by Recyclersteve » Fri Aug 29, 2025 12:44 am
Was out today to have lunch with an old friend.
Before going home I decided to go to a bunch of banks, probably about 12-15 banks total.
I got $408.50 face in half dollars.
No 90% silvers, BUT...
I did get 22 of the 40% halves. I figured (with silver bid at $38.77) this was like finding $104.57 on the street.
I got halves from 6 different banks today. All the silvers came from the same bank. It was funny because the coin wrappers were old style wrappers that haven't likely been used much in the past 10 years or so. I set those rolls aside because they were the same type I've had good luck with in the past. That banks had $80 in halves, so eight rolls. Five of the rolls didn't have any silver. But the other three rolls had 2, 8 and 12 halves, so 22 total silvers.
I saw a bunch of uncirculated 2023 halves today.
Now, as fun as that was, it is MUCH LESS WORK normally for me to make that much in the stock market. You can always argue that I can lose money in the stock market, but I can counter that coins can be stolen- no matter how well you think they've been hidden.
Setting that all aside, I like to have as many sources of income as possible including both coins and stocks.
I have a separate post on this subject that I will submit shortly. It will show my results from searching through $100,000 face in half dollars (200,000 coins). Stay tuned.
Former stock broker w/ ~20 yrs. at one company. Spoke with 100k+ people and traded a lot (long, short, options, margin, extended hours, etc.).
NOTE: ANY stocks I discuss, no matter how compelling, carry risk- often
substantial. If not prepared to buy it multiple times in modest amounts without going overboard (assuming nothing really wrong with the company), you need to learn more about the market and managing risk. Also, please research covered calls (options) and selling short as well.