Incredible few days, giant silver!

[Oregon_Digger]

I found my first ever gold ring this weekend and have been showing anyone at work that will even glance at it! So today I decide to pull some cash out at the bank near my office, since starting to detect I read all over on the various forums about other types of treasure hunting so I make a special point now to ask the teller “do you have any half dollars or dollar coins?” just hoping to get lucky, and collecting a few bucks in Kennedy clad halves for fun. So I walk up and deposit a check and get some of it cashed back to me and I ask this pretty young teller about the coins, she says “I think I have 1 dollar coin in here.” And I instantly get a little happy maybe it’s a presidential clad I don’t have yet, or even maybe just maybe a Susan B. And she plops this into my hand, I instantly text a fellow treasure hunter about my amazing luck, and my face literally hurt from grinning all the way back to my office. Given as change face value $1.00. Gold and BIG silver in less than 24 hours.

 

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[wpsgta1000]

Back in the late 1960s and early seventies I’d ride my bike to the various banks in town and ask if they had any silver dollars. I’d average 8 to 10 per trip then take them to the local coin shop and sell them for a profit.

 

[Digger RJ]

I’d probably buy the teller a piece of cake or something. Sweet Score!! Congrats!!!

 

[Kray Gelder]

AMAZING!

 

[basque-man]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Awesome score!!!!

 

[catherine1]

Well the banks are too poor to hire nothing but stupid tellers......they pay them Chump change.

 

[Oregon_Digger]

Well the banks are too poor to hire nothing but stupid tellers......they pay them Chump change.

I don’t think she was unintelligent, just young. I’m amazed how many people I talk to don’t even have a clue about silver change etc. When I found my first silver coin a 1964 Rosie the looks on people’s face when I handed them a dime, like I was a space case. Long winded “well before 1965 blah blah blah, look at the edge etc etc.”

 

[washingtonian]

Heck of a find. Yeah baby! Way to go.

 

[EccentricInTexas]

NICE!!! It pays to ask!!!

 

[fistfulladirt]

Nice! I’m even more surprised that someone even paid with real money and not plastic!

 

[Hawks88]

I agree. I guess it does pay to ask. Good score. Congrats

 

[WannaDig3687]

Doesn't hurt to ask. Congrats!

 

[Trezurehunter]

I'd take her a dozen cup cakes, thank her again, and ask her to save any Half Dollars, One Dollar coins, or anything "odd". This will develop a good relationship with her, and pretty soon when you walk into the bank, she will call you over to her counter when she has something for you. I do this at a number of banks, and at one bank alone I have 4 different tellers saving me coins, (although none of them has plopped a Morgan dollar in my hand ) ! They will also call me now, when the Half Dollar bag fills up on the counting machine so I can go in and buy it. In this hobby it does pay to develop friendships and contacts. Then, after a while just stop in with a dozen donuts for "the crew".

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer score!

 

[fistfulladirt]

I'd take her a dozen cup cakes, thank her again, and ask her to save any Half Dollars, One Dollar coins, or anything "odd". This will develop a good relationship with her, and pretty soon when you walk into the bank, she will call you over to her counter when she has something for you. I do this at a number of banks, and at one bank alone I have 4 different tellers saving me coins, (although none of them has plopped a Morgan dollar in my hand ) ! They will also call me now, when the Half Dollar bag fills up on the counting machine so I can go in and buy it. In this hobby it does pay to develop friendships and contacts. Then, after a while just stop in with a dozen donuts for "the crew".

i did just that, the silver dried up! The tellers wondered what was so great, they sold their keepers to the local jeweler that paid them 50c on the dollar. Treats once a year at most.

 

[Inspector]

EXCELLENT, congrats

 

[jewelerguy]

Given as change face value $1.00

Wow, that's crazy. Young whipper snappers these days know nothing about coins, or silver, or their value. Or much of anything else for that matter

 

[fistfulladirt]

Wow, that's crazy. Young whipper snappers these days know nothing about coins, or silver, or their value. Or much of anything else for that matter

Right? More than half of old fogies don’t know either! I’ve done my own polls. Why would they care? They use plastic money. Silver hasn’t been minted for money for almost 50 years!