Diverwannabe is on vacation for 2 weeks!

[diverwannabe]

This is going to be my post section for the next 2 weeks. I made it home this morning, and I already had the itch to hit up the banks. I stopped at about 5 or 6 banks on the way home from the airport. I must say there is a HUGE difference between Minnesota and South Carolina thats for sure. Each bank I hit up had atleast 100 to 400 halves and I came home with 3 canvas bags which I can really use! Here are my finds for day 1!

40% - 15
1964 - 3
76S - 1

 

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[killerwine]

Nice!

 

[Snee]

Very nice!

 

[hollowpointred]

gotta love that silver!

 

[jblavit]

What part of Minnesota are you in?

I live in Minnesota too. I wonder if we will be eating up eachother supplies? Did you go to banks in bloomington on your way home from the airport?

 

[TreasureTales]

Geez, you coin roll guys are really doing well. It would take me a lifetime to dig up that many good halves. You find them in just one day!!! Sheesh, amazing. I guess I'm a bit envious.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Very nice finds. HH

 

[diverwannabe]

Hey jblavit no worries I flew into the Rochester airport so I was no where near Bloomington. I am taking my little sister up to the mall of america but our chances of crossing areas is quite slim. I am more interested in small banks anyways. I was wearing my nice airport clothes when I walked into my first bank. All of the female in the bank were grinning ear to ear. I asked the teller if she had any halves. I told her that I wanted to buy all of her halves. She came out with a canvas bag with 400 loose halve and told me that she loved me LOL. I was laughing all the way out of the bank. I hit up a bank in Elkton which is a very small town. Ofcourse I get alot of questions whenever I am buying halves especially in a small town. I told the teller and the bank manager about how I had just flew in from South Carolina looking for halves on the way to my parents house. They were amazed that I was in MN for less than 30 mins and there I was standing at their counter buying up all their halves. They wished me luck and off I went with another canvas bag off to the next small town. They said they had some IKEs too but they wouldn't sell them too me. I found out that people are selling IKEs on ebay for a premium so I am going to start looking for those too! Well thats all for now HH!

 

[diverwannabe]

Day 2 here in Minnesota has yielded once again some nice finds. I turned in my 1100.00 in halves today and picked up almost 2000.00!

Grand totals for today:

40% - 15
1964 - 2
1941 walker - 1
1960 franklin - 1
1965 silver canadian half!

not too shabby I will be rinsing and repeating tomorrow!

 

[TreasureTales]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. My bank doesn't even know what a half is. They think I want half of a roll of quarters. I'm not kidding. "Have you got any boxes of halves?" I asked the teller. "I don't think so, all of our rolls are for $10.00" she replies. I said, "No, I mean rolls of half dollars." She says, "half dollar rolls, like you mean 2 quarters per roll?" I gave a loud harrumph and walked out.

 

[Snee]

Great finds, really!

 

[bazinga]

Nice finds bud! How are you turning your coin back in? Just going to a random bank with them all rolled back up or what?

 

[diverwannabe]

Since I don't have a bank account at any of the banks around here I am just having my parents cash them in for me

 

[bazinga]

Haha, ok, I was wondering how you were getting rid of so much so quickly! Sometimes when I have to pay my parents back on a loan or something I'll give them 1k in halves to get them out of my area, haha.

Keep up the good work bud!

 

[diverwannabe]

I didn't get any halves today.. I got a little bit too drunk last night lol

 

[bazinga]

Haha, that'll happen!

 

[diverwannabe]

Well I finally had the opportunity to get back out today! I bought a few halves before Christmas hit, but I didn't find much. I was in Prior Lake, MN hit up 2 banks and said someone came in and bought up all the halves they had! Was that someone on this site?! Anyways I decided to hit up the small town banks in Northern Iowa today. Here are my finds for today:

40%-40
1963 Franklin
1954 Franklin

I am going to cash my halves in and pick another direction to head out tomorrow! HH

 

[GMan00001]

That would be me in Prior lake just before XMas. 8)

Only 1 bank there that had anything to speak of though. Out of $440 had 6 - 40% and 1 - 90% and 107 - 2002+.

Since Prior Lake only has a few banks I am sure it was the same one.

Although, I had someone at their other branch just down the road say a customer always buys all their halves so they had none.

 

[diverwannabe]

I didn't have much luck at all finding halves period when I was in the twin cities. Small town banks are definately where its at! I went to this tiny bank yesterday and they had 1000.00 LOL. I don't think I will be going anywhere near the cities again unless I take my lil sister to the Mall of America.

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

I agree with the small town banks. A couple of months back I stopped at a bank in a small town on the way to my moms place and they had a few loose, then they asked me how much I wanted. I asked how much u talking about, and they said $1000, and it seemed a little tenatively like they wanted me to take them but didn't think I would because it would probably be too many. You should have seen their faces when I said "trot them out, I will take them". I netted only a couple of 90% but that bag had over 250 40% coins. Jackpot. It turns out they have a counting machine there and this bag was from that. I got a business card from them and keep in contact to find out when they will have another $1000 bag. As I spend a good chunk of my halves, needless to say I do not spend any in that town when I go up to visit the kinfolk.