Look What Someone Found In A Roll Of Halves

Unbelieveable finds. Like the mother lode of rolls.
I can barely find halves in south Florida. When I do it seems like they're someone else's rejects.
Does it pay to order a box from the bank ? With my luck it will be a box of someone else's rejects.

You might be right, but there's always a chance for good finds. If the finds are legit, more power to the finder and whatago. If he's deluding us with his fantasies, I suggest he seeks professional help

Well, I can see making a good find with other collectors, even dealers. Afterall, nobody's perfect and we all overlook stuff. Now, the collectors already are dealing in rare stuff so finding a super rare item with them is believable. What's about as likely as hitting Megabucks is not only finding real silver in a bank but a super rare one to boot! That would mean the "donator" had absolutely no clue of what transpired in the US, regarding money, in the last 45 years (post silver), and also that the bank employees didn't do a visual and also that the bank didn't run the coins through their metal detectors. I'll stick with my buck on the pick-5 for now.
Ron

These coins are out there. In one $500 box last year I found 43 Walking Libery Halves and 21 Franklin halves. In this same box was 21 40%.

A couple of years ago, I found a 1938 D. Photos below.


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I'm not sure, what's a "Fed box?" Is this something you order right from the federal government or a treasury bank? I'm familiar with ordering coin bags, new coins from the government, and circulated from local banks. But, like I said, as far as I know the local banks check their stuff pretty carefully.

Great stories, keep 'em coming.

Those sites aren't selling anything that I know of. They are just people like you and me that search coins to find silver mostly. Every roll/box doesn't have one of course....that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Those people go through a lot of coin. I bet they would be better off working extra hours at work, then buying the coins. That said, they enjoying the hunt so it isn't like work to them.

I have found a ton of silver halves... going back to the walker series... never a barber though and nothing but common dates.

-SWUSC

I agree with biokemist6 and KurtS. There are a couple of tellers who work for me part-time and they could care less what comes across the counter or what goes out in the way of collectibles. I've asked them if they've seen odd or interesting things and both of they're comments were "yeah, once in a while..." and they proceeded to tell me about the "old-looking" bills that came in or "old-looking coins". I then asked if they bought them for themselves and both said no. They submit the bills with the worn out ones to be destroyed and the coins just go into their drawers. Neither are collectors. They put in their eight hours and that's it. The teller I usually deal with at my bank is the same. I asked her about older bills and she told me she does the same thing. She doesn't even look at the coins she takes in which would account for the two King George nickels I got from her in my change a week ago. I know to a lot of collectors that being on the front lines (bank) where the money flows in and out would be a fantasy job, but in reality, to some people it's just a job.