BuffaloBoy
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Hey folks, as most of you know, I don't post often unless I come across a decent find. Well yesterday I was on my routine "dump run", stopping at various local banks and running my halves through their coin machines. I decided to stop at a bank that I knew had a coin machine, but never dumped at before. I have dumped at multiple other branches of this bank so I am familiar with the coin counter that they use. The bag on the machine holds $1,000, and it filled up $24.50 into my dump. The tellers were very amazed that the HALF DOLLAR bag filled up, and then they tell me that the bag had not been filled up in at least three years. They remove the bag from the machine and I overhear them talking saying that they have to transfer the coins into a new bag by hand because the bag is ripped, and they cannot send the bag out ripped. As I end my transaction, I hear them transferring the halves into a new bag behind the teller counter. I hear silver. I walk out to my car after, think for a minute and told myself that even though buying a bag from a bank I just dumped at is wrong, I would be kicking myself in the ass if I did not ask to buy it... I go back in and the teller says "hello again, whatcha need?" I then go to tell her, "strange question... I am a coin collector, and I was wondering... you mentioned that the bag had not been filled up for a few years, and the bag filled up $25 into my dump, meaning that $975 of that has been accumulating for many years. would it be possible to buy the bag from you?" the teller then said that she did not see an issue with that, and once it was all transferred over into the new bag, they sealed it up, took my $1000 and I walked out with the bag.
Keep in mind that this is only my second bag of halves ever purchased, both from different branches of this same bank.
I get home and I see silver all over the bag, it was really fun to open the bag!
The results:
112 silvers.
79x 40%
33 90% (10x 1964, 13 bens, 10 walking liberty)
The bag contained $997 in halves as well as $5.25 in various US coins such as pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. so in the end, I got a little bit extra than I paid for the bag, plus a handful of foreign coins and tokens besides. Overall, I was very happy, I was in the right place at the right time. My first bag ever was also a $1000 bag and produced 86 silvers (84 40%, 1 1964 and 1 ben)
Happy hunting all!
HH
Buff
Keep in mind that this is only my second bag of halves ever purchased, both from different branches of this same bank.
I get home and I see silver all over the bag, it was really fun to open the bag!
The results:
112 silvers.
79x 40%
33 90% (10x 1964, 13 bens, 10 walking liberty)
The bag contained $997 in halves as well as $5.25 in various US coins such as pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. so in the end, I got a little bit extra than I paid for the bag, plus a handful of foreign coins and tokens besides. Overall, I was very happy, I was in the right place at the right time. My first bag ever was also a $1000 bag and produced 86 silvers (84 40%, 1 1964 and 1 ben)
Happy hunting all!
HH
Buff
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If you can find out how much the bag holds & how much is in it now, you might want to finish filling it so you can get it now. Waiting around might lose you the opportunity to get the bag. Banks do change their policies. I once had a chance to get a bag but before it filled up, the branch manager changed & the new one wouldn't consider selling me the bag. BTY this bank no longer had coin machines for the accountholders & public use.
