FYI: easiest way to search rolls is to weigh each roll on a scale that has the same type of wrapper--many will weigh the same others that are different will usually be the ones with the silver coins in them. Saves a lot of time doing it this way rather than opening them all up and not finding any silver coins then having to buy new wrappers and roll them all up again. phew!
6:46 D=Denver, not Delaware. ALL the past AND present mints are: D Denver, P Philadelphia, S San Francisco, O New Orleans (retired), CC Carson City (retired), and W West Point (mint sets only; 1996 is the only year I'm aware of)
I would have picked up the entire $1500! :-) Well, at least the guy that wrote on those coin rolls, 1972P, etc. saved you a lot of time. 1978 Delaware? You mean Denver? Nice find! Glad you went through that roll. Hope you sold them because today, as you know, a 40% half dollar is only worth $2.49 each.
@richy8302 That's awesome! I'm glad you looked through them and lucked out. Can't beat free silver,,,especially when silver is priced so high right now. You should make a vid!
Boiling water, tin foil and baking soda man. It might be a good idea to rinse them in bulk if you're unwilling to check all the dates- 50 years of finger grime and ink dust can make silver look like old copper easily.
+SilverBird actually most collecters and buyers would want them in their original state, so washing them would make them uncollectable what does a good ol washing hands waste anyways
You're correct. As long as you are not trying to defraud the government by destroying/defacing coins (I.E. counterfeiting or changing the value of the coin) it is perfectly legal to do so.
You got very lucky. I was a lead teller at Wells Fargo for 2 years and found 80 silver quarters, 10 or so silver dimes & about 5 of those silver halves- 1 being a 64 Kennedy. Nice score.
I tried doing this a couple years ago. When I asked about getting rolls of half dollars the manager immediately said "we can get you a few rolls but we not longer supply large numbers of rolls, because too many people having been asking for them in hopes of finding silver coins, and it became tedius for us to keep givng them out and then restocking them; so we no longer do that". He said it with an edge of irritation in his voice. Apparently too many people have jumped into doing it, at least in my area, so my bank stopped the service. I gave up after that; I didn't want to keep calling up and talking to annoyed bank managers who knew I was searching for silver coins.
Good luck ever getting them to purchase the coin at current market value. I havent encountered a store that would pay current market price. They always try to pay 10-20% less than current market value.
got a question! i know people are keeping pennies from 1981 and back because they're over 90% copper. copper is on a climbing trend. what about the modern quarters half dollars and eisenhower dollars? they are mostly copper and weigh a lot more then pennies. Wouldn't it make sense to save a bunch of the heavier copper coins as well as pennies?
hi the most i got from boxes of half dollars is 36 silver coins in one box. i dont collect silver or coins but what i like is to search and then sell what i got. what makes me search is a passion for searching for silver and for varieties and errors in pennies. thanks
@EZlearningVBdotNet It surely was an error. Whoever was sorting them before me either just marked the roll wrong, or marked the roll first and just goofed and didn't realize they were supposed to be putting the 78 instead of 68. Either way, things like this happen from time to time, and while definately not common, there is still silver out there to be found in roll hunting. Silver coins sneak by, and some people don't even know about there being silver in coins. Just have to try your luck
Same thing happened to me. I got $40 in halves and they were all %90 silver except for four %40 silver. So I made around a $840 profit. It was also my first time ever coin roll hunting halves. Good luck!
I go to the bank on a regular basis, purchasing rolls of pennies, nickels, and dimes (I used to get half dollars, and found a good amount of both 40% and 90% silver coins, but then I went a while and found none, and stopped). In the past couple of years alone, I must have found just shy of 5,000 wheat pennies, about 250 war nickels, and numerous silver dimes (including a few mercury and two barber dimes). Bottom-line is that people rarely check their change. With that said--good for you boochie.
So I understand the point of collecting silver, but what is the point of getting it from half dollars? Say you get a pre 1965 half dollar, is the silver in there worth more than 50 cents? If so, can you turn around and sell it for more? Or would you melt it down and collect it that way?
