Where did all the halves go?

[MIhunter]

I used to be able and drive around picking up CWR and loose halves for bank to bank. Since silver spiked over $40/oz more and more banks in my area say, "we don't any", "we sold them yesterday", "if you are looking for silver, we dont have any"

Still silver is out there, just taking more work to get it.
I hit 10 banks today
Picked up $240 in CWR - skunk
$32.50 in loose halves, and found:
1957 Ben Franklin
1967 Kennedy
1969D Kennedy

I order a box of halves but i have never gotten more than one 40%er per box in my area

 

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[Bigheed]

nice finds!

 

[Gilmore Happy]

The tellers in my area, are just saying No out of habit and greed now.

So I started saying, "really? you dont have any?" or "You dont have any? Are you sure?" My tone of voice is saying, you're a bank...and you dont have any...

So many times, they look down, and say, oh i do have $2.50. They are usually all skunk anyways but yesterday I scored 2 40%'s.

Dont let the tellers off the hook without any pressure. As silver rises, we are going to get more and more no's out of habit, demand, and teller greed (which I dont blame them, just human nature).

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

nice finds! Keep it up and hh! [R.I.P. Rich Hartford]

 

[Generic_Lad]

A lot of times though, they simply don't have any. Since most people don't have rolls of half-dollars to cash in, or just depositing a few dollars in their account, and banks don't order boxes of halves unless someone requests them, there are a lot of cases where there simply are no half dollars. If a teller gets more halves than they have room for in their tray, or if the teller simply doesn't like half dollars, most will simply drop them in the sorter and deal with it that way.

 

[clovis97]

A lot of times though, they simply don't have any. Since most people don't have rolls of half-dollars to cash in, or just depositing a few dollars in their account, and banks don't order boxes of halves unless someone requests them, there are a lot of cases where there simply are no half dollars. If a teller gets more halves than they have room for in their tray, or if the teller simply doesn't like half dollars, most will simply drop them in the sorter and deal with it that way.

Very true.

I once had $80 in halves, and thought I would deposit them at a bank where tellers used to ask me for halves. The next day, I went back in, and one of the tellers ran them through a coin counter!!!!