JFK Half Dollar Roll Hunters: Silver, Proofs And Other Finds

Silver Eagle,

Wish I had seriously started a few years ago. I am starting to find towns that have been hit by people passing through (like me).

That is another option. If any of you are planning a trip, you may try checking out banks on the way. You may find something interesting.

Kilroy said:

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For those ready to give up, I recommend that you persevere. I have been checking banks in my area since January and have found over 500 40% and over 30 90%.

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That depends on where you live. Many Texans have moved on to nickel and penny searching. Sometimes giving up on halves makes sense.

All too true deadmunny and eaglefoot.

Although it has been my fortune to live in an area that has not been completely searched out, numerous times I come across banks that have already been 'hit'.

The time will come when there are no more banks within 'reasonable' ( the obsession stretches that definition )driving distance. At that time the fed boxes and while traveling are definite options. Searching through thousands of halves and not finding anything is a definite pain. If there is no more enjoyment in it, then why do it? That is the time to fall back on one of my adopted rules of life: adapt, improvise, and overcome.

Your friendly fallible fiend

Folks, don't give up on halves yet. What you may ned to give up on are the bank boxes if you live in Texas or NY, which seem dry of silver. But there are still customer wrapped rolls. I can get them maybe once every month or two months and usually come away with a few rolls and they almost always have silver- high rate of return.

It's been about two months since I last hit my bank, so they are overdue for a visit from me.

Happy hunting

I don't know, Eaglefoot. It probably depends on where you are. Until I recently tried two $500 boxes, I was always doing customer wrapped rolls. The recent Fed boxes were completely dry of silver- they came out of the Dallas, TX area, and other CCF members have complained about Dallas TX boxes being dry. So I really only have the option of customer wrapped rolls. At least so far, if I hit enough different branches, I usually get a few rolls, and they usually have some silver in there. I live in Shreveport area and have not detected anyone's "dump" yet among customer wrapped. However the Fed boxes I went through were clearly someon's dump, since many coins were marked with a marker. I didn't get a single keeper in $1000 Fed boxes.

Bottom line seems to be: it depends where you live. Some areas of the country, people are reporting silver finds from Fed boxes, and some are not. Customer-wrapped rolls are the way to go for me, but in another part of the country, you might be searching through someone's "dump". All the coins I go through, I do not dump into a bank, but spend them, so it would take a long time for them to trickle back to the bank, if ever. A lot of folks see them and say they will cash them out of the register. At the point in which I start getting back my own coins, I will know that I have exhausted the halves in my area. The way I can tell if I'm getting back my own coins, is that I always keep 82-87 coins and the 78D, and often keep higher condition coins from anything past 77.

Going fed boxes is the best bet in my opinion. I have done pretty well with them. Especially considering that I live in Cali where itnis pretty well searched. I went through three thousand a few weeks ago and got two bens and 17 forty percenters!! To me that was a great haul. Happy hunting!!

I currently work both in my area (customer rolls and fed/armored boxes). Lately I've had better luck with the customer rolls. Have only found 1 40% in the last 10 boxes from the bank, but just last week I found 8 90% and 54 40% from customer rolls. I'm lucky, though, since I work nights; I'm able to devote most of my days to silver hunting!

so copperdaddy, I assume you are searching in banks that you have accts in?