Walking Liberty halves hoard in CWR

CJ9

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Went into bank this afternoon and they had $30 in CWR halves. Took them all, and to my surprise all solid silver Walking Liberty with a number of the coins from the 1940s XF condition.
Also included in the roll was a 1916-D obverse. As a bonus, one of the rolls had $11. 62 coins in all.


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1916-D obverse
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Thanks for looking and HH
 

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Garscale

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Great score! I do have a question though .... how do you get $11.62 in half dollars?
 

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He got a role with $11 in it instead of the normal $10. One roll had 2 extra half Dollars in it. So he had 3 rolls that are 20 coins each plus one of them had 2 extra coins. That equals 62 coins total.
 

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If you saw a few of the coins mowers have gotten ahold of that I’ve found you’d understand how you can have 11.62$ in halves....:laughing7:
What a SCORE! Who in the hell wouldn’t know about this stuff? Are these just really old rolls? It would seem inconceivable this could happen...but obviously it does. That is a good day right there!!
 

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Man.....I can't dig one of these.....yet this man finds rolls in circulation! Congrats great score!
 

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Nice grab! somehow made it past the tellers to you, that alone is a stroke of luck.
 

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Nice score! Congrats
 

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same haul for me at the CU____________________________ 3 rolls of CWR halves------------

ALL CLAD:BangHead:
 

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Me: OMG 62 Walkers for face value!!!
Wife: Why are you rolling around our bed with half dollars?
Me: FACE VALUE!.....Leave me alone.
 

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CJ9

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If you saw a few of the coins mowers have gotten ahold of that I’ve found you’d understand how you can have 11.62$ in halves....:laughing7:
What a SCORE! Who in the hell wouldn’t know about this stuff? Are these just really old rolls? It would seem inconceivable this could happen...but obviously it does. That is a good day right there!!

thanks
 

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CJ9

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Nice grab! somehow made it past the tellers to you, that alone is a stroke of luck.

Thanks. Yeah, sometimes the tellers take them for themselves, and other times they either never look or just don't care.
 

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CJ9

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Guess grandpa died and the grandson needed some Monster and smokes.

That is what I think - someone died and the heirs cleaned out the house and didn't care about the coins, so they just dumped them. The dimes and nickels I got that day were skunks, so either they didn't save other denominations or they did and the rolls of the good stuff were long gone by the time I went to the bank.
 

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CJ9

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same haul for me at the CU____________________________ 3 rolls of CWR halves------------

ALL CLAD:BangHead:

The all clad happened to me today. Went to a bank this morning and asked for halves (in addition to the dimes and nickels) and they said they had them. I asked how much and the teller said they have a lot. So I took $40 - they were CWR, but clearly someone's dump - the kind of halves you get when you search boxes (most look like run through casinos and a few "newer" ones from the 1970s). I am playing the odds and leaving the rest for someone else (I have to re-roll or spend to dump). When I get CWR clad and they are mostly BU from the 1970s I then go back to take them all because I figure that is some dump that someone had saved for years, and maybe there are other rolls with silver.
 

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Thanks. Yeah, sometimes the tellers take them for themselves, and other times they either never look or just don't care.
Not at the Chinese bank i went to a few years ago. Close to where I used to live is a Chinese community and several banks. I went into one and I showed the cute teller a JFK and an IKE and asked if she had any. Of course I speak more Chinese than she does English, she thought I wanted to sell them. I finally convinced her I want to buy any. Hew face lit up and she pulled a baggy of coins out of her top drawer. I kept my poker face when she started counting them out. I paid about $15, quickly left because I felt I had just robbed the place. They were all big coins. Morgans, Peace and a couple of silver rounds.
 

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