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Half Dollars From Boa Near My Home

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 Posted 03/13/2008  12:46 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add photoeric21 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hey all

I recently aquired a large coin collection from a relative and have started trying to plug in some final holes in the collection.

I went to the bank to pick up some quarter rolls and decided to buy a few rolls of half dollars while I was there.

I got 4 rolls. The first roll was nothing but late 60s JFK but the last 3 rolls were all dated between 30-45

Is this a normal find for such a small amount of rolls?
Should I consider going back and cleaning the bank out of the halves they have left?

Why would something like this happen?

Thanks!
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 Posted 03/13/2008  12:50 pm  Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
YES!!
or at least give me directions to your bank

late 60's halves are all 40% silver
anything 1964 and earlier is all 90% silver

post some pics of the older ones
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 Posted 03/13/2008  12:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MINT_MARQ to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would defintely go back and try to get as many if not all they have as calmly as possible. Don't send up any flags, so that the tellers think you are on to something.

Were they hand wrapped?

My guess is that someone from your local area turned in their inheritance from grandpa at face value.

Even if you find the rest are Clad Kennedys, you had a good find there.

Congrats
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Yeah they were handwrapped in wrappers from 'New Haven Central Savings and Loan' and looked like really old wrappers.

Unfortunatly none of the dates I came across are going to help in the collection.

What should I do with them now? Just hang on to them? Obviously with each liberty being worth around 7.20 in silver I don't just want to cash back into the bank
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At current silver prices, halves 1964 and before are worth over $7 each just in bullion value, and halves 1965-1970 are worth $3 each.

Sounds like you hit a nice little jackpot!

I'd suggest starting a collection of Walking Liberty halves, or sell them to finance collecting what you want.
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You mean there IS a place left on earth that "Silver Bandits" haven't struck yet ?
That is such a wonderful find for you ! The coin album is nice.....but keep those "extra's" in a coin tube or something !! Those '64's & '65-'70's are harder and harder to come by......that won't improve with the years
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my small bank gets allot of these in also. I live in a small town where most of the people are older and usually their family (my age)is either on drugs or just plain burnt out and have nothing to their name and when something happens to these older people these family members can't wait to get their hands on their coins to cash them in. I was talking to a guy I went to school with about 2 months ago at my bank and he was empty handed but as we were fixing to walk away from each other he mentioned he was going in to ask if he needed a bank account to cash in his grandfathers old money he had in jars. I asked him what kind of change it was and he said it was halves and quarters (no dimes, nickels or cents) and I told him if the bank wanted him to have an account I would give him the money for the coins (not even knowing what was in the jars). Well the bank needed an account and he came back out and told me if I gave him 50.00 I could have the 3 jars of change, I told him that we could count it out and I would give him the value of the coins but he insisted he didn't have time to count it out because someone was at his house selling something and he needed the 50 dollars to buy what ever it was they were selling, I looked at the jars and one was full of nothing but halves and it was a coffee jar so I knew that was more than 50.00 worth of halves and told him my concerns and gave him 75.00 (which was all the cash I had on me) for the 3 jars (the other 2 was mostly quarters) and when I got it home there were only about 20 halves that were JFK and the rest in the jar was Franklins and all of the quarters were 63 and below (no 32-D's though) so the next time I see him I will give him some more money (even though I know he probably spent the money on something he didn't need to buy). Most of the coins were AU and above condition also so in small towns like mine you find these things all the time at the local banks
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I hate to think what he did with the $75 you gave him, but at least you saved the coins from an unnecessary trip through a coin counter.
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it actually wasn't me that saved them, if the bank teller would have did it without him having a account then that would have been the fate they would have endured
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or you would have walked in behind him and gotten them out? Right?
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well of course but chances are I wouldn't have gotten them because they don't take rolled coins, they just dump them into a counting machine behind the counter and those wouldn't be the ones I would have gotten
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