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Half Dollar Roll Hunting On Steroids ?

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 Posted 04/17/2011  6:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add still lookin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I don't' think that you call this roll searching. I think it is called mining. Do you have a permit?

Seriously though, you may raise some questions with the federal government about money laundering. So keep good records.
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 Posted 04/17/2011  6:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Chriscoinmaster to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
killing the golden goose
tisk tisk
this is how roll hunting will come to an end for all of us
ruin it for everyone to make a quick buck
get a real second job instead of making this one
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 Posted 04/17/2011  6:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinstar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thats nuts


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That's $24,000 or 48,000 half dollars


If I had 24,000 or whatever 8 boxes cost (4,000)? I think I could find something better to do with the money-- I mean I get a roll hear and there but this "box idea" is nuts
just my .02
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 Posted 04/17/2011  7:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Brucegabi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just got the cost breakdown from brinks and it's insane!
Between needing a commercial account, a commercial building and crazy high charges, they need me to have a $100,000 bond. And this is just for them to pick up MY money and deposit it.

Think I'll stick to my normal 6 boxes a week.
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 Posted 04/17/2011  7:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lincolncentguy to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I agree with afclassic87!
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 Posted 04/17/2011  7:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willy13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
LOL, I never did the math, $24000....
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 Posted 04/18/2011  07:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add deadmunny to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The total weight is in the neighborhood of 1344 lbs.
I go by 28 lbs per box.
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 Posted 04/18/2011  09:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biged239 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is just some info I received from a friend. He told me that Walmart, K-mart, and Target order more coins than the banks do. So has anyone ever tried to get these boxes from them?
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 Posted 04/18/2011  09:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add w1a9c8k5 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I can only imagine what a Walmart cashier would say when I ask for a box of pennies. I have heard the faces people get from bank employees. I would guarentee they'd only be worse.
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 Posted 04/18/2011  09:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinstar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Walmart cashier= box of pennies? Is that a box you put pennies in? Like a piggy bank...aisle 20.
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 Posted 04/18/2011  10:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add willy13 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Walmart, Target, and K-mart doesn't order halves.... now I suppose there is a chance they get halves from customers now and then....
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 Posted 04/18/2011  11:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rawmeat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This does raise the question of what a reasonable amount of boxes is to acquire per week and per bank? The one right by my house I thought I'd start a little big, just so I could get boxes of various things to see how it goes. I've been getting either 4 or 5 boxes of things the last 3 weeks (usually 1 or 2 Halves, then some nickels, quarters, dimes, pennies, etc.).

Mostly I just want to see which ones are the most fun/profitable and easiest to move around.

I was thinking that I'd go with 2 boxes of halves, plus a box of nickels, each week from that bank. I'd like to do a fourth box, but wonder if I'd be pushing my luck? They seem really nice about it, and I always time my visits when I think they will be slow, so I'm not slowing down people trying to do "normal" business -- so they don't seem annoyed. What do you guys think?

Also, to what extent do you think it's OK to pull from other banks? I've been thinking I'd get a box a week from a different branch of the same bank and then maybe 1 or 2 boxes a week from a different bank. I definitely have the bug, though, so I don't want to be going to crazy (but I feel like if I could I'd go through 10 boxes a day!)
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 Posted 04/18/2011  12:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KenRingold to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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You are killing the hobby many of us collectors enjoy.


Anyone pulling nothing but silver does, let alone the quantity.
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 Posted 04/14/2020  8:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add luvmyCAM to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Go for it, menacing meanies generously offer the old "just trying to help". Come on ruining it for the rest of us? Billions were minted and millions get searched God Bless the United States of America and American ingenuity. I doubt your half dollar orders will significantly alter the current banking industry coin order policy's.
Hope you find those 40%ers.
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It has been nine years. I am sure they either found them or got over it.
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