Just 1 Lousy Silver Half Is All I Want...

i almost want to go back to the bank and ask for the few dollars in hlafs that were in the drawer plus the one she moved to another part in the draw

DNA, why don't you take all 4 1/2 boxes and deposit them somewhere else, then ask your bank to order some more?

I can get Halves from Wells Fargo... Obviously, no member at the credit union (as yet) wants to fork over two thousand dollars-plus just to clear it out of Halves!

That was very nice of you!

That's more like it, five rolls at a time would be very do-able!

I can do better than a 'dump bank'. I suspect that Home Depot self-checkout machines might take Half-Dollars. Ikes don't fit through their coin slot, but JFK's do! I just haven't taken the step of trying a JFK as payment yet. A large grocery chain in Denver uses the same model of self-checkout machine.

Home Depot and the grocery stores would send the JFK's back on the armored cars that deliver their cash, so they would go to the armored car company's reserve, and possibly back to the Federal Reserve Branch. So no roll hunter would get a ton of 2001 JFK's at the 'dump bank'. And, five rolls at a time would spread them out (so the Fed wouldn't be shotgun-rolling a bunch of BU 2001 JFK's at once).

I'll drop in a worn clad JFK, and if it works, then I can buy any home items and groceries with rolls of Half-Dollars (without loading down some cashier's drawer).....

Followup: My 'evil plan' to fill NCR self-checkout machines with clad JFK's has apparently failed. My battered JFK simply fell through the machine into the return slot (and accepted Susan B.'s both before and after the JFK!). The fact that the JFK will physically fit into and out of the machine does suggest that these machines could be programmed to accept them...

Bizarre Followup to the Followup:

When the JFK failed the NCR test yesterday, I put it in my pocket.

Today, I pulled it out and looked at it again, and now I know why this JFK could have failed:

The edge of the coin is not reeded, it's smooth all the way around, and shows only the copper color on the edge.

If this was post-Mint, they did an excellent smooth round job!

The coin is in VF condition (odd for a 1995, usually later 90's JFK's didn't circulate much).

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/...ededEdge.jpg

Too weird, how come I didn't notice the unreeded edge? Somebody wake me up! I wasn't handling it by the edge, because it's VF and I was planning to spend it in the machine. I didn't look at the edge, because I know a 1995-D is Clad.

Yes, a non-reeded coin (of a type that is normally reeded) can fail in a vending machine. In ninth grade, a friend of mine played a prank on a kid who was in the habit of asking him for a Quarter for a can of soda pop. My friend ground off the reeded edge of a quarter in Shop class, and gave the other kid the de-reeded Quarter, which of course didn't work in the cafeteria's vending machine.

So, I will repeat the NCR self-checkout test tomorrow, this time with a worn '71-D that has a reeded edge!

The unreeded '95-D is from my hoard of clad JFK's that I pulled direct from circulation over the years, newest are four 2001-D's that I got from circulation that same year. I keep all the JFK's that I've acquired from circulation ('64's, 40%'s, Clads) separate from roll finds (such as the worn '71-D). So I know I got the '95-D from circulation, I just don't remember exactly when.

(I also keep the Ikes that I found direct from circulation separate.)

The reeded JFK didn't work either!

I was a bit unhappy, until I got a 1964-D Quarter in my change at the grocery store two hours later...

My "Silver Quarters from circulation" are a rather small group, and they don't get a 'new member' very often. Most of the 'members' joined in the late 1980's and early 1990's .

I even have a 195? where someone deliberately gouged the last two digits of the date, but the edge, the 'ping', and of course the "D" mintmark on the reverse give away what it is. Was this someone's twisted attempt to keep a Silver Quarter from being pulled from circulation? If so, it failed!