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Valued Member
United States
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Monkeyman, do you have Bank of America in your area? I have always had good luck with BOA on ordering boxes of halves.
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New Member
United States
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bnacoin, There is no silver in the 3 billion half dollar coins that I am referring to. Their composition is .750 copper and .250 nickel. My point in the first place would be the paper dollar has no intrinsic value and it appears our coins are being replaced with cheap materials making their future questionable. When I pick up a Sacagawea dollar I am reminded of the old aluminum or plastic tax tokens. In other words, "new junk" from the guvamint. Thanks for trying to help with an answer. -G |
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Valued Member
United States
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New Member
United States
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bnacoin, Well, that GAO chart does show that in recent years the half dollar coins are going back to the vaults. It can be theorized that once the magic number of coins are returned the Kennedy half will be replaced by another smaller , cheaper coin. What do you think about that scenario ? |
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Valued Member
United States
101 Posts |
I don't follow that logic. There are very few half dollars in actual circulation these days. If anything, the government could just stop minting halves. It hasn't minted business strikes in a long time anyway. I don't know any reason it would just try again with a smaller coin. But who knows?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
511 Posts |
My USBank branch always has some rolls and loose halves, but it's been all clads lately.
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Valued Member
 United States
439 Posts |
I took your advise and tried some other branches. The Wachovia near my house was telling me they get charged and have to order 5k worth, blah blah blah. So I wen to one on my way home from work. The guy is like "Ok you can pick them up thursday". I also tried a different TD Bank and they said they would do it too. So shop around.
What kind of luck do you guys generally get in a $500 box? One coin? One in 5 boxes? 5 in one box? Curious as to what I should expect.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Success of one box is complete luck of draw. Lately its been nothing in each box. If you get more than one count yourself lucky. More than that you are onto something. Do you have a plan for getting rid of them?
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New Member
United States
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bracoin, My theory is based on what has happened to the recent , 1979, discontinued Eisenhower dollar. I can see the same for the half dollar. Anyway, enough on this subject. Some of the other posts have me wondering about these boxes I have. Maybe I should go on a silver hunt. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Gordon, yes, go for a hunt for customer wrapped rolls/ teller tray coins.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
672 Posts |
Im in the philly area and have been having trouble getting halves here too with other branches... they region must be clamping down on roll hunters... I've had luck with dimes though...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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yeah mafia, there's always dimes and nickels....there've got to be what? billions of War Nickels still out there? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Since they only made about 870 million War Nickels, I would say there might be millions, not billions out there. |
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New Member
United States
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Do rolls of halves come in paper... I've been searching quarter rolls for a while and come up with blanks. All of these have been plastic wrapped and I'm sure that has something to do with it. Any thoughts or recommendations?
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New Member
United States
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PJDUchamp, It may be dependent on the bank you go to. At Wells Fargo I've never seen a plastic wrapped roll. We order all of ours from the main vault and they come in brown paper rolls. The only other rolls I've seen come through the branch are white rolls that have the red stripes at the end ( Presidential dollars). |
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