Nice visit to the in-laws with a little silver score

[Zero]

I hit 12 banks south of where my in-laws live. Three of the first four all gave out some silver (1-90%, 12-40%) and the last eight gave up only one more (1-40%) but I also acquired some ikes as well. One of the Ikes was a 1977S (my first Ike proof). No real excitement along the way. One bank asked for my account (didn't have one) and wouldn't give me coins without it. I decided not to open an account (just too much to keep track of). Another bank brought out a little vault bag filled with miscellaneous change and gave me all of their halves and ikes out of it (it took forever and I was able to tell there was no silver just watching her count out all 78 halves), but then I saw an Ike that looked just a bit shinier. So, worth the wait. A few others had a large number of halves $600 and $590, but I decided against getting them all and just bought $100 each (skunks). Maybe I missed out, but I was having too much fun to just take home a couple big dumps.

I really like these road trips. It sure beats going through skunky half boxes. I got almost as much silver today in 4 hours than I did over 4 months of working with skunky boxes. I'm headed to the beach tomorrow with the family and hope to hit some banks along the way. Maybe it will be a dream vacation like twitch. Keep on Rollin

 

[Joe777Cool]

I have scaled my boxes down to 2 a week and devote more time to road trips. Yesterday I searched $600 and found 1 quarter, 7 40%, a 92 silver proof, and 2 roosies. love it!

 

[fistfulladirt]

That's nice! Always buy them all

 

[Twitch]

Maybe it will be a dream vacation like twitch. Keep on Rollin

Really cool find on the proof IKE. I think a 40% proof IKE is the single coolest find I've had so far this year. Picked up 45 more IKE's today, nothing good. I hope your vacation is 10x better than mine! Good luck!

 

[cooper36]

Nice!

 

[hotrod]

nice score!

 

[twiasp]

Missed out on the half dollar bag buys. I have noticed a lot of banks it takes a very long time for their half dollar bags in their coin counters to fill, who knows how long those half dollars have been sitting in their machine. (Most banks have to have 1000.00 in halves before they can send them out) Last time i bought a bag of half dollars off a machine they told me they just don't fill up at all since nobody uses them. They were very happy i would take them away so they didn't have to count them all the time and it was loaded with silver.