Precisely, weigh a 40% silver coin and 40% of that is silver, multiply by silver price and you get your total. It is currently illegal to melt down coins for their material but that restriction has been lifted in the past for other coins I believe.
another way to get silver is to check out the local coinstar coin counting machines. I work as a cashier and alot of people use it all the time. One time a guy left 11.70 face value worth of silver down below. told him 3 times to take it to a coinshop and he didn't want to so I bought them at face value. Silver jumped from 34 to 45 dollars an ounce the next day.
+TORO Sharpy You could, but SOME banks require you to be a member/have business with them to do any kind of transaction...even trading currency. Not all though.
Why would you need an adult to switch a bill to change? I would be the proudest father ever if my son came home and had taken the initiative to think this through and carry it out. TORO, don't listen to people who say you have to get permission first. Think it through and trust your judgement; seek guidance (as you did) but not permission. This breeds success.
I am 14 years old and I do it all the time, in my experience I was given some dirty looks at first because some tellers at banks find it as an inconvienece, but once you get over that part and the people at the bank get to know you, they will be more than happy to help you
You're right, most people don't even know to look. I'll admit I didn't know a few years ago. I used a coinstar for the first time the other day. I looked down in the coin return and there was a 1946 quarter it must have rejected due to it's weight.
not to criticize, your video shed some light on a form profit making that I never thought of, but you may want to do a little research on the mint marks as older coins with scarcer mint marks can bring hundreds of times more money that just a plain "D" or "P"
Actually currently on Ebay rolls of silver quarters are selling for around 200 dollars.. 20 coins in a roll right? so that'd be 5 dollars face value... 195 profit minus little of the fee's and shipping. so still alot of profit.
I did that as a kid in the '70's. Get a roll or two at a bank, check them, take them back at the next bank, On my bicycle. It was fun. Got a silver quarter at Arby's in Waikiki last year.
@Gjon777 1965-2011 dimes contain: 91.67% copper 8.33% nickel The value of the copper and nickel in current dimes combined is $0.0223043 Taken from coinflation (dot) com
My bank is 2 miles from my house, and I spent 10 minutes looking through the coins. To make over $100 for 50 cents worth of gas and 10 minutes is pretty good to me.
I search penny rolls at $25 at a time and sell my 72 DDO and 83 DDR pennies on E-Bay and pull in $50 to $400 for each coin. Other's go for a bit less. Still looking for that 69s DDO. :-) Nice video.
Well, I meant non silver coins. Not saying they're worthless, but with half dollar coins, they're worth more in face value than the copper content at this time.
Yeah, I'm in my late teens and we just found my grandfathers collection it has indian pennies, mercury dimes, buffalos and a j pfennig from the 50-60s. I am ecstatic cause I got my grandfather's love of collectors items, however when I was younger I liked the wheatie coins but didn't pay them any attention and would use them for things like CANDY.... dang 7 year old me!
There's no way to tell the odds but $50 is certainly a good start. You could end up finding five times as much silver as me, or none at all on that $50. Either way you don't lose. Go ahead and give it a try!
if you dont get any silver and your bank wont exchange for cash again, you could always just deposit it too. then you can just get cash later when you want to take it back out.
2001 the US mint stop circulating half dollars. the mint is only producing half dollars for collectors. We are rapidly seen the half dollar, falling out of circulation. Remember The half dollar denomination was last produced for distribution to circulation in 2001. Silver stackers should keep all half dollars they find in circulation. In two separate collections silver and non-silver.
@jaws99099 I sure did! Hopefully this happens again in the future with 90% coins...lol. Very doubtful, but the fact of the matter is that there are still silver coins to be found....just have to look for them!
Isaac Renfro I'm not trying to melt them down, and the people that buy them most likely aren't either. Like I said to the other guy that commented...you don't have to melt them down or dissolve them in Nitric acid and refine the silver out of them for them to STILL be worth the silver they contain.
Isaac Renfro Respect. Coins. The basic unit of the enslavement of our minds. The very root of all evil in its most basic form. Beyond the fact that you just told someone to respect the symbol of everything we have done wrong in this world, you also just told someone to respect a disc of metal that has far better use as a raw material, and should have been made out of something useless in the first place. Like paper.
