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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
i went to the bank today for rolls of half dollars and found nothing but a lot of bicentennials and 1971-1974, is this an indication that the tellers or wherever they get them from already pick through them or what?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
622 Posts |
 We would need more information and you would need a few more trips to the same bank before you can start drawing conclusions. Definately can't draw any conclusions from one trip. Were they customer or bank rolled? OO |
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Valued Member
United States
89 Posts |
I agree with Owassokie. We need more information. Were they in rolls? What type of wrappers were they rolled in? How many half dollars did you get?
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Valued Member
 United States
339 Posts |
they seem to have been bank rolled but with dates ranging from 1971-2003 (mostly 1971's)
i guess ill try again next week with quarters, my aunt in new york gets lots and lots of rolls of quarters looking for silvers and told me I can ask the teller for customer rolled ones.
i guess ill just bring these 4 rolls of half dollars and get gas for my car
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
they were in 10 dollar rolls totaling 20 coins in each all in white rolls with black lines and black print saying $10 HALVES
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Pillar of the Community
United States
538 Posts |
You could ask them if they sort and remove silver. My bank told me they remove any silver when I asked if they had halves. I still search for proofs and NIFC though.
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
hmm, nothing like that in my 4 rolls anyway, I have noticed while searching other peoples post that theyll drop 500 dollars or more in a box of rolled coins and still find it hard to get anything worth keeping.
im a cashier at work so I always search my registers for silver quarters, I thought id try my luck with half dollars because I need something bigger to be turned into a silver ring
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
who thought it would be so hard to actually use half dollars? I went to the gas station to pay for some gas with 2 rolls of them and she said we cant use these, I told her they are legal tender and she backed off. she wouldnt let me trade my other 2 rolls for a 20 dollar bill to deposit back into my bank
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Pillar of the Community
United States
622 Posts |
Agent Mulder, It sounds like you have Brinks (courier/bank) wrapped rolls. Let me give you some scale on why you will need to look at A LOT more coin to determine if its a good or bad source; I have a bank that uses the same courier/wraps. I've received a box of $500 with $151.50 of it being silver halves. With the same bank, I've also went on a streak of over $20,000 without a single silver half. I tell you this so you can understand that one trip to a bank provides very little information on whether it will be productive.
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
so I would really need a lot of money and patience for this, patience I have, money I dont, I guess I was just hoping for beginners luck on this one and just continue to search my registers at work for silver quarters and try ebay again, I got lucky and paid 3.50 for a Standing Liberty quarter |
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Valued Member
Canada
135 Posts |
Your forgetting that you return the unwanted coins when your done.
Just buy what you can afford, if you get skunked, you haven't lost anything. Take it back and try again.
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
i did go back to the bank with the other 2 rolls I didnt use at the gas station, do you think they wouldve cared it I just exchanged those 2 for 2 different ones or would they think thats suspicious?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
622 Posts |
The 'heat' that we receive is totally related to the amount of coin we search and the cost ($'s and time) to the bank. For the amounts you are talking about, I would suggest you find two banks close to each other and buy from one, check the coin in your vehicle, sell the bad coin to the other bank, then repeat. You can still get through a bunch of coin that way. After you gather a few valuable coins, you can sell them to create funds for your new hobby.
The tellers will ask you what you're doing (out of curiosity) but there's nothing wrong or illegal about it, and its so small that it won't be costing them anything. They may think you your weird or a dork and if that bothers you, I'd suggest you find a different hobby :)
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
not worried about being a dork at all, just making sure its not frowned upon by banks to buy and sell coins the same day I take them out, theres about 3 or 4 banks on that one street my bank is on so ill try that next.
i did just win a 1966 half dollar for 3.75 so thats not too bad
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Pillar of the Community
United States
713 Posts |
Pretty much here in CC Forum many of us do not pick up coins and search them and then dump them back in to the same bank. In my opinion, it's kind of creating double work for a teller, and that's certainly no way to win friends at the bank.
Keep searching for halves at banks. They do get them, even if not silver. But there is always the chance the teller doesn't know what years are the silver and will miss them and they get passed on to you.
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Valued Member
United States
339 Posts |
i hope so, next week ill try a different bank, so as long as I dont need an account with them just to buy coins from them
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Posted 07/31/2012 10:30 am
