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Just thought I'd add a little note to this thread. So far this year I have gone through a little over 2,100 half dollars (a bit over $1,050 face). The grand total of silver received from dozens of banks was just two 40% halves. Ouch. Wish I had a time machine and could go back 10-12 years. I'd take about a month off work and just load up on silver. Oh well...

Wednesday's box of halves yielded..... 2 x 65, 2 x 66, and 3 x 69!!! Plus 76 S (clad) and a 87S.

one teller half. a 1966

13 ikes,
14 sba

Thursday's box of halves yielded........ 1 x 63 , 1 x 65, 3 x 67, and 1 x 68!!!!

And the streak ends.......Fridays box of halves........skunk.......

I meant to add that about a week ago I was asking for Ike dollars and a teller had exactly 100 of them. Of course I took them.

They were in the same hard plastic holder that the person used to bring them in. It was colored red and had room for five rolls of 20 coins each. It looked like something a teller might have, except that you don't see many Ikes around these days.

Wednesday's box of halves yielded...... 1 x 67 and 1 x 69!!

$207.50 in halves- one 40%er (1968). It's rather funny- I bet I looked at the date 3 or 4 times to make absolutely certain that I found a silver coin in the wild. Haven't seen too many lately.

Saturday's box of halves yielded........ 1 x 63 , 1 x 66, 1 x 67, and 1 x 69!!!!

Last week when I went to the bank, they said they accidentally ordered a $500 box of halves. I took $200 at that time (see above). Since there was one 40%er in the bunch, I decided to go back today and get the other $300.

This time I got a 1944-D Walker. It was the first pre-1964 half dollar that I've found anywhere since 10/26/10 (over 7 1/2 years ago).

Also in the bunch was a two-tailed Kennedy half. This was likely taken by cutting out two real halves and putting the tail sides together. Whomever did this did a fantastic job!

There may be something in between the 2 halves RecyclerSteve.

I found one that came apart and one half had a Mexican coin on one side and the kennedy half on the other side.

I'll take a closer look and report back if I find anything of note.

Tuesday's box of halves.......skunk.....

Wednesday's box of halves......skunk......

Thursday's box of halves...... 1 x 68 and 1 x 69!!

Saabman wrote:Wednesday's box of halves......skunk......

Thursday's box of halves...... 1 x 68 and 1 x 69!!

Hey Saabman:

I'm assuming the boxes you go through each have $500 face. Is that correct?

Also, do you have a total (over perhaps the last year or year-to-date if that is easier) of how many boxes you've gone through and how many 40%ers and 90%ers you've found? (It would take me a long time to manually add up everything you've posted)

One other thing- how many different bank branches do you go to for your halves?

@ reyclersteve -

Yes, they are all $500 boxes; I used to keep a spread sheet with all the totals but it's been a couple years since I did that; I use one bank branch for pick up and they are really good to me. They order 3 boxes a week and allow me to pick up 1 box at a time. It's all about personal relationships with the pick up. There is only one CU in town that has a coin counter. They have 5 or so branches and I spread out dumps between them. I hope that helps!

First time for silver half hunting. Please tell me if this is typical for a search of $90 face value. There are some very shiny coins with few scratches, but I don't own a coin shop so trying to sell them would be hard. Anyway, skunk.

1971-28 coins
1972-12 coins
1973-8
1974-18
1975-0
1976 (1776)-28
1977-3
1978-1
1979-4
1980-6
1981-3
1982-2
1983-6
1984-3
1985-1
1986-0
1987-0
1988-0
1980-5
1990-3
1991-2
1992-4
1993-2
1994-3
1995-5
1996-7
1997-11
1998-2
1999-3
2000-10
Total 180 coins

That looks about typical for me. There were no halves produced dated 1975. 1971 and 1976 are by far the most common coin to find. Good luck finding some silver!

TXSTARFIRE wrote:That looks about typical for me. There were no halves produced dated 1975. 1971 and 1976 are by far the most common coin to find. Good luck finding some silver!

Thanks for confirming. It will be a happy day if I ever find even a 40% Kennedy among the halves. I just have a few ounces of silver now.

Saabman wrote:@ reyclersteve -

Yes, they are all $500 boxes; I used to keep a spread sheet with all the totals but it's been a couple years since I did that; I use one bank branch for pick up and they are really good to me. They order 3 boxes a week and allow me to pick up 1 box at a time. It's all about personal relationships with the pick up. There is only one CU in town that has a coin counter. They have 5 or so branches and I spread out dumps between them. I hope that helps!

Thanks for the info. It seems like you have been doing fairly well for a while now. Some banks are charging clients to order halves now. I think it was something like $10 a box. Hopefully that won't happen to you.