Tellers watch for and substitute ordinary coins for silver ones, but they are not supposed to. Takes too much time, and the bank doesn't like it. However if collectable coins show up you can bet they get picked out, same with old bills. Occasionally a really old coin or bill comes in and the teller is supposed to just move it on.
If you're going to try this do it RIGHT. Be honest and up front with whatever bank you're choosing to try and regularly pick up from, and never bring back coins to the same bank you got them, that's how the majority of noobies get cut off from ordering. Keep your finds on the down low, be friendly to tellers and banks that order for you. Its the key to maintaining this hobby. One person getting cut off likely gets everyone, current or future, cut off from that bank. Play it safe folks.
i cant find a single half dollar at the banks by me. THEY DONT CARRY THEM ANYMORE. Ive tried everything. They said to many people are doing this coin hunting and its costing them money. I didnt say what i was doing
Here's what you do. Weight a roll of these 1/2 dollar coins with no silver coins in the roll. Then you know how much a roll weights without silver coins. Then bring your scale to the bank and ask to be allowed to choose what rolls you want to get. :) If any rolls weight more then a roll with no silver, I could have silver coins?
first do some google research. Look up what was the last year australia had silver coins and what % silver they contained. then get back to me and i will help you formulate some plan of action
I'm sure banks have got to be getting savvy about this. Why wouldn't they filter through the coins received and remove the coins that possibly have collectible values?
Don't even open them up. Just weigh them. If they weigh less than a normal roll, the difference is how many silver coins are in the roll. In fact it's so easy to figure out, the banks probably weigh the rolls themselves to determine which ones are worth keeping.
EBAY! They sell every single day for the current silver value. It's not economical to melt or refine the coins to get the silver, leave that to someone else.
I was doing this exact same thing back in 1980...lol.....I was ahead of my time I guess. Back then it was almost 20% of the coins were 40% silver and silver was about $40/oz. Good to know this can still happen.
Silver halves now are just as hard to find as the silver dimes and quarters because far more people have been going to banks for them and taking out the silver ones. For sometime before this new era of silver hoarding, the silver halves were far more easy to find because they are not as common as the dimes and quarters which have been pulled out back over 30 years ago when silver had that big rally in 1979 and 1980, hitting $50 an ounce before falling back below $10 and staying there.
I have a couple hundred ounces of .999 Pure silver bullion in my private little hoard. Averaged out, I only paid about $16 per ounce...and I'm holding onto it long term. I actually sold these coind and used the money to buy more pure silver bullion (see the video response to this vid below. Not too long ago silver nearly reached $50 per ounce and I was tempted to sell, but I'm in it long term and silver has a long way to go before it reaches it's peak. Silver is REAL money!
you should build a time machine, use it to go back to 1964 , go to the bank (in 1964) buy all their silver coins bury them in the ground ( too bulky to bring into the time machine) come back to present day, dig them up and sell them on ebay
Again, great video, I gave a big thumbs up and subscribed...gotta love the bank finds...hitting 90% silver finds is a great feeling!!
Congrats! Getting harder to find silver halves but that does not stop me from roll hunting. Continued success to you!
great hunt man! awesome roll for sure! hope your still finding the silver today!
Thank for taking the time to make a great video on coin hunting at your bank.
Were do you sell the coins if you have silver coins.
Denver, not Delaware. 6:50
mccallie2014 you beat me to it
FYI: easiest way to search rolls is to weigh each roll on a scale that has the same type of wrapper--many will weigh the same others that are different will usually be the ones with the silver coins in them. Saves a lot of time doing it this way rather than opening them all up and not finding any silver coins then having to buy new wrappers and roll them all up again. phew!
Keep an eye out on the 1971 Halves. Supposedly, there were a few '71s sent out in 40% silver.
6:46 D=Denver, not Delaware. ALL the past AND present mints are: D Denver, P Philadelphia, S San Francisco, O New Orleans (retired), CC Carson City (retired), and W West Point (mint sets only; 1996 is the only year I'm aware of)
Coins with no mint mark are from Philadelphia.
amazing. Do you keep the clads after?
