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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bilboleslie, post: 870982, member: 24821&quot;]<b>Searching bags of half dollars</b></p><p><br /></p><p>My best search of a partial bag of half dollars was March 10 of this year.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This bag makes up for two or three bags that I bought in the past year or two that had nothing in them - no silver at all.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was purchased off a bank branch machine.&nbsp; I have had no luck at all in buying rolls from &quot;downtown.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It was most of a bag - I paid 425.50.&nbsp;&nbsp; It consisted of:</p><p><br /></p><p>413.50 in clad Kennedy halves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver:</p><p><br /></p><p>Two (2) Walker halves&nbsp;&nbsp; 1943D and 1944P </p><p>Three (3)&nbsp; Franklin halves - 1951 S&nbsp; 1957 D and 1959 D</p><p>eight 40% Kennedy halves</p><p>Silver was 1.5 % of total &quot;half dollar coins&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; that should have been in the bag. </p><p><br /></p><p>Seven pennies (one cut in half - I got both halves)</p><p>one nickel</p><p>four dimes</p><p>one quarter</p><p>All of the minor U.S. coins were mangled, bent, twisted, etc.&nbsp; Obviously, the machine is hard on small coins when it forces them into the half dollar pipe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Foreign:&nbsp; </p><p>.20 Australia coin</p><p>one 2.00 Canada coin</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trash and tokens:</p><p><br /></p><p>one 13 year Alcoholics Anonymous token</p><p><br /></p><p>two car wash tokens</p><p><br /></p><p>One 1939 San Francisco Golden Gate Expo Token for Union Pacific Railway.&nbsp; I checked eBay and it is worth (counting postage) about three bucks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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