10+ Oz Of Silver In 3 Customer-Wrapped Rolls Of Silver Half Dollars & 10 More In The Teller's Tray

As other experienced CRHs have noted on this forum, learning that a bank has a few dozen half dollars often is good news because that number of rolls might be a bona-fide "collection dump". In contrast, when a bank has 10 or more customer-wrapped rolls, they generally were dumped there by a different CRH who already searched them. Here is a good example of this principle.

This week my wife and I traveled to Cape Cod for the first time since Thanksgiving. Yesterday I called several local banks to determine if they had half dollars that I could purchase. A bank teller in a nearby town said she had $35 in half dollars -- three rolls, and 10 loose coins. That sounded interesting...While the teller was opening her drawer to remove the three rolls, I noticed 10 half dollars with silver edges in her tray. When she subsequently placed those rolls on her desk while she locked her drawer, I saw that they were in old-fashioned mustard-colored wrappings that had labels written on them. I handed her $35 and hurried to my car.

All ten loose coins were 1969 Kennedy half dollars. When I opened both ends of each roll, I spied 40% silver coins with dates that agreed with the labels. A fine collection dump: 70 silver Kennedy half dollars (most of them in pristine condition)! None of these coins contain 90% silver -- but that's just a small disappointment.