A Fabulous Loomis Box With 26 Silver Half Dollars (Including Five Benjis)

Last week I described finding six silver half dollars (including two Benjis) in a Loomis box of half dollars I acquired from my local bank. I concluded by saying that I asked the teller to order two more boxes this week (hoping to find more coins from the same collection "dump"). They arrived yesterday.

The first box was a stinker: i.e., 20-25% of the coins were minted in 2021, and it didn't contain any silver half dollars. But when I found a 1964 Kennedy half dollar in the first roll that I opened from the second box and a 40% silver half dollar in the second roll, I knew that this box would be a good one (even though it didn't contain any "enders"). I found nine silver coins in the first 25 rolls, and 17 more in the second half of the box. As the number of unopened rolls in this box grew smaller, my excitement at expecting to find one or two silver coins in every second or third of the remaining rolls was balanced by knowing that soon this successful treasure hunt would end.

The final haul was five Benjamin Franklin half dollars minted in 1951 or 1952; six 1964-P Kennedy half dollars; two 1964-D Kennedy half dollars; and 13 coins that contain 40% silver. That's 6.6+ troy ounces of silver -- the second largest amount of silver I have found in a Loomis box. I typically find uncirculated Kennedy half dollars while CRH. But these Franklin half dollars are discolored -- and an ugly one has a damaged rim (poor thing). Most of the 40% silver coins and a few of the 1964-P half dollars also are in circulated condition. Unfortunately, this collection apparently did not include a significant number of Walking Liberty half dollars.

I'm convinced the second box contained additional coins from the same collection "dump" I caught last week. So I will ask the friendly teller to order two more boxes next week (after she receives her gift cards). I hope I can acquire more silver coins from this collection in additional Loomis boxes.

A month ago, I described finding only 13 silver coins in a Loomis box of half dollars that had three silver "enders". The 32 silver half dollars that I've recently found in two boxes with no enders "correct" that statistical anomaly.