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

My halves hunts have been minimal but very lucky. Once I decided to start asking for halves I started asking wherever I went (grocery store, gas station, Walmart, etc.). The 1st week I had found a couple dollars worth of common coins. I stopped at a bank who had given me pennies before to get 2 boxes one Friday. I remembered to ask for halves and was able to buy $55.50 face value. 65 of the 111 coins were 40%'s. I opened an account there the next day. I had trouble with the online access to my account so I went back in on Monday. While I was there I mentioned to a teller that I had bought a bunch of halves and was happy I had found them. She told me she had $13.00 in halves and the teller next to her had $25.00 more. I bought those and ended up with 9 more 40% & 3 90% Kennedy's. On the following Friday I decided to go to a coin store a town over. I stopped at every bank along the way to the store and took a different way home and stopped at all those bank too. I ended up going to 9 or 10 banks getting nothing more than a roll total. At the last bank they had 15 rolls. When they started putting them together I saw things like "1968 Kennedy" written on a few of them. When I went through them there was 7 rolls that had a 40% year & Kennedy written on it. Each roll was solid of that 40% coin. An eighth roll had written on it: 9-90%,10-40%/clad, 2 clad. This roll lied as there was only 8-90% in it with 10-40%. I have since gone out twice to a handful of close banks (3-5 banks over 1/2 hour-40 minutes each time) with nothing but a roll+ of misc. clad coins to go through. I realize how new & how unbelievably lucky I have been so far. Has only got me optimistic about the future. Though I worry about having the finds of a lifetime getting 10 ozt & then 2 more ozt from my newest bank then doubling it with 25 ozt the following Friday. I'm thinking it will be tough for me to beat my 1st few times in the future.

IM TBM I think you are selling yourself short, I would take $2000 to one of those banks and have them order four boxes and see what happens, If you want to hit 25 ounce score or more boxes are your best shot. This fed in your area could be ripe for the pickings. Its still hit and miss, I truly believe Boxes are your best chance to scoring the large amounts of silver.

Boxes will get you numbers like this! Never Hit a Teller for this much silver. It probably happens, not like boxes though.
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Silver aside, I still have not found a NIFC or a 1987 half yet. Still need to find a 1970 Kennedy as well. This is one of the more exciting times as a collector. When almost everything is new. My cars in the shop with a busted alternator but I should have it back tomorrow. I am going to hunt something tomorrow for sure. Will look for halves, etc but I think I will get a couple hundred $1's to make sure I have something to go through. Last time I asked for old or weird looking coins + notes I got a 1950-$10.00 note, a $2. star note, and some other cool older paper dollars. Hopefully I can find some more. I will keep you all posted of my success (or cry about my strikeout...lol).

2 Enders in 1 box got me a little excited, but ended up with 6 40% in that box and 1 40% in another.







2 more boxes tomorrow... hopefully with some more silver. Happy hunting! The

At least you found something interesting.


Still, nice finds!

Holy smokes ImTBM! You better play the lottery! Getting Morgans at the bank is a rare feat indeed! Congrats on a GREAT score!

Good work, ImTBM.

Oh yeah...left early for tournament, but not early enough. It seems the banks that are not closed at 4 are closed at 5...I stopped at one bank, They had 2 rolls of halves, but she though I was a collector that had been there before. Told me the halves were the rolls with my mark on them. Needless to say I left them.