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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aimzb, post: 962852, member: 26587&quot;]My good wife has gone from supporter of this new hobby of mine to borderline obsessed with it herself (which is a whole other topic for another post/day).&nbsp; Today she spent her lunch hour looking at a map picking out the really small town within driving distance of us that have local community banks (versus national banks, i.e. BAC, etc.).&nbsp; Her purpose?&nbsp; To find one with enough rolls of half dollars to be worth the drive to go pick up and search through.&nbsp; I recently shared with her my theory (which I believe is shared by others here) that you are more likely to find &quot;the good stuff&quot; (at least when searching halves) in rolls from small banks in small towns that would likely only deal with halves when they have been cashed in by older hoarders/collectors.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Soooo, today she called a local bank that only has one office and one branch in a small town about 45 minutes away.&nbsp; They have $3000 in halves in their vault!!!&nbsp; I have since called them myself to confirm that as well as to ask that they hold on to them for me.&nbsp; There is no way I can do $3000 all at once, but can get through that fairly quickly once I can search, dump, and repeat.&nbsp; The teller was caught completely off guard when I asked her to keep them there for me and even seemed suspicious after I explained my reasoning to her.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So my whole point in putting this up here, what do you guys think?&nbsp; Have I stumbled upon someone&#039;s dump bank?&nbsp; Or, have I hit the motherload (so to speak)?&nbsp; I am not naive enough to think they will be anything like half 90%s and 40%s.&nbsp; But, I am thinking that they will either be absolutely no silver at all, or a higher proportion of silver than you would normally see.&nbsp; Am I off base in thinking that?&nbsp; Just curious if you folks that are more experienced than me at this would agree with my thinking or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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