I would have picked up the entire $1500! :-)
Well, at least the guy that wrote on those coin rolls, 1972P, etc. saved you a lot of time.
1978 Delaware? You mean Denver? Nice find! Glad you went through that roll. Hope you sold them because today, as you know, a 40% half dollar is only worth $2.49 each.
alan30189 $2.49 is still better than 50 cents
Or Detroit...
+Silver Falkon or dallas....lol
@richy8302
That's awesome! I'm glad you looked through them and lucked out. Can't beat free silver,,,especially when silver is priced so high right now. You should make a vid!
Boiling water, tin foil and baking soda man. It might be a good idea to rinse them in bulk if you're unwilling to check all the dates- 50 years of finger grime and ink dust can make silver look like old copper easily.
+SilverBird actually most collecters and buyers would want them in their original state, so washing them would make them uncollectable what does a good ol washing hands waste anyways
You're correct. As long as you are not trying to defraud the government by destroying/defacing coins (I.E. counterfeiting or changing the value of the coin) it is perfectly legal to do so.
You got very lucky. I was a lead teller at Wells Fargo for 2 years and found 80 silver quarters, 10 or so silver dimes & about 5 of those silver halves- 1 being a 64 Kennedy.
Nice score.
I LOVE the sound of silver coins in the hand! All the coins nowadays sound like cheap arcade tokens.
I tried doing this a couple years ago. When I asked about getting rolls of half dollars the manager immediately said "we can get you a few rolls but we not longer supply large numbers of rolls, because too many people having been asking for them in hopes of finding silver coins, and it became tedius for us to keep givng them out and then restocking them; so we no longer do that". He said it with an edge of irritation in his voice. Apparently too many people have jumped into doing it, at least in my area, so my bank stopped the service. I gave up after that; I didn't want to keep calling up and talking to annoyed bank managers who knew I was searching for silver coins.
John Richardson I believe that is total BS. He got irritated for having to deal with coins that is his job he's there to assist customers
The best part of managing a restaurant. All the silver certificates and silver coins I come up with ...
I'm very new to coin hunting. but when i find silver coins, can i sell them at local coin shops and jewelers for the going rate of silver?
Yep, you sure can!
Good luck ever getting them to purchase the coin at current market value. I havent encountered a store that would pay current market price. They always try to pay 10-20% less than current market value.
also here: silvershieldxchange.com/
chownful That's because they need to make a 'Profit'
chownful It is called dealer pricing.
got a question! i know people are keeping pennies from 1981 and back because they're over 90% copper. copper is on a climbing trend. what about the modern quarters half dollars and eisenhower dollars? they are mostly copper and weigh a lot more then pennies. Wouldn't it make sense to save a bunch of the heavier copper coins as well as pennies?
Thank you for sharing this. Odd how some people knock you for your suggestions. I appreciate you for sharing =)
hi the most i got from boxes of half dollars is 36 silver coins in one box. i dont collect silver or coins but what i like is to search and then sell what i got. what makes me search is a passion for searching for silver and for varieties and errors in pennies. thanks
I suspect the banks are stripping the silver coins befor they ever get to the bank locations.
Wow. Awesome finds man. Congrats. :D
where in Seattle do you think would best the best place swoop halfs at
@EZlearningVBdotNet
It surely was an error. Whoever was sorting them before me either just marked the roll wrong, or marked the roll first and just goofed and didn't realize they were supposed to be putting the 78 instead of 68. Either way, things like this happen from time to time, and while definately not common, there is still silver out there to be found in roll hunting. Silver coins sneak by, and some people don't even know about there being silver in coins. Just have to try your luck
Same thing happened to me. I got $40 in halves and they were all %90 silver except for four %40 silver. So I made around a $840 profit. It was also my first time ever coin roll hunting halves. Good luck!
