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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1476702, member: 27832&quot;]Until silver&#039;s run-up a few years ago, it was actually fairly common to find silver halves in rolls. Since they barely circulate, and since most vending machines and self-check-out counters don&#039;t accept them, people tend to accumulate halves for a long time and then dump them at the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the last few years, &quot;the secret has gotten out&quot;, and at this point halves are nearly as heavily picked over as other denominations. But people still come across old jars of change and turn them in at face value. (A quote I&#039;ve heard from more than one teller: &quot;I told them they could get more money at a coin shop, but they said they didn&#039;t want to go to the trouble/don&#039;t trust coin dealers.&quot; I&#039;ll go to a lot of trouble to get $180 for a roll instead of $10, and I do trust coin dealers to pay me considerably more than face for silver.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finding good stuff is just a matter of being at the right place at the right time, or befriending tellers who don&#039;t want to grab good coins themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a separate &quot;coin roll hunting&quot; forum here, with a gargantuan thread where people post their circulation finds. For some reason, posts to that forum don&#039;t show up in the &quot;Recent Posts&quot; list; you have to go and look for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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