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Finally some silver halves!!

Postby knibloe » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:00 pm

I have been skunked the last 3 weeks on halves and the month or so before that has only given me 1-2 40% halves per box. I was thinking that if I didn't get some silver this week, I was done.

First box Skunk.

Second box has 3 silvers showing on the ends ofthe rolls. I pulled out 58 40% halves. Whew!!! Now I can justify to my wife why I continue sorting them. :) . She was starting to question it.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby lance » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:28 pm

knibloe wrote:I have been skunked the last 3 weeks on halves and the month or so before that has only given me 1-2 40% halves per box. I was thinking that if I didn't get some silver this week, I was done.

First box Skunk.

Second box has 3 silvers showing on the ends ofthe rolls. I pulled out 58 40% halves. Whew!!! Now I can justify to my wife why I continue sorting them. :) . She was starting to question it.

58 in a box?! Holy cow....the other day i grabbed a box but i was on a skunk run with boxs lately...but grabbed 4 outta the box...then got another box and scored another 4....40% that is...also met up with a guy and bought 10 40%rs for $2 each...20 for the day and i was happy
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby beauanderos » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:39 pm

The slots have to pay off once in awhile, just to keep you coming back 8-) Nice score :D
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby bankmining » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:04 pm

Yes, and the most important part is getting your wife off your back for a while - glad I don't have to worry about that anymore (happy to be a two time loser here at marriage:) Congrats on the score!
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby dakota1955 » Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:15 pm

nice find for you hope that you will have many more great days finding silver
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby 68Camaro » Sun Jul 15, 2012 6:50 pm

Good to know there are still some out there. I never got the reward, never found anything, so quickly gave up.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby scyther » Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:58 pm

58... nice.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby duane1966 » Mon Jul 16, 2012 6:09 pm

My wife is always upset with me for getting more coins to sort also. I'm not sure why. It seems like she thinks I'm spending money or something. What is silver just gets returned and we get our money back. She is thinking "you just spent $250'on a box of dimes- I think I'll go get my hair cut.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby wheeler_dealer » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:01 pm

Hope that wasn't my order I didn't get there in time to get. CONGRATULATIONS I have stopped for a while. Thought our area was dried up.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby jacer333 » Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:25 pm

Big time score! Congrats on that stack of silver :)
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby everything » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:03 pm

I gave up on halves when my shoulder gave up, but miss them. Girl I know spends $100 on a cut and highlight, I go out back and do it with the Wahl for the cost of the electricity. I've had problems with girls and numismatics, funny thing though, how much the shiny they inherit outliving men.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby knibloe » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:30 pm

Thanks for the replys. Picked up a bag today, and only got 3-40%. Last bag I got from this bank had 200 silvers in it. I was hoping to get 10% of that.

Oh well. I'll take the 3 silvers.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby NHsorter » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:57 pm

Bags are funny like that. Sometimes they are fantastic and other times you get a sorters dump. My last one was a skunk so 3 is still not bad. Halves of any sort have been much harder to find over the last few months in my experience. I can order all the boxes that I want, but the boxes that I get are all awful. It's just a chore to do them. But pennies, nickels and dimes I enjoy doing boxes.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby fb101 » Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:41 pm

nice to hear of a good score once in a while
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby SilverChaser111 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:36 pm

knibloe wrote:I have been skunked the last 3 weeks on halves and the month or so before that has only given me 1-2 40% halves per box. I was thinking that if I didn't get some silver this week, I was done.

First box Skunk.

Second box has 3 silvers showing on the ends ofthe rolls. I pulled out 58 40% halves. Whew!!! Now I can justify to my wife why I continue sorting them. :) . She was starting to question it.



58?! That's unreal... so far I'm averaging 1 90% per 3 boxes... I've considered giving up with this kind of percentage, but when I hear about these crazy finds I keep thinking if i stop now, somebody else might get my "Amazing Score" box. So, I keep pushing on. Thanks for feeding my inabilty to stop.... ugh. :lol:
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby stlouiscoin » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:18 pm

damn yur lucky... or maybe i'm unlucky. never found a silver half in over $4000 sorted.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby chris6084 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:30 pm

stlouiscoin wrote:damn yur lucky... or maybe i'm unlucky. never found a silver half in over $4000 sorted.


Pretty much same with me.
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Re: Finally some silver halves!!

Postby db23 » Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:43 pm

stlouiscoin wrote:damn yur lucky... or maybe i'm unlucky. never found a silver half in over $4000 sorted.

$4K in halves really isn't that much, I search that on a slow day... A large factor at this point is geography, some areas are just better than others as far as finds go.
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