Who here has been crh'ing halves for twenty + years?

[Zomotion]

Then these rolls will be a blast from the past A teller had two rolls, both unopened rolls from 1994 and 1996! I've only been crh'ing for 4 years, but they look legit unopened mwr.

Anyone here used to order halves and get solid new mwr, like most of us do now with dimes, nickels, quarters and cents?

Also got a 2001 mint roll from a different bank. I'm tempted to open them, maybe something different inside... But have no idea if they are worth anything more than $10 a piece. Any suggestions?

 

[enamel7]

When I first started searching halves maybe 8 years ago, I would get the occasional box of solid 1996P.

 

[Greastart]

I've only been CRH for close to two years...but, I feel like a dumbask for not starting sooner! I can only imagine what my stack would look like if I had started back in the day.

Let us know if you open them!

 

[GMan00001]

I've been CRH'ing since the 1980's, but back then it was usually only cents.

I started doing more nickels in the mid 1990's (which started by mainly picking out older nickels playing video poker at a local casino), but occasionally doing a few half dollars (when I could find a machine that had them).

Most of the halves I have been through were over the past 10 years or so, but I didn't really do a lot of them until I came across this forum as the ones I had picked up prior to that had been horrible (or I just had horribly bad luck). After I found this forum, I went to some different banks and had great luck for awhile. Then the word got out and finding older halves pretty much dried up after a few years.

Haven't done much over the past couple years as my other hobby has taken up most of my time (and cash).

 

[thurmownator]

Ditto.....and I started about the same time

 

[Zomotion]

When I first started searching halves maybe 8 years ago, I would get the occasional box of solid 1996P.

Interesting... I bet that was a shock seeing a solid box of '96p halves in 2008 or so.

I think I remember a member here saying the got a solid box of 2001 this year

 

[Zomotion]

Then the word got out and finding older halves pretty much dried up after a few years.
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Yup... that would be the internet. It's how I found out

 

[weighit]

I was so dumb when I had my business back in 1988, had tons of cash and spent it on the normal stuff, cars, girls and drink. If I had known of the coin roll hunting then I think I would have invested some of the wasted cash on silver. But I didn't become aware till 2008 and started hunting big time.

 

[maine_Jim]

I did some roll searching with dimes when I was a kid in the late 1960's but I don't qualify as a 20 year halves searcher. I began searching the halves around 2008 after I stumbled on a collection of Indian cents at our town dump. While investigating values online I came upon CRH and followed the usual path of many here of cents to nickels and dimes to halves. Amazing luck for a few years then finds dwindled. I still get the itch but the days of 20K searches a week are on hold due to family obligations and work. I'm pretty sure I went through almost every coin in my district a couple times...

Maine_Jim

 

[mountainman 2]

I don't qualify as a 20 year half searcher either. Posted my 1st half dollar box here just over 10 years ago. Never remember seeing solid rolls of halves but found my share of solid rolls of everything else. Did search cents in the early seventies, can't remember what I found though.

 

[CW3(ret) US Army]

Then these rolls will be a blast from the past A teller had two rolls, both unopened rolls from 1994 and 1996! I've only been crh'ing for 4 years, but they look legit unopened mwr.

Anyone here used to order halves and get solid new mwr, like most of us do now with dimes, nickels, quarters and cents?

Also got a 2001 mint roll from a different bank. I'm tempted to open them, maybe something different inside... But have no idea if they are worth anything more than $10 a piece. Any suggestions?

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Not sure what to tell you. The 2 mwr may not be solid 1994 or 1996. They may have other year halves mixed in. You wouldn't know that unless you opened them. As far as the 2001 in the original mint wrapper, that's not a NIFC roll. I had 5 rolls in their original mint wrappers, 2 were NIFC & the other 3 weren't. I was able to sell them at my lcs for $12 a roll. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
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Gary

 

[Zomotion]

I don't qualify as a 20 year half searcher either. Posted my 1st half dollar box here just over 10 years ago. Never remember seeing solid rolls of halves but found my share of solid rolls of everything else. Did search cents in the early seventies, can't remember what I found though.

So far mountainman and enamel are the elders here pushing ten years hunting halves. Pretty cool to hear that some of you were crh'ing almost 40+ years ago, just not halves.

 

[baddbluff]

I have only searched halves since about 2011, but have been searching cents & nickels on and off for almost 30 years. When I was a teenager I didn't really search halves because I didn't have a very big bankroll (only about 20 bucks). I used to ride my bike downtown and buy some rolls of nickels at one bank and trade them in across the street at another bank for different ones. War nickels were pretty common back then, and were my favorite finds. When I graduated high school, silver was only $7/ounce. 40%ers only had a melt value of $1, and dealers wouldn't buy them at any significant premium. I remember buying them from tellers' trays and then eventually throwing them all back!

 

[ivan salis]

been silver hunting since high school --1979--- both by CRH and metal detecting ... just today -- I hit my local bank -- someone brought in 100 bucks worth of CRW brown wraps ..they were tarnished and looked like they had red clay on em --maybe a buried stash ? -- any way 12 - 40% ( $ 2 ea) and 1 -90 % ($ 4.50)-- total of 6.50 in silver netted me 26.50 -- so a clean $20 extra

 

[jrf30]

10 1/2 years for me. Although the last 2 years have been Very slim pickings.

 

[Immy]

Pennies - Dabbled briefly as a teen when I first got into coins (1970s). Usually tagged along when Mom went to the bank and I had a few $$ to splurge with. Asked to check her change on a frequent basis. Went full bore on pennies from casinos from 1985-2012, when penny slots disappeared.

Nickels - Casino hunting to this day, though far less frequently due to time constraints and far too few casino options. Have done bank boxes now and then but not recently.

Dimes - Tried once or twice in the 1990s when dime slots were still a thing here in town, had good luck too. $100 would routinely yield a handful of silver Roosies.

Quarters - Searched several thousand $$ worth from work (casino) one summer in the 90s and was seriously disappointed. Only ever found one - a 1938-S.

Halves - The denom I've searched the most after pennies & nickels and by far the most lucrative. Casino mostly, though some bank too. At one point the casino vault manager at work would save me boxes. Found a slot chock full of 40%ers on one rare occasion. At least one downtown casino still has coin-op slots and $100 can still produce silver.

Dollars - Once bought $800 in Ikes and $400 in SBAs when someone dumped a bunch at work. Only thing interesting was a 1981 SBA and couple of 1979 wide rim.

So good to see posts from the Old Crowd (GMan, Thurm, enamel, jrf) and seeing the New Guard become enraptured with this great hobby. Wishing all of you the best for the holidays.

 

[fistfulladirt]

I started back about 1979-80. High unemployment, recession, the Hunt bros. and 20% interest rates. LOTS of roll hunters. I didn't find much silver and was hitting halves, quarters and dimes as a high-schooler. Thirty years go by and the finds were great about 2008-2010. Then all Hades broke loose.