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

Crud I thought I had a good find at 35 40%

Congrats on an amazing find

Fed Reserve wrapped rolls are the yellow and black ones most likely.
U.S. Mint rolls will say just that on them.
Bank wrapped will be machine wrapped with the coin rolling company printed on them. These could be several colors, kinds, and companies of I believe.
And "customer wrapped" are the ones generally where the edges are just push/folded over with your thumb.

Of Grampa......
Ahhhh.....you inspire me !!

The rolls I am getting are just like yours...Boxes marked "$500 Half Dollars" and the rolls are yellow and white marked "$10.00 Half Dollars"

I have 2 different banks supplying me at the moment and I have 1 bank where I do all my dumps. The first bank had been cold for 4 months or more. I'd get 1 box per week (plus any turned in by customers). The tellers really appreciate me taking the ones from the customers so they don't have to deal with them in their counts. I was getting brand new 1996d (complete boxes) for months on end. I'd open up the box, open the roll, look for clips or die-stike erros, then dump. I guess I've worked thru most of those because the last 3-4 boxes from this bank have been pretty good. This bank uses Loomis Armored.

The second bank started out pretty good then kinda dried up and then started producing like crazy. I'm hoping this continues. This bank uses a small private Armored service (I can't even remember the name) but I think this may be why it has done so well.

The best advise I can give you is searching volume and seeking out new sources. Find out what armored service a bank uses and when you find 1 that is different than what you are using now give it a try. This may mean opening up 3 or 4 different checking accounts.

You may wonder how you can tie up $500-$1000 in rolls. Start out with $500 and go buy a box. Search it, set aside your keepers, dump, and repeat (you will need to add cash to your $500 as you set aside your keepers). When you need to pay bills with this money, deposit it and pay your bills. When you get another $500 free buy more boxes and go to work searching again. Now, here is the part most don't like but it is important for you to do so you can increase your volume.

Once you have appx $100 face in 40%ers (or you can do a mixture of 40%-90%) you need to find someone and SELL THOSE SILVERS! (I know, about 1/3 of the readers of this thread just had chills down their spines! ) I'm sure you probably don't want to do this but what you are doing in generating working capital. This will allow you to take your original $500 that you have been using to pay bills AND search rolls and put it back to the bills. Now you've got money that doesn't have to be used for anything else. Do this a couple times and you can do 2 boxes at a time without stretching yourself financially.

Once you have the volume going you can decide either to keep all your 40%ers/90%ers or you can do like I am and use those finds to finance the coins you really want.

These are just a few ideas that might help. For those of you still reeling from the thought of selling silver halves, (inhale deep breath) "In with the good air" and (exhale deep breath) "Out with the bad air"

No pushback whatsoever. My drop bank has a lobby coin-counting machine so I go in, dump, run the coins, and take the receipt to the tellers. I take up to $1000 at a time and almost every time I am there they have to change the bag. Two-three times a month I take them ice cream so they are REALLY glad to see me and I take ice cream for everyone there, not just the teller that takes care of me.

I forgot to mention in my earlier disertation (ROFL) that developing a relationship with the banks, and especially the tellers, is CRUCIAL. You want them to smile when they see you, not go on break. You want them saving you coins and bills and the only way for that to happen is for you to go out of your way. You catch more flies with sugar than vinegar

I got a $100 of halves the yesterday while opening a saving account for my son and was pleasantly surprised...



a complete roll of 40% (mostly 1968 with a stray 65 and 67 thrown in. As well as 40 others mixed between 65-69 with one 1964. That's 61 out of 200 that were keepers. I also found about 30 Bicentennial halves. Gonna keep them, but not sure if they will be worth it...I'm going back because they implied that they have more halves!!

Thanks for the advise...My kids like getting the 1976s for allowance. Eddings is one of my favorites, Sparhawk is just one of those guys you know where he stands..never a question...I'm like that too, less the broken nose...

I think I am gonna start hitting up different branches of my bank on paydays to see what I can get.

Yesterday, I went one branch and they had no rolls of fifties. They had $10 worth in 2 different drawers so I grabbed everything they had. No silver and didn't notice anything special besides the one 76 piece I got. Most of these coins were beat up pretty bad.

I am gonna have to write down what they key dates to look for after the silver are in case I make a good future find. I didn notice a different finish on the newer ones. Is that what the business strike is?

Congrats on the 70D, TOZ. I've been looking it for a long time and couldn't found it.