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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SLFsilver, post: 1145163, member: 30186&quot;]<b>My Coin Hunting Story</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey everybody. I have been trolling this great thread for a month or two now. I normally don&#039;t post much on the web but I&#039;d thought I share my story and recent awesome find.&nbsp; Thanks for all the posts.&nbsp; I really enjoy reading them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I caught silver fever last November and have been trying to stack up ever since.&nbsp; Both because I think the price will continue to go up a lot and for a SHTF insurance situation.&nbsp; I started with a couple peace dollars that were my grandma&#039;s and then asked for an Eagle for Christmas.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always been generally interested in coins/currency but never delved into the world of numismatics (I have a big sack of foreign coins and pull it out once in awhile and look at ones I think are &quot;cool looking&quot; etc.).&nbsp; I told myself I wouldn&#039;t get caught up with the nuance of grades/states/errors and the like but once you start hunting/accumulating you can&#039;t help yourself to some extent.&nbsp; I got a red book and I learn most everything from sites like Coin Talk.&nbsp; I&#039;m not a real numismatist but I have a lot respect for you guys and the hobby/profession and I&#039;m learning a bit as I go along.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once I read about the silver content of US coinage I decided to stop by some of my local banks here in Miami Beach.&nbsp; This is before I was aware of CRH or this forum.&nbsp; On my first attempt, at the first two banks across the street from each other, I got two CWR of dimes, and asked if they had halves.&nbsp; In about 5 minutes I had a silver Roosevelt, a 67 Kennedy, and a 64 Kennedy.&nbsp; I thought I had stumbled onto some great form of arbitrage and was basically hooked.&nbsp; Over the next couple weeks I went through about $200 in dime rolls and whatever loose haves the banks had and got squat.&nbsp; Then I started taking mini trips to ask for halves.&nbsp; Miami Beach is pretty dense and urban so you can hit a lot of banks quickly.&nbsp; I probably went through about $300-400 in CWR and loose halves, only finding 4-5 dirty 40%&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>After reading this thread and seeing some of the great success I decided to up my game.&nbsp; I opened a savings account at a bank here with free coin counting and ordered some boxes from my BOA.&nbsp; After going through 4 or 5 boxes of halves I haven&#039;t found any silver.&nbsp; That bank ended free coin counting last month so I&#039;m probably done with boxes for now.&nbsp; There is a TD bank nearby but some of you have said that their bags only hold like $100 worth so I don&#039;t want to deal with the additional hassle.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the beginning of February I asked the convenient store I frequent to be on the look out for old dimes/quarters and that I would buy them if he had them.&nbsp; To my surprise the dude pulls out a cigar box full of silver mercs, roosies, washingtons, kennedys, dollars and the like that he has been collecting from customers for 10 years or so.&nbsp; He was willing to sell and in my excitement I unfortunately threw out prices that were close to spot (at the time).&nbsp; I&#039;ve gotten a bunch of his stuff including a couple morgans and MS washingtons.&nbsp; Its been fun but I&#039;ve almost bought everything he has.&nbsp; I paid $2/dime, $5/quarter, $4/40% half, $10/90% half, and $20/dollar so basically I got a great discount over spot.</p><p><br /></p><p>This brings me to my latest and greatest find.&nbsp; I just got back from Williamsburg VA visiting my folks who recently moved there (people in Williamsburg are super nice BTW).&nbsp; I spent about 1.5 hours on Thursday going to banks and hit about 10 of them.&nbsp; At the second bank they only had $2.50 in halves.&nbsp; They were all 40% so I was happy at that point.&nbsp; At the last bank I went to I asked the young teller if he had any halves.&nbsp; He said yes and put two rolls on the counter.&nbsp; They were in plastic containers.&nbsp; He said he was going to count them to make sure, I said that wasn&#039;t necessary but he did it anyway.&nbsp; I knew right away what they were,&nbsp; shiny as can be.&nbsp; I tried to mask my excitement while he was counting, then gave him the $20 and walked out.&nbsp; One roll had &quot;1960-D unc&quot; written on it and the other &quot;1964-P&quot;.&nbsp; Totally made my day</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for reading.&nbsp; Happy hunting.</p><p>-Dan</p><p><br /></p><p>PS I meant to make my username SFLsilver (for south florida) but made a typo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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