*Official August 2023 Half Dollars and Other Coins

[Silver4face]

I was unable to match Steve's outburst from Tuesday, but I did get four silver halves today at a bank. Believe it or not, those were the only 4 halves they had, so I batted .1000!!!!

They were 3 x 1969 and one 1967

You actually batted 1.000!

Yeah I did the same thing last September, but that was only one coin, not four. But that one coin was a 90 percent!

Anyway, I am hoping to find more - aren't we all!?!?!??!

[Saabman]

Friday's box of halves....El Zippo....

[Saabman]

Wednesday's box of halves yielded....1 x 67 and 2 x 68!! Also a gold plated 2001 half......I keep these for some reason.....

[cwgii]

$500 halves

23*1
22*37
21*27
18*11
04*1

[cwgii]

Second box. Half way point. WHOis that, looking back at me.

I believe Mr.Franklin of a 1962 d vintage, will be welcomed to my ,hoard.

[cwgii]

$35 cwr dimes. Saved the odd wrapper for last. Wow did that edge pop out at me. Kind of forgot what they look like.

,,1951 S

[cwgii]

Second half...

21*2
19*1, 18*2

[Recyclersteve]

$47 in halves today. $40 from one bank- $7 from the other.

Nothing good.

[Saabman]

Thursday's box of halves yielded..... 1 x 42 !

[TXSTARFIRE]

[Saabman]

Friday's box of halves ....... Senor Nada.....

[Saabman]

Wednesday's box of halves......El Zippo.....

[Recyclersteve]

Two more half dollar searches to add to the mix for the last day of August.

The first batch of halves was $40- yielded nothing.

The second batch was $60 and was QUITE INTERESTING! First, the bank ran out of coin wrappers so all the coins were wrapped in Scotch tape! I could clearly see what appeared to be a very lustrous half, likely a 90%er, in one of the six rolls. It appeared that there might be 2 or 3 silver halves total in that roll.

The halves were almost certainly those from a collector. There was a roll, for instance, that had all 1976's and they were all circulated. So it was likely put together by a collector.

Nonetheless, I went through the first five rolls of my six roll haul and wanted to save the one with silver for last. There was no silver in the first 5 rolls. The last roll, which looked like it could potentially have 2-3 silvers, had 13 SILVER HALVES INSTEAD! 2 were from 1964 and the other 11 were 40%ers.

As I've mentioned before, this is still shaping up to be the very best silver year for me since 2010. I've already found 74 silver halves this year (1.5% of the coins searched). That is the most halves and highest percentage since 2010 when I found a whopping 553 silver halves (3.3% of those searched).

My theory is that perhaps there were a bunch of collectors who died during the COVID years and their estates are just being settled now.

I am purposely creating a separate posting with part of this message to appeal to a broader audience on the RC site. I apologize if anyone reads the same thing twice and realizes they need more coffee!

P.S. The same bank with the taped rolls also had $70 in assorted Ikes, likely from the same collector who provided the silver halves. Why? There was, for instance, a whole roll of 1972-P and 1972-D (circulated) Ikes.

[cwgii]

Lol occasionally some of us of modest means, must cash in some...saved searches.

Yesterday I turned in a $500 box of 1976 d.
.and $500 of state quarters.
Ike's...well no.hell no.

[Saabman]

Two more half dollar searches to add to the mix for the last day of August.

The first batch of halves was $40- yielded nothing.

The second batch was $60 and was QUITE INTERESTING! First, the bank ran out of coin wrappers so all the coins were wrapped in Scotch tape! I could clearly see what appeared to be a very lustrous half, likely a 90%er, in one of the six rolls. It appeared that there might be 2 or 3 silver halves total in that roll.

The halves were almost certainly those from a collector. There was a roll, for instance, that had all 1976's and they were all circulated. So it was likely put together by a collector.

Nonetheless, I went through the first five rolls of my six roll haul and wanted to save the one with silver for last. There was no silver in the first 5 rolls. The last roll, which looked like it could potentially have 2-3 silvers, had 13 SILVER HALVES INSTEAD! 2 were from 1964 and the other 11 were 40%ers.

As I've mentioned before, this is still shaping up to be the very best silver year for me since 2010. I've already found 74 silver halves this year (1.5% of the coins searched). That is the most halves and highest percentage since 2010 when I found a whopping 553 silver halves (3.3% of those searched).

My theory is that perhaps there were a bunch of collectors who died during the COVID years and their estates are just being settled now.

I am purposely creating a separate posting with part of this message to appeal to a broader audience on the RC site. I apologize if anyone reads the same thing twice and realizes they need more coffee!

P.S. The same bank with the taped rolls also had $70 in assorted Ikes, likely from the same collector who provided the silver halves. Why? There was, for instance, a whole roll of 1972-P and 1972-D (circulated) Ikes.

[Saabman]

Thursday's box of halves........skunkage.....