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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 2168774, member: 13650&quot;]Since they hate it so much it&#039;s a practice that will one day end, except for maybe a select few local banks.&nbsp;&nbsp; Personally, for the low % possibility of actually finding anything worth while, which continues to get expotentially lower every year that goes by, I&#039;m surprised anybody wastes their time going to do this anymore.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess it all depends on what you&#039;re looking for.&nbsp; But if you only wanted to &quot;totally luck out&quot; and find a single silver quarter, your odds are worse than terrible.&nbsp; I posted the real numbers a long time ago. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; What few realize is if you could magically recover every single silver Washington quarter ever produced by the US mints (32 years worth), dump them into a pot with ONLY the full mintages of 1965-1967 quarters (3 years worth of clad!) and mix them all together in a pot and tried to pick a silver out blindfolded, your odds of getting a silver would be less than 50%.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Now remove all but a fraction of a tiny percent of those silver quarters from the pot and dump in 48 years worth of billions of new clad quarters into the pot and mix it up.&nbsp; Remove the blindfold and have fun searching.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s what you&#039;re doing.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp; The Kennedy halves have been picked over who knows how many thousands of times over.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even as a collector, I tend to have sympathy for the bank tellers&#039; time being tied up over what&#039;s become a huge exercise in futility.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have no friends or relation that work at a bank so no biased here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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