I don't typically roll search. But I always look at the tray at the bank and I ask for any half dollars that they have. I also ask for $2 bills and dollar coins. Since I go to this bank at least twice a week, the tellers all know what I am looking for.
This past week, one of the tellers said that someone had turned in 6 rolls of half dollars. I didn't have any cash left at the time so I asked him to save them for me and I would stop back in a day or two. When I went back on Friday, he still had the 6 rolls of half dollars. I also asked for 2 rolls of dollar coins (to spend of course). Another teller said the dollar coins are in the vault, and there is also 2 more half dollar rolls. She brought these out and one of the rolls was open. I saw several silver coins in this batch so I said that I would take all of them.
That night, I opened the 6 rolls first. About half were bicentennial halves and the rest were from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. There were a few nice ones that I kept. The rest will be spent over the next few weeks.
But the 2 half dollar rolls from the vault were a bonanza. Inside these 2 rolls were 8 1964 halves (90% silver), 1 1965, 4 1966, 8 1967, 4 1968D, and 1 1969D halves (40% silver). This is 26 silver halves in 2 rolls. None of these are uncirculated but the 1965 is really close.
When I go back to the bank on Monday, I will ask them to save any half dollar rolls that they get from now on. I am really terrible at taking pictures, but here is a shot of them stacked up by date.
Has anyone else been this lucky lately?
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Posted 06/24/2012 07:24 am