I go to the bank on a regular basis, purchasing rolls of pennies, nickels, and dimes (I used to get half dollars, and found a good amount of both 40% and 90% silver coins, but then I went a while and found none, and stopped). In the past couple of years alone, I must have found just shy of 5,000 wheat pennies, about 250 war nickels, and numerous silver dimes (including a few mercury and two barber dimes). Bottom-line is that people rarely check their change. With that said--good for you boochie.
So I understand the point of collecting silver, but what is the point of getting it from half dollars? Say you get a pre 1965 half dollar, is the silver in there worth more than 50 cents? If so, can you turn around and sell it for more? Or would you melt it down and collect it that way?
Precisely, weigh a 40% silver coin and 40% of that is silver, multiply by silver price and you get your total. It is currently illegal to melt down coins for their material but that restriction has been lifted in the past for other coins I believe.
It's definitely worth more than 50 cents
I just drove up to the drive thru and said give me as much money as can fit thru this box. the results are amazing
another way to get silver is to check out the local coinstar coin counting machines. I work as a cashier and alot of people use it all the time. One time a guy left 11.70 face value worth of silver down below. told him 3 times to take it to a coinshop and he didn't want to so I bought them at face value. Silver jumped from 34 to 45 dollars an ounce the next day.
I am 14 years old, could I walk into a bank with some cash and ask to trade it into rolls of half dollars is they have any?
+TORO Sharpy You could, but SOME banks require you to be a member/have business with them to do any kind of transaction...even trading currency. Not all though.
+Boochieboy thank you for the information.
Why would you need an adult to switch a bill to change?
I would be the proudest father ever if my son came home and had taken the initiative to think this through and carry it out.
TORO, don't listen to people who say you have to get permission first. Think it through and trust your judgement; seek guidance (as you did) but not permission. This breeds success.
I am 14 years old and I do it all the time, in my experience I was given some dirty looks at first because some tellers at banks find it as an inconvienece, but once you get over that part and the people at the bank get to know you, they will be more than happy to help you
What do you do with the silver coins ? Do you metal detect ?
Great video, I really enjoyed it
best vid for this on the net thanks for the down to earth explanation very vivid brother
You're right, most people don't even know to look. I'll admit I didn't know a few years ago.
I used a coinstar for the first time the other day. I looked down in the coin return and there was a 1946 quarter it must have rejected due to it's weight.
Would this work in the UK? Also I guess I would ask for "Half Sterling"? Instead?
Why are you handling the coins so strangely? Especially after the 8:20 mark. Are you feeling them up, or showing them to us?
no he is fingering his coins
Whatever he's doing, it seems like a pretty intimate relationship.
Jaye Brady its long term shes been away over seas for 6 months he just wanted some
Very Cool. Managed a store for a period of time and when I got coins, I always enjoyed searching through them,
Do they charge you a fee for getting these coins or are they just a straight trade for cash?
No fee, straight trade paper for coins.
do people take the 40% silver ones? Are they desirable over face value?
at 6:47 you mention 1978 "Delaware", I'm sure you meant "Denver" correct?
Yes, Delaware. I'm not an expert on the mint states, lol, I don't collect coins or anything.
not to criticize, your video shed some light on a form profit making that I never thought of, but you may want to do a little research on the mint marks as older coins with scarcer mint marks can bring hundreds of times more money that just a plain "D" or "P"
Actually currently on Ebay rolls of silver quarters are selling for around 200 dollars.. 20 coins in a roll right? so that'd be 5 dollars face value... 195 profit minus little of the fee's and shipping. so still alot of profit.
I did that as a kid in the '70's. Get a roll or two at a bank, check them, take them back at the next bank, On my bicycle. It was fun. Got a silver quarter at Arby's in Waikiki last year.
OH yeah......back in the 70s this was a real viable option for making some money...even into the 1980s
So do you melt them down or I mean how do you actually turn the "silver value" into cash?
When you find your coins that are silver, where do you go after that to get your money?
@999SoundMoney
Absolutely. Thanks for watching!
@Gjon777
1965-2011 dimes contain:
91.67% copper
8.33% nickel
The value of the copper and nickel in current dimes combined is $0.0223043
Taken from coinflation (dot) com
what do you do with the other coins? does the bank take it back?
