Posted 01/20/2008 11:01 pm
Mycrob,
One thing I learned after trying to finish 6 sets of those things from going thru 7000 dollars worth them in last few monlths. I just checked coin dealers to see how much they charge for my missing dates and went over the price list. I think I will wait and try serval more boxes on them. Its seems my coins are expensive on what I need compared to other years that cost 1.5 each on 2002 thru 2007 coins. Lots coins are cheap like two bucks each.
Key dates and expensive half dollars are.
1 1978 p or d cost 4.95 each.
2 1986 philly is an key date at 7.50 each. I need 4 count totol.
3. 1993 philly is 4 bucks each I need 4 of those.
The rest of them are cheap like 1.5 to 3 bucks per coin.
Those dates are expensive to buy and are keys or semi keys. I am short of finding after 14000 coins searched. I would check it and do an break on what dealers charge for certain dates. Its easy the most expensive coins are key dates and rest are easy to find out there.
Its hard to get good ideas on figures since those halfs just never circulate and serval boxes I bought sat in bank vaults for few years before I bought them. Two 2007 boxs was wraped in 2004 when I bought them. My freinds have had Feds send them bu bank wraps of solid date boxes of 2000 boxes with all brand new 2000 coins in them before in 2007. They sat at banks all those years before they bought them to search them.
My 10 boxs I bought this year from loomis was hand wraped and had two 2007 coins in there . One was denver and other was proof 2007. Loomis is hand wraping rolls on halfs and think they are pulling silver coins? But the 3 fedboxs I got I pulled 22 count on silver coins.
With all proof coins and 2002 thru 2007 I found at random in those. My thory is the public hoards those halfs since out 10 banks in I deal with in soulth texas dont carry half dollars. Almost every box had an proof coin or 2002 and up coin in there. Its seems I am onley person in south texas asking banks to ordor them. I had teach some bank peaple on how to ordor them. Very few in public has those things. The public gets in to trouble and needs money. They dump there collections of half dollars they buy from us mint or from dealers. They tear up proof sets , mint sets and use the 2002 thru 2007 coins since they need money . Lots of time Bank tellers tell me they dont get any for monlths at time . I check maybe 10 banks each week looking for ikes and halfs.
When I was working at bowling center from 2000 thru 1993. My boss would save all dollar coins or halfs for me. It me over 7 years just get 60 bucks face on those 71 and up half dollars . My job had over 20000 dollars in cash come into that place each weak from 1993 thru 2000. This was before the us mint quit selling to banks in the year 2002.
The onley place I ever seen an large amount them was in casio in new orleans maybe 350 miles miles from where I live in 2001 and in 1996 when I went there. I never seen them again like that. That was before I started collecting them in 2007 and wanting to build sets out my half dollars I saved all those years from work.
In south texas the onley peaple buying fedboxs are roll searchers looking for silver or collecters. No body esle buy those things or banks dont want them. Me and one other guy I know in south texas even want them or buy them it seems where I live.
I would not invest an lot time in trying to write an book or something about half dollars like coppercoins wants to do with the cent project. Like I said they dont circulate like dimes, pennys, nickels, Quarters. Halfs only circulate with coin dealers , roll searchers, colletors, Maybe inside an gaming hall with slot machices. They are not out there and when I spend them all over place they cause problems and some the younger clerks dont know or seen them half dollars before. They are two big to work inside any vending machice like Ike dollars I learned when I tryed to use in an coke machice.
Good luck with Half dollar project like the cent project you are wanting to do.
Chevrolet454ss
One thing I learned after trying to finish 6 sets of those things from going thru 7000 dollars worth them in last few monlths. I just checked coin dealers to see how much they charge for my missing dates and went over the price list. I think I will wait and try serval more boxes on them. Its seems my coins are expensive on what I need compared to other years that cost 1.5 each on 2002 thru 2007 coins. Lots coins are cheap like two bucks each.
Key dates and expensive half dollars are.
1 1978 p or d cost 4.95 each.
2 1986 philly is an key date at 7.50 each. I need 4 count totol.
3. 1993 philly is 4 bucks each I need 4 of those.
The rest of them are cheap like 1.5 to 3 bucks per coin.
Those dates are expensive to buy and are keys or semi keys. I am short of finding after 14000 coins searched. I would check it and do an break on what dealers charge for certain dates. Its easy the most expensive coins are key dates and rest are easy to find out there.
Its hard to get good ideas on figures since those halfs just never circulate and serval boxes I bought sat in bank vaults for few years before I bought them. Two 2007 boxs was wraped in 2004 when I bought them. My freinds have had Feds send them bu bank wraps of solid date boxes of 2000 boxes with all brand new 2000 coins in them before in 2007. They sat at banks all those years before they bought them to search them.
My 10 boxs I bought this year from loomis was hand wraped and had two 2007 coins in there . One was denver and other was proof 2007. Loomis is hand wraping rolls on halfs and think they are pulling silver coins? But the 3 fedboxs I got I pulled 22 count on silver coins.
With all proof coins and 2002 thru 2007 I found at random in those. My thory is the public hoards those halfs since out 10 banks in I deal with in soulth texas dont carry half dollars. Almost every box had an proof coin or 2002 and up coin in there. Its seems I am onley person in south texas asking banks to ordor them. I had teach some bank peaple on how to ordor them. Very few in public has those things. The public gets in to trouble and needs money. They dump there collections of half dollars they buy from us mint or from dealers. They tear up proof sets , mint sets and use the 2002 thru 2007 coins since they need money . Lots of time Bank tellers tell me they dont get any for monlths at time . I check maybe 10 banks each week looking for ikes and halfs.
When I was working at bowling center from 2000 thru 1993. My boss would save all dollar coins or halfs for me. It me over 7 years just get 60 bucks face on those 71 and up half dollars . My job had over 20000 dollars in cash come into that place each weak from 1993 thru 2000. This was before the us mint quit selling to banks in the year 2002.
The onley place I ever seen an large amount them was in casio in new orleans maybe 350 miles miles from where I live in 2001 and in 1996 when I went there. I never seen them again like that. That was before I started collecting them in 2007 and wanting to build sets out my half dollars I saved all those years from work.
In south texas the onley peaple buying fedboxs are roll searchers looking for silver or collecters. No body esle buy those things or banks dont want them. Me and one other guy I know in south texas even want them or buy them it seems where I live.
I would not invest an lot time in trying to write an book or something about half dollars like coppercoins wants to do with the cent project. Like I said they dont circulate like dimes, pennys, nickels, Quarters. Halfs only circulate with coin dealers , roll searchers, colletors, Maybe inside an gaming hall with slot machices. They are not out there and when I spend them all over place they cause problems and some the younger clerks dont know or seen them half dollars before. They are two big to work inside any vending machice like Ike dollars I learned when I tryed to use in an coke machice.
Good luck with Half dollar project like the cent project you are wanting to do.
Chevrolet454ss
. I didn't know you could still order them from banks. Thanks for that information! I will have to try them next.
as it looks alot like the 40% silver clad halves (I've found 10 of these to date). Not sure if it's a proof or not because I don't think that I've ever held a proof in my hand (that I know of anyway). Aside from a couple of scuffs and dings on Ikes face it's in really nice shape.
