My buddy hit the jackpot............

[Catfish4u]

A good friend of mine had a good find. We are always talking about investments and especially silver. We pooled our money recently and bought some ASE's from APMEX. I told him how I found 11 40% halves in three boxes of halves from the bank.

His son recently got a job at a local small bank. I told him he should see about getting some halves. His son checked into it and they had two boxes ($1,000 worth). He bought the first box and sorted through those coins. He called me and asked 'I know 1964 and prior are 90% but are 1965-1967 the only ones that are 40%'? I told him 'no - 1965 to 1970 are all 40%'ers'. He said 'good because we found a lot of 1968 and 1969's.' He then asked 'how many silver coins do you expect in a box'? I told him my average was about three but others are between one and two.

He said 'we did great then, we found 119 40%'ers and 2 90%'ers in that one box. I will have to go up and get that other box'. I congratulated him and suggested if taking those others back he replace missing coins with clad counterparts. It might stir up suspicions if he took $500 and only brought back $439.

Makes me want to buy some more halves..................

[theshoenlebens]

Great finds....makes me want to start picking through boxes again.

[Saabman]

Sweet score!!!!

[Tourney64]

That is awesome. I dream of finding a whole box of 90%. Last night I had 4 of my 4 boxes were completely the opposite of 90%.

[TwoAndAHalfCents]

That is an awesome first box!!!
And this was a small local bank that happened to have two boxes sitting in their vault? I wonder how long they were there sitting collecting dust. Maybe there are other boxes of goodies in that vault.

[cooyon]

Better to be lucky than good LOL.....that was a great score...definitely go back for the other box and if you can get dime boxes that could be a winner too.

[silverstacker]

Wow! What a score. Congrats. What bank was that again???

[knhorn]

That's what you can call a dream box. Congratulations.

[Numis Pam]

Pure Awesomeness!!!!

[carssman]

No doubt,, I purchased 3k of quarters and dimes last year from my bank in hopes to seize some free silver at face; coin roll searching. what I didnt know is that Brinks pretty much took away all circulating silver in Canadian coinage back in the 70-80's (I am Canadian BTW)

The oldest date I found was a single 1969 quarter.. Thats was a big waste of time