MalteseFalcon
Bronze Member
I have been irritated with CWI location #94, and the *%^$*%(# inspector #4092 as of late.
Wednesday, 11/21, I got skunked again.
So....I did something that is completely against my personal religion.
See, I am the Pope, Cardinal, Bishop, Priest, and Congregation all rolled into one (as far as my personal religion goes lol).
One of the commandments of my own personal religion is this:
WHEN THOU HAST A DAY OFF FROM THINE SLAVEPIT, THOU SHALT SLEEP HALF THE DAY AWAY, AND SHALL ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF SLEEP THEREOF!!!!
I am a devout follower of that commandment, and if I have a day off from work, I guarantee you I will sleep until 11 AM at least.
However, today being a day off when the banks are actually still open, with vault tellers on duty no less, I decided to break mine own commandment, and get up early. I stopped at my fave branch early on to withdraw some cash and get some half dollar wrappers. By 10 AM I was headed to an area where I knew there were flocks of bank branches.
Enough that I usually was hitting 4-5 branches per mile.
So here is my tale of hilarity, wonder and amazement.
I hit a total of 20 different bank branches today.
I will give some details here:
1. 1 roll, skunk
2. 4 rolls - 2 rolls skunk,
3rd roll was SOLID 40% SILVER!
4th roll had 11 40%!
3. 1 roll - skunk
4. no halves
5. 2 rolls: 1st roll gave up a nice 1996-s Proof and a 1969
2nd roll gave up a 1965 and a 1968
Bank branches 6-11 had no halves at all
12. 5 loose halves - 1 1967 & 1 1968
1 roll - skunk
13. Had $200 of rolls in the vault:
6 hand rolls - skunk
14 Machine rolls gave up 5 40%
14. no halves
15. 6 rolls which gave up a total of 6 40%, 3 1964, and a 1963-D Ben!
16. 2 rolls - skunk
17. no halves
18. no halves
19. no halves - but they told me that the new James Madison dollar coins are out now, and I bought a roll
Ok so it was getting late by this time. Probably around 3:30 or so. I stopped at a branch of my dump bank, and cashed in $390 of clad halves I had accumulated.
I knew where there was a small cluster of banks in a small town, and just drove into the downtown area, and spotted a sign for a large regional bank. At first I thought it was just an office building with offices for the headquarters, or an administrative facility or something, but then I figured out it was an actual branch in a building with a bunch of other offices.
I am so glad I decided to hit this one (#20 for the day). I walked in, and the teller had no halves, but asked the vault teller if she had any. She said she had $620 worth of rolls. I checked out the cash I had left....I had $570, so I told her I would take that much. She said "only if your promise not to bring them back." I promised they would never see them again.
I also asked if she would give me something to carry them in, and she gave me a rather large canvas bank bag, which I thought rather nice of her.
When I was loading them into the canvas bag, I noticed someone had written in pencil on a few rolls...stuff like '71' and '76-77'. I only saw 3 or 4 like that, though, so I was not overly concerned.
I went out to my vehicle and looked through them.
I found 2 rolls that had a single word written on them in pencil!
I was kinda nervous....opened one end, saw a 40% half....slid them all out, and saw this:
Turned out it had 17 40% and 3 1964 halves!!
Then I checked out the other one:
When I slid the halves out, it looked like this (possibly because this is an actual photo of them lol
)
This roll had 16 40%, and 4 1964s!
I looked through perhaps a dozen more rolls, and found a few more 40% halves. That is when I decided to find another bank around there, and cash in some of the skunk rolls, and go back and get the remaining 5 rolls from this cool bank.
I did just that, and then made my way home, stopping to pick up a pizza and do a little grocery shopping.
Got home, and went through the rest. I found some more 40% halves, including my very first 1976 40% half. Only problem is it is coated with some kinda crap that looks like baked maple syrup:
Here is a photo of today's haul:
Here is a closeup of Ben, The Bincentennial crud, and the 1996 proof:
My Grand Total from today is as follows:
(1) 1963 Ben
(10) 1964
(6) 1965
(11) 1966
(22) 1967
(29) 1968
(15) 1969
Total of 11 90%, 84 40% and the 1996 proof.
I am a happy boi.
It was my first successful road trip.
Hopefully not my last.
And one thing I must point out. EVERY single teller I encountered today was EXTREMELY helpful. They ALL went out of there way to ask all of the other tellers if they had any half dollars, even if they themselves had some to sell me.
