Found 32 (!) Silver Half Dollars In Two Rolls Of Customer-Wrapped Coins

Excellent haul! Bullion value well over $4 per 40-percenter!

I returned to the same bank the next day for two reasons. First, I wanted to give the tellers a few Starbucks gift cards. The main teller thanked me for that gesture, but she politely explained that the bank does let tellers accept gifts from customers.

The second reason was to determine if the tellers also had rolls of smaller-denomination coins in old-fashioned wrappers. The same teller explained that once a week all coin rolls (except for half dollars) cashed by customers are turned over to Loomis, and the bank receives new coin rolls wrapped by that company. A teller at the bank where about 18 months ago I acquired three rolls of silver dimes in old-fashioned wrappers recently told me that bank also now does this.

This means that a coin collection cashed at these banks by a customer almost immediately will be mixed with common coins by Loomis or a similar business and redistributed in "diluted" form. In addition, at two local banks that I regularly visit it is difficult to acquire loose half dollars or customer-wrapped rolls because they recently added coin-counting machines and don't allow a customer to purchase the coin bags.

These developments mean it will be more challenging for CRHs like me to find caches of silver coins at banks.

That's the general rule of thumb with all banks... you can give things of nominal value like birthday cards, but anything with tangible value, such as gift cards (or actual physical money) is not allowed inside the branch... that said, if you're friendly with a particular teller, there's nothing stopping you from doing something for them outside of work.

Outstanding!

Silver halves are still out there. And in my opinion, always will be... You want to know why?

I must be missing something. Isn't this thread like 18 months old?

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