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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't even wish to discuss my long bad luck streak with no silver on the halves......thousands of dollars searched and haven't found one in a year or more !......  |
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 United States
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Very nice!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
632 Posts |
Nice finds You Lucky  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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How do you go about doing that? What do you say to get them? Well it helps that I am a business owner and make frequent trips to the bank for deposit purposes. Today as an afterthought, right before I left, I asked the teller if they had any halves. Half the time they don't have any at all. Other times they may have about $8 to $10 worth and they are all from the 90s and newer. There have been three times where I came away with a '64 and a couple late 60s. I've heard of other people scoring silver like this at their bank but I always pictured it happening at small banks in the middle of nowhere. I bank at a major facility in a very large urban area. Maybe they came from a little old lady's jar, or something. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I am in what most people would call a backwoods area, I know for certain of 11 different people, and unknown others, scouring the local banks within 20 miles for halves and dimes to search for silver. I dont know about cents/nickels. I think all the coins in my bank get searched lol.
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Valued Member
United States
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I guess I should have counted myself and my brother, 13 total.
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Pillar of the Community
Egypt
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Excellent find, could be more making it to the banks as the recession hits!
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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nice find |
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Valued Member
United States
311 Posts |
Score! So were those two in a roll, or were all the coins loose?
It's hard to believe how many people who work at banks don't know anything at all about coins... Good for us, but hard to believe.
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Valued Member
United States
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very nice finds. |
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Valued Member
United States
326 Posts |
Excellent finds!
My experience has been that building a relationship with the tellers at your bank usually leads to them holding onto coin or potentially ordering you what you are looking for. Try bringing them some cookies around the holidays. You'll be amazed with the coins and paper money that start showing up.
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Valued Member
United States
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Nice tips ya'll. Looks like I'm gonna have to visit my bank more often  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Score! So were those two in a roll, or were all the coins loose?
It's hard to believe how many people who work at banks don't know anything at all about coins... Good for us, but hard to believe. They were loose, believe it or not. She just slid 22 halves into one of those small envelopes and gave it to me like that. When I was at a red light I just took a peek and the first one I saw was the Walker. I was thinking that it might be solid Walkers but that would've been too good to be true! And you're right about people working at banks that are clueless sometimes as to the numismatic value of some money they handle. Most of them (at least I think) know about pre 1965 silver coinage, but maybe some don't. And apparently the ones that don't know work at the drive through that I use. Good for me! |
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