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

Fantastic!

Finished another box tonight with just a handful of NIFCs. Someone was drilling for copper on the 2016 D and was successful.





Then there's these 2. Someone got a new punch set for Christmas and tried it out on a 1991 D. There's a $ on Kennedy's head and a O on the eagle's tail feathers. The 1973 D looks like it was used for target practice. Good thing I practice catch and release.

Not bad.

I got these later in the day from another bank. Bonus bank wrapped roll of Bicentennials

Awesome haul, cabowabo!

Friendly tellers at two local banks recently called to tell me that customers had cashed several rolls of half dollars. The five rolls I acquired at the first bank contained 100 Bicentennial half dollars -- the second time I have been "lucky" enough to find this kind of collection dump.

The second dump was more interesting. When the teller handed me six rolls in Loomis wrappers, I could tell that another CRH already had searched through them because they were split on the side and then taped. But when I returned home I saw that two of the rolls had NIFC enders. I found two proof half dollars and several more NIFC coins in that roll. This pattern repeated in most of the remaining rolls. Eventually I found 10 proof coins and 32 uncirculated NIFCs in the six rolls (including an almost complete series of these low-mintage coins).

I imagine that the other CRH was looking for silver, and either didn't recognize the proof coins and NIFCs (or doesn't collect them). The more interesting result is that 33% of the coins in the original Loomis rolls were from an older proof/NIFC collection dump. That's a large percentage of interesting coins to end up in BWRs. Imagine finding 42 half dollars from a silver coin collection dump in six Loomis rolls!

Nice finds!

I was at another bank today putting stuff in my safe deposit box and asked if they had any coins they wanted to get rid of. The lady had 3 rolls of $1 coins and 2 rolls of Kennedy halves. Only one find, a 2004 S proof, but not too bad from just 5 rolls. The flatbed scanner makes it look worse than it is. It actually has very nice proof surfaces and a bit of frosting.