Todays Halves

[kbinski]

Today's Halves

Went and bought $50 in halves today, one $10 roll and two $20 rolls. I had high hopes for the long rolls and found one 1969 40%. I also noticed that one was considerably shorter than the other. $1.50 short, which more than cancels out the one 40%silver I did find. At least it was a half I needed for my set.

 

[Silver_Fox]

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Good score, the one you needed. I like those $20. Wait until you find one full of silver

 

[BBcardsRI]

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I have never run across a non-$10 roll.

I take it all the 15-20 dollar rolls are all handmade... or did some company at one point or another make long rolls?

Grats on your 40%, btw.

~Dave

 

[Silver_Fox]

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....for your viewing pleasure, a factory made, customer filled "dream roll".

 

[kbinski]

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WOW thats exactly what I was hoping for but no such luck

 

[Silver_Fox]

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WOW thats exactly what I was hoping for but no such luck

Keep looking. Sooner or later, BLAM

 

[BBcardsRI]

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Hubbida Bubbida!

~Dave

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

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never saw long rolls like this.n i been huntin a long time. looks old.is the 3-63, date related ?

 

[BBcardsRI]

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Also... I just noticed that "silver" is writen on the roll in pencil.

Is that your handy work or did it come that way? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that rolls like that were bought from banks... already labeled with dates or the world silver... etc. Always fun to see them though... makes you think of why they got turned in.

~Dave

 

[Silver_Fox]

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Also... I just noticed that "silver" is writen on the roll in pencil.

Is that your handy work or did it come that way? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that rolls like that were bought from banks... already labeled with dates or the world silver... etc. Always fun to see them though... makes you think of why they got turned in.

~Dave

What you see is the way I got them.

 

[Silver_Fox]

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never saw long rolls like this.n i been huntin a long time. looks old.is the 3-63, date related ?

I would like to think so. That is how it came. I still have that roll.

 

[BBcardsRI]

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You almost need to feel bad for the poor person who turned them in. Someone probably passed away or got put into a home or something and then a spouse or other relative found the rolls of coin and cashed them... too stupid to read "silver" on the roll and/or know what it meant.

Works for those of us who get lucky and buy those rolls though.

Out of my solid silver dime rolls from the summer that I found in once big score, half of them had either years or other things written on them that would have screamed SILVER! to anyone who knew a thing about coins... not to mention the rolls were old looking.

Their loss... our gain.

~Dave

 

[mistergee]

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Their loss... our gain.

exactly...may be the only finds we have now...

 

[Ju8vP3t]

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Never have seen $20 rolls

 

[fistfulladirt]

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Thanks S_F, did you "halve" to post those pics? Good old days. I picked up two $20 rolls back in May. Half full of silver, 40 and 90%. AMC

 

[Silver_Fox]

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Thanks S_F, did you "halve" to post those pics? Good old days. I picked up two $20 rolls back in May. Half full of silver, 40 and 90%. AMC

Nice. Yea I got 3 homemade $20's last month loaded with silver.

 

[BBcardsRI]

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All the more reason to think that the $20 rolls were made decades ago. =) Hoarded for years and years along with the old coins.

~Dave