Banks And Half Dollars

I have found that it is hit and miss, in my area at least. When I go in I am usually offered some spare halves that they have in the till. Some times they have some rolled ones in the vault. Not ususally though.

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, it depends on whether or not they have had some deposited or made an effort to order them (as captainfwiffo has suggested above).

The real answer will come when you ask them for the rolls.

Yep just ask, my bank regularly stocks half rolls

Most banks I've been to lately don't normally stock halves. Whatever few coins they have come from customers. Only one chain of banks here even has rolls of them, and I think they've all been searched. BOA might have some; the last time I went to one, they had quite a few loose halves. Wells Fargo even told me they search all their halves for silver!

Well that really stinks.I have just resorted to going through nickel dimes and quarters.

Most banks in my area do not have half dollars. There are banks where they will have a few loose ones but what I am looking for is rolls of them. If I do find them, do they come in $10 rolls?

Yeah, $10 rolls are usual. You'll probably have to ask your bank if they can order them. Probably you'll have to get them $500 at a time.

Like allranger said, it is usually hit or miss on banks having rolls. Also with more and more people CRH(especially halves), finds are becoming scarce.

I order two boxes a week from my bank. Out of the twelve boxes I have done ten were silver skunks. One box had 1 40% and another box had 4 40%. The amount of marked enders I see(at least 1 in 4)is very discouraging considering these are all machine rolled coins. I have read of people recently going through fifty boxes of skunks before hitting any silver. But then I also read about people hitting a dream box of twenty keepers or more.

I have had the most silver luck with just asking for rolls at banks. I like to think of it as fishing. You never what you are going to catch, but you wont catch anything if you don't cast the line.

With silvers recent rise to close to $50 per ounce a lot of people are now interested in this metal. More people are becoming educated and everyone is "on the lookout". Just the other day I asked for rolls of halves at a bank and the teller told me she had only one and asked me if I would like it. Why of course I would! She then proceeded to open it up in front of me and check for silver before re-rolling it and then selling it to me!

It is still out there, you just have to put the work into it, nothing is "free". The real winners are the people who have been doing this for years while the rest of us thought it just wasn't worth it. I'm putting the work in now because I don't want to be sitting on my hands when silver spikes again!