Roll-searchers, post your results!

Long time reader of this forum. I finally decided to post. I get 2 boxes of halves per week. Had a good year last year. This week one box was zero but the other was fantastic. 11 Walkers, 1 Ben, 2-64 Kennedys, 19-40% Kennedys including a 1970. However, the best were the 3 Barber halves. I've only found 2 my entire time searching. A great score!

 

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Wow... a quad-fecta!

A Ken-Ben-Walk-Barb...? ;-)

 

you guys spend 500 bucks on a box and im over here with a 25-50 dollar budget

 

You aren't spending 500 bucks, you're just getting change for it. But if you don't have 500 bucks to your name, yeah, that's a problem. Patience.

 

it sucks not having a job yet

 

Well, there's a good first target for you, then! (I remember my son saying the same exact thing, repeatedly. Now he's got a very part-time after-school job at a fro-yo place; it doesn't pay a lot, but he really likes having some income that he can say he's earned.)

 

once i switch schools i will actually have time for a job. then once i have enough im going to get half boxes

 

congrats!
amazing.

go back for more!

 

Searched a couple hundred dollars in dimes and dollar coins today. Only 2 things of note:

2011-S Proof Sac


1979P Wide Rim SBA

 

I've done 10 more of the current box. No more wheats.
A few nice copper. And I'm finding a lot of shiny 97-2008 pennies.

 

Previous 3 boxes of halves netted 1, 2, & 1 40%ers. The wife & I just finished a better box which had 1 reverse ender (turned out to be a 1964).

8 x 1964 (all AU)
2 x 1965
1 x 1968-D
1 x 1969-D
1 x 1973-S Impaired Proof

Plus, I have a box waiting in the wings that has a reverse Wender, my first. I will report on that later. Meanwhile, here’s a pic of the box we just searched:

 

What exactly is an Impaired proof?

 

A proof coin that has been taken from its OGP and released into circulation. See my 2011-S Sac above or @TexAg 73-S

 

BTW @furryfrog02 your 2011-S Sacagawea is still a sweet coin to find in circulation!

 

Here’s a 2003-S impaired proof Sacagawea I found a couple of weeks ago.

 

Love that '79 variation

 

To start searching through halves you will need a minimum $600 available as capital investment. $500 to buy the box and then $100 set aside to pay for the coins you decide to keep and save. This way you'll be able to cycle through one box after the other and still have the $$$ to do so for a while.

Once you start working and can start saving up money you can work your way up to nickels and dimes before going onto halves (or quarters- but these tend to yield proportionally fewer results). You'll also want to have transportation ironed out as a box of halves (or nickels) will be too heavy to walk home or carry with you on a bike, which I've read on here has been attempted! A box of halves is literally like a boat anchor.

 

how many pounds are the boxes

 

A $500 box of halves weighs 25 Lbs.

 

i can carry that home. if it was more than 75 i would have an issue