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

I finally was able to go through entire box of half dollars (even though it took four trips and two weeks)
My finds: 2 40%ers, a 1971-D DDO, and half a dozen various no/no F FGs. Not bad for a first box. I plan to find a LOT more silver by the time I finish CRHing!

P.S.- Has anyone else noticed the damage that end crimpers have been wreaking on the end coins? It doesn't just nick them, it STAMPS them.

Been neglecting reporting things as of recent. Finally got things totalled:

Boxes 91-94 3/26/19 

1968-D - 1 
83 No FG - 1 
74-D  DDO 
72-S - proof 
81-S - proof 
92-S - proof 
93-S - proof 
1  Magician's coin 

NIFC
2P...............1
3P...............1
3D...............2
4D...............1
5P...............32 
5D...............36 
6D...............1
7P...............2
8D...............1
9P...............3
9D...............1
11D..............1

Totals:
year.........Today's Totals........Running Total for 94 boxes
72P............323.........................0/5627  DDO's found  
72D.............82.........................4/1600 No FGs found 
73D.............29........................2/698  DDOs found   
74D.............45.........................3/725  DDOs found   
82P..............14........................0/238  No FGs found 
83P.............103........................6/1302 No FGs found 
71D.............106........................3/873   DDO's found   - 30 boxes
77D..............10.........................0/58   DDOs found     - 24 boxes

The funny thing about the Magician's coin is that it was marked "counterfeit" with a green marker. I am glad the previous searcher had no concept what it was. I have been wanting to find one of these.

I went through my first sealed box over the weekend. No silver, but I did find my first proof from CRH, along with several NIFC.

My first proof, 1983-S:







It's not in too bad of condition considering it was found in circulation.

I should be picking up at least a box or two this week. Hopefully all goes well and I can start to crank up production. With the score I had on only my second time looking, even my wife is getting into CRH. I just hope we can start finding more to keep her interested. We should be welcoming our first kiddo here within the next few weeks, so that might slow us back down for a bit though.

I always enjoying seeing a proof rescued from certain ruin. Nice find!

I would be happy with more 40%

After going through quite a few halves this last year, and seeing in prior posts that many people have been finding magicians' coins, I remembered an old trick I used to use.

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@tpmjr2004 - nice find on the proof. These proof clads are the only coins I will clean. I figure that they are only worth .50 so there is no way I can harm them. So when I get one of these I like to use MS70 on them to see if I can give them a semblance of their original look. I am even thinking of trying to polish them when they are really bad.

Went on a bank run at lunch.

Stopped at the dump bank. The guy in front of me was dumping a bunch of change in a canvas bank bag. As the other teller was dumping it in the machine she was picking pieces of candy out of the coins.

Great.

Just what I need as on a good day I barely make it back in time. The guy said he runs a vending business. Good for him. That is no excuse for candy in the coins.

Now it is my turn. The half bag fills up at $700. They change the bag and fire the machine up again. I had a few (maybe $5 in cents and $50 in nickels) and the nickel bag pops. They go to change the bag and the sensor won't reset.

Great.

5 minutes into them messing with the machine I am late. This in only the 2nd time I killed a coin counter and the first one had the same problem. The last time they dug my coins out of the machine and give me the cash for what they counted. I asked them for my money and they said they didn't know how much was in there since the screen only said bag full and wouldn't display the balance.

I sure hope I don't have to escalate this tomorrow and get nasty (especially after todays posts about being nice to bank tellers which I try my best to do)

So I couldn't get my 6 boxes and my rotation is now off.

I had to work til 6 so that only leave me 1 bank to dump the rest of what I had. Unfortunately I have been there more than I try to rotate in the last 5 weeks since I have had to work the last 5 Saturdays in a row. There is only 1 teller, a bunch of people trying to pull check scams and other stuff as this branch is not in the finest of areas. 15 minutes later the teller says the balance was $777.62. What are the odds. I almost hit the slot machine big bucks payout without trying.

I stopped by the grocery store since my day was already wrecked and bought 2 lottery tickets. The bank in the store only had 1 Bicentennial half and 7 common dollar coins.

There is still the $3.8 million Mega Bucks jackpot on Wednesday. Just thin how many halve that would be? I bet I could finally get back to that old pallet of halve collecting dust in the corner of the vault since 1965.

E-Bay to sell DDOs and no FGs. This being said, it will cost you about 12% of your final sale price when seller's fees and PayPal fees are added into the equation.

BTW, just finishing up checking my last two boxes for errors and the like. Did find one 2007-P in decent shape. Short of that, the last four boxes I have gotten from PNC have been some really crappy boxes. Hope things turn around.