On vacation and scoring in Midwest UPDATED

packerbacker · Sep 9, 2007

Stopped at a bank in a small North-central Iowa town. I went in and asked for halves. They asked how many I wanted and I only had $300 cash on me. They said the halves were all loose and they would run $300 worth through the coin counter. I said fine and they put the halves in a canvas bag for me. We checked some out when I got to the car and saw a LOT of silver. My wife went back in and bought the remaining $700 worth. When we were done we had 500 silver halves! 500 silver halves out of $1000 worth!! Funny thing, not one of them was a 64 or earlier. Later we stopped at another Iowa bank (only one in little town) and got $200 worth. Got 1 Walker..1934, 3 90%ers and 5 40%ers. I'm in Wisconsin now and heading to Missouri on Tuesday. Took a pic of the coins so far.

Cannonman17 · Sep 9, 2007

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Holy smokes! Now that's a haul!

LJ · Sep 9, 2007

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That is a load of silver PB. Congrats on such a huge haul!!! I am sure you & Mrs PB are having fun out there. Now that is a road trip...lol.

Keep us posted on the results on the hunts while you on vacation if you can.

Be careful and keep em coming.....

packerbacker · Sep 9, 2007

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Thanks for the responses. I have only had this short time on the net since last Wednesday and haven't had time to read everyone's posts. I'll have to see how you all are doing when I get home. Hope you're scoring BIG!

Silver_Fox · Sep 9, 2007

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50% find rate, GREAT!!

MalteseFalcon · Sep 10, 2007

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Haha you are paying for your trip!

low xtreme · Sep 10, 2007

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Nice!!

TxTim · Sep 10, 2007

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DREAM BAG!!!!
Nice score!~

thurmownator · Sep 10, 2007

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Most excellent keeper rate !

Kudos.

cyberdan · Sep 10, 2007

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Wow! That pic is now a great screen saver.

Sheldius · Sep 10, 2007

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Great job. Way to work that vacation time

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jrf30 · Sep 10, 2007

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Cool haul. Way to go.

I'm going to Hawaii next week for vacation, but I don't think my wife will let me search halves when I should be on the beach putting sunscreen on her back and making sure the sun is positioned right for her. LOL. I'll suffer though, and ignore halves for a week. ;-)

sfinder · Sep 10, 2007

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Fantastic day! My banks always tell me they don't have any halves.

packerbacker · Sep 10, 2007

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Actually it's a 25% find rate (500 silver halves out of 2000 halves) but I am not complaining. I couldn't believe it but I'm still surprised at the lack of '64 halves. It's like someone knew they were silver and kept them but didn't know about the 40%ers.

packerbacker · Sep 17, 2007

Re: On vacation and scoring in Midwest UPDATED!!!!

Finally back from 5100 mile mini vacation. Roll hunting was just a sideline thing to do but made it even more fun. Here are the grand totals. 551 40%ers, only 6 90% Kennedys, 1 1934 Walking Liberty, 5 foreign coins from coin counter and I picked up 80 Ike dollars although I don't know why.

Oh, almost forgot. We were turning in the clad halves at various Indian casinos during the trip. When we got back to Nevada we decided to stop at the Peppermill Casino in Wendover and cash in the last bunch which ended up being $1,080 worth. While we were there I told my wife to put $100 in a $5 slot just to cap off the vacation with a little fun. She hit it for $4,500!!!! We had them take the taxes out right there so she ended up with $3,020 cash ($1,480 in taxes >:(

) Then, when we got to Reno, we stopped for gas at a place that had a small casino attached to it. I hit a slot for $400 more while we were there. Fun times!!