Hi. I've lurked here off and on the past few years, and I finally decided to post after a quite successful coin roll search last weekend. I am not new to coin roll searching. While in my teens back in the 1970s, I used to go through mainly pennies and nickels, but sometimes dimes and quarters. I probably went through $100 every month. I would bring the rolled coins into a bank and trade them for other rolled coins (dumping made easy). There was a penny shortage back then, and most banks were paying a 5% premium on pennies, so there was a lot of drooling when I brought in my bags of pennies to exchange for other pennies. Those were the days. Every roll had a few wheat pennies in it, and I saved them all. I found a semi-key or two, and one Indian Head, but never, any of the keys. Silver nickels were plentiful, and I found all the Jefferson nickels in circulation except the 1950D. I remember also finding on average one silver dime per roll. I had very little time to coin roll search once in college, and even less with a job, a wife, kids, etc., after college.
Fast forward to today. Every week or two for the past couple of years, I stop by the bank and pick up $100 or so of coins to search through. Part of this was spurred by some of the posts I have read here. About a month ago, I was at a bank doing so where I was able to see the teller's coin tray out on the counter. There were scallops in the coin tray so that the coins were all stored on edge. I immediately spotted a silver coin in the small quantity of half dollars. I bought the 19 halves for face value, and when I left the bank, I discovered I had a 1964 which is 90% silver! This past weekend I stopped at a bank on my way home on Friday. I asked for any large dollar coins (about 10% of the time I get an Eisenhower; maybe I'll get lucky and some day get a silver Morgan or Peace). They didn't have any. I then asked for half dollars. The teller told me they had $200 worth of halves. He then told me how some guy brought in a bunch of halves a few weeks ago with a bunch of silver in them. I groaned internally and told him I would take $100. He told me I could come back for the second $100 on Saturday if I liked. The halves were all hand rolled. I opened one of the rolls at a red light as I was driving home. There was no silver, but all of the halves were before 1979. I told myself that that was promising. When I got home, I started going through all the rolls. Every roll except the first I opened had at least one 40% silver half from 1965 to 1969, and none newer than 1978! One roll had 14 40% silver halves! In the end, I found 29 40% silver halves. Not bad! Needless to say, I was waiting in line at the bank on Saturday morning when they opened. I bought the other $100 of halves. They were in the same type of wrappers as the first. Great! I was shocked at the quantity of 40% silver halves I found. By roll, the totals were: 9, 1, 12, 11, 14, 19, 10, 16, 13, and 12. In addition, there was a 90% 1964 in one of the rolls. The sum total in the $200 was 146 40% silver halves, and 1 90% silver half, all purchased for face value! What a haul! Hopefully the images load.
Fast forward to today. Every week or two for the past couple of years, I stop by the bank and pick up $100 or so of coins to search through. Part of this was spurred by some of the posts I have read here. About a month ago, I was at a bank doing so where I was able to see the teller's coin tray out on the counter. There were scallops in the coin tray so that the coins were all stored on edge. I immediately spotted a silver coin in the small quantity of half dollars. I bought the 19 halves for face value, and when I left the bank, I discovered I had a 1964 which is 90% silver! This past weekend I stopped at a bank on my way home on Friday. I asked for any large dollar coins (about 10% of the time I get an Eisenhower; maybe I'll get lucky and some day get a silver Morgan or Peace). They didn't have any. I then asked for half dollars. The teller told me they had $200 worth of halves. He then told me how some guy brought in a bunch of halves a few weeks ago with a bunch of silver in them. I groaned internally and told him I would take $100. He told me I could come back for the second $100 on Saturday if I liked. The halves were all hand rolled. I opened one of the rolls at a red light as I was driving home. There was no silver, but all of the halves were before 1979. I told myself that that was promising. When I got home, I started going through all the rolls. Every roll except the first I opened had at least one 40% silver half from 1965 to 1969, and none newer than 1978! One roll had 14 40% silver halves! In the end, I found 29 40% silver halves. Not bad! Needless to say, I was waiting in line at the bank on Saturday morning when they opened. I bought the other $100 of halves. They were in the same type of wrappers as the first. Great! I was shocked at the quantity of 40% silver halves I found. By roll, the totals were: 9, 1, 12, 11, 14, 19, 10, 16, 13, and 12. In addition, there was a 90% 1964 in one of the rolls. The sum total in the $200 was 146 40% silver halves, and 1 90% silver half, all purchased for face value! What a haul! Hopefully the images load.
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Incredible!Truly inspiring, may your luck continue. 
