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My Best Jackpot: Four Rolls Of Customer-Wrapped Silver Quarters (And Franklin Half Dollars As Well)

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About two years ago, I acquired a CWR of 90% silver half dollars and a mixture of 20 more loose 40% and 90% silver half dollars at a bank located in a gated residence for senior citizens. But I haven't had much luck there since then.

Yesterday a teller told me that she had $11 worth of half dollars in her tray (an interesting amount). When I arrived I could tell that several coins contained silver. The result was better than I expected: eight Franklin half dollars, one 1964 Kennedy half dollar, and three more coins that contain 40% silver.

On a hunch I asked the teller if she also had CWRs of quarters and dimes. None of the dime rolls looked unusual -- but her tray included four rolls of quarters in old-fashioned wrappers. After I purchased them, I saw two silver coins in the ends of each roll. Sure enough, they contained 157 silver quarters and a few clad coins.

These half dollars and quarters contain 32+ ounces of silver (almost twice the size of my best previous silver score). I suppose that after an elderly coin collector passed away, a relative cashed the collection at face value. I am going to contact the branch manager to ask the teller if she remembers which customer recently cashed the unusual-looking quarter rolls so I can anonymously share their value with the heir(s).

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Great pick up!
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Excellent score!
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Amazing score.
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Wow, $2000 in silver! Your diligence really paid off. Congrats on the find. Very kind of you to attempt to locate the heirs, but I suspect that endeavor will not be enabled by the bank. Good luck, nonetheless.
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I suspect that endeavor will not be enabled by the bank.


The branch manager was uncooperative when I spoke to her about the situation. First she told me that the bank (understandably) won't release information about their customers. I explained that I planned to leave cash in an envelope that the bank could give to the person who cashed the silver quarters if the teller could identify them. But she countered that the bank's only responsibility is to pay customers the face value of coins they deposit. Each customer is responsible to make a different decision if coins have additional intrinsic value.
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You tried. Now you can cash in with a clean conscience. Well done.
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wow, amazing that anyone would just let that go. good score.
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Excellent find and nice that you would try to share the proceeds with the depositor.



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wow, amazing that anyone would just let that go. good score.


We have entered a time where there are more that don't know than know when it comes to silver coinage. Probably been that way for a decade or more.
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