Roll-searchers, post your results!

I think you asked me where in MI I was a couple of weeks ago. Where about are you doing your hunting at if you don't mind me asking. I am Livingston County mostly, and a little bit in Genesee.

 

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To top off my (finally) good box of halves today, I won a 1889 Morgan dollar as a door prize at my coin club meeting tonight. It was a good day.

 

Nice haul. Its great fun to keep opening rolls in boxes like that when you know you're going to find more in other rolls.

 

$21.50 loose halves: one 40%er

 

Box of dimes - skunk

 

I do most of my hunting in western Wayne county, some in Washtenaw county, since that's where I work.

 

Just remember that those S-mint circulation quarters that are coming out are all going for numismatic purposes, not for circulation purposes. I doubt they will ever appreciate in value in the short-ish term. MAYBE in 75 years it will be worth something. I mean, just look at the 1950-D Nickel. Yes, that was issued for circulation but I would venture a guess of 90+% being snagged by collectors and put away, making it a cheap coin in high grade.

 

Box of halves - skunk
3 rolls halves - skunk
2 dime boxes - skunk

 

Box of Halves - 50D, 62D, 63D, 64, 65, 68D

 

Over 140 silver halves so far today. Eight almost solid rolls. Not even noon yet. Details and pics to come.

EDIT: I was a little optimistic with the count. See below.

 

Three Fankies is very solid!

I stopped at a bank today and they only had $4.50 in halves (all clad), so I picked up 4 rolls of dimes as well......1 1947.

 

5 rolls of nickels and 2 rolls of dimes. A 1950 Roosevelt and a bunch of coin folder fillers lol

Not bad for my first find lol

 

Things have slowed down considerably since noon. Less than $75 found since and no silver. The day's not over yet though!

 

Box of dimes-skunk
Looks like my role with certain bank branches has ended. Second batch of skunk rolls in a row.

 

I brought home $100 combined in dimes and nickels from work. 1 1946 Roosevelt and 1 1942 Mercury. Nickels were pretty much a bust other than a 1941 and 1947 that were both in good enough shape to throw in the book.

 

I know what you mean I keep getting dimes that have been colored blue or green and they have been skunk.

 

Slept in today since I was off, lumbered out of bed around noon, and went hunting. Grabbed $550 mixed CWR/BWR, got 4 40%ers out of the CWR's and nothing out of the BWR's. Dimes were good to me today, $1k searched, 10 roosies and a '24 Merc. Dropped all the dimes getting out of my car, but found them all... save for the '24 Merc. Ugh. also did $270 in nickels, which gave up 1 war, 2 buffs, and my first '39-D I didn't trade for!

 

$52 in cwr and loose halves... one 40%.

 

I did a box of nickels afterwork and it produced one War nickel....45 D

 

Feast or famine today, with a very stark difference before and after a well-timed noon lunch.

We visited or called at least 42 banks today. At least 26 said they had no halves at all. Of the exactly 16 that had halves, nine had less than $10 worth, and twelve had less than $50 worth. Most of those banks with nothing came after noon: We visited or called many more than 21 banks (I got fed up and stopped keeping track after a certain point. 30 banks after noon sounds about right). Only eight had halves, totaling $208.50 -- and the majority of that was from the very last bank with $130. We found one 40% half out of all the banks in the afternoon. From that last bank. In the very last roll we opened.

That was a good stopping point. It was getting late, we were tired, and it just felt appropriate: We found silver in the very first roll we opened in the morning, from the very first bank we visited. In fact, we didn't plan on asking at that very first bank: I was just making a withdraw in preparation for the day, but I walked out with 3 40%ers. Before lunch we visited about 21 banks. Seven had halves, totaling $332.50. The very first bank had the most of the morning stops with $116.50. Five only had a handful each (one 40% out of the lot), one bank had exactly $100 (skunk). The last bank we stopped at before lunch had $10.50 loose (three 40%ers) and $80 in beat-up, taped-shut, sad-looking customer-wrapped rolls. I was hopeful from the loose silver, but I wasn't expecting this:






Then we had lunch.

$40 loose halves: Four 40%ers
$130 BWR halves: One 40%er
$370 CWR halves: 120 40%ers, eight 64's