How Many Are Into Coin Roll Hunting?

Something that I have been doing that has had a little bit of success is checking out branches of banks in food stores for half dollars. For some reason in my area, the silver hunters don't hit these banks, perhaps thinking that their main purpose is to supply the store with change or whatever. I went into one two weeks ago asking for halves, and the teller was amazed, saying "I thought nobody would ever want these, and there are too few to send back to the Fed". She gave me four rolls, which almost every other coin was either silver or clad, including a Bennie. Good Luck!

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...checking out branches of banks in food stores for half dollars.

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That is a good idea but where I live the tellers seem to know the least about halves, many had never even seen one. They also tend to be the least helpful.

I just found a branch in a local store open on Sunday. I will save that one for this sunday if I am in the area.

"Has anyone else run into this problem ?"
Every bank is different. Did you bring them in loose?
Hope you did not take them back to the same bank you bought them at, if so time to get another supply bank. Because they will not want to get you boxes and then take back coins.

I always roll small amounts or bag in $500. Count must be acurate and bag must be the heavy security plastic ones. My bank encourages this and even furnishes all I need.

When I went to the bank, I only took half of the amount with me. It's a good thing that I did, or else I would have been there a very long time! I didn't go to the same bank that I got the coins from. After my first post, I took the second half to the main branch of my bank and had not probem,. It seems that the branch banks don't have the correct machine. I guess my other alternatiave is to open another bank account where the have an adaquate machine. Next time I will only get $500 worth. Any comments on what I should be looking for other than dates ? Also, is "The Red Book" the best one to have ? I thought I purchased the right book, but found out that I hadn't. Red cover, but not the Red Book. I am thinking of returning what I have and ordering the right one. Thanks again for the input. Susan

Most banks are happy to give out paper coin wrappers for free. But most banks do not carry half dollar one. Just keep asking, my local BofA ordered a box after I kept asking. Trouble is I bought two boxes of my own before they told me about it. I mostly use plastic bags. But when I only have 200-300 dollars I roll them up.

any body want to buy a lot of wrappers?

my BOAs only have them on rare occasions, and they are a couple loose ones. I've yet to get a customer roll from a BOA.

$1000 searched, absolutely nothing. I retire searching halves....

The 40% silver Kennedys are obviously the most common silver halves you see in rolls. If I averaged out all the rolls I've searched, I'd guess they occur at a rate of 1 or two out of 100 coins. The 90% silvers are probably 5 times as scarce, and of those probably 8 out of 10 would be 1964 Kennedys. Walking Liberty halves are at least 10 times scarcer than 1964 Kennedys.

With the long odds against finding even common-date Walkers, how lucky was I to find this semi-key in yesterday's rolls?





I'm still shaking my head.....