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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CTRollHunter, post: 2355992, member: 41919&quot;]Weird, weird, weird day...and I hope I have more like them!</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to three banks this morning.&nbsp; The third was a Bank of America.&nbsp; They had 25 rolls of halves.&nbsp; Five were bank wrapped with nothing inside.&nbsp; The next 10 were labelled &quot;xxx&quot;: somebody&#039;s dump.&nbsp; The rest were mostly labelled &quot;Bicentennial&quot; but a few were labelled &quot;Assorted year Kennedy halves.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]480156[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]480157[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The last one really caught my eye though:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]480155[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The assorted half rolls were pretty good:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]480159[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]480160[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]480161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>but the good silver roll was the best:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]480158[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I wound up with</p><p><br /></p><p>18&nbsp; 1964&#039;s</p><p>2 1965&#039;s</p><p>8 1966&#039;s</p><p>9 1967&#039;s</p><p>13 1968&#039;s</p><p>3 1969&#039;s</p><p><br /></p><p>I also bought a box of dimes from the bank and got 6 silver Rosies (way above average).&nbsp; So that was a little over 12 ounces of silver from one bank.&nbsp; And, by the way, the teller said she was thrilled to get rid of the halves...</p><p><br /></p><p>So I stopped by a few banks on the way home.&nbsp; Unbelievably, I see two silver dollar coins in a teller tray.&nbsp; One a Morgan and the other a Peace.&nbsp; I asked if I could buy them, expecting a no AND GOT A YES!&nbsp; For two dollars I got two silver dollar coins!!!!!!&nbsp; It felt really good until I got them in my hands...both FAKES!&nbsp; I told the teller but kept them anyway.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]480166[/ATTACH] </p><p>(look at the reeding on the right edge...there is a straight line almost like an old Canadian nickel...you can also see bubbling on the surface...not a struck coin)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]480164[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Peace dollar kind of looks ok, but the Morgan is a real mess.&nbsp; Still, I was pretty excited at first.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad I already had 12+ ounces in the bank (so to speak), that kind of took the sting off the silver dollars.&nbsp; I did find four more part silver halves on the way home.&nbsp; For a total just under 13 ounces.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only ever found one silver dollar CRHing...a Peace dollar.&nbsp; Sure would have been nice to triple that.&nbsp; But I am not complaining.&nbsp; I have only gone crhing 7 days so far this year and I have more than 240 silver coins and more than 50 ounces.&nbsp; Plus a type one 1913 Buffalo that is still in good shape![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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