Searching Partial Bags Of Kennedy Half Dollars

that's a nice total... I would put the teller on your Christmas card list

I don't believe that you will be very effective in getting a teller to call you when she has silver in her tray. I never have been.

I have only had success in buying bags and partial bags off the machine behind the teller row. I've never had success in buying boxes from "downtown."

My deal is that I buy a mocha - or Starbucks gift card - if any teller calls me to tell me that there is 100 bucks or more in halves on the machine. And they call.

I have had no particular luck with dimes, pennies, or nickels off the machine. I've never tried quarters.

I had a teller call with a half bag or so of 90%. An old man brought it in. "I told him he should find a collector, because they were worth more than face value. He didn't want to bother, so I put the money in for them."

In another case, I got a call from a bank manager. Someone brought in some premium currency. The teller put them in the general money, instead of buying them. Another teller grabbed them, and the first realized her mistake.

Since they were the bank's money, and most banks don't allow the bank to get a premium, we came up with a different solution. I bought the notes, the bank got face, and the premium went into the kaughy fund, so everyone shared in the profit.

I am curious how you can get bags to begin with. I have tried & tired, asked many banks and all I can get are the banks to order boxes. None seem to get bags.

Is a credit union an option or something else, or does the Atlanta area just suck for getting bags?

I guess you have a nice bank. When pickup up my box of halves last month I asked the head cashier what they do with the coins from the counting maching (as I figured better odds of some older person dumping their silver coins to pay the bills) and she said they can't give them to me, they just bag them and send them back to the Federal Reserve.

Interesting Week:

One bag of dimes ($500) from a large bank. Result: Two Canadian dimes, neither silver. Two silver Roosies (Both 64)

$402 in Ikes. Results: nothing

$41 in halves. Results: 1x 1964 Kennedy. 1 X 1968 Kennedy

I now have one bank and one credit union saving the "trash" off their coin machines.

Result 1: 25 coins, including 1980's Botswana, over $2.00 face in Canadian (nothing of interest), 18 Pesos Mexico (mix of 10 peso, 1 peso coins) 1 X steel penny, bad shape,
5 cents Euro, 1 X Zambia coin

Second "trash" results: $1.61 Canadian, 1 x car wash vacuum token, 1 X silver St. Genesius medallion (Catholic medallion (Catholic saint of epilepsy).

Working on another bag of dimes. So far, 1 X 1946 Roosie.
Working on another

I share the wealth (via Starbucks) with the tellers. These aren't public employees. They have a lot of discretion in how they do their job, and most branches won't sell me bags, either because they don't want to be bothered, or because official "policy" (which is not written) is to not sell bags. Oh, I forgot. This week I also got two older one dollar notes (1935 vintage) and a 1922 Peace dollar (which I paid a buck for.) So, be nice to the tellers. I have bought about $100 in Starbucks cards in the past two years, and in that time I have made $750 in profits by picking silver, etc.

BTW, all the Mexico coins go to short term teams from our church who visit and support a very nice orphanage in Mazatlan, Mexico. I've given them $35 or so in the past two years.

I just picked up a full bag of halves today. Doesn't look to promising but I did see a few 40% in there. Let me tell you a bag with $1000 in it weighs a ton. I will post pics and results later. srjmrj you get the bags off of the coin counting machines. My bank will not sell me a bag until it is full. Happy hunting