Thinking About Getting Into Halves...

If I were you I'd spend some time reading the thread on roll searching halves on this site. There is probably some good info on there for you. I can tell you I just searched two boxes and found on fourty percenter and a seventy three proof. Some guys are having great luck, and some not so much.

A lot of hunters have ruined it for the rest of us by returning or dumping coin where they bought it, ordering boxes and never showing up, dumping too often, etc. I say just jump in and do it, never know till you try. One poster gave good advice about reading previous threads on roll hunting.

I had a bank that used to let me order halves, then one day a guy ordered 1000$ worth and never got them and the bank had to pay to send them back and made it a policy not to order anymore

I went through a few bags got one 40% silver.
I find penny search much more interesting and no hassle for getting pennies

Depends on what your goal is. If you just want a set of halves, buy them. If your looking for old coins or silver its almost easier to buy them also. Truthfully its a heck of a lot of work without a lot of return.

I buy them also, quit roll searching for them when I roved to rural america. I get the NIFC coins from mint sets and watch the actions for older coins. I've had a blast collecting them but I know that some day I'll have to re-holder them and that will be time consuming. I recently found that I have 2-6 of everything JFK except for some of the VAMs. Maybe I should put the whole collection together in air-tights and see what I really have. I hate it when you have so much of something that you don't really know what you have; almost like a hoard right now.

If you still have a bank that will give you or order you halves, get as many as you can now. Many banks everywhere are stopping ordering them, carrying them and even accepting them in bulk. Almost all banks by me will take them in, send out for counting, charge you for that. As a joke I asked at one bank what would you do if I brought in 2 halves. I was told rules are rules and they would be sent out for counting and I wouold have to pay for that.

i agree with mitch. good advice.

the best thing you can do is to build a reporte with a particular group of tellers. if you have a lot of coin knowledge and they notice you're a weirdo rollhunter perhaps you can show them something or whatever. at one of my banks they didn't know what silver quarters looked like and so I brought some in, and then it was gravy.

whatever you do, don't tell them that you make a killing on this hobby.

True True. Thanks for all of the info. I have the best relationship with the tellers at the bank I dump all of my coins at! Oy... Should I switch and dump at another bank and get coin through them instead? Other than that, there are a few tellers at the other banks that dread seeing me come in. I don't even get that many coins... Like I said I got my first box of pennies yesterday. Before that it would be $10 here and $10 there, to get some of the customer rolls that are brought in (seems like I have better finds in the customer rolls than the bank boxes so far.)

Halves just seem to be difficult for everyone involved... Hence the topic post in the first place. Getting them doesn't seem to be the hardest part, but getting rid of them seems even harder. I could just use halves for all of my small purchases throughout the month, I bet if I just bought my coffee, I might be able to get rid of a decent amount. Is that what you guys do, or do you pay the fee to dump them? (if there is a fee)