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

Just went through a FED box - 2 1968 silver clads and a nice white 1969 clad. Also, Found a beat up 1977 S proof, but nothing more. I really miss the boxes of three years ago!

Todays box gave me 8-40% and 1-90%.

Hello all,

I've been a lurker here for a while now. Some of your stories inspired me to give CRHing a chance, and thought it would be good to share my stats. Since August I have gone through a few hand rolls and 30 Brinks boxes of halves ordered through Washington Mutual (now Chase!). With 30 boxes behind me ($15,000 worth of halves) I feel like I have a decent statistical sampling for how the Brinks boxes pay out, at least here in Houston:

40% - 113 coins (0.363% or 1 out of 275 coins - a little better than 3 per box)
90% Kennedy - 44 coins (0.142% or 1 out of 707 coins - 4 in 3 boxes)
Franklins - 5 coins (0.016% or 1 out of 6,220 coins - 1 in 6 boxes)
Walkers - 2 coins (0.006% or 1 out of 15,550 coins -- 1 in 15 boxes)
1987s - 4 (0.013% or 1 out of 7,776 coins - 1 in 8 boxes)
Proofs - 4 (0.013% or 1 out of 7,776 coins - 1 in 8 boxes)

Only two boxes were skunk and my best box had 16 40% and 7 90% Kennedys, 1 Ben and 1 Walker.

Remarkably, I was not able to complete a full set of Kennedy halves, even when I accepted a few beat-up coins from the 90s. In the entire set of over 30,000 coins, I have found NO examples of a 2003-P, 2007-D or 2008-P. No 1970-D, either, but that wasn't a surprise. I also found 2 Panamanian Medio Balboas, 1 Colon from El Salvador, 50 Centavos from Ecuador, a 10 Peso piece from Mexico, and a guitar pick.

I am estimating about 40 hours spent on this project. I also burned some gas, bought 3 folders to make a set, and ordered a heaping stack of half dollar wrappers, so assume $65 invested. At today's silver melt values I figure the effort pays out at $9/hr. That's low but like people say, what other hobbies pay you?

WOW..With them stats..i must of been lucky with my little bit I went thru

Here you go WILEYZ..EXTRAS..Make offer on how you wanna get them..the 2007 is really nice but the 2003 must of had a problem that whole year because my whole roll of UNC looked like this,both sides.Like the planchet was in the bathtub too long before it was struck..lol

2007-D


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I searched another box today. No silver, no proofs, no NIFC's. Nothing.

wileyz, I have searched a 1/3 of what you did, your overall percentages aren't much different from mine. But I have had more skunks than you with today's box.

First of all, Welcome Wileyz!

Second, a guitar pick? Love to know that got through the counting machine!!

I picked up 2 more rolls today and got 1- 40% and a Susan B. Dollar...lolol..

hey Wileyz I tried to pm you but dont know how but it will cost me atleast 3-4 dollars to send to you so send like $5 to my paypal and email me your address.or pm me if you can.

Jinx419@passthebowl.com - PAYPAL..lol..dont ask
Kloccwork419@att.net - email

and no problem! I have a few of each.

Are you guys who report similar outcomes getting Fed rolls, Brinks rolls, or hand rolls? I was wondering if I switched banks and tried Fed rolls if the outcome would be different. I know some of you report great finds in hand rolls but hand rolls in Houston are hard to find and always seem to be dumps... I have even tried small towns 100 miles out that have only one bank... Usually they are kind enough to alert me that the rolls there are dumps.

CoppernickelDaddy - I wondered about the guitar pick too. But it did not replace a half... there was still $10 in the roll. I was probably more surprised by the 10 peso piece because it isn't even round--it's a hideous seven-sided polygon with a portrait of William Hurt:

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