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

No, its not silver.

HalfCrazed,

Nice finds. Still waiting on any 90%; 64, Frank or WL.
The 1957 50 peseta spanish coin was minted for several years. Look at the little star to the left of the wing. It will have a two digit number on it. That is the actual year of mintage.

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Here's some Blackberry shots of HalfCrazy's Franklin (you're welcome HC):




Can't see the lines or MM very well...but he tells me it's a D, and there are definitely FBL's. Nice pick BTW!

the FBL.. is that the LOWER RIM or the lines just above the rim?

Sooooo the rest of the story...

The bank that I got the $500 from had $700 and wanted to hold back $200 for their customers as they didnt want to give all the halves up. The $500 consisted of higher quality 70's and 80's coins and probably upgraded 6 to 8 halves from my folder. I thought what the heck, I will go back and see if they want their $500 back for the $200 that they had left. After a little charm on my side, I walked out with the $200 I didnt get and another roll they found stuck in a corner in the vault. Hmmm... wonder what the rest holds.

Thanks DylansDad for the post of the pic. That was taken with my Blackberry so not the best of pics.

yea come on! I cant wait!

Congrats to all those great finds!
I'm sure going to be asking about bags now........

As for me, I just went through $400.00 of a box and only found 1
"68" , a 2003 and a 2005 so far, well not a complete skunk.

Tomorrow I am going to hit a few banks outa town for customer rolls.

Eddiespin.... That was so funny about the money laundering, your right, they have not a clue!!

Rollhunter, you can't give up. You just need to rethink your strategy. It's pretty likely that if a bank is sitting on several hundreds of dollars in customer wrapped halves...that it is a dump bank. Quite often in that situation I'll grab 10 or so rolls, go out to my truck and check them before moving on to another bank. I know there are other roll searchers near me and pretty much learned where they dump at. I have gotten some silver from these dump banks...but sometimes you have to root through alot of clad to find it. One bank I frequent often and keep clear of halves all the sudden had $1400.00 worth. I bought $100.00 worth and was as I figured... a dump. The next week they only had $300.00 left because they shipped a bag out. I'll check them again next week and if they don't have a huge amount I'll probably take whats left and get that bank rid of crap and things may go back to normal. If not I'll give up on that bank for awhile. It's going to be a learning experience for awhile. You need to figure out your best coarse of action. Which banks and tellers are clueless to silver (I like this kind) and which banks get in halves often and which of those are dumps. The rules may change as you play this game...but it should payoff. Just keep at it and strategize.