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We took a 180 mile road trip today. 99% of the trip we found $354 in halves at 17 banks
Not great but a few more for the stash.
Last bank we stopped at had $550, SKUNK.
The third bank from the end of the trip was a very small town bank that I had stopped at about 2 years ago. They had $410 in rolls. I noticed there were several different types of older looking rolls so we decided to check them last. I took the first roll out of the bag and told my wife we may find a few silver in these rolls because there was a 1968-D on the end of the roll. I opened the roll and found this.
Very exciting so we dumped the rest of the bag out. The roll I opened was machine rolled on the ends, but loose and old looking. We started checking the ends of the other rolls and almost all of them were silver on both ends. I realized the roll I opened was an original 1968 bank roll.
29 of the rolls were original bank rolls. 17 were 1968-D, 1 was 1969-D, 2 are 1971-D, and 9 rolls have silver tails on both ends so I don't know what year they are. 5 of the hand rolls were also original 1968-D rolls. I'm guessing the original rolls fell apart so they transferred them to new rolls. The other 7 hand rolls were 6 mixed 1966 to 1969-D full silver rolls and 1 roll with 2 40% silver and the rest clad.
762 40% Halves, by far my best find ever. Now the big question, are the unopened rolls worth more than just the halves? What about the ones that are tails on both ends since I don't know what year they are?
Not great but a few more for the stash.
Last bank we stopped at had $550, SKUNK.
The third bank from the end of the trip was a very small town bank that I had stopped at about 2 years ago. They had $410 in rolls. I noticed there were several different types of older looking rolls so we decided to check them last. I took the first roll out of the bag and told my wife we may find a few silver in these rolls because there was a 1968-D on the end of the roll. I opened the roll and found this.
Very exciting so we dumped the rest of the bag out. The roll I opened was machine rolled on the ends, but loose and old looking. We started checking the ends of the other rolls and almost all of them were silver on both ends. I realized the roll I opened was an original 1968 bank roll.
29 of the rolls were original bank rolls. 17 were 1968-D, 1 was 1969-D, 2 are 1971-D, and 9 rolls have silver tails on both ends so I don't know what year they are. 5 of the hand rolls were also original 1968-D rolls. I'm guessing the original rolls fell apart so they transferred them to new rolls. The other 7 hand rolls were 6 mixed 1966 to 1969-D full silver rolls and 1 roll with 2 40% silver and the rest clad.
762 40% Halves, by far my best find ever. Now the big question, are the unopened rolls worth more than just the halves? What about the ones that are tails on both ends since I don't know what year they are?
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that is great. Dream day there. I might be tempted to sell all the original mint rolls for the premium they might gather. If you are only in it for the silver then you might be able to take the premium and get even even more silver with the return. If you can do it locally on Craig's List and avoid the FeeBay fees - it might take a few months but should work out well!
