. My best bag 7 or 8 in it (including a Fanklin Half) and the worst I think had 2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 473466, member: 5233"]Half dollars are en excellent place to start because there is still quite a bit of silver in them...as they don't circulate as much and people haven't picked out all the silver coins yet. Most people know that dimes, quarters and half dollars 1964 and older are 90% silver. For that reason, you will very rarely find them in circulation. However, with half dollars...for some reason most people don't know that from 1965-1970 they are 40% silver and as a result worth well over face value. You won't find a ton of them...but silver half dollars are a lot more common in circulation than other silver coins. When I worked at a bank, a couple times I bought $500 bags of rolled half dollars. When I went through them I would always find a couple silver halves. My best bag 7 or 8 in it (including a Fanklin Half) and the worst I think had 2.[/QUOTE]
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