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

Very nice finds, Imthealphaomega!

First box of halves (Brinks) on the week: 2 40%-ers, an impaired proof, and 4 NIFCs. And, thankfully, no NIFC coins marked with my old ID from another site.

Another box to get tomorrow, and one later in the week... BTW, got a String&Son (Garda) box late last week, and it was a skunk except for a couple of NIFCs.

Nice one, web! I hit a collection dump for my 87s also. Found the three mint mark set in one box.

Jack, that might be what takes me so long. I set aside 71D, 72, 73D, 74D, 77D to check for DDO. Haven't found one through 14 boxes, then switched to cents.

second bank this week, 4 boxes all skunks, that is 16 boxes in a row skunk streak, will this be my first skunk week? we will see, I also picked up $1000 in dimes, will get to them later this evening.

Well I decided to crack the Dime boxes and all 4 boxes are 2016D BU Dimes, no sense in cracking the rolls. LOL

Ugh, arby... you're in a slump... hope you break out of it soon!

I only get full boxes of denominations other than halves when I know that the tellers are getting boxes that aren't shiny new coins. Most of the banks I go to now know that I don't want them... In December, several of my banks got a bunch of LOOMIS and String&Son rolls of 2016-D nickels, and I had to hit some other branches and off banks to make sure I didn't get them...

I started searching November 2013, searched over 1.6 million coins and have never had a skunk week until today. I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened I was just hopping it would not happen until later. 20 Box Skunk streak, I know there are many of you who have experienced this already and have had a longer skunk streak than 20. I wonder how many more boxes before I hit some silver. I hear its easy to get discouraged and want to give up, I am not there yet, I think if I hit 50 box skunk streak I might start to question if I want to continue. I wish you all the best, please keep posting those awesome photos I know they will help keep me motivated. Ya'll have a great weekend.

Just to cheer up those of you who have been getting 1 40% silver coin per box, I picked up a lovely box of half dollars recently.

When I went to go obtain up my order, this was waiting for me...



As per its stamp, the box was completely full of heavily marked, hand-wrapped coins.

To make matters worse, many rolls were even sliced open along their sides by a presumed edge-checker.

I'm not even sure how the stacks of half dollars stayed together inside the box during the shipment process; many of these types of rolls readily dumped out their contents when I tried to pick them up.

If anyone here happens to practice such a method too, please be a little more considerate and at least re-roll the coins the normal way. It would be much appreciated by those of us who would like to cut our losses by re-using the rolls (rather than using fresh ones).