EPIC road trip 7-28-11. Multiple solid rolls!

ArkieBassMan

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I found myself out of state this week and decided to take the "scenic route" home in order to do a little CRHing, and I'm glad I did. I've had some good finds here and there, but I doubt that I will ever top this one.

- I had picked up $730 in handrolled halves from my next to last stop of the day. That particular bank closed at 4:00 pm and I barely made it. The rolls were bagged and ready to be shipped off. Sitting on my living room floor I began opening them. For whatever reason, I like to open the "good stuff" last. When I open CWRs, I always open the roll and peek at the first coin. On the rare occasion that silver is showing, I close it back up and save it for last. The first 4 rolls were all clad. The 5th roll had a 40%er showing. I peeked at the bottom coin and it was a 40%er as well. Being a potential solid silver roll, I closed it up and put it aside. The next roll was the same exact thing. Next roll, same thing. Next roll had a Walker reverse showing. The following roll had another Walker. Now I'm getting really, really excited! When all was said and done, those 73 rolls had given me 19 rolls of clad. The remaining rolls were in my "save for last pile." An unbelievable 50 rolls had silver Kennedy's on the ends. 3 had Walkers and 1 had a Franklin. I just kinda sat there in disbelief for a bit staring at the rolls. I started with the Kennedy's. All 50 rolls were solid 40%ers, except for one. That roll contained 19 40% and 1 1964. One roll even had 22 coins, all 40%. I opened the roll with the Franklin showing next and was almost a little disappointed when "only" 11 mixed Walkers and Franklins spilled out along with 9 clad. The other 3 rolls were all solid silver with mixed Bens and Walkers. 53 solid silver rolls.

Even though I'm looking at the coins as I type this, I still can't believe it. My other stops produced a few silvers here and there. Total take for the day:

40% - 1036
1964 - 3
Bens - 32
Walkers - 39

The obvious question (but I'm certainly not complaining) is where were the 1964 Kennedy's? After thinking about it, I have a theory. The Walkers and Bens were in different brand rolls than the 40%ers. I think they came from a different collection than the 40%. Whomever obtained the Kennedy's cashed in all the 40% not knowing they were silver, and kept all the 90% - other than the 1 they missed that was mixed into one of the rolls. The Bens and Walkers came from someone else.
 

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UNBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELEIVABLE DUDE.You must live in one of those small towns far away enough from the big city that nobody knows what silver is to get a score like that.all i want to know is when is it going to be my turn?WAY TO GO!!!!
 

ABM, congrats on an amazing score that is most likely the biggest you will ever find in one haul the rest of your CRHing career, but then again who knows! :thumbsup: Savor the flavor man as your hard work really paid off this time. :hello2: Heck, most CRHers on here won't find that much silver in years of searching!!! I am totally amazed so much silver was turned in at once but dream boxes have to come from somewhere right? :tongue3: Congrats again, hope my luck is as good as yours someday!!! :thumbsup:

HH,

$ilver$urfer :hello:
 

We need pics so we can nominate this for the banner. I don't know if CRHing ever makes the banner, but 1100+ silver half dollars? Almost 16 troy pounds? If that's not a banner find, I don't know what is.
 

ArkieBassMan I am still in shock, But I am happy to see you hit the big time :notworthy:

HH...Miner
 

pics or it never happened

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jk.. awesome score! i would die if i got that much silver in a month, let alone in a day! :notworthy:
 

maine_Jim said:
Hey this is a great find but when the word banner pops up I think I'll share a post that we had here a while back so you can see what might happen. The banner kinda got a s**t storm going on here for a few days...

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,286210.html

Maine_Jim

I remember this exact post. I am definitely tracking, and would suggest that we celebrate this among this portion of the forum only. I retract my statement from above, and will leave it as a great congratulations.

Agreed,
JJ
 

Excellent !!!!!! That is some thing we all dream about. Its going to be tough to top that score. Keep it up and HH.
 

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