Happy hunting everyone!
Wednesday, 11/21, I got skunked again.
So....I did something that is completely against my personal religion.
See, I am the Pope, Cardinal, Bishop, Priest, and Congregation all rolled into one (as far as my personal religion goes lol).
One of the commandments of my own personal religion is this:
WHEN THOU HAST A DAY OFF FROM THINE SLAVEPIT, THOU SHALT SLEEP HALF THE DAY AWAY, AND SHALL ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF SLEEP THEREOF!!!!
I am a devout follower of that commandment, and if I have a day off from work, I guarantee you I will sleep until 11 AM at least.
However, today being a day off when the banks are actually still open, with vault tellers on duty no less, I decided to break mine own commandment, and get up early. I stopped at my fave branch early on to withdraw some cash and get some half dollar wrappers. By 10 AM I was headed to an area where I knew there were flocks of bank branches.
Enough that I usually was hitting 4-5 branches per mile.
So here is my tale of hilarity, wonder and amazement.
I hit a total of 20 different bank branches today.
I will give some details here:
1. 1 roll, skunk
2. 4 rolls - 2 rolls skunk,
3rd roll was SOLID 40% SILVER!
4th roll had 11 40%!
3. 1 roll - skunk
4. no halves
5. 2 rolls: 1st roll gave up a nice 1996-s Proof and a 1969
2nd roll gave up a 1965 and a 1968
Bank branches 6-11 had no halves at all
12. 5 loose halves - 1 1967 & 1 1968
1 roll - skunk
13. Had $200 of rolls in the vault:
6 hand rolls - skunk
14 Machine rolls gave up 5 40%
14. no halves
15. 6 rolls which gave up a total of 6 40%, 3 1964, and a 1963-D Ben!
16. 2 rolls - skunk
17. no halves
18. no halves
19. no halves - but they told me that the new James Madison dollar coins are out now, and I bought a roll
Ok so it was getting late by this time. Probably around 3:30 or so. I stopped at a branch of my dump bank, and cashed in $390 of clad halves I had accumulated.
I knew where there was a small cluster of banks in a small town, and just drove into the downtown area, and spotted a sign for a large regional bank. At first I thought it was just an office building with offices for the headquarters, or an administrative facility or something, but then I figured out it was an actual branch in a building with a bunch of other offices.
I am so glad I decided to hit this one (#20 for the day). I walked in, and the teller had no halves, but asked the vault teller if she had any. She said she had $620 worth of rolls. I checked out the cash I had left....I had $570, so I told her I would take that much. She said "only if your promise not to bring them back." I promised they would never see them again.
I also asked if she would give me something to carry them in, and she gave me a rather large canvas bank bag, which I thought rather nice of her.
When I was loading them into the canvas bag, I noticed someone had written in pencil on a few rolls...stuff like '71' and '76-77'. I only saw 3 or 4 like that, though, so I was not overly concerned.
I went out to my vehicle and looked through them.
I found 2 rolls that had a single word written on them in pencil!
I was kinda nervous....opened one end, saw a 40% half....slid them all out, and saw this:
Turned out it had 17 40% and 3 1964 halves!!
Then I checked out the other one:
When I slid the halves out, it looked like this (possibly because this is an actual photo of them lol
)
This roll had 16 40%, and 4 1964s!
I looked through perhaps a dozen more rolls, and found a few more 40% halves. That is when I decided to find another bank around there, and cash in some of the skunk rolls, and go back and get the remaining 5 rolls from this cool bank.
I did just that, and then made my way home, stopping to pick up a pizza and do a little grocery shopping.
Got home, and went through the rest. I found some more 40% halves, including my very first 1976 40% half. Only problem is it is coated with some kinda crap that looks like baked maple syrup:
Here is a photo of today's haul:
Here is a closeup of Ben, The Bincentennial crud, and the 1996 proof:
My Grand Total from today is as follows:
(1) 1963 Ben
(10) 1964
(6) 1965
(11) 1966
(22) 1967
(29) 1968
(15) 1969
Total of 11 90%, 84 40% and the 1996 proof.
I am a happy boi.
It was my first successful road trip.
Hopefully not my last.
And one thing I must point out. EVERY single teller I encountered today was EXTREMELY helpful. They ALL went out of there way to ask all of the other tellers if they had any half dollars, even if they themselves had some to sell me.
Happy hunting everyone!
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