BuffaloBoy
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At last minute, I decided to go to my local bank with a coin counter and dump my $400 in coins, mostly half dollars. All is good until the nickel bag fills up. The teller in charge of the machine pulls it out and places the nickel bag aside and lets me dump the rest of my coins in the hopper.
The half dollar bag fills up. The teller, she drops the bag of half dollars onto the floor. I heard that familiar cling of silver!!!
I told the teller that i see coins in there that I collect. I then asked her if I could swap out some half dollars for ones I want in the bag.
First the teller was hesitant, but eventually said sure, but needed to do it quick because people were waiting in line to cash in their coins.
She asks me, "Are you looking for the silver ones?"
I reply, "Yes"
She pulls a handfull out of the $100 bag of half dollars and edge-searches. "Is 1967 a good year?"
"Yes, anything before 1970 is what I am looking for."
She does a couple more handfulls insisting that she has to put the bag in the vault, but eventually I persuaded her into letting me search the bag quickly.
I did not have enough time to search the whole bag, as she was kind of rushing me. (My guess is that she's not allowed to do what she was doing, or she wanted to keep some for herself.)
So for face value I bought $7 in half dollars from the machine bag. The take:
Most of which were in very good shape!
2x 1968d
9x 1967
2x 1966
1x 1964
Not bad for $7... I guess today was my lucky day! Unfortunately I couldn't search the whole bag as there could have been at least 10 more in the bag, didn't see any Bens or walkers though, just silver Kennedies when looking...
Hopefully my 2 boxes of half dollars are coming this Tuesday.
HH!
The half dollar bag fills up. The teller, she drops the bag of half dollars onto the floor. I heard that familiar cling of silver!!!
I told the teller that i see coins in there that I collect. I then asked her if I could swap out some half dollars for ones I want in the bag.
First the teller was hesitant, but eventually said sure, but needed to do it quick because people were waiting in line to cash in their coins.
She asks me, "Are you looking for the silver ones?"
I reply, "Yes"
She pulls a handfull out of the $100 bag of half dollars and edge-searches. "Is 1967 a good year?"
"Yes, anything before 1970 is what I am looking for."
She does a couple more handfulls insisting that she has to put the bag in the vault, but eventually I persuaded her into letting me search the bag quickly.
I did not have enough time to search the whole bag, as she was kind of rushing me. (My guess is that she's not allowed to do what she was doing, or she wanted to keep some for herself.)
So for face value I bought $7 in half dollars from the machine bag. The take:
Most of which were in very good shape!
2x 1968d
9x 1967
2x 1966
1x 1964
Not bad for $7... I guess today was my lucky day! Unfortunately I couldn't search the whole bag as there could have been at least 10 more in the bag, didn't see any Bens or walkers though, just silver Kennedies when looking...
Hopefully my 2 boxes of half dollars are coming this Tuesday.
HH!
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