Couldnt you take the not silver ones back in rolls and just get your money back? so its lke a no loss kinda thing?
@boochieboy814 should I do this with quarters and dimes if my local bank doesn't have half dollars?
My bank is 2 miles from my house, and I spent 10 minutes looking through the coins. To make over $100 for 50 cents worth of gas and 10 minutes is pretty good to me.
thank you for informing more people of silver coins less silver for all of us. That was smart really worth getting 600 veiws.
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Nice haul man!
I search penny rolls at $25 at a time and sell my 72 DDO and 83 DDR pennies on E-Bay and pull in $50 to $400 for each coin. Other's go for a bit less. Still looking for that 69s DDO. :-) Nice video.
Well, I meant non silver coins. Not saying they're worthless, but with half dollar coins, they're worth more in face value than the copper content at this time.
Jefferson Nickels minted with a date stamp of 1942 through 1945 are 35% silver. Besides the date, they have a large Mint Mark above the Monticello.
kids steal these coins from there dad or grandpa and they end up in circulation
Yeah, I'm in my late teens and we just found my grandfathers collection it has indian pennies, mercury dimes, buffalos and a j pfennig from the 50-60s. I am ecstatic cause I got my grandfather's love of collectors items, however when I was younger I liked the wheatie coins but didn't pay them any attention and would use them for things like CANDY.... dang 7 year old me!
where can you sell them? And i have a half dollar with date of 1776-1976 does that mean anything? please i dont know....
Nope, I believe that is just to celebrate the independence day. The coin was actually made in 1976.
It's just for aniversery. They were made in 1976.
Oh
Thanks
Glad you think so.
you can tell just by the sound that first roll made when it got dumped that there are silver coins in it.
@zeek19961
I sold all 20 of them on Ebay for around $120.00
dude well done, especially in this economy. Get it where you can!
I would imagine at some point you would be sorting through the same coins you put in the machine to cash them out.
There's no way to tell the odds but $50 is certainly a good start. You could end up finding five times as much silver as me, or none at all on that $50. Either way you don't lose. Go ahead and give it a try!
Whats the name of that web sight you mentioned??
Won't it actually be easier to have the coins to pay for items then using the blocks of silver ?
i thought the D stood for Denver,not Delaware?
Hey thanks for the great video. What do you say when they ask you why you want half dollars?
if you dont get any silver and your bank wont exchange for cash again, you could always just deposit it too. then you can just get cash later when you want to take it back out.
2001 the US mint stop circulating half dollars. the mint is only producing half dollars for collectors. We are rapidly seen the half dollar, falling out of circulation. Remember The half dollar denomination was last produced for distribution to circulation in 2001. Silver stackers should keep all half dollars they find in circulation. In two separate collections silver and non-silver.
the D mint mark is for Denver, not Delaware.
nice man i would hold on to them i am pretty sure silver prices will go up
what bank do you have? I have whitney bank and I don't they have half dollar coins
I have almost 200 pre-64 half-dollars, how much are they worth?
they can be worth in silver alone from 4 to 6 dollars
what about buying silver dollars? the pre 64 are also 90% silver
that's a lot of money to spend on half dollars... are you going to sell some silver ones to buy more?
1942 (late) through 1945 have silver content. 35 to 40 percent is the correct percentage.
@jaws99099
I sure did! Hopefully this happens again in the future with 90% coins...lol. Very doubtful, but the fact of the matter is that there are still silver coins to be found....just have to look for them!
I got a silver quarter as change at a burger joint around the time you made this video. With the prices at the time, it payed for my food!
Razer Rogue i have a 1941 wheaty you are a little luckier.
Jacob Booth got a 1919
I have a 100 BC Shekel.
Beat that shit, world.
Goose! I found a fossil!
I found my TV remote.
Shame you arent a collector. A collector would treat these coins with respect and not try to melt them down.
Isaac Renfro I'm not trying to melt them down, and the people that buy them most likely aren't either. Like I said to the other guy that commented...you don't have to melt them down or dissolve them in Nitric acid and refine the silver out of them for them to STILL be worth the silver they contain.
