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Finally some results !
Got 1 box last week, which was a total skunk.
But my 1 box this week netted me
1 1963 Franklin
1 1964
and 1 1968 !
Any day I find silver is a great one.
Edited by Deltron
10/11/2011 4:21 pm
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Although I post on here often, I am ashamed to say I have never searched a box. I could never really afford a box. I still love this thread though. anyways, a few times I was convinced to go buy some CWR of halves, only to be disappointed by marked rolls. I have tried a few times and only get searched stuff, except once I got a proof. So today I got my first silver! Was buying a box of nickels from the bank and saw a silver rim in the teller tray. I was hoping for a 90% kennedy but thought it would be a 40%. Turns out my first silver ended up being a Walking Liberty half, a 1946.  Now that was awesome. Edited by murrellington
10/11/2011 5:01 pm
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Picked up $150 in CWR and got nothing worth keeping.
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20 bucks in cwr while dumping other coins
The one roll had some play in it and the coins sounded really promising clinking when I shook the roll.
When I opened the rolls up there was no silver/proofs/nifc or anything exciting
oh well it was worth the shot
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I went through two boxes, the first nothing, 2nd 4 40%, and a 1964.
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The bank that my father goes to has a coin counter. He talked to the manager a while ago and asked him to save the half dollars for him and the manager agreed. It takes a long time to get a full bag ($500 worth) but we figured we try.
Our first bag (a few months ago) had one 1964 Silver & 3 1965-70 40% silvers. But I noticed a lot of halfs had a marker line through it.
Our second bag (today) I noticed at least 10% of the coins had a marker line through it. Now we still found a 1967 40% but I am assuming that all the marker lines are from other searchers so I have a few questions.
1) Should I continue getting Half Dollars this way. (We had been lucky both times.)
2) Why do searchers put a marker line through the coin and how many coins do they normally mark at a time?
3) Is there a better, quicker way to get Half Dollars to search through?
Thanks.
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I would think that you could potentially have a great opportunity there, even if you have to wade through some quantity of roll searcher rejects. I have a much higher success rate with customer turned in coin from the bank than I do with bank rolls. All it takes is one customer to dump "ol' granpappy's" coin to make you a winner. If I had a chance at coin like you do I wouldn't turn it down.
Edited by unholyroller
10/11/2011 11:24 pm
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I was thinking the same thing. I figured if another searcher is dumping his coins at my bank. There is no way he is searching the one that are already in there when he dumps, so I guess I'll see if 3rd time is a charm. It just takes so long to fill a bag so I have to wait for a few months.
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For sure you should keep looking there because if you found couple in the 2 past bags it means the tellers there dont cherrypick so anytime you can strike a nice silver dump what worth the afford !
Edited by Ricardocody
10/12/2011 04:00 am
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Check that 1946 for DDR murry I agree with Ricardo. |
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2 boxes today - majority were in 1 box (not sure what the breakdown per box was)
4 rolls contained 21 coins - +$2 already
28 @ 40%
1 1964
1 1959
2 1949d
5 1942 walkers (3p, 1d, 1s)
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Nica Akane ! I'm half way of a box and I start to smell somenthing lol .Btw was it S&S boxes ?
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10/12/2011 2:48 pm
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Only search the beautiful yellow rolls.
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Where do you order "boxes" from and how much are they?
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So I have been reading the history of this forum for all of the absolutely incredible information given since this forum began. I have recently started searching half dollar rolls and I anticipate doing this until carpal tunnel says otherwise! I don't collect to place in an album or for complete sets. I enjoy more of the "searching for gold" or more to the point "searching for half dollars worth more then 50 cents now and in the future. I know to save 1970 and earlier as well as proofs. The questions I have are:
1. Are the NIFC dated 2002 to current worth saving?
2. How can I identify clad proofs 1971-2001 from just shiny non-proof clads?
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