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

Excellent finds, cabowabo and arby!

The end is nigh!

Nice going arby Congrats

Wow ! I am jealous ! How do you guys find half's ?! I was lucky to find a 71 Kennedy a couple of weeks ago but that's it ! Could I please have some pointers on how to locate ?

Very nice!

Cabo - I am very skeptical of this myself. Kfish - no knock towards you in any way.

With the amount of cash the armored carriers handle, I can't see them taking the time to pull what few silver coins that are in circulation, out of circulation. It would not be cost effective for them. I believe that coin roll searchers are pulling most of the silver left in circulation. Unless a manager is taking pulling them at the armored carrier, the typical teller doesn't have the time to dig for silver. The 'cages' or workstations are heavily guarded from all angles by multiple cameras.
I used to work for one of the largest international banks in the world that had many branches nationally, in some of the largest cities in the country. I worked in the vault services department and was responsible for placing cash/coin orders to and from the FED. The amount of volume for our bank alone was incredible. For example, we typically had around a million dollars in quarters alone for branch and commercial inventory,not to mention all of the other denominations. Outside vendor auditors would audit these vaults, but when the audit came due to be performed in the city I live near, another colleague and I would perform the audit. I saw firsthand the cash held for my bank and was amazed. Keep in mind, the armored carrier has multiple holdings for other financial Institutions as well. So , overall, there is a ton of cash flowing through the system. I knew the branch manager of the vault well, having dealt with him for years. I asked him as a collector, if tellers could swap out silver or old bills and he said most likely no, but rarely yes, in the case of very old currency. He explained that with the volume of cash/coin being processed it would be difficult to swap consistently. Plus, the tellers/processors cannot bring their personal cash/belongings into their workstation. They all have lockers where personal items are stored. Funny thing was, the teller next to the workstation we were auditing was processing commercial deposits and Dumped the deposit bag on the counter and I both heard and saw 3 silver halves hit the counter ,they were 40%. I cringed at not being able to get these and just watched the teller add these to a big bag of coin that would be sorted later and added. To that particular banks inventory. To this day I still think of those silvers
Ive been searching boxes for 14 years and have heard a few stories about how all the silver is pulled out before leaving the carrier vault. About 7 years ago, I ordered 10 boxes of halves from a bank I still order from today. The teller asked me if I ever found anything because the loomis delivery guy laughed and said I wouldn't since the tellers back at the vault pull all the silver. I ended up finding silver in 7 out of the 10 boxes.
I really think the silver is simply drying up as coinroll hunters have been pulling for years.
Kfish- maybe you could do is a huge favor just to test what you heard. Over the next how ever many weeks , order and search 10-20 boxes of dimes. If you find no silver, then yes, what you say may hold serious weight. This would be a true test since I usually can pull a silver dime or two out of most boxes. To get skunked on 20 dime boxes would definitely mean something is going on.
Sorry for the lengthy post - Happy hunting all

silver eagle I had the same thought. I got a box of dimes yesterday for something to do last night. The party at my house turns to cards at about 9 and I stay away due to my wifes family takes 5 dollar games serious. No silver I hate to report. I have had some luck in the past with dimes but I don't like to search them due to their size drives my eyes nuts. I will continue with a few more and see what happends. I hope your right and I'm wrong but I have no reason not to believe my friend unless he was fed a line. Even though things on my end have been bad I'm glad to see many of you continue to score some nice numbers. Happy new year to all!