by frugi » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:12 am
i live in stl, mo. here we have 100's of banks. i love doing half dollar bags, they are always full of silver to get at face value.
they are $500.00 for a bag, i don't usually have $500 at one time in cash that is not tied up to something else, so i usually don't get the opportunity to buy any bags, and there is waiting lists at all of the banks, i used to be on the lists but it is a hassle to keep up with maintaining the relationship with over a a hundred banks, (thats trying to see them once every other week). Point is if you have $500, and a local bank that has half dollar bags, I would jump all over them. I have bought maybe 20 bags in my whole life,,,,,,over half had many silvers. 2 bags were almost all silver, i also found a colonial connecticut copper in one of them. Now I have major competition, it is near impossible to get a bag that isn't already searched in STL.
(you can tell when they are searched they have ink on the half-dollars, mostly "X's", or dots. Makes them easy to identify when you buy another bag, you recognize your own marks.