Well, yeah that's just always a concern of mine
Isaac Renfro dont anger the coin gods!
Isaac Renfro Respect. Coins. The basic unit of the enslavement of our minds. The very root of all evil in its most basic form. Beyond the fact that you just told someone to respect the symbol of everything we have done wrong in this world, you also just told someone to respect a disc of metal that has far better use as a raw material, and should have been made out of something useless in the first place. Like paper.
Yes I would love more of my tax dollars going toward disposing paper bills. Far more important then something like, I don't know, education?
Tellers watch for and substitute ordinary coins for silver ones, but they are not supposed to.
Takes too much time, and the bank doesn't like it. However if collectable coins show up you can bet they get picked out, same with old bills. Occasionally a really old coin or bill comes in and the teller is supposed to just move it on.
If you're going to try this do it RIGHT. Be honest and up front with whatever bank you're choosing to try and regularly pick up from, and never bring back coins to the same bank you got them, that's how the majority of noobies get cut off from ordering. Keep your finds on the down low, be friendly to tellers and banks that order for you. Its the key to maintaining this hobby. One person getting cut off likely gets everyone, current or future, cut off from that bank. Play it safe folks.
i cant find a single half dollar at the banks by me. THEY DONT CARRY THEM ANYMORE. Ive tried everything. They said to many people are doing this coin hunting and its costing them money. I didnt say what i was doing
what was that website again? how do u spell it?
Here's what you do. Weight a roll of these 1/2 dollar coins with no silver coins in the roll. Then you know how much a roll weights without silver coins. Then bring your scale to the bank and ask to be allowed to choose what rolls you want to get. :) If any rolls weight more then a roll with no silver, I could have silver coins?
Great find dude. I've gotten 400 dollars worth myself so far and the only interesting coin at all I've found is a 2010 :(
I am guessing this can only be done in the states... I don't think Australia have this kind content min 50c pieces
Some of the round Fifty cent pieces pre 1980 (i think) have high silver content. Cheers
You won't find any of these in circulation or even in the bank for that matter.
Yep. That's right. Lucky Yanks
LOL
first do some google research. Look up what was the last year australia had silver coins and what % silver they contained. then get back to me and i will help you formulate some plan of action
Of course they do. The 40% ones were worth over 11 times face value when I found mine.
I'm sure banks have got to be getting savvy about this. Why wouldn't they filter through the coins received and remove the coins that possibly have collectible values?
Nice finds!
how much did you make about
oh nvm xD
Don't even open them up. Just weigh them. If they weigh less than a normal roll, the difference is how many silver coins are in the roll. In fact it's so easy to figure out, the banks probably weigh the rolls themselves to determine which ones are worth keeping.
Pure awesomeness! I subbed!
EBAY! They sell every single day for the current silver value. It's not economical to melt or refine the coins to get the silver, leave that to someone else.
I was doing this exact same thing back in 1980...lol.....I was ahead of my time I guess. Back then it was almost 20% of the coins were 40% silver and silver was about $40/oz. Good to know this can still happen.
Silver halves now are just as hard to find as the silver dimes and quarters because far more people have been going to banks for them and taking out the silver ones. For sometime before this new era of silver hoarding, the silver halves were far more easy to find because they are not as common as the dimes and quarters which have been pulled out back over 30 years ago when silver had that big rally in 1979 and 1980, hitting $50 an ounce before falling back below $10 and staying there.
I have a couple hundred ounces of .999 Pure silver bullion in my private little hoard. Averaged out, I only paid about $16 per ounce...and I'm holding onto it long term. I actually sold these coind and used the money to buy more pure silver bullion (see the video response to this vid below. Not too long ago silver nearly reached $50 per ounce and I was tempted to sell, but I'm in it long term and silver has a long way to go before it reaches it's peak. Silver is REAL money!
you should build a time machine, use it to go back to 1964 , go to the bank (in 1964) buy all their silver coins bury them in the ground ( too bulky to bring into the time machine) come back to present day, dig them up and sell them on ebay
lol I'm sure you could do much more..profitable things with a time machine