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Valued Member
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Hopefully you get lucky and then your parents get the fever too! I can dream..... |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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coinkid: kudos to you!!
I think you have a great start with the $120....
Personally if I was you and $500 was the goal... than roll search as much as possible with the $120 as you can...
If you ever find anything worth holding on to... put it aside but make sure you still keep going to the bank with $120..... Hopefully with a bit of work you may end up with a handful of 40% or even find one or two 90%'ers .. sell the coins for their silver and increase your float!
I don't know that much about U.S. coinage but I have heard of people skunking with multiple boxes of 50 cent pieces... So keep an open mind to perhaps a different denomination... I have hear a lot of good things about the silver nickles you have or perhaps going and getting dimes might pay off.
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United States
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There was an article in Errorscope about a YN who (with his brother) collected scrap metal until he earned enough to get a 1797 large cent and a dog. Scrap metal is nice. You can make quite a little nest egg for yourself that way. Just gotta find it first. (Hint, hint: scout your local auto-repair places) However, depending on your age, scrapping might be easier said than done. If you do decide to do it, it is a dirty job, so change into junk clothes before you head out (don't want to anger your parents by tearing up your good clothing) There is another option...if you live in MI, NY, CA, CT, HI, IA, MA, ME, OR, or VT, and I think maybe WV...there's a magical little bottle deposit in place. That job, oddly enough, is nastier than scrapping. Free money is free money, after all. It'll take you a while before your rolling in Benjamins, and winter puts a damper on how much you can rake in, but come spring, and with enough determination and luck of finding stuff (and provided you can get transportation to dump what you collect), you can make that $500 for a box of halves in 3-4 months, easy...even more if you stumble upon gold mines (and, if you do find a gold mine, keep going back, OFTEN; gold mines have a tendency to be profitable for a limited window of time, before becoming worthless for months/years) |
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I was not asking how to manipulate them, I was asking for tips on how to convince them. There's a big difference. I'm a parent of a "10-13" year old and I'd be a bit upset if they went looking for advice from online strangers on how to do something I already said "no" on. I understand where you are coming from, but at your age you kind of just need to respect your parents and work within their limits they have set for you. But "manipulate" may have been too strong of a word, I apologize. Also, I'm not sure where you are in math at school, but the odds of finding silver is actually the same regardless of how many coins you search at once. A box searched at once is no more likely to contain silver than 50 rolls searched one or 2 at a time spread over a year. In fact, the odds are still the same if you just get one coin at a time! |
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United States
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Mine too, were skeptical (I'm an HS upperclassman now) until I showed them the CCF half dollar CRH thread. Glad to know you were able to work something out!  Edited by The Silver Searcher
01/07/2015 5:44 pm
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United States
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I'm a parent of a "10-13" year old and I'd be a bit upset if they went looking for advice from online strangers on how to do something I already said "no" on. I agree...pretty much. I would look at it more as him asking for ideas of options. Or ways to educate his parents why it isn't unreasonable. BUT...I didn't take his post that way anyway. I read it as a kid who really wanted to have a blast searching a box of halves, got shot down, and was just venting. Nowhere in his post did he ask for anyone's advice. |
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United States
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Depends where do you live? I know kid who will go around neighborhood offering shoveling snow to make $10-20. Sounds like you are younger than 14, otherwise in many states kids of 14 or older can work at grocery store bagging groceries.
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United States
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As many others mentioned, just be happy to start with a couple of rolls at a time. No, you're NOT likely to find any silver (90% or 40%) half dollars by looking in just a few rolls, but finding just one in an entire case is about as hard.
Be thankful you have a bank that actually has half dollars. My main bank doesn't carry them, and I was only able to get from 2-10 coins a week (if they had any at all). I could have bought a case of Kennedy's from my employer's cash supplier, but I needed to pay a week in advance before delivery, AND pay a surcharge of $10 - $20 a case for the trouble of them supplying "sub-normal" coinage (the only coins normally handled are cents, nickels, dimes, and quarters).
I do hope that you eventually get started, and hope you can let all of us know now it worked out for you!
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United States
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Keep it up. As everyone has already said. The chances are the same. If I had been like you when I was a teenager and tried to invest the way you are. I would have alot more silver stacked. But instead I spent it on games and basecall cards.
And $120 is plenty to start like most have already dabbled on. I went in with the expectation of only getting a few loose halves and walked out with $60 dollars worth With in those 6 rolls to my suprise was 48 40% halves.
My point is keep it up you can still find silver with the amount you have.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
840 Posts |
I'm also a parent and have a son about your age. I think $120 is a decent amount of cash to buy halves with, especially if you can go to several banks each week with your parents and buy whatever loose halves the tellers have. If your area is not heavily hunted, I think you will find silver within a month.
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$500 is $500. it will spend anywhere and everywhere. Pump gas for your car and take them in to pay. You now have a debt at the gas station and they have no right to refuse cash payhment, so jsut give them a roll of halves (should fill most tanks up the way gas prices keep dropping.)
Eat at a sit down resteraunt where they bill you after they have brought the food, pay in rolls of halves.. again, you have a debt, you are willing to pay. it is rolled. it is quick and easy...
There are PLENTY of ways to use the halves after you ahve got them. Just check the Project $100k thread and see how many people use them. The thing you need to explain to your parents is:
1. halves are still money that can be spent.
2. You need quantity to find anything unless you hit beginners luck, which won't last.
3. it is your money.
You should try to save for a box if you can. If you really love halves, just save for it, because most banks don't have too many and will only order boxes IF you take a whole box. You might get lucky.
WARNING: CRHing halves can be addicted. Signs of an addict are as follows:
1. blackened greasy hands
2. Empty rolls everywhere
3. Empty halves boxes everywhere
4. holes in pants pockets from carrying too many halves as you try to spend all the ones you don't want to keep.
5. superhuman grip strength from holding halves all the time
6. looking at people's belt buckle to see if it is a date you are missing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I say search dimes. Rolls are cheaper so you can search more. Silver is still fun to find. And competition for half dollars can be brutal.
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Valued Member
United States
134 Posts |
I would say look at searching nickels as an alternative to halves.
$100 gets you a whole box of the nickels (2000 coins) and there is a higher rate of "interesting" coins than with halves.
Over the last couple years of searching nickels, I've found $30-40 face value of pre-1960 Jeffersons, decent number of key and semi-key Jeffersons (including two 1950-Ds), 3-4 rolls of War (silver) Jeffersons, almost a roll of proof Jeffersons, about 2-3 rolls of dated and dateless Buffalos, a couple Libertys, and lots of interesting foreigns including many 99% nickels Canadians.
In my opinion, nickels are the best for a YN in terms of effort and "finds".
Edited by mendelman
01/20/2015 09:35 am
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 United States
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I would say look at searching nickels as an alternative to halves... I agree with your assessment. While we all like the idea of free silver, nickel rolls offer a good opportunity to build a decent set. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
I said dimes but nickels is even better. Nickels were my one true love of roll searching.
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