The Teller Handed Me 13 Half Dollars: 11 Were Silver. Plus A Peace Dollar!

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NorthShoreMA Valued Member United States 168 Posts	Posted 10/29/2024 5:17 pm Today I cashed in about $475 in half dollars at one of my "dump" banks using their coin-counting machine. While the teller was processing the receipts, I decided to ask if she had any half dollars. She surprised me by saying that she had $6.50 worth of those coins. While she was counting them I saw lotsa' silver. Indeed, 11 of the 13 coins were 40% silver Kennedy half dollars. That teller earned herself a Starbucks gift card. Then I drove down the street to a nearby bank where this morning a teller told me they had a hoard of dollar coins in the vault that a family cashed in "from the estate of a deceased uncle". Hmmmm...sounded interesting. I purchased a box that contained 252 coins, and one of them was a 1922-P Peace dollar. If the family tried to separate the "wheat from the chaff" before they went to that bank, fortunately for me they missed this nice coin (the first silver dollar I have found while CRH). October has been a great month. I've found five 90% Kennedy half dollars, 55(!) 40% Kennedy half dollars, the Peace dollar, and several silver dimes. Report this Post to the Staff

Marv65 Bedrock of the Community United States 10472 Posts	Posted 10/29/2024 6:13 pm Pretty amazing pickup! Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 10/29/2024 6:30 pm Zounds! Well done! Report this Post to the Staff
NumismaticsFTW Pillar of the Community United States 2280 Posts	Posted 10/29/2024 9:03 pm You're the luckiest person on this forum, every week! You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think. -Neil deGrasse Tyson Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 73595 Posts	Posted 10/29/2024 9:38 pm Pretty nice score! Well done! Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
NorthShoreMA Valued Member United States 168 Posts	Posted 10/30/2024 09:12 am I have been unusually lucky this month. I am fortunate to live in a small New England suburban town surrounded by other small towns that all have branches of regional banks that attract elderly residents who are the ultimate source of the silver coins I find. I also call tellers at ~15-20 nearby banks each week and ask if they have half dollars. Most don't -- but typically one or two respond they have several loose coins or a few customer-wrapped rolls. Like most CRHs, I often get skunked, but I don't let that outcome deter me. Fortunately, I have not yet faced the moral dilemma of standing in line at a bank and watching an elderly woman in front of me hand over a large number of silver coins to the teller -- explaining that she found them in her late husband's desk. What should I do: e.g., encourage her to go home, carefully search for more "loose change" that he had collected, and then return to the bank and also cash in them? Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187525 Posts	Posted 10/30/2024 12:26 pm Outstanding! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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