I live in SC where the halves at the banks are pretty scarce. Right now I am in Minnesota, and I have no problems finding halves around. I don't know how many banks I came out of carrying 1000.00 in halves. The banks in SC have never been willing to sell me their coins out of their change machines, but most banks around here tend to do it. If you ever have the opportunity to buy coins straight from their coin counters I suggest you do it! The only draw back (if you consider it a drawback) is sometimes you find foreign coins and stuff like carwash tokens hehe.