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And how do you tell the difference? Can you specifically ask for either of the two?

 

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Box of halves - nothing
$250 CWR 4 %40'ers one is BU and has real nice toning
Box of dimes found 4 silver Rosies, think I will start getting these over boxes of halves

 

Most of my banks are within a one mile radius of a 1,000,000+ square foot mall, and that circle contains probably more than a million square feet of other retail. I don't think I can get to a place that's any heavier retail. Most of the banks usually have no halves, and most of the few remaining appear to be dump banks.

 

Bank-wrapped rolls typically have rolled rather than folded ends, so that you can see the faces of the coins on the ends.

Beware, though -- individuals CAN buy rolling machines that produce rolls like that. That's the source of the "bank wrapped rolls" on eBay that just happen to have valuable coins on each end -- and yet, somehow, always contain only commons in the middle.

 

He wasn't talking exclusively about halves, though... he quoted several other denominations, as well... the key to finding war nicks or silver dimes is to just do large quantities.

I'll agree with you on halves, they're tough to find. It's an interesting day around here when I walk into a bank and they have any CWR of halves.

 

Good point. I've definitely got tunnel-vision for halves, and it sometimes makes me oblivious to what I've just read.

 

I've not been roll searching long but i have noticed a drop in the premium coin output.

 

Went through a bag of Ikes (1000 coins). Pulled 23 BU mixed dates, three 1973's, two 1972 type II's and 1 severely impaired clad proof. Also pulled two rolls of 1976 -D Type I. Fun bag but not too exciting. The 1972 type II's are called the "King of Ikes" and sell for a huge premium in MS. Mine are nice coins, solid AU, but definitely not MS. I wonder if there is a market for them in AU? I was at a coin show this morning and the dealers didn't seem too interested in buying any Ikes whatsoever. I'll post them on eBay and see if I get any bites.

 

The teller I go to holds coins for me from her drawer.

Oh, and my "find" this week: Roll of silver halves and roll of Mercury dimes. Full bloody rolls! I feel bad for whoever deposited those by mistake.

 

You should get $30 minimum for an AU type two. I sold a 53ish T2 for $40.

Nice finds dude.

 

I've tried to buddy up to tellers from random banks and have even taken in donuts to my pull bank. Nobody ever brings in CWR of halves, but I'll keep trying.

EDIT: And IF I happen to find some, they are dump rolls.

 

I live in just about the middle of nowhere, and there aren't any banks willing to sell me boxes of anything, even if I have an account with them. Most people think that I can only search through a roll an hour I guess and are reluctant to hand me any quantity of coins.

 

Thanks!

For what it's worth, I really think someone had it deposited by mistake. The bank rarely has rolls of halves, even in their vault, and the teller said a woman just dropped off 14 rolls, so I took them.

I guess I'll be bringing the teller lunch every day this week.

 

Lincoln Dollar Variety

I pulled this, and some others just like it, from a first strike box of Lincoln Dollars. Please feel free to tell me what it is, I have no idea, but I think it's unique. Maybe a double, maybe something else. But it came in multiples, so it's a variety.

 

Where you get a bag of ikes?

 

Where you get a bag of ikes?

 

Friend of a friend's uncle was a part time dealer. He passed over the winter and his family is selling off his collection. He had some real top shelf stuff, 19th century gold coins, that they are focusing on. They sold me the Ikes at face. I figured why not look through a bag...you just never know what you're going to find.

 

8 boxes of halves netted 31 40%ers and 1 64. Will open the last two sunday night....

 

That's a lot of boxes Gypsy.

I picked up one box today:
1 magician's coin (about the 6th one I've found)
1 1971 Un Peso
2 40%ers

 

Minus the 40% ers, sounds like you got one of my dump boxes.. was it a